Tonwoche №649 (1944)

In Madrid, Generalissimo Franco receives representatives of the diplomatic corps at the Escorial Palace.

The diplomats walk up the stairs with their wives.

Franco greets the guests.

Hitler meets with Norwegian Prime Minister Quisling at headquarters for talks.

Afterwards, the Norwegian ministers are received.

German children from areas of aerial bombardment are distributed among exemplary children's homes.

The children are in their beds, they get up, wash, and dress.

The children are in the dining room.

The children's leisure time: they play with toys, look at books, and listen to fairy tales read by the teacher.

The traditional Versailles-Paris bicycle race is taking place in France.

Cyclists ride along rain-slicked streets, overcoming obstacles.

Athletes in Paris, with Robert Ugro in front, who also finishes at the winter velodrome for the second time in a row.

The choir of the 1st Kuban Cossack Division gives a concert in Vienna for workers from the east.

The song "Stenka Razin" is playing, followed by dancing with a sabre.

Workers applaud.

In a tank repair shop on the Eastern Front.

Tanks in the snow, technicians inspect them, repair them, weld them.

Soldiers slide down a hill to the water on canisters like on sleds, collect water in an ice hole.

Tanks are supplied with gasoline and ammunition.

The tank is ready to go into battle again.

A tank crew that especially distinguished itself in battle.

The commander and gunner wear the Knight's Iron Cross.

They destroyed 89 Soviet tanks with their "Tiger".

The commander of a submarine destroyer, Lieutenant Otto Pollman, sank 10 enemy submarines in the Mediterranean.

Returning to the home port, the captain goes ashore, the admiral meets him, together they go around the line of sailors, award them.

Fighter ships sail out into the Mediterranean Sea in a storm, the deck is washed by waves.

Enemy aircraft appear.

Alarm on board, anti-aircraft gun fires at aircraft, repels attack.

Engine room of the ship.

Sailor near the sounder, enemy submarine detected.

Dropping depth charges.

Signal sent to other fighters.

Explosions on the water.

Italy.

In the southern sector, German sappers lay minefields in the mountains.

Sappers look at a map.

Paratroopers on combat reconnaissance.

Skirmish with the enemy, artillery fire.

Soldiers run to the attack, throw grenades, fire mortars, covering the retreat of the paratroopers.