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The battle for soccer champion in the Olympic Stadium in Berlin
The opponents are Schalke-Westphalen and Rapid-Wien
90,000 people attended the event
Rapid-Wien is wearing the black pants
First goal for Schalke!
Schalke has made its second goal
three to zero for Schalke!
The battle appears to have already been decided - but the Viennese finally wake up! They end up winning the game 4 to 3 and take the Championship.
Vienna makes this goal with an 11 meter kick
And that was the shot that won the game!
Vienna has won the German Soccer Championships for the first time!
The Japanese ambassador, General Oshima, visited Hannover, where they were celebrating the Day of Japanese-German Friendship
Hitler Youth on parade. The kids of the Hitler Youth display the flags of the Three-Power Pact signatories.
The University of Gottingen in Niedersachsen awarded the ambassador the Right of Honorary Citizen
In Venice, the entry of Croatia into the Three-Power Pact was festively celebrated
The Italian Foreign Minister, Count Ciano
Minister for Foreign Affairs, Reichsminister Von Ribbentrop
The Croatian head of state, Dr. Pavlic
In the Senate Room, in the Doge's Palace
In his speech, Count Ciano referred to those countries which sighed the Three-Power Pact as wanting to bring about a world which was run justly and in peace.
On the invitation of Reichsminister Dr. Goebbels, the Minister for Culture in Italy, Alexander Pavolini, came for a multi-day visit to Berlin
The visit was the result of a personal exchange between both ministers
The first stop for the Italian minister was to visit the memorial for fallen heroes
Laying the wreath at the monument
On Monday morning, the Fuhrer received Minister Pavolini along with Dr. Goebbels
General Rommel, the commander of the German Afrika Korps,
presents to General Garibaldi, on order of the Fuhrer, the Iron Cross, first and second class.
The call to the front!
In the bunkers before Tobruk
Heavy artillery rains fire down upon the bunkers and defensive installations of the fortress
General Rommel observes from the front lines
Recon planes direct the fire of the artillery
The Stukas arrive. Working together with fighter planes, they are to intercept and destroy English ships bringing munitions to Tobruk
Soldiers observe the battle from the coastline
On the horizon, one of the ships is already in flames
Those of the crew, who could rescue themselves, arrive on land and are taken into captivity
Back in the water, the battle continues on as before. Another munitions ship is hit and flies into the air in a huge explosion
Luftwaffe generals arrive for a situation conference with the Reichsmarschall
Generalfeldmarschall Sperler ... Generalfeldmarschall Milch ...
on the left, General Jeschonek, Chief of Staff for the Luftwaffe ... to the right, Generalfeldmarschall Kesselring
Generaloberst Lohr
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At the Reich's Foreign Ministry at dawn on the historic 22 June
The Haus Des Rundfunks
The transmission of the Fuhrer proclamation over all German radio stations is prepared
The Reich's Ministry for the People's Enlightenment and Propaganda
Reichsminister Dr. Goebbels reads the Fuhrer's proclamation
It reveals for the first time to the entire world, the conspiracy between London and Moscow against Germany
The Fuhrer, after a silence of many months, has declared, at the last possible moment with full consequences, I have decided to place the fate and future of the German Reich once more into the hands of our soldiers.”
At the conclusion of the reading of the Fuhrer's proclamation
the Minister for Foreign Affairs, Von Ribbentrop, revealed
the German note to the Soviet Union, interrupted now and again by applause
From the North Pole to the Black Sea, the German Wehrmacht fights on the land, the sea and the air for the security of Europe, working side by side with the Finns and the Rumanians
Italy joined in spontaneously, as did Slovakia
On a front 2400km long, the greatest advance has been launched that has ever been seen in history up to now.
The best soldiers in the world have entered into a crusade against the barbarians for the culture of the West
The battle against the lost allies of Great Britain begins
On the front, in East Prussia
Camouflage walls are removed
Away with the border barrier!
The advance on Kaunas in Lithuania.
A Lithuanian border shield
Advance scouts, halt! The town is being defended bitterly by Siberian sharpshooters.
Smoked out by flamethrower - the first prisoners!
Bolshevik prisoners ... instead of soldiers, a picture of a completely undisciplined mob
On all parts of the front, the advance proceeds as planned and is successful
The border has been crossed in battle everywhere
Anti-tank guns are used to subdue enemy machine gun nests
Tanks follow closely on the heels of the pioneer and infantry troops
Through the rapid advance of our Wehrmacht, the great majority of the border bridges fell into our hands undamaged
The railway lines are covered with boards, so our soldiers and trucks can pass without problem
On Soviet Russian territory ... on the territory of the "true workers' paradise”, which our soldiers will now get to know
The road leads past heavy German artillery positions, which have been shelling border installations since the early morning hours
The crossing of the San River
Another Soviet-Russian border marker
Here, our pioneers succeeded in taking this bridge shortly before the enemy had a chance to blow it up
Explosive charges and barricades are removed
Those, too, are Soviet soldiers
Here, a Jewish sergeant
At the same time as the infantry struck, the Luftwaffe attacked the airfields of the enemy
from which the ruling men of England and Russia intended to attack Germany
Preparation for the first mission against the enemy
Over Soviet-Russian territory
Bombs on airfields, train stations and columns of marching Russian soldiers
Below us, it's explosion after explosion. Our Luftwaffe struck with full fury against the enemy and prepared the way for our army to march into the country, which thought it could betray us and invade us behind our backs.