Saturday, 22 July 2023

Die Deutsche Wochenschau – Newsreel No. 561 – 04 June 1941


1. France

 

Celebrating his 60th birthday this year, Colonel General Georg von Küchler, commander of the 18th Army of Army Group B, whose troops were the first in Paris a year ago, inspects the propaganda troops stationed in Paris.

 

– He walks round a formation of Wehrmacht soldiers, propaganda companies, sits in the car of a mobile radio station, examines a portable film camera.

 

2. The Atlantic.

 

German warships.

 

– Meeting with an armed Norwegian ship with an English crew.

 

– Receiving the crew on the German ship.

 

– The lowering of the English flag.

 

– The ship is taken in tow as a trophy.

 

– From the board of the German ship takes off a seaplane.

 

– The ship follows to Germany.

 

– In the field of vision appears English convoy.

 

– The Germans fire on the English.

 

– The English ships go down.

 

– German ship takes on board the crews of the sunken ships.

 

– The ship continues on its way to Germany.

 

– The German flag over the stern.

 

3. Greece.

 

Crete - one of the Mediterranean islands, a strategically important port 100 km from the Peloponnese and 300 km from Athens.

 

– Announcer about the geopolitical importance of the island.

 

– German aviation is preparing for a raid on Crete.

 

– Loading bombs.

 

– Pilots receive instructions from the commander, put on overalls.

 

– Weapons are packed in a special container.

 

– Paratroopers are preparing to land.

 

– Planes take off, flying over the Aegean Sea.

 

– Paratroopers in the aircraft.

 

– The pilot has his hand on the wheel.

 

– The landing of paratroopers, paratroopers jump with parachutes.

 

– Parachutes against the background of flying aircraft.

 

– View of Piraeus, the largest seaport of Athens.

 

– German squadron returns to base.

 

– A British fighter rushes to attack and is shot down.

 

– Again, below Patras and Athens, the Acropolis is visible.

 

– A damaged German aircraft makes a landing on one landing gear.

 

– The pilot is greeted by his comrades-in-arms, he shares his impressions.

 

– Preparing pilots for the next flight.

 

– On the glass of the cockpit hangs a toy bear.

 

– Landing mountain gunners in the plane, they will have to land on the areas already occupied by paratroopers.

 

– The aircraft in enemy territory - on the island of Crete.

 

The fighter jet rushes to the pockets of resistance.

 

– Enemy aircraft are destroyed right on the ground.

 

– The occupied positions are immediately used for their intended purpose.

 

– Paratroopers capture the English airfield.

 

– British artillery opens fire on the occupied airfield, but it is not able to change the plan of landing on Crete.

 

– The mountain troops are on the march.

 

– The first British prisoners from Crete.

 

– German air general, commander of the 11th Airborne Corps Kurt Student congratulates the brave paratroopers with victory.

 

– The Germans continue offensive operations.

 

– Paratrooper on horseback.

 

– Announcer about the loss of Britain’s loss of Crete, she lost the key to Europe, Asia and Africa.

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