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Die Deutsche Wochenschau (UFA-Tonwoche) - Newsreel No. 505 – 8 May 1940


1. Tran and Helle propaganda sketch promoting the White Paper as a collection of immutable documents that truthfully illuminate the prehistory of the war.

 

2. Germany

 

Festivities in Germany on the occasion of Labour Day.

 

– Celebration of May 1.

 

– Meeting of the Reichsarbeitskammer at the Krupp plant in Essen.

 

– On the way Rudolf Hess goes with the military and the administration of the plant.

 

– Speech by Hess, among the spectators in the front row Dr. Ley.

 

Recycling scrap metal.

 

– One of the foundries in Germany.

 

– Bookmark the scrap metal in the furnace.

 

– Melting copper ingots.

 

– Purified copper is cast into plates and lowered into a solution for further purification.

 

Bread reserves of the army.

 

– Huge granary.

 

– Employee checks storage temperature.

 

– Samples grain taken with a dipstick from the bottom of the stockpile for moisture.

 

– Workers spread grain with shovels.

 

German coal is delivered to Italy.

 

– The train with coal is sent on its way, the arrow opens.

 

– The train passes through a tunnel in the mountains.

 

– Arrival at Brennero station on the border with Italy, Italian border guards check the documentation.

 

3. Western Front

 

Military operations on the territory of France.

 

– German soldiers near the barbed wire fence.

 

– The soldiers ran across the field, there are explosions, firing.

 

– Captured French soldiers are escorted, sitting on the side of the road with his hands up, the Germans searched the prisoners.

 

– Providing first aid to wounded prisoners.

 

– The face of weeping French soldier, lay the spoils of war.

 

– The prisoners are fed at the table.

 

4. Norway

 

Military operations for the capture of Norway.

 

– Map of northern Europe.

 

– Scheme of the alleged invasion of Norway by the Allies and a similar operation of the Germans, ahead of the Allies in their actions (from the words of the speaker).

 

The advance of German troops on the territory of Norway.

 

– Riding carts, cavalry, infantry.

 

– A soldier distributes fresh front-line newspapers to passing units, the soldiers read on the fly.

 

– Motorcyclist with newspapers arrives at the unit, the soldiers dismantle them.

 

– A soldier with a child in his arms watching the newspaper.

 

– Dinner of German units in camp.

 

– A soldier carries loaves of bread, the soldiers receive food rations and eat from woks.

 

– Horses eat oats from the muzzles suspended from the muzzles, drink water from the river.

 

– The soldiers are sitting, resting, on the shore.

 

Continuation of the campaign.

 

– The collision of head units with the centre of resistance of the enemy.

 

– Artillery bombardment of British positions.

 

– German infantry unit receives final instructions before the battle, waiting for the order to advance.

 

– Forcing the river by German troops with inflatable boats, landing on the opposite bank.

 

– The movement of troops inland.

 

– Laying a telephone cable by radio telecom operators.

 

– On the side of the road are the corpses of British soldiers, broken military equipment.

 

– The ruined city, burned to the ground houses, furnace chimneys sticking out.

 

– British car with ammunition seized by the Germans.

 

– Captured British soldiers are led to the assembly point in Grondheim.

 

– The wounded prisoner is leaning on a stick.

 

– The prisoners are interviewed, they say that they are glad that the war is over for them.

 

– A group of prisoners of war sings a national song in chorus. The NDP on piles of scrap metal - these are broken British planes.

 

– The German soldier looks at the plane, the gunner's gun, the unexploded bombs.

 

– Bombing by German aircraft British military bases.

 

– Bomber in the air, views of the Scottish mountains.

 

– Cockpit, he is looking at a map of Norway.

 

– Firing from the air concentrations of British troops.

 

– The bombing of a ship.

 

– A squadron of British ships at sea is bombarded.

 

– Diving planes, bombing.

 

– The victorious flight of a German squadron.

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