Tonwoche №653 (1944)

On the day of the declaration of independence of the Filipino people, a parade was held in the capital Manila.

In the presence of Japanese military and civilian representatives, members of the Philippine government review the parade.

Troops march, soldiers carry a bust of the president.

A demonstration of city residents takes place.

The director of the Estonian self-government, Dr.

Mäe, announces a general mobilization on the radio.

The male population is entered into the lists of new recruits.

Medical examination of recruits.

Peasants hand over their horses to assembly points.

Training of young recruits, drill training.

Recruits march under the ancient city gates.

Propaganda posters on buildings about the fight against the Bolsheviks.

Young people from the Hitler Youth organization are enlisted in the SS Division Grossdeutschland (Great Germany) in one of the cities.

The column marches along the street, drummers and buglers play.

Formation in the market square, the commander goes around the formation.

Close-up of the stripe on the sleeve of a soldier.

Slovakia.

Skiing competitions in the Tatras for the national championship.

Slalom.

Boxing match in the Berlin Volkstheater between Hungarians and Germans.

European heavyweight champion Goppa boxes with Hungarian Tomasi.

Goppa is knocked out, but after the points are counted, the match is declared a draw.

In Zagreb, in the presence of Croatian officials, the acceptance of locomotives sent from Germany takes place.

Test drive.

View of Budapest from the river, the Parliament building.

Admiral Horthy awards Major General Corneille Oslany with the Knight's Order of Maria Theresa in the Royal Palace.

Award ceremony.

Close-up of the award sheet, text, Horthy's signature.

Oslany is the first officer of the Hungarian army to receive this award.

SS General Gille, SS General Lieb and the leader of the Walloon group Degrelle at a reception at Hitler's headquarters, they were awarded the Order of the Iron Cross for fighting in the encirclement near Cherkassy.

Hitler talks with them at the table.

Dnieper, Vitebsk-Zhitomir-Kirovograd line.

Tanks drive across a snow-covered field, followed by infantry.

German observers notice that there are dummies of Soviet tanks on the field, placed in the field as bait.

The division commander stands in the open hatch of a tank, looks for a live target, fires the tank's gun.

Soviet soldiers surrender.

Tanks move along a country road, enter a village.

A German tank drives towards the camera.

Military operations in the area of Nettuno and Aprilia.

With the participation of a large number of combat aircraft, artillery and tanks, a battle is underway at the Nettuno bridgehead.

Heavy artillery repels an attack by Anglo-American aircraft.

The burning aircraft falls and burns out on the ground.

A section of the battlefield.

Tanks and motorcyclists drive along the road to Aprilia.

A network of wires from the high command post.

Assault units of the German parachute troops occupy positions abandoned by the Anglo-American troops.

Explosions of heavy artillery shells.

Soldiers in a trench, officers among the soldiers.

German soldiers walk along the Maletto Valley to the front line.

Nettuno under artillery fire.

Camouflaged German tanks enter the road.

Captured British and Americans on the road and at a halt.

A minefield cleared by sappers.

The road is littered with shell craters.

Destroyed tanks.

The road from Aprilia to Nettuno, which changed hands several times.

Corpses of soldiers on the side of the road, destroyed tanks, guns, vehicles.

A column of prisoners captured in the encirclement south of Aprilia.