Tonwoche №686 (1944)

A Ukrainian family of migrant workers in Germany.

The family is having breakfast at the table and heading off to work.

One of the daughters works in a warehouse, she unloads boxes with the old man, the girl is transporting boxes in a forklift.

Her sister works at the post office, workers are loading parcels into the car, she gets behind the wheel and puts on a uniform cap.

The eldest son works as an electrician at a factory.

The third daughter is a welder.

The father, a distinguished miner, with his comrades in the mine.

Volunteers born in 1928 take the oath to the Fuhrer.

Hitler Youth units at a demonstration on the square near the palace.

A young man approaches an officer, who shakes his hand.

A young drummer plays.

An officer's speech to the youth.

The faces of the young men, they are in the uniform of various branches of the armed forces.

A parade of the Norwegian police, police units are marching, mounted police.

Speech by the President of the Police, Asquith.

Spain.

Caudillo Franco visiting a Falange school.

Accompanied by the teaching staff, he walks around the school.

Young students greet him in the yard with welcoming cries.

Franco gives a speech, walks along the path, the children see Franco off to his car.

A view of a Gothic cathedral in western Germany, 40 km from the front.

Soldiers sit by the walls.

Life in a frontline town in the Rhineland.

A patrol checks the documents of a truck driver, a tram goes by.

Soldiers march along the street.

Slogans hang: "Fight until victory!" Ruins of houses near the cathedral.

Evacuation of the civilian population is underway.

Santa Catarina station, people load things and strollers into train cars.

Children in kindergarten.

Sisters put children on buses, see them off.

Carts with belongings go along the road, people with things walk, lead a herd of cows and sheep.

A Hitler Youth detachment marches with shovels, they work for defense.

The boys dig anti-tank ditches under the supervision of an officer, carry and unroll barbed wire.

A girl bandages a boy's finger.

Digging a ditch.

The girl takes off her boot, shakes out the earth.

France.

Barrage balloons hang in the sky.

A German stronghold in France, an attack by the British Air Force.

German anti-aircraft guns fire.

Footage from an English newsreel about the attack of V-1 rockets on London.

View of London with the Thames.

V-1 in the sky.

A crowd of people near houses.

Ruins of houses, mangled cars.

A panorama of the ruins.

Holland.

The Battle of Aachen.

Using their material superiority, the Anglo-American troops attack German units.

Battery fire.

German reserves are in the bunkers.

Soldiers load a grenade launcher and fire.

English planes bomb German positions.

German soldiers attack, American positions are occupied.

English journalist John Bulls.

German grenadiers attack.

A German sniper shoots.