Tonwoche №701 (1945)

Prime Minister of the Protectorate Binert receives Reich Minister Dr.

Frick in Prague Castle.

Binert and Frick are talking in the hall; a portrait of Hitler is on the table.

The ministers are looking at a book by the German publishing house "Prague in Photographs".

On the north-eastern border of Moravia, the local Labor Front is building anti-tank ditches and fortified positions to protect against the Soviet army.

Detachments march to the construction site with shovels and picks.

Erection of supports from logs.

During the break, the workers receive soup, which is brought in by car in tanks.

Close-up of the patch on the chest: "Prague Sappers 1945".

A smoke break during rest, then work continues.

At the end of the work, the columns march to the barracks.

Germany.

Children's skiing competitions are held in Hochstadt on the Iser.

The children are waxing their skis.

The command to start is given.

The slalom competitions begin; some of the children fall.

Women on skis standing to the side watch the competition.

Fucik from Eisenbrod wins.

Germany.

An original way of fishing with an electric unit.

A wire with a positive charge is connected to a boat, and a wire with a negative charge is connected to a landing net.

The fisherman with the landing net hits the water with it, stunning the fish, collects the catch and throws it into a barrel.

German-Hungarian troops have been fighting defensive battles in the Budapest area for a week.

German planes land in Budapest, equipment and soldiers are unloaded.

Continuous counterattacks are underway with superior forces of the Soviet army.

While hostilities continue on the eastern front, stretching for 1000 km, courageous defenders gather their forces in the Budapest area.

Shells lie on the snow.

Faustpatrone are carried to the German plane, they are secured.

The planes take off into the air.

Fighting in the outskirts of the capital.

Convoys drive through the city.

Hungarian soldiers on the observation deck of the bastion.

Artillery fires at the city.

Armored vehicles and trucks drive along the road.

German and Hungarian troops cross the Vertes and Balaton mountains and approach the Danube.

Residents greet the German troops, tanks, and armored vehicles.

Fighting on the ground, soldiers lie down in the snow, shoot from rifles, machine guns, and cannons.

A shell hits a truck, which catches fire.

In a rapid advance, German troops liberate numerous villages and towns.

Armored vehicles drive by, corpses of soldiers and burning vehicles are visible on the roadsides.

A local man runs to a German tank and greets it.