Tonwoche №669 (1944)

Newsreel №64051, 2 parts, Duration: 0:17:38 B/W
Studio UFA

Reel №1

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Manufacturing shoes for workers from the East who are in Germany.

Only Eastern workers work at the factory, many of them women.

A pile of blanks on the floor, a warehouse of blanks.

Cutting out parts, women sewing at machines.

Men connecting parts, nailing soles.

Finished shoes are loaded onto a machine.

French Rear Admiral Jardel opens a maritime exhibition in Paris.

View of a large model of a sailing ship and a figure of a cabin boy.

Models, drawings.

Visitors at the exhibition.

A sailor stands with a halberd.

Paintings on a maritime theme.

The Union of German and Foreign Students in Vienna organized a concert of folk songs, at which many foreign songs were sung.

Japanese singer Mihiko Tanaka, listeners.

Croatian choir, soldiers singing.

The choir sang Bulgarian songs.

Applause from the audience.

In the final of the 5th German Football Championship, the teams of the Dresden Sports Club and the Sports Club of the Military Aviation from Hamburg met in front of thousands of soldiers and workers of the defense industry.

Moments of the game, reactions of the spectators.

The Dresden team won with a score of 4-0. Philippe Henriot, the French Secretary of State for Information and Propaganda, during his trip to Germany visited the studio of the famous German sculptor Professor Arno Breker.

Inspection of works in the sculptor's studio, a giant nude male figure.

Henriot talked with the sculptor's French students.

Sculpture of a giant fascist eagle, bust of an old man, bust of Lincoln, bas-relief.

Shoe factory in the General Government.

Women at sewing machines stitch leather, shoe assembly underway.

Production processes, sewing shoes, boots.

Quality control of products, packaging, warehousing.

The exhibition "Our Army" in Vienna is very popular with the public.

A visit to the exhibition by a Japanese military delegation.

The delegation walks along the line of soldiers on the street near the exhibition building.

Viewing the exhibits: six-barreled mortars, guns.

A photo exhibition about the army's construction units.

Visitors to the exhibition, numerous military attachés from various countries, got a clear idea of the strength and will to win of the German army.

View of the models.

The Chief of the Hungarian Defense Forces, Admiral Horthy, at 76 years old, is full of strength, he is at the location of an artillery unit.

Horthy at the maneuvers of infantry, artillery and tanks.

Keywords

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Reel №2

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A model reproducing the fighting on the Somme in 1942. Pictures.

Models of dugouts, a switchboard, a radio operator sitting inside, soldiers-telegraphists.

Battle paintings, photographs: a German soldier in camouflage with a pipe in his mouth.

Despite the fact that the Anglo-American troops concentrated a huge amount of material and manpower in a small area of the French coast, they failed to achieve their intended goal.

Small units of the German navy constantly attack the enemy and inflict significant losses on the enemy landing fleet.

Awarding of German sailors from the torpedo boat flotilla.

Coastal artillery fires at enemy landing craft in the area of the mouth of the Seine and Orly.

Coastal artillery bunker, gunners roll shells, heavy guns fire.

A ship is burning.

Enemy landing craft in the dunes, a wrecked ferry, ammunition, canisters, boxes are lying around.

Heavy enemy bombers bomb the German attacking units almost without interruption.

The French city of Caen, destroyed by Anglo-American aviation.

Residents wander among the rubble of houses, a woman carries out a suitcase and a chair, residents sort through the rubble.

A destroyed cathedral.

Refugees walk along the street, trying to get out of the cities and villages destroyed by Anglo-American bombing.

Caves where civilians are hiding.

German infantry and self-propelled guns in a defensive battle with the enemy.

Anti-aircraft artillery fires at aircraft.

Burnt transport gliders on the ground.

Prisoners are on their way to the camp.

German soldiers are resting, they are sitting on the ground, eating.

German soldiers of the SS Division "Hitler Youth" receive awards, young soldiers in front of the camera.

Counterattack of German troops.

Motorcyclists are riding.

Self-propelled guns deliver a flank attack.

Numerous attempts to break through by heavy American tanks were repelled.

Successful actions of German rocket launchers, the gun fires.

Night shelling of enemy positions.

Keywords

Austria, 1944, World War 2, military exhibition, layouts, Western Front, France, 1944, World War 2, Navy, awarding, artillery, the landing force is broken, BBC, France, 1944, World War 2, destruction, ruin, population, refugees, France, 1944, World War 2, artillery, prisoners, rest, SS, awarding, BBC

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