Tonwoche №661 (1944)

Holy Week in Spain.

Traditional processions take place in all the cities.

Floats with scenes from the Holy Scriptures.

The crucifixion of Christ, the reclining Christ, a sculpture of the Virgin Mary, burning candles.

Processions in historical costumes.

After participating in the battles near Cherkassy, the SS storm brigade "Wallonia" returns to its homeland.

The division on the square in front of the town hall.

Degrelle and SS-Obergruppenführer Sepp Dietrich inspect the units, awarding soldiers.

The division's soldiers are in the crowd, they are greeted by the residents.

The SS tank brigade "Wallonia" enters Brussels.

Women throw flowers, the population greets the troops.

Degrelle in the crowd, they shake his hand.

Opening of the rowing season in Germany.

Male and female athletes launch boats.

Young men row.

The eights start.

Holland.

Young people on the sports ground.

Field hockey, moments of the game. 172 participants of the Paris-Roubaix cycling race at the start, moments of the race.

Sign to Amiens, racers enter the city.

A closed railway barrier changes the results of the race.

Tempelare wins.

Fascist symbols: eagle and swastika.

April 20, 1944, Hitler turns 55. The Nazi flag is raised.

A demonstration takes place in Berlin.

A military orchestra marches from the Brandenburg Gate along Unter den Linden.

Berliners with fascist flags march together with the guard, a girl holds soldiers by the arms on both sides.

Flags with swastikas are hung in the windows.

The ruins are covered with a patriotic poster.

A newsstand, a newspaper with a headline about this event.

In the Reich Chancellery, visitors leave notes in a book, representatives of diplomatic missions walk.

Hitler inspects a line of new tanks and accepts congratulations from ministers and generals.

He arrives at the proving ground by car and is met by generals.

Goering approaches the Fuhrer and shakes his hand.

Hitler walks up to the line of generals.

Field Marshal Keitel, Grand Admiral Doenitz, Chief of the General Staff General Zeitzler.

Hitler talks to young officers and soldiers.

General Guderian, engineer Sauer, responsible for the defense industry.

Hitler inspects tanks.

A German ship at sea.

A coastal anti-aircraft battery on guard.

Anglo-American bomber raids on Germany.

Continued.

Alarm in the air defense forces.

Receiving a radiogram, the radio operator passes on the message about the raid of enemy aircraft by radio.

German pilots board fighters.

An automatic movie camera is mounted on one of the planes.

In the city, the population takes cover in bunkers and bomb shelters.

Trams are stopped.

In the hospital, the wounded and sick are carried to a bunker.

Monitoring of enemy aircraft is carried out at observation combat posts.

Women enter data on a map.

Air combat with Anglo-American bombers.

Enemy aircraft shot down, aircraft wreckage flies in the air.

Pilots jump with parachutes.

The remains of the aircraft burn on the ground.

Captured American pilots, they are interrogated.

Graves of killed Americans, crosses.

The next day, Anglo-American bombers are sent from Italy to the southeastern regions of Germany.

Headquarters receives a message.

Heavy German anti-aircraft artillery shells the enemy.

A battery by the sea.

One of the American four-engine planes, whose gas tank was destroyed, lands on a German airfield.

The 10-member crew gets off.

The bombers penetrate the German Alps.

A battery in the mountains.

Headquarters, telephone operators.

German fighters take off.

Air battle.

An American bomber flies apart.

The plane's engines are on fire.

A view of the ground from above.