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Die Deutsche Wochenschau – Newsreel No. 562 – 11 June 1941


1. Germany.

 

Brenner 2 June 1941.

 

– Meeting between the Führer and the Duce to discuss the political situation.

 

– Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini get into a carriage.

 

– Duce and Führer with officers.

 

– They converse, then say goodbye.

 

2. Germany.

 

Adolf Hitler’s residence - the Berghof.

 

– The Führer receives the Croatian leader Ante Pavelić.

 

– Meeting on the stairs of the residence.

 

– Exchange of greetings.

 

– The meeting is attended by Göring.

 

– Adolf Hitler and Pavelić at the table.

 

– German flag.

 

– Pavelić presents the Fuhrer an ancient banner and souvenir chess.

 

– Round the guard of honour.

 

– Adolf Hitler, Hermann Goering, Ante Pavelić and others descend the stairs.

 

– Pavelić and his entourage say goodbye to Adolf Hitler, get in the car.

 

– The flag of independent Croatia.

 

3. Luxembourg.

 

Solemn reception of young men in the Hitler Youth.

 

– Reichsjugendführer Arthur Axmann is making a speech.

 

– The flag of the Reich.

 

4. France.

 

Strasbourg.

 

– Manifestation of members of the Alsatian SA (the Storm Troopers).

 

– The head of the SA Victor Lutze makes a speech.

 

– Handshake, symbolising the fusion of the Alsatian storm troopers with the storm troopers of Hitler’s Reich.

 

5. Atlantic.

 

Dunkirk, coast.

 

– View of the area in 1940 after the defeat of Anglo-French troops.

 

– Ruins, remnants of equipment, vehicles.

 

– Modern shots.

 

– Cleared areas, a peasant cultivates the field.

 

– On the streets of Dunkirk - German Order.

 

– German traffic controller.

 

– Signs with German names of streets.

 

– German troops in the harbour.

 

– Construction of a new road.

 

– Dismantling of trophy equipment, preparing it for scrap metal.

 

– Removing tyres from emergency vehicles.

 

– Motor spare parts warehouse, arms.

 

6. France.

 

Atlantic coast.

 

– German sentries.

 

– Alarm.

 

– Artillerymen pointing guns.

 

– Shelling the British ship.

 

– Command post battery.

 

– Artillerymen bring shells.

 

– Shooting gun.

 

– Calculation at the gun.

 

– Gun barrels.

 

– Observer with binoculars.

 

7. France.

 

Atlantic.

 

– Division of the Luftwaffe on the Atlantic coast.

 

– Pilots are preparing for departure.

 

– Planes take off.

 

– Planes in the air.

 

– Bombs fly into the target.

 

– Burning objects on English territory, in Birmingham.

 

8. Greece.

 

Entry of Bulgarian troops in Habala.

 

– Infantry, riding wagons.

 

– Cavalry led by a general.

 

– Military band plays.

 

9. Greece.

 

The ceremony of awarding German paratroopers Knight’s Crosses.

 

German sappers for the repair of the blown-up bridge.

 

– Divers at work.

 

– The explosion of an enemy mine.

 

Division of the Luftwaffe in southern Greece.

 

– German Colonel-General Alexander Lehr inspects his subordinate units.

 

– He gets into an aeroplane.

 

– The plane flies over the Aegean Sea.

 

Transports with German troops under the protection of Italian cruisers and aircraft headed for Crete.

 

– Crete under the wing of the aircraft.

 

– Dropping medical supplies and food on parachutes.

 

– The plane lands on Crete.

 

– Unloading the aircraft.

 

– Colonel-General Lehr in a meeting.

 

– German troops continue operations to clear Crete from the remnants of British troops.

 

– German motorcyclists, artillerymen.

 

– Shelling of British positions.

 

– German General Kurt Student among the soldiers.

 

– German paratroopers in the attack.

 

– Bombers bombed English positions.

 

– Destruction of the English airfield.

 

– The remains of aircraft.

 

– English transport set on fire.

 

– Captured Englishmen.

 

– Street fighting in the village.

 

– Ruins.

 

– Entry into the city of Chania (Kanea).

 

– Soldiers on holiday.

 

– German General Student visits wounded paratroopers.

 

– Loading on the plane.

 

– Announcer on the practical completion of operations in Crete.

 

10. Africa North.

 

Pictures of life in the German African Corps.

 

– General Rommel visits the cemetery of fallen soldiers in Africa.

 

– German soldiers in the village of Bedouins.

 

– They are treated with wine.

 

– Germans talking with the locals.

 

– A group of soldiers with a chameleon.

 

– Loading food for the front.

 

– Bakery in the desert.

 

– Transport is sent to the front.

 

– It is accompanied by security aircraft.

 

– Armoured vehicles are sent to the front line.

 

– Announcer about the approach of troops to the border of Egypt.

 

– Sappers pull the line of communication.

 

– The connection is established.

 

– German aerodrome.

 

– Fires anti-aircraft guns.

 

– Shot down British aircraft.

 

– German pilots sit in the plane.

 

– View from the aircraft Tobruk port.

 

– Planes bombed English transport.

 

– Bombs fly into the target.

 

– Direct hit.

 

– Transport on fire.

 

– The area of Torbuk.

 

– The last preparations for the attack.

 

– Shooting German guns.

 

– Infantry goes on the offensive.

 

– Fragment of the battle with the British.

 

– The Germans throw grenades.

 

– Infantry seize English positions.

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