Tonwoche №675 (1944)

The 1944 youth rally is taking place in the Bohemian-Moravian Protectorate.

A concert of a 1,000-voice choir of Czech youth dressed in national costumes is taking place on the Old Town Square in Prague.

City residents are listening to the concert, with government officials on the balcony.

A youth demonstration is heading towards the National Theatre building, with columns of young men and women in national costumes marching, with an orchestra in front.

The population is greeting the youth.

Mussolini is present at the maneuvers of the Italian volunteer division "Littoria" in Germany.

The Duce with German officers on one of the German parade grounds, observing the actions of tanks and infantry.

A German officer is giving explanations.

Soldiers are attacking behind the tanks.

Mussolini and his officers are walking around the position, the Duce is near an artillery crew camouflaged with branches.

Soldiers of the division are in formation.

Mussolini is presented with the division flag and kisses it.

Major Remer, commander of the Berlin Security Battalion, promoted to colonel for his services during the assassination attempt on the Führer on July 20, walks past the soldiers of his battalion.

He makes a speech to the soldiers.

The battalion marches past the newly minted colonel in Berlin at the Brandenburg Gate.

The central section of the front, the map shows Kovel, Lemberg, Vitebsk.

Retreat and defensive operations of the German troops.

View from the window of the burning city.

German tanks, motorcycles, and infantry advance through the forest and along the road.

Reserve soldiers move toward the battle line.

The soldiers smile at the camera and wave their hands.

They pass by a village with a monastery.

Refugee convoys drive along the street, people walk with their remaining belongings.

A railway station, a special vehicle rips up the sleepers on the track.

View of the burning station and houses.

Soldiers run along the track, explosions are heard behind them.

A soldier looks at a village in smoke and fires.

Sappers mine the railway, camouflage the mines.

A soldier at an anti-aircraft gun watches the crossing of troops and equipment over a bridge.

Machine gunners cover the retreat of the troops.

Artillerymen by the road along which cars and motorcycles are driving past a populated area.

Buildings are burning in the city, set on fire by the Germans during their retreat.

The infantry rearguard with machine guns and panzerfausts is making its way along the city street, ensuring the evacuation of troops.

The detachment lies down on the street with a machine gun, a corporal is looking through binoculars.

Trains with fresh reserves of troops and equipment, tanks on a platform are arriving at one of the eastern railway stations.

Artillery and tanks are moving under their own power to the front line.

Tanks are advancing.

A German officer is looking at a map.

Soldiers are having a smoke break next to tanks.

Close-up of a young soldier, machine gun belts around his neck.

Soldiers at the front line during a lull.

They are eating, a soldier is drinking water from a bucket.

An observer on a tower, a radio operator is receiving a message about an attack, a message is being transmitted by telephone.

Officers at field headquarters near a map.

German infantry take up new positions, they are in a trench.

View from a slit onto the terrain, an explosion is heard.

Soldiers take cover behind the ruins of a building.

Artillery fires across the river, shell explosions are visible, a mortar fires, soldiers with machine guns and rifles, a soldier throws a grenade.

Under artillery fire, German tanks and grenadiers counterattack.

View from a slit in a tank.

Explosions on the terrain.

A tank is driving, a tanker is looking through a pipe from an open hatch.

On the roads of Normandy.

German equipment is driving across a bridge, a tank camouflaged with branches.

Norman peasants are driving their herds to a safe place.

A German truck with soldiers is driving towards the herd.

German reservists are helping to drive away the animals, a soldier is driving the sheep.

Mechanized artillery with soldiers is driving along the road.

Allied aviation is raiding the cities of Normandy, explosions on the ground.

Residents run along the street of the destroyed city, sorting through the ruins in search of the remaining things.

People leave the destroyed cities, women with children are walking.

View of the destroyed city, people sorting through the ruins, carrying the wounded on stretchers.

Carts with people and things are driving along the road, children are pulling a cart with things, bicycles, women are walking with strollers.

A man is carrying things on a bicycle.

Captured Americans are led along the road.

Thousands of American prisoners are led through the streets of Paris, residents are showing hostility towards them: shouting, beating.

German fighters take off to attack the British air force.

An American column is being shelled from the air.

The British air force, in turn, attacks the German infantry on the streets of the city.

Smoke, fires, explosions are everywhere.

Military action south of the city of Caen.

Infantrymen in the trenches.

German artillery is shelling the Allied positions.

Tank attack.

SS Hauptsturmführer Wittmann on a tank.

Soldiers of the SS division on the offensive.

Destroyed and damaged Anglo-American military equipment, corpses of soldiers.

The infantry is fighting in the streets of the city, they are among the ruins.

A flamethrower is shooting along the street, there is continuous fire.