Tonwoche №671 (1944)

The President of the Berlin Police, Count Helldorf, inspects the fire brigades.

He receives a report, walks around the line of firefighters, talks to them, and watches the fire brigades maneuver.

The firefighters run to their vehicles, unscrew the hoses, connect the pipes, and turn on the water.

The firefighters are wearing special protective clothing.

Helldorf speaks in front of the line.

Marshal Petain tours the cities of France that suffered from Allied air raids.

The motorcade of vehicles drives through the streets of the city, and the residents greet the marshal.

In Lyon, Petain visits a hospital where wounded residents of the raid are being treated.

He inspects the ruins of the city and talks to the residents.

Ukraine.

The clergy of the Catholic and Orthodox churches, who escaped from the Bolsheviks, found shelter and protection from the German authorities.

In the presence of SS Gruppenführer Gille, who was awarded the Order of the Iron Cross with Diamonds, the German military authorities handed over to representatives of both churches the church valuables saved in Kovel by the German army.

PNR on icons, church utensils.

Military exercises for cadets of the German infantry school.

Final exercises in the field.

Cadets, camouflaged by branches, are in the forest, they place guns, load them.

Shooting from a grenade launcher, rifles, a soldier throws a grenade.

All clear with a bugle signal.

Cadets run to the commander, sit down next to him on the ground.

Return to school with a song.

Battle in the area of Cherbourg and the mouth of the Orne River.

Crews of German coastal batteries fight on two sides: on land and on the water.

Shelling of the enemy transport fleet.

Heavy guns fire at ships.

A burning cruiser.

Fire from enemy naval artillery.

Panning along the shore, on which lie the wreckage of Allied landing military equipment.

A large wrecked landing ship loaded with vehicles.

On the road are wreckage of English equipment, cars, tanks.

A sign for Villers-Bocage, a view of the destroyed city.

Broken American tanks in the narrow streets of the city.

German anti-aircraft artillery fires at American bombers during a raid on Paris.

Destruction and fires in the city, a destroyed cathedral.

Air battle over Paris.

Residents save their belongings, take cover in shelters.

Firefighters work.

Downed American planes burn on the ground.

Crosses on soldiers' graves.

German soldiers lead captured American pilots, they hold parachutes in their hands.

At one of the assembly points for prisoners of war.

Prisoners sit on the ground.

The combat post of SS General Sepp Dietrich in the forest, he is among the officers.

SS tank units at rest.

Soldiers walk.

Battle in the forest.

Broken American tanks.

German tanks and self-propelled guns in the area of battle.

Counterattack on the Anglo-American units.

Self-propelled rocket launchers in battle.

The fighting continues until dark.