Tonwoche №676 (1944)

Czechoslovakia.

President Emil Hácha turns 72. Prime Minister Dr.

Krejčí and other government officials congratulate Hácha in the office of his residence, Lara Castle.

A ride through the castle park in carriages.

Croatia.

Celebration of the 55th birthday of Poglavnik Pavelic.

The streets of Zagreb are decorated with flags and portraits.

Solemn services are held in churches.

Signing the visitors' book of Poglavnik Pavelic.

In connection with the 8th anniversary of the national revolution in Spain, the caudillo received members of the diplomatic corps at the La Granja residence.

Franco and his wife leave the residence building, communicate with diplomats.

A motorcade of cars in Madrid.

Workers honor the caudillo.

Honored workers are awarded diplomas.

A ceremonial parade of 300 thousand people, columns of demonstrators march.

The German-Flemish Workers' Association organized a demonstration in Antwerp on the day of the Battle of Guidelsporm.

Columns of the Hitler Youth and soldiers march.

Buglers sound.

A ceremonial meeting in the hall.

A procession through the hall with a banner depicting a lion.

A speech by Dr. van DeWyll calling for unity with Germany as several centuries ago for the freedom of Europe.

The 3rd anniversary of Hungary's entry into the battle against Bolshevism is celebrated by an alliance of fighters from the Eastern Front, which organized a large meeting in Budapest.

On the stage is a banner with a drawing of a skull.

Landeführer Bela Imrédy addresses his fighting comrades.

The entire nation of Germany is taking part in the total war.

RAD soldiers with shovels are marching in formation to create a defensive rampart.

The Hitler Youth, labor service units, huge columns of workers from the Baltic regions, and women are taking part in this work.

The system of wide and deep trenches stretches for several hundred kilometers.

View from an airplane.

Map from the Baltic Sea to the northern spurs of the Carpathians.

Reinforcements are moving to the front: motorized infantry, grenadiers, tanks, self-propelled guns.

German artillery is shelling the advancing Soviet tanks.

Faces of German soldiers.

Guns are firing.

Heavy German tanks are attacking.

The Germans are going to take back a village captured by the Bolsheviks near the city of Kovel.

The Germans are leading a Soviet prisoner.

Officers at a meeting in the field.

SS grenadiers before the attack.

The village is taken, fires are raging.

A German soldier shows a mess tin pierced by a bullet on his back.

SS-Obergruppenführer Gille at the front, giving instructions to his subordinates.

German reinforcements are advancing.

Infantry and guns, supported by tanks, are launching a counteroffensive.

Tanks are moving across the field, a tank battle is beginning.

Fighting in the city, a breakthrough of Soviet tanks has been eliminated.

Burning Soviet tanks, holes in the armor.

German soldiers drink water from flasks against the background of burning Soviet tanks.

German troops move on.

The French Petain militia in the fight against partisans - "terrorists", they lead a group of people with their hands raised out of the building, leading them in formation.

Interrogation of prisoners.

On one of the highways after an attack by "bandits", a wrecked car.

A German patrol checks the documents and belongings of passers-by and travelers.

Not far from the road, an estate is discovered, the owner of which helped the terrorists, the soldiers set his house on fire.

Counterfeit money that the Americans put into circulation in France.

German infantry reserves on the roads of Normandy.

American air attack, Germans throw themselves to the side of the road.

Anti-aircraft battery of the state labor service fires at American planes.

The raid is over, German reinforcements move on.

At the German positions.

Field Marshal von Kluge inspects one of the combat areas.

American tanks knocked out in front of the German positions.

Anti-tank guns fire.

German soldiers in the forest.

A grenadier who destroyed two American heavy tanks in one day is awarded two Iron Crosses.

German tanks in the counterattack.

Night battle.