Tonwoche №670 (1944)

Germany.

June 21, 1941. The clock shows 5.30 am.

The announcer reports that Germany was forced to begin a fight against the Bolsheviks.

Berlin, Wilhelmplatz, Reich Chancellery.

Goebbels enters the hall.

A speech about the beginning of military actions against the USSR is broadcast on the radio.

A press conference for foreign journalists, Ribbentrop's speech.

Europe.

German troops, an artillery battery in the forest.

Voluntary conscription into the army against Bolshevism begins in European countries.

An Estonian SS battalion marches in front of the commander.

Close-up of the patch on the sleeve: "Estland".

A line of Estonian volunteers on a square in Tallinn.

Ukrainian volunteers, SS insignia.

Slogan: "For Ukraine, for freedom, for honor, for glory." A Ukrainian detachment marches along a street in Lvov.

A soldier with a banner.

Officers walk around the formation.

Taking the oath.

Soldiers marching.

A soldier with awards on his chest.

Volunteer units of France marching across the square.

Patch of the Belgian battalion "Wallonia".

A detachment marching along the street.

France, a detachment in black uniforms marching along the street with flowers in their hands.

Officers inspecting the formation.

Soldiers on the parade ground near the barracks.

Inspecting the formation.

Farewell at the train station.

A poster with the face of a German soldier.

Soldiers marching across the field.

Awarding soldiers.

Officers meeting over a map of the area.

A machine gunner firing.

Firing from rifles and cannons.

Explosions and fires.

France.

Map of the Canal.

At the invasion front.

Combat activities of the German aviation.

At the airfield, planes are being prepared for flight.

One of the German night fighters shot down 100 enemy machines.

Close-up of the pilot, he is smiling.

Planes taking off against the background of guns.

Traces in the sky.

An anti-aircraft battery in combat with Anglo-American planes.

Tracer bullets.

The plane falls to the ground, its wreckage.

The pilots are taken prisoner, searched.

The announcer says that the "liberators of France" have turned everything into ashes and ruins without regret.

A destroyed city, fires.

The return of refugees.

Tens of thousands of French civilians were killed.

People are crying.

Footage from the city of Le Havre.

The wounded and dead are carried on stretchers.

Refugees leave the city after the bombing, get into trucks, the wounded are loaded into cars. receives a message that southern England and the London area were bombarded overnight and in the morning with a new type of explosive shells of the heaviest caliber.

A line of officers.

Lieutenant General Meindl, commander of one of the paratrooper corps (in overalls) talks to a knight of the Order of the Iron Cross of the Knight's degree, Major Ondergeiste.

Meindl leaves in a car, the officers see him off.

The head of the reconnaissance detachment explains the combat mission to his group on the street near the house.

A sign pointing to the city of Saint-Loup, German tanks are advancing.

After a heavy battle, the Anglo-American tanks, which temporarily managed to advance almost 10 km, were thrown back to their original positions.

Soldiers with weapons are advancing.

Fighting on rough terrain is of a special nature.

A soldier with a panzerfaust is walking, smiling, digging in by the road.

A signalman with a radio.

German paratroopers are advancing, armed with means of combat.

SS soldiers, paratroopers are lying in wait in the depths of a dense forest.

Grenadiers of the SS division are fully prepared to attack.

Officers at a map.

Soldiers are leading a wounded man.

German soldiers are waiting for a signal.

Heavy tanks are advancing, followed by soldiers.

Mortars are firing.

Soldiers are crouching by the road, running to attack.

Explosions in the forest.

Broken and burning tanks in the Saint-Loup area, Sherman type.

Panoramic view of broken American tanks, anti-tank guns, corpses of soldiers.

The main road to Saint-Loup, cars driving by.

Burning cars, tanks, and war trophies lie on the side of the road.

Prisoners walk along the road, sit in a camp.

German bombers prepare to attack.

Meeting at headquarters.

Shells are being delivered to the planes.

Along with the bombers and heavy artillery, crews of speedboats participate.

Pilots prepare for a night flight.

Guns fire in the night.

A burning enemy transport ship.

A torpedo is launched from the boat.

The ship is burning.