Hiking in the former Yugoslavia (1941)

Germany.

April 6, 1941. Berlin.

Wilhelmplatz.

The building of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, a guard at the door.

Goebbels reads out the Fuehrer's address to the soldiers of the southeastern front.

Soldiers in a car.

Wilhelmstrasse 75. Press conference at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

Announcements in the notes of Yugoslavia and Greece.

Journalists take notes.

German Foreign Minister Ribbentrop Germany.

April 16. Attack on Yugoslavia.

Fire opened on enemy positions in the mountains.

German soldiers in the mountains.

Night artillery shelling.

Motorized units move into the country.

The first captured Serbs.

German tanks cross the border, drive over a bridge, along the road.

Soldiers on the tank's armor wave their hands.

A bridge set on fire by the Serbs, German sappers put out the fire.

On the Greek border.

German pilots receive an assignment, get into their cars.

Bombs are hung on the planes.

The planes take off into the air.

Aerial view of the area.

Aerial bombing, explosions on the ground.

German planes over the Balkans, shells are flying.

Italian planes bomb southern Yugoslavia Germany.

Map of Yugoslavia.

Yugoslav border fortifications taken by the Germans.

Bunkers, blown up railway.

German officers mark the route on the map.

German troops enter a Croatian village.

Crossing a river on a raft.

German signalmen at work, they cross to the other bank on a destroyed bridge.

Guns and horses are transported on rafts, soldiers in a motorboat.

Restoration of the destroyed bridge.

The commander of the German army, Colonel General von Weiss with his staff.

German troops enter the city of Marburg /Maribor/.

View of the city across the river.

Soldiers walk on boards thrown on the ground

Germany.

A panorama of the city of Marburg, houses with tiled roofs.

Germans in the city, walking down the street.

The population greets the "liberators", raising their hands in a Nazi salute.

National flag.

The town hall building with a double clock tower.

Traffic on the street, a traffic controller.

A German detachment is walking.

Ahead, next to the Germans, are a young man and a girl, Serbs in uniform.

German soldiers are treated to sandwiches and wine.

Women are drinking with the soldiers.

Weiss and his officers are driving by in a car.

On the wall, an announcement in German and Serbian about the creation of a new police force from the German population.

Police in formation.

Captured Serbs are led down the street.

German soldiers are marching, convoys are driving.

A field kitchen.

On the balcony is the local administration of Germany.

Volksdeutsche help German sappers lay a plank across a ravine with a river.

A break in work, they eat, drink wine.

Trucks drive along the laid plank.

German soldiers on a march.

They lead Serbian prisoners, their faces close-up.

German Stukas planes take off.

Shelling enemy positions in the mountains.

Infantrymen in ambush, they go on the offensive.

Overcoming barbed wire barriers.

Flamethrowers in action.

Planes in flight, bombing a Serbian city.

German motorized units overcome a river

Germany.

German tanks and armored vehicles move forward.

The Germans shell Serbian positions with cannons.

Engineers prepare a crossing, restore a blown up bridge.

A fight near the railroad, a machine gunner fires.

Serbian deserters with white rags in their hands, they are searched by German soldiers.

German tanks, motorcycles drive along a bad road in the mud.

Driving along a built bridge.

A handcar with soldiers moves along the track.

A column of Serbian prisoners, their faces.

German troops in the captured city, Nis, the residents greet them.

German soldiers on the armor of a tank sort out machine gun belts.

German horse-drawn wagons, a kitchen, cars drive along the street.

Orchestra musicians with instruments walk along the side of the road.

Yugoslavia.

The Germans enter Belgrade, the ruins of the city.

The building of the British consulate, an elderly watchman greets the Germans.

English propaganda materials in the consulate.

A German soldier examines abandoned weapons in a box.

Troops moving, soldiers with a cannon on the roadside.

Medics riding horses, flags with a red cross.

A Serbian regiment surrendering.

Crossing a broken bridge Germany.

German troops entering Zagreb.

The population welcomes the soldiers.

A man pulls a national flag onto the roof.

Two young men stand by a shop window with a portrait of Hitler.

A crowd in the square.

Removal of the Serbian eagle from the facade, the coat of arms is trampled underfoot

Germany.

Croatian volunteers are being armed, they are in formation.

Trucks with German soldiers.

Croatian fascist leader Pavelic meets German officers.

Croatian units swear allegiance to Pavelic.

Germany.

German troops advance towards Belgrade.

Soldiers cross the river in inflatable boats.

Infantry attack, soldiers throw grenades.

Street fighting in a Serbian town, a destroyed station, a locomotive.

Prisoners are being led.

A fascist flag is being raised over the building.

General von Kleist's tanks on the march.

Map of Yugoslavia, shooters from both sides surround Belgrade.

SS division, tanks, artillery are moving forward.

Remnants of destroyed Serbian positions, killed, wounded.

Serbs surrender.

Attack on a bunker, a German gun is firing.

Remnants of destroyed equipment, killed Horses, dead soldiers.

A motorcycle is pulled out of the mud with the help of a tractor.

The soldiers' boots are kneading the mud.

Street fighting on the streets of the village.

A Serb surrenders, a German smashes his weapon.

Crossing the bridge into the city.

Searching civilians.

Detained with a revolver, he tries to explain something in fear.

Prisoners, among them a Jewish officer in glasses Germany.

Tanks are moving towards Belgrade.

A tank crosses a stream, drives through the mud.

Infantrymen in battle.

Soldiers run along the fence, enter the courtyards.

Serbs surrender.

Providing assistance to the wounded.

Hidden ammunition and shells are taken out of a haystack