Tonwoche №672 (1944)

The International Industrial Fair is taking place in Barcelona.

Flags of the participating countries.

Visitors entering the fair.

An advertising poster for the Kamus cognac, a girl giving it to visitors to try.

General view of the fair.

Samples of products: metal products – a model of a sailboat, a mug.

A telephone company presents a station, female signalmen at work.

Demonstration of vacuum cleaners, various machines.

Exhibition: Fashion and Textiles.

Girls demonstrate elegant dresses and suits.

Prague, view of the river and Prague Castle in the distance.

Architectural monuments, street traffic.

The building of the palace, where an art exhibition on the theme of working people is taking place.

German officers climb the beautiful wide staircase and look at the exhibition.

Paintings: RAD soldiers with shovels, sculpture of a worker.

A woman with a sheaf of wheat.

Visitors look at the paintings.

Soldiers on the march, a soldier and a girl.

Germany.

Preparing horses for the army at a stud farm.

Horse breaking by female soldiers.

Hurdles.

A column of horsewomen moves along the road, each holding a second free horse by the bridle.

Cross-country racing.

The oath of allegiance of Slovak cadets who have completed the course at the military academy in Bratislava.

Formation on the parade ground.

President Tiso delivers a speech.

German and Slovak officers sit.

The return of Croatian troops to their homeland after completing their training in Germany.

A rally at the train station.

Poglavnik Ante Pavelic inspects the formation.

Troops led by the Poglavnik march to Zagreb.

16 thousand civilians were left homeless in the city of Lisieux in Normandy, almost 3 thousand dead were buried under the rubble as a result of the bombing.

Ruins of buildings in the city, a nun walking, workers with pickaxes.

Refugees with their belongings pass by the ruins.

The surviving townspeople are hiding in caves near the city.

People are sitting on the ground in the dark.

Map, the English Channel between England and Europe.

German reserves are advancing along the roads of Normandy to the place of military operations.

A soldier is distributing a front-line newspaper on the side of the road.

Cyclists are riding by.

A soldier is reading a newspaper at a rest stop, the headline is visible: "Eisenhower did not catch us by surprise." Infantrymen are leading bicycles along the streets of the city.

There are wrecked cars on the side of the road.

Trucks with soldiers and cars are driving along the road.

An observer in a helmet camouflaged by branches looks at the sky.

Enemy planes appear, everyone rushes to the side of the road.

Artillery opens fire.

A shot down four-engine bomber burns on the ground.

A signpost to Vire and Avranches.

A column of reserves passes through damaged French coastal towns.

A cathedral damaged by Anglo-American bombing, interior view.

A German soldier in glasses plays the organ.

German tanks on a city street.

Officers discuss a combat mission over a map right on the street.

Tanks and motorized artillery take up positions on the edge of the forest.

Six-barreled mortars are standing.

A pause in the fighting.

Soldiers eat, smoke, play with a piglet caught in the forest.

At one of the forward combat posts.

A cyclist arrives and hands over a package.

A Waffen-SS detachment in a swampy area.

A soldier walks through the mud, along footbridges to a dugout, from which a fighter looks out with a puppy in his hands.

An observer with binoculars in a tree.

After the rain, the area has turned into a swamp, there is mud everywhere.

A strike force is sent out on reconnaissance.

A soldier climbs a tree, then they make their way through a fence.

Artillery begins shelling the enemy.

Soldiers run through the swamp.

Tanks prepare for a counterattack.

Mortars fire.

Infantry goes on the attack.

A battle with American tanks.

Knocked out tanks on the field.

German soldiers inspect a tank, holes in the armor are visible.

The crew of one of the self-propelled guns is awarded Iron Crosses.

One of the heroes, Oberleutnant Franz Ludwig, a Knight of the Iron Cross, together with his team destroyed 16 English tanks in one day, he watches as the artilleryman draws lines on the gun barrel according to the number of knocked out tanks.

In a sector in Normandy.

German units are in close proximity to the enemy.

A battle is underway.

American tanks are burning.

German soldiers are attacking, they are in a captured city.

Street fighting in a destroyed city.