Tonwoche №659 (1944)

Newsreel №64043, 2 parts, Duration: 0:08:10 B/W
Studio UFA

Reel №1

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Lithuania.

Refugee assembly point in the east – Olita.

Carts with logs drive through the gates.

The German administration gives the peasants the opportunity to settle down.

A carpenter’s workshop where carts are repaired and property is put in order.

A forge.

A shoemaker at work.

Ukraine.

A Cossack regiment serving against the Bolsheviks.

Cossacks leading horses, a veterinarian examining the animals.

A line of Cossacks.

Demonstration racing, a Cossack running with a horse by the bridle.

Finnish President Pehr Evind Svinhufvud /shot during his lifetime/: he and his wife on the balcony, fishing from a boat at his estate on Lake Kyrimits.

The president with a gun, he was a great fan of hunting.

The funeral of the president.

Field Marshal Mannerheim and members of the government say goodbye to the late president.

A church, the removal of the coffin.

High-ranking army officials.

The coffin is lowered into the ground, wreaths.

Spain.

Restoration work is underway after the destruction left by the civil war.

The Spanish government's authorized representative, Jose Moreno Torres, accepts the completed work – the newly restored Carmelite monastery.

The nuns of the monastery walk along the gallery with a nun.

Opening of the 192-meter-long bridge to traffic.

Cutting of the ribbon, people walking along the bridge, traffic.

In the capital of Croatia – Agram.

Palace, Minister Dr.

Budak opens the first meeting of the Japanese-Croatian cultural organization.

Presentation of gifts to Ambassador Miura: an album of drawings.

The Croatian ballet gave several exhibition performances in Vienna, where they showed beautiful dances in national costumes.

Soldiers watch the concert.

Days of National Music in Paris.

The choir and orchestra perform in one of the best halls in Paris.

The Grand Orchestra of French Radio, conducted by Ingelbert, performs a number of works by Berlioz.

More than 1,000 people, athletes of the German army, take part in a cross-country race over a distance of 7.5 thousand meters.

The athletes run over obstacles, through mud, and through a swamp.

The winner is a representative of the Stralsund air club.

The Latvian newspaper "Tevija" ("Fatherland").

The population of Latvia capable of defense joins the ranks of defenders of their homeland from Bolshevism.

Volunteers undergo a medical examination, they receive uniforms.

Keywords

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Reel №2

A reconnaissance aircraft takes off from an Italian airfield, with a view of the terrain below.

A German pilot takes photographs, collecting new data on the enemy.

Over Anzio harbor.

The aircraft lands.

The vehicle with the data goes to headquarters, the photographs are processed in the lab.

Based on the photographs, new targets for German long-range guns are set on the map.

Ships in Anzio harbor.

Nettuno, a gun is brought up on a platform, loaded and fired.

On the northern section of the eastern front.

Long-range guns fire from a platform.

An officer looks through binoculars.

Fresh forces and supply trains are pulling up to the Narva area.

German tanks and vehicles with soldiers are driving.

Shelters in the snow.

Supply trains are en route, a soldier tries to light a cigarette in the wind, a snowstorm begins.

A strike force in camouflage suits is located among the ice floes near Lake Peipus.

The Bolsheviks have fortified themselves on the island.

German guns fire at the island.

The strike force clears the island of the remnants of enemy forces.

The shelters of Soviet soldiers are destroyed by guns.

Soviet prisoners.

Light vessels of the German naval forces fire at enemy firing points on the coast of the Narva Front.

The guns on board fire.

The engine room.

German Heinkel 129 attack aircraft take off to carry out a combat mission.

Bombing the area and Soviet tanks from a low-level flight.

Knocked out tanks.

Keywords

Italy, 1944, World War 2, BBC, intelligence, aerial photography, artillery, Eastern Front, 1944, World War 2, artillery, convoys, tanks, natural conditions, prisoners, Eastern Front, 1944, World War 2, Navy, Eastern Front, 1944, World War 2, BBC, bombings

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