Tonwoche №692 (1944)

Austria.

A traditional crossbow shooting competition is held in Tyrol.

The targets are set up at a distance of 15 meters.

Among the targets is a man in a decorated cap, who marks the hits and returns the participants' arrows in a box moved along a rope.

The man in the cap stands next to the competition emblem.

The Tyrolean marksmen, whose ancestors distinguished themselves in the defense of the fatherland hundreds of years ago, are all joining the people's militia.

The patch on the sleeve of the greatcoat reads: "Kitzbühel Riflemen's Battalion." Riflemen in civilian clothes, weapons in hand, march down the street.

A line of militiamen in uniform.

Regional leader Fotar took their oath of allegiance in Innsbruck.

Fotar delivers a speech to the soldiers.

A panorama of the soldiers' ranks.

A view of the mountains of Tyrol.

Celebrations are taking place all over Spain to mark the 11th anniversary of the Phalanx.

A rally is taking place in the square, banners are visible in the crowd, and the leaders of the phalanx are on the balcony.

In Madrid, a ceremonial meeting was held in the Comedy Theatre with the participation of the party minister and other leaders of the phalanx; they are entering the building through the crowd.

People greet them and clap.

The march of columns of the old guard and student organizations through the streets of Madrid.

The leaders of the phalanx are on the platform.

German youth are on military training courses.

A cadet fires a flare gun, giving the signal to begin the exercises.

A cadet throws a smoke bomb.

In conditions close to combat, the cadets run to the river with inflatable boats.

The training crossing begins under the guidance of experienced front-line soldiers.

The boys row, jump out onto the bank, and run.

A strike group of the German army, retreating from Greece, is at the river.

It is clearing the Skopje-Nish highway of bandits.

Soldiers are running behind the tank, shooting.

Artillery and assault guns take bandit strongholds under fire.

German cyclist soldiers ride along the highway, meet Albanian nationalists on the way, who greet the German troops and accept the assignment from the group commissar.

The Albanians joyfully raise their hands, shout, wave the flag.

A German tank rides along the highway, followed by cyclists.

German strongholds wage a heroic struggle in the Atlantic Ocean.

A stronghold on the coast.

A battle is underway between German anti-aircraft artillery and Anglo-American aviation.

The object of the enemy raid is a departing German flotilla, which they bomb.

Anti-aircraft guns prevent the planes from dropping bombs in the right place.

A shot down American plane falls, which ends up within the city limits.

People are running in the ruins, an ambulance drives by.

The shot down American plane is shown in another place.

For several weeks now, a major Anglo-American offensive has been underway on the Western Front.

However, the lightning war they had hoped for has turned into a fierce struggle for every meter of German soil.

German troops, supply trains, and soldiers with panzerfausts are moving through a populated area.

An observer looks through binoculars, and artillerymen are loading their guns.

The German artillery is in action despite the enemy's raids and bombings.

Powerful counterattacks by the people's grenadiers are underway.

A view from an embrasure of a running soldier.

German rocket launchers are firing from a small forest.

Grenadiers are repelling a tank attack.

In the Vosges, German units have switched to winter positional warfare.

Soldiers in ruins in the snowfall at their firing positions.

The battlefield after a tank battle in the Vosges Mountains.

Broken tanks are standing.

Winter brings new difficulties to the Anglo-American army.

A German sentry at his position, a soldier stamping his feet from the cold.

Icicles are dripping.

A detachment of scouts in camouflage suits is walking in the forest, an observer is looking through binoculars.

The soldiers are on guard, they are looking around the area.