Tonwoche №691 (1944)

Prague.

November 14, 1944. The founding meeting of the Committee for the Liberation of the Peoples of Russia was held here.

General Vlasov, accompanied by Minister of State Frank, walks past the guard of honor and enters the building.

In front of the rows with representatives of the peoples of Russia are tables with the current members of the committee.

The oldest member of the committee, Professor Rudnev, opens the meeting and proposes Vlasov as the candidacy of the committee chairman.

Vlasov, unanimously elected, takes the chairman's place.

The speakers read out the texts of greetings from the German side, in particular, one of the speakers conveys greetings from Himmler to Vlasov.

Vlasov reads out the agenda: approval of the manifesto, approval of the Regulations on the committee, and elections of committee members.

Vlasov reads out the text of the manifesto (synchronously), everyone claps.

Vlasov shakes Frank's hand, and they leave the meeting hall.

Suppression of the uprising in Slovakia.

The German troops have occupied the last bastion of the rebels, the city of Neusel.

The President of Slovakia, Dr.

Tiso, and the commander of the German troops in Slovakia, SS General Epple, arrive for the celebrations of the liberation of the city.

They drive through the city in a car, and the population greets them.

Tiso walks around the line of soldiers, stands on the podium with Epple.

The President addresses the residents of the city who have returned to the city and thanks the German troops for their quick and decisive assistance.

He awards the German soldiers who distinguished themselves in suppressing the uprising.

Parade of German troops.

The head of Croatia, Ante Pavelic, opens an exhibition of Croatian artists in Agram, which introduces visitors to the creativity of the Croatian people.

Landscapes.

In German factories, labor safety measures invented by the workers themselves are put into practice.

Thick tin protects the worker at the press.

Long hair on women, which can cause an accident, is covered with special helmets.

Safety device on a lathe, women working.

German youth go gliding.

The boys are trained to launch gliders on the ground.

An alien machine appears in the sky and lands in a field.

The boys run to the plane, in the cockpit is one of the best German pilots, Lieutenant Colonel Baumbach.

He does sports with the boys, then tells them about the front.

German swimmers-demolitionists.

Medical check before the operation.

The boys put on suits: a rubber suit is pulled over a wool suit, and on top of that a gray protective suit, a wool helmet, an oxygen apparatus and fins.

On September 28, they blew up the bridge near Nijmegen over the Waal River in Holland.

The swimmers go into the water, the explosion occurs at night.

The map shows points in Holland: Nijmegen, Amsterdam, Eindhoven, Antwerp.

Along the entire Western Front, the Allies went on the offensive, trying to undermine the German front.

American Leidning aircraft bomb a village.

German soldiers in the forest.

German anti-aircraft guns fire at the planes.

A trail of burning aircraft in the sky, it falls to the ground and explodes.

German fighters repel an enemy attack.

An American plane crashes.

East Prussia.

Map: Gumbinnen, Nemmersdorf, Rominten, Goldap.

New People's Divisions of German Youth inflict crushing blows on the enemy.

With the support of assault guns, German grenadiers repel an attack by Soviet tanks on a forest section.

German soldiers with panzerfausts are advancing.

Houses are burning in the village.

German anti-tank guns are firing.

Destroyed Soviet tanks, numerous holes in the armor.

A counterattack by German troops with artillery support eliminated a local breakthrough.

German tanks are advancing.

The fierce battle continues until nightfall, the fire from six-barreled mortars illuminating the darkness.