Sunday 22 May 2022

Die Deutsche Wochenschau (UFA-Tonwoche) – Newsreel No. 514 – 10 July 1940


1. England.

 

– King George VI among his people.

 

2. France.

 

Adolf Hitler greets the victorious troops in the old Reich territory of Alsace-Lorraine.

 

– The motorcade of cars drives past a crowd of soldiers who greet the Führer.

 

– On the road through the Vosges, the car is on a mountain road.

 

– Adolf Hitler walks along the road with his officers, feeding an old war horse with cheese.

 

– The Führer is surrounded by a crowd of soldiers.

 

The Führer goes to Strasbourg.

 

– The car follows over the bridge.

 

– Hitler inspects the blown up bridge.

 

– On the outskirts of the city are bunkers.

 

– The streets of Strasbourg, half-timbered houses, the cathedral.

 

– Adolf Hitler is looking around the cathedral and its interiors.

 

– He rides through the streets.

 

– The soldiers on the streets cheering him.

 

Adolf Hitler on the Maginot Line.

 

– Damaged bunkers and fortifications.

 

– Monument to Minister of War Andre Maginot, the initiator of the armed fortifications on the border with Germany.

 

– Individual fortifications.

 

– Historical footage - French soldiers at the fortifications of the Maginot Line.

 

– Guns.

 

– Internal premises of the bunker.

 

– Power station, telephone exchange.

 

– Transportation of ammunition inside the fortifications.

 

– The French guns are shooting.

 

3. Germany.

 

Views of the Rhine.

 

– Pontoon bridge, the Germans greeted the Führer, returning from the former Franco-German front.

 

– Girls pass the Führer a gift through the window of the wagon.

 

– Adolf Hitler shakes hands with the boy.

 

– The Führer in the car, he is greeted by passengers on the oncoming train.

 

– The train with the Führer passes Marbach am Neckar.

 

– Hitler at the window of the car, he welcomed the railway workers, city dwellers.

 

– Girl gives flowers.

 

– The Führer signs autographs, shaking hands.

 

– Train with the Führer on the road.

 

– The meeting of the Führer in Berlin.

 

– German flags and banners hanging.

 

– Flowers scattered on the sidewalk near the Antgal station and near the Reich Chancellery by girls from the youth organization.

 

– Huge crowds of people.

 

– Police and soldiers held back an onslaught of people.

 

Station.

 

– Buglers, trumpeters with instruments.

 

– Arrival of the train.

 

– Adolf Hitler at Anthalt station, he greeted the generals, officials.

 

– The procession heads for the exit.

 

– The Führer, Goering, Hess, Keitel, Admiral Roeder and others leave the station building.

 

– Cheering crowds.

 

– Adolf Hitler walks down the street, he greets the people, gets in his car.

 

– The car follows the streets past screaming crowds.

 

– Street decorated with garlands, crowds of people.

 

– The car rides on a carpet of fresh flowers.

 

– The Führer in the car, cheering Berliners.

 

– The boy climbed up on the lantern.

 

– Adolf Hitler in the car.

 

– Soldiers and SS officers hold back the onslaught of the crowd.

 

– Adolf Hitler on the balcony of the Reich Chancellery, near Goering.

 

– The crowd goes wild.

 

– Goering pointed at something with a marshal's baton.

 

– The Germans shout “Heil”.

 

– Adolf Hitler leaves the balcony.

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