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Die Deutsche Wochenschau (UFA-Tonwoche) – Newsreel No. 513 – 03 July 1940


1. France.

 

Victory in the West.

 

– A retrospective look at French events.

 

– German troops on the roads of France.

 

– Loading cargoes for the front.

 

– Cars are sent to the front, they are on the highway.

 

– Cars abandoned by the British in retreat, on the road.

 

– Announcer about the flight of Jews and plutocrats.

 

Ordinary French refugees are returning to their homeland.

 

– They are in a collection camp.

 

– Children, a girl.

 

– Household goods, animals.

 

– Food distribution to refugees.

 

– Newscaster about the assistance of the Germans to the civilian population.

 

– Refugees with children.

 

– German soldiers in a French camp for prisoners of war.

 

– They are behind barbed wire.

 

– Distribution of jackets with the inscription prisoner of war.

 

German troops are entering the French city.

 

– Infantrymen.

 

– Camp for interned Germans.

 

– The Germans welcomed their liberators.

 

– Columns of French prisoners.

 

– They are in a collection camp.

 

– Black soldiers in front of the camera.

 

– The prisoners are eating.

 

– Black soldiers are dancing.

 

– Column of German soldiers.

 

2. Belgium.

 

A column of German soldiers.

 

– Reconstruction work.

 

– German sappers are restoring work, apart the rubble.

 

– Restored the railroad track, rebuilt the bridge and tunnel.

 

– The work in the tunnel.

 

– Members of the organization “Todt” at work.

 

– Welding work.

 

– The work on the restoration of the bridge, the truss of the bridge.

 

– The first train goes on the restored bridge.

 

3. The Netherlands.

 

Amsterdam.

 

– Pictures of peaceful life under the German occupation.

 

– Many people riding bicycles.

 

– Girls on bicycles.

 

– Passers-by on the streets.

 

– In the crowd is a woman in national dress.

 

4. Belgium.

 

Brussels.

 

– Buildings, streets, goes streetcar.

 

– The people on the street.

 

– The people at a street cafe tables.

 

– Market on the square, selling birds in cages, fruits and vegetables, cheese.

 

– The seller gives to try the cheese German soldier.

 

5. France.

 

Paris.

 

– The North Station.

 

– Arrival of German military transport.

 

– The German generals enter the building of the station through the turnstiles.

 

– Eiffel Tower, a German soldier reads a newspaper on its background.

 

– In the printing shop.

 

– They work typesetters.

 

– Print of the newspaper.

 

– Typewriter.

 

– Delivery of newspapers.

 

– The French on the streets listening to German radio messages from the radio bus.

 

– The prisoners at work on the release of the Egyptian obelisk in Paris from the sandbags and the remains of the wooden frame.

 

– Cleaning the tomb of Napoleon.

 

The Church of Madeleine.

 

– Near it stops the car with the Führer.

 

– He examines the cathedral.

 

– The car on the streets of Paris.

 

– Place de la Concorde, Arc de Triomphe, the Trocadero.

 

– The Führer is looking around the Eiffel Tower.

 

6. France.

 

Coast of the Atlantic.

 

– Grand Admiral Raeder inspects the fortifications.

 

– View of heavy guns.

 

7. Germany.

 

Dismantling the ruins after the bombing of British aircraft.

 

– The ruins of houses, apartments.

 

– People watching the work of the rescuers.

 

8. Germany.

 

Construction of fortifications in Germany. A huge construction, working machines.

 

– They’re digging, builders pass with wheelbarrows.

 

9. Norway.

 

Fjords.

 

– A steamship damaged by German aircraft.

 

– Bombardment by German ships British aircraft.

 

– German fighters in the counterattack.

 

– Fragments of the air battle.

 

– German sailors at the post.

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