Tuesday, 12 December 2023

Die Deutsche Wochenschau – Newsreel No. 574 – 03 September 1941


1. Germany.

 

Launching a new German submarine.

 

– The crew on board the boat heading for the Atlantic.

 

– Farewell to colleagues.

 

– The boat goes on a mission.

 

– Another boat returns from a combat operation.

 

– Colleagues greet the sailors.

 

– Submarine Captain Hans-Martin Scheibe reports to the commandant of the port on the results of the voyage.

 

– Among the welcoming - Vice Admiral Dönitz, commander of the submarine fleet.

 

– Girls in uniform present flowers to the captain.

 

– Dönitz awards the captain and distinguished members of the crew.

 

– Another submarine arrives from the voyage, on board the inscription: "Parsifal" and a drawing.

 

– Dönitz welcomes Captain Herbert Wolfhart and the crew, Wolfhart is awarded the Knight’s Cross.

 

– Presentation of bouquets of flowers to the heroes submariners.

 

– The girl holds out flowers to Lieutenant-Commander Klaus Kort, whose boat sails past the pier.

 

– Another submarine Lieutenant Commander Engelbert Endrass approaches the shore, the crowd welcomes the crew.

 

2. USSR. Eastern Front.

 

A panorama of Narva occupied by German troops.

 

– On the bank of the river are German soldiers, on the other bank can be seen the walls of the monastery.

 

– Forcing the Luga River on a pontoon bridge.

 

– General Georg Lidenman, Knight of the Iron Cross, in front of the camera.

 

– German guns fired at Russian positions.

 

– A soldier sleeping at a firing gun.

 

– Surrendered Soviet soldiers.

 

– German infantrymen.

 

– Destroyed Soviet fortifications and dugouts near Luga.

 

– Germans on the streets.

 

– Burning buildings.

 

– Strengthening the German flag on the dome of the cathedral.

 

German bombers attack the railway line Leningrad-Moscow.

 

– Bombs fly into the target.

 

German artillery bombarded the station Chudov October railway.

 

– German infantrymen are advancing.

 

– Flamethrowers in action.

 

– Captured Soviet bunker.

 

– Soviet prisoners.

 

– A wounded Soviet soldier shows a bandaged leg.

 

– Burning village.

 

– The Germans on the streets of Chudov.

 

– Burnt railway station.

 

– Broken trains.

 

– The Germans guard the surviving station facilities.

 

3. Germany.

 

The headquarters of the Führer.

 

– Benito Mussolini’s visit to Adolf Hitler.

 

– Arrival of the Duce.

 

– Meeting Mussolini with Hitler and Ribbentrop, mutual greetings.

 

– At the meeting.

 

– Generaloberst Jodl reporting.

 

– Adolf Hitler at the map explains to the Duce the development of military operations on the eastern front.

 

– The Führer and the Duce arrived at the location of the headquarters of Generalfeldmarschall Brauchitsch.

 

– The enthusiastic reception of their soldiers.

 

– The departure of Hitler and Mussolini at the headquarters of Goering.

 

– Hermann Goering welcomes the Duce and the Führer on arrival.

 

– Discussion of military issues in the carriage at Goering.

 

– Farewell.

 

– The departure of the Duce and the Führer.

 

– The Führer and the Duce sits in the plane.

 

Flight over the areas of military operations on the eastern front.

 

– Arrival at a field aerodrome.

 

– Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini get out of the plane.

 

– They are greeted by Field Marshal General von Kluge and Field Marshal General von Kesselring.

 

– The car with the Führer and Duce at the battlefields.

 

– They are examining the sites of the battles that took place on 22 June 1941 in the area of the Brest Fortress.

 

– View of the half-destroyed fortress, the ruins of buildings.

 

– Inspection of captured Soviet equipment.

 

– Departure of distinguished guests.

 

Arrival at another site.

 

– General Rundstedt and General Leer welcomed the Führer and the Duce.

 

– Presentation of flowers.

 

– The Führer signs some girl a picture on the back of a bent officer.

 

– Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini in the car on the road.

 

– Towards the car moving troops travelling to the front.

 

4. USSR. The southern section of the Eastern Front.

 

German aircraft in flight over Nikolaev.

 

– Captured ships and submarines in the harbour.

 

– Building cruiser in the dock.

 

– Ruins in the harbour.

 

– German troops in the offensive on Kherson.

 

– German artillery and cavalry in action on the banks of the Dnieper.

 

– The entry of the Germans in the ruined Kherson.

 

– Fighting for Dneprodzerzhinsk - the centre of the Soviet steel industry.

 

– Shooting mortar.

 

– The corpses of Soviet soldiers at the fence.

 

– Soviet prisoners carried on the overcoat wounded German soldier, are wounded Germans.

 

– Soldiers enter the city on tanks.

 

– Artillerymen deployed on the street cannon and fired from it.

 

5. USSR. Fighting for Dneprodzerzhinsk - the centre of the Soviet steel industry.

 

The southern section of the Eastern Front.

 

– Soviet soldiers put up stubborn resistance.

 

– Fightings are in the streets of the city.

 

– Tram.

 

– Cinema with an advertisement for the film “Song of Love”.

 

– Dam hydroelectric power station.

 

– German soldiers at the railway station.

 

6. USSR. The central section of the Eastern Front.

 

The bombardment of Gomel by the German artillery.

 

– Burning city.

 

– The remains of broken equipment, the corpses of soldiers.

 

– Guns, cars.

 

– The local population at the ruins.

 

– The building of the GPU prison. The opening of a military hospital in the building management.

 

– The wounded, doctors, nurses.

 

– The doctor studies X-ray.

 

– Sister in the ward.

 

– The miserable dwellings of the poor in Gomel.

 

– Poverty-stricken population.

 

– Interior wretched dwelling.

 

Continuation of the German offensive.

 

– Cars with ammunition and food.

 

– Dirty roads, soldiers help pull out of the mud motorbike.

 

– Local children watching the movement of troops.

 

– Unloading delivered ammunition and jerry cans of petrol.

 

– German armoured vehicles in the burning village.

 

– Fires a gun.

 

– The abandoned Russian position.

 

– The corpses of soldiers.

 

– German infantry on the offensive.

 

– Street battle in the village.

 

– German soldiers in battle.

 

– Russian soldiers surrendering as prisoners.

 

– A Russian soldier with a white rag in his hand.

 

– Wounded German soldiers are being treated.

 

– Soldiers on the march.

 

– Fires a German gun.

 

– Settlement at the gun.

 

– Soviet soldiers are surrendering, they give up their weapons.

 

– A German soldier indicates the Russian prisoners of the gathering place.

 

– A wounded Soviet fighter.

 

– Column of Soviet prisoners.

 

– They are German soldiers, moving German columns.

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