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Die Deutsche Wochenschau (UFA-Tonwoche) - Newsreel No. 506 – 15 May 1940


 

1. The Western Front

 

German offensive on Luxembourg and Belgium. May 10, German motorized units on the western border.

 

– Tanks drive along the paving stones past the fortifications.

 

– Infantry on the attack, crossing the border.

 

– The soldiers dropped from the bridge barbed wire fence, dismantle rubble.

 

– The sign of the Luxembourg Customs, on the wall of the emblem of the country.

 

– German soldiers break border fences.

 

– Luxembourg border guards disarm and take away.

 

– Soldiers torch cut the lock with the gate.

 

– The first German motorcyclists and motorized units in the city.

 

– Tankman standing in the open hatch of the tank, which rode on the street of the city.

 

– Residents watch the movement of troops.

 

– Wartime proclamations hang on the wall of the building.

 

– On the streets moving tanks, motorcyclists, mechanized artillery.

 

– There is a concrete barricade with barbed wire on the way of a tank column, the tanks force the barrier.

 

Railway station, the view of the travelling train with an open platform in front on which there are guns.

 

– A small vanguard unit on the train passes on the rails.

 

– Followed by an echelon of soldiers and guns on the platforms.

 

German soldiers marching through the streets.

 

– Woman gives them sandwiches.

 

– Man pours the passing convoy of water from a hose because of the heat.

 

– A soldier on the move scoops up water from a resident’s bucket with a mug.

 

The beginning of the offensive in Belgium.

 

– Removed the border fence, are soldiers and vehicles.

 

– German soldiers marching down the road.

 

– Horse carts in the woods.

 

– Dismantling the road blockage with the help of the tank.

 

– The troops are in the region of Malmedy, where the vast majority of Germans in the country.

 

– Residents welcomed the soldiers, waving their hands out the windows, shaking hands with them.

 

– The soldiers are pulling a cannon down the street.

 

– A military airfield, the soldiers are paratroopers headed for the plane. "Stukas take off.

 

– Marines sit in the cabin of a plane and sing a friendly military song.

 

– Technicians at the airfield hanging bombs to the bombers.

 

The German offensive on Belgium and Holland.

 

– German bombers in the sky, the view from the plane on the ground.

 

– On the ground near a huge bomb crater stand German soldiers.

 

– View of the mangled after the bombing of the railroad tracks, destroyed houses near the station.

 

– The German town of Freiburg in Breskau, bombed by enemy planes.

 

– The school with broken windows, the ruins on the site of orphanages, hospitals.

 

– Broken window of the building, a sign: “House of Mercy”.

 

– View of the devastation inside the building, among the bricks and debris lay children's toys.

 

– The wall of the school with traces of shrapnel and broken windows.

 

– Crossing the Dutch border.

 

– Reconstruction of the bridge over the Julian Canal by German sappers.

 

– Soldiers and equipment are crossing the ferry.

 

– The bridge goes tanks, armoured vehicles, motorcycles.

 

– Close-up of the border sign.

 

– Entrance to the town of German motorcyclists, tanks.

 

– On the wall of the house hangs a proclamation of the new administration in two languages.

 

– Vehicles on the streets.

 

– Residents waving their hands in greeting.

 

– German tank pushes back the concrete barrier on the road.

 

– Capture one of the bridges across the channel, the fight near the bridge.

 

– Are killed by the Dutch, by the side of the road stand the surrendered Dutch soldiers.

 

The invasion of Belgium began with the capture of the Albert Channel.

 

– German sappers remove explosives planted by the Belgians from the piers of the bridge.

 

– Soldiers cross the river in rubber boats.

 

– The first Belgian prisoners are on the road.

 

– Continuation of the German offensive.

 

– Tank breaks the bushes, moves to the barbed wire fence.

 

– Soldiers riding bicycles.

 

– Infantry sneaking across a broken bridge.

 

– Forcing the canals under enemy fire in inflatable boats.

 

The surrender of the town of Maastricht.

 

– On the city wall a man waving a white flag.

 

– German tanks in the city.

 

– The muddy road traveling horse-drawn carts, overcome the rivers in shallow water.

 

– Crossing the canals.

 

– The wounded German soldiers are on stretchers, they are given medical attention.

 

– The city opens fire from heavy artillery.

 

– View of the ruins of houses.

 

– In the sky, Stuka dive bomber airplanes.

 

– The panorama of the smoking area.

 

– Dive bombers on the objects.

 

– Showing the power of German arms.

 

– The barrels of heavy guns go up, self-propelled guns on the platform.

 

– Tanks overcome the rugged terrain.

 

– Infantry on the offensive, firing flamethrowers.

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