Tonwoche №646 (1943)

The founder of the Spanish Falange, José Antonio Prima de Rivera, was assassinated in 1936. In 1939, his remains were buried in the monastery of San Lorenzo in El Escorial.

On the 7th anniversary of the assassination, the old guard of Madrid organized a torchlight procession and laid a wreath of laurel leaves at the tomb.

Caudillo Franco and members of the government attended the funeral service in the basilica of the monastery of San Lorenzo, where young people brought a wreath.

Franco climbs the stairs of the basilica.

The Japanese ambassador, General Oshima, with members of his staff visits the German assault gun school.

The teachers show them equipment, models, and shells.

An ice hockey match between the teams of Germany and Austria was held at the Olympic Stadium in Garmisch-Partenkirchen.

There were many soldiers among the spectators.

The match ended with a victory for the German team with a score of 3:0. A bicycle race behind motorcycles took place at the Sports Palace in Brussels.

Spectators in the stands.

Bicycles race in a circle.

The winner is Belgian Maurice Cloutier.

A demonstration against Bolshevism is taking place at the Paris Winter Velodrome.

Banners are hanging.

Listeners in the hall.

The new police chief Joseph Darnand is giving a speech, Marcel Dan is speaking.

French volunteers are listening.

A company of Serbian recruits is marching to field exercises.

To save their homeland from Bolshevism, they submitted to the German command.

A signalman with a bugle.

A training course on the ground.

A soldier is digging in.

A combat attack, rifle shooting.

Map, Kirovograd and Dnieper area.

German soldiers are repelling the winter offensive of the Bolsheviks in defensive battles.

Reinforcements are arriving at the Nevel combat area.

Tanks, trucks, and artillery are moving.

Night shooting, a searchlight on the front line, a snow blanket in its rays.

Morning, German supply trains are moving, infantry is marching, soldiers are smiling, passing by a burning village.

An anti-aircraft battery is firing at Soviet aircraft.

A warehouse of gun cups gives an idea of the colossal expenditure of ammunition on the Eastern Front.

The area of heavy fighting near Kirovograd.

A tanker closes a hatch, looks through a crack.

Soviet deserters are walking across a snowy field with their hands up.

The first interrogation of prisoners, frightened Soviet soldiers.

German tanks on the field.

A counterattack cuts off a Bolshevik group.

Awarding of the Knight's Order to soldiers of a particularly distinguished tank unit.

A soldier with an order in front of the camera.

Further awarding in the Leningrad area.

German soldiers in the trenches during lulls.

An observer looks through binoculars, a signalman crawls with a telephone.

The battle continues.

Soldiers run out of the dugout, load the gun, fire. "Wolves of the seas" - this is the name given to the high-speed boats of the German fleet, which, along with other naval units, take part in decisive naval battles.

The boats leave the port, they are in the roadstead.

A sailor is at the helm, in the engine room.

German planes fly by, the sailors wave their hands at them.

Launching torpedoes at enemy ships.

German boats for the first time made their way to the English coast as far as Lake End and sank five transports with a capacity of 12.5 tons and one guard ship, several enemy steamers were torpedoed.

Night shooting, firing from guns.

The ship is on fire.