Tonwoche №666 (1944)

French President Marshal Petain visits the main city of Normandy, Rouen.

The Anglo-American air raids caused great destruction in the city, the world-famous cathedral was damaged.

A motorcade of cars drives through the city, residents greet Petain.

The Marshal gets out of the car, children bring him flowers.

A memorial service was held in the San Quentin Church for the victims of the bombing.

After the funeral service, Petain comes out to the people, at the church he shakes hands with the clergy.

The place where Joan of Arc was burned by the British 5 centuries ago, a slab on the site of the burning, a sculpture.

Petain approaches the sculpture.

The people of Slovakia celebrate the 25th anniversary of the death of Milan Stefanik, a fighter for Slovak independence.

A solemn ceremony at the people's monument to Stefanik, a speaker speaks.

A line of soldiers at the monument, statesmen stand.

Women in national costumes.

Portrait of Milan Stefanik.

The 5th German wartime gymnastics competition on apparatus among men took place in Krems on May 14, 1944. Athletes on parallel bars, horizontal bar, rapid shooting.

The overall winner was Ernst Braun from Dortmund.

He performs gymnastic exercises.

In those areas of Germany that were particularly frequently subjected to enemy air raids, the population received special food supplements.

Headlines of German newspapers about food.

Shop windows of grocery stores.

In wartime, Germany is able to supply the population with food without delay.

Table of rations.

Customers in stores, sausage department.

Food is loaded from warehouses onto trucks, loaders roll barrels, carry sacks.

Reich Minister of Food Backe, who is the person responsible for organizing the people's food supply, constantly monitors the implementation of his measures.

Backe at the warehouse, he checks grain and meat.

In Tirana, in the presence of the Albanian Prime Minister, the oath of allegiance to the newly formed Albanian Gendarmerie took place.

A line of gendarmes in the courtyard of the barracks, walking around the formation.

Gendarmes take the oath.

Young volunteers march past.

Long columns of Ukrainian and Romanian refugees accompany German troops entering eastern Romania.

Refugee convoys on the road, camels and horses harnessed to the cart.

People waiting for the train.

Nurses of the German Red Cross supply people with food, look after refugee babies, bathe them.

Children in cribs.

On the front line near the Adriatic coast.

An observation post in the mountains, a German soldier makes a telephone call to report an attack.

A German tank destroyer leaves its shelter.

A soldier erases the tracks of the tracks in the sand.

The fighter fires into the valley.

The observer watches, wiping his face with a handkerchief from the heat.

On another section of the Italian front south of Rome, a major battle has begun near the city of Cisterna with the advancing Anglo-American units.

Only ruins remain of the city of Cisterna.

German soldiers stubbornly defend themselves against superior enemy forces.

A respite between battles, soldiers sleep in the ruins.

Heavy batteries in battle.

A counterattack by tanks.

Detachments of the so-called "green devils", so feared by the enemy, go on the offensive.

Corpses of soldiers, broken tanks.

Prisoners, among whom are many soldiers of the colonial troops, Indians.

German soldiers run between haystacks, shoot, lying in the grass.

A gun crew shoots.

Enemy aircraft in the sky.

A soldier looks at the sky, examines a punctured bag.

Explosions on the ground.

Admiral Meendsen-Bolken among the crews of German submarine destroyers.

The captain of the boat, Oberleutnant Otto Pollmann, awarded for the sinking of 12 enemy boats, his crew, the admiral inspects the formation.

A German submarine goes on a raid, protecting a German convoy of ships in the Mediterranean Sea.

In a special room of the boat there are devices with which it is possible to determine the location of the enemy boat.

The sound of an engine underwater is heard, alarm on the boat, sailors run to their places.

Dropping depth charges, explosions in the water.

Traces of oil on the surface of the water - a sign of a direct hit on the target.

The raid continues, a new battle.