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Die Deutsche Wochenschau – Newsreel No. 583 – 05 November 1941


1. The coast of the English Channel.

 

German flying unit.

 

– German fighter Major Walter Oesau returns from his hundredth combat flight.

 

– The story of the pilot about his exploits.

 

– Pilots sit in the cockpit.

 

– The aircraft takes off into the air.

 

– Squadron in the air.

 

– Fragments of air combat with the enemy.

 

– Falls downed aircraft.

 

– The remains of the downed aircraft.

 

– The British pilot descends by parachute.

 

2. Germany.

 

Adolf Hitler’s headquarters.

 

– The Führer’s reception of the Italian Foreign Minister Count Ciano and Italian Ambassador to Germany Dino Alfieri.

 

– Italian delegation.

 

– Adolf Hitler and Ciano enter the headquarters, then leave the building.

 

– German ambassador in Rome.

 

– Ciano at a reception with German Foreign Minister Ribbentrop.

 

– Departure of Italian delegation to the Eastern Front to familiarise themselves with the situation.

 

The Führer takes to heart the problems of equip the soldiers.

 

– He visits factories where winter equipment for the eastern front.

 

– Inspection of new samples of military equipment, as well as various household appliances for soldiers: stoves, lanterns, collapsible houses, various means of transport / intended for Hitler’s army on the Eastern front.

 

3. Finland.

 

USSR. German and Finnish units in the area between Ladoga and Onega lakes.

 

– German tanks and infantry in the forest.

 

– Marshal Mannerheim observes the offensive through binoculars.

 

– German artillery barrage.

 

– Finnish women at the front helping the wounded.

 

– Fighting in the area of Petrozavodsk.

 

– They are German and Finnish soldiers.

 

– Tanks on the offensive, close-up of a tank advancing towards the camera.

 

– Fires in the city.

 

– Finnish flag on the building.

 

– Finnish Lieutenant General Erik Heinrichs accepts the parade of Finnish troops in Petrozavodsk.

 

– Passing Finnish troops.

 

– German cyclists.

 

4. USSR. Near Leningrad.

 

Supply battalions on the way to the front.

 

– German horse-drawn wagons in the mud.

 

– On the roadless crawl equipment, go carts.

 

– They are soldiers on the terrible autumn mud.

 

– At rest by the fire.

 

– In the German trenches near Leningrad.

 

– Shootout with Soviet troops.

 

– German artillery barrage.

 

– General of Cavalry, Georg Lindemann on the battery.

 

– Portuguese officers watching the battle.

 

5. USSR. The central section of the front.

 

In the area of Kaluga-Bryansk.

 

– German troops are advancing on Kaluga.

 

– German infantry in battle.

 

– Captured Soviet soldiers.

 

Burning Soviet village.

 

– Collapsing house.

 

– Soviet prisoners.

 

– Defectors.

 

– The passage of the camera on the faces of prisoners.

 

– A pig caught by the Germans.

 

– Burning Soviet equipment.

 

– German machinery moving on the road.

 

– Fighting on the outskirts of Kaluga.

 

– German artillery barrage.

 

– Infantry enters the city.

 

In Kaluga.

 

– The remains of Soviet equipment.

 

– German soldiers search private homes.

 

– The Germans at a cathedral.

 

– They go past the shopping rows.

 

– Station Kaluga.

 

– Broken and burning trains.

 

– Destroyed carriages.

 

– Column of prisoners are led through the streets of Kaluga.

 

– View of an endless column.

 

– German tanks in the area of Borodino.

 

– German artillery barrage.

 

– Explosions.

 

– The shelling of Soviet positions.

 

– Scheme of fighting on both sides of the highway leading to Moscow.

 

– View of defeated Soviet positions.

 

 

6. USSR. Defeat of the Soviet defence line.

 

A huge anti-tank ditch.

 

– Destroyed bunkers along the defence line, trenches, trenches.

 

– The corpses of Soviet soldiers.

 

– Destroyed Soviet anti-aircraft battery.

 

– Sending the wounded to the infirmary, loading them on wagons.

 

7. USSR. South-Eastern section of the front.

 

The area of Kharkov-Stalino.

 

– German troops go forward, galloping cavalrymen.

 

– A soldier on a camel.

 

– German aircraft in the air.

 

– View from the aircraft on the advancing German units (from a low point ).

 

– Fuel refuelling base. ‘Stukas’ flies out to bomb Soviet columns.

 

– Explosions of fortifications near Kharkov.

 

– A huge explosion raises an earth cloud in the air. 24 October - the storming of Kharkov. a panorama of the city from afar.

 

– On the field lie the corpses of Soviet soldiers.

 

– Fragments of street fighting in the city, the Germans in the streets.

 

– German tank shooting, machine gunners.

 

– German infantry in the city.

 

– Tram route number 6 stands on the rails.

 

– Broken railway station.

 

– View of the streets of the city, the central square.

 

– German flag on the bell tower.

 

– Trophies captured by the Germans: heavy and light weapons.

 

– German tanks go forward.

 

– Guns, aircraft, motorcyclists, cyclists.

 

– Unstoppable avalanche rolls forward.

 

– View from the aircraft on the endless moving forward German columns.

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