Thursday, 12 June 2025

Die Deutsche Wochenschau – Newsreel No. 615, 18 June 1942


1. Spain.

 

Arrival of the Sultan of Morocco on a visit to Madrid.

 

At the railway station, the Sultan is met by Spanish Foreign Minister Serrano Suner.

 

Bypassing the guard of honour.

 

Car with the Sultan and the Minister accompanied by the Sultan’s cavalry.

 

2. Germany.

 

Jubilee Imperial Minister of Posts Dr Ohnesorge.

 

In the courtyard under the windows plays a military band.

 

Congratulations to the jubilee, presentation of the address.

 

Jubilee greeted by SS Gruppenführer Schauf, Reichsminister Rosenberg, Reichsführer SS Himmler, General Field Marshal Milch, General Sepp Dietrich and others.

 

3. Czechoslovakia.

 

Prague, farewell to SS and police general, Reich Protector of Bohemia and Moravia Reinhardt Heydrich, died on 4.6.1942 in Prague.

 

Laying flowers.

 

View of the funeral procession.

 

Laying of wreaths from all provinces of the protectorate.

 

The funeral procession is travelling from Prague Castle to the central station.

 

From Prague, the cortege sees off Daluge.

 

The funeral train leaves for Berlin.

 

Heydrich’s funeral in Berlin.

 

Mourning meeting in the mosaic hall of the Reich Chancellery.

 

– Adolf Hitler walks through the hall, sits next to Heydrich’s sons and Ribbentrop, expresses condolences to the family of the deceased.

 

The speech is made by Reichsführer of the SS and police Himmler.

 

The Fuhrer at the coffin, a wreath from the Fuhrer.

 

Guard of honour.

 

Heydrich’s sons, with them talking Hitler and Goering, expressing sympathy for them.

 

Removal of the coffin, a solemn procession through the streets of Berlin.

 

The coffin on the gun carriage.

 

Prominent figures of the Reich in the funeral procession.

 

4. Germany.

 

Fuhrer’s headquarters, he receives the President of the Council of Ministers of Hungary Salasi and Foreign Minister Kallai, greeted them.

 

Discussion in the headquarters of martial law.

 

Hungarian Major General Vitez Veres talks with German generals, Field Marshal Keitel, Salasi and Foreign Minister talks with Ribbentrop, going down the stairs.

 

They say goodbye at the train.

 

5. Germany.

 

The return of German submarines from a raid to the shores of America.

 

Boats approaching the pier.

 

The commander of one of the boats greeted with colleagues and friends.

 

Presentation of flowers.

 

Sailors eat berries, drinking beer from bottles.

 

6. North Africa.

 

German Air Force General Galland inspects German positions, he and a group of officers near the headquarters tent.

 

Landed German aircraft.

 

Colleagues greet the fighter pilot.

 

Another pilot, Senior Lieutenant Marcel returns from the flight.

 

Colonel-General Rommel in his bet takes arrived at the meeting of the Italian General Bastico, a conversation.

 

Bastico presents Rommel with the Order of Savoy from the Italian command.

 

Rommel puts on the neck ribbon of the Order.

 

Operational meeting of German and Italian officers.

 

Rommel goes to the front line.

 

German vehicles and tanks in the desert, they move in puffs of smoke.

 

Rommel’s car.

 

German motorcyclists.

 

Rommel examines German positions through binoculars.

 

German tanks are moving forward.

 

Shootout with the enemy.

 

Anti-aircraft and anti-tank artillery takes positions.

 

Fragments of a firefight with Anglo-American troops.

 

Italians in a trench, firing Italian machine gunner.

 

Rommel in the car.

 

Burning enemy tank.

 

Shoot German anti-aircraft guns, the destruction of the British armoured car.

 

German calculation at the gun.

 

Burning British equipment, burning American tank, the corpses of soldiers.

 

Defeated British position, trophy weapons, captured flag of the British regiment.

 

British prisoners, checking their documents.

 

Captured black soldiers.

 

General Rommel examines shot down an English fighter.

 

Column of British prisoners.

 

Announcer about the military victory of the Germans on 1 June 1942.

 

There is a column of prisoners.

 

7. The southern section of the Eastern Front, Crimea.

 

View of mosques and the German flag.

 

Marshal Antonescu, who arrived to inspect Romanian units, meets with General von Bock, they during the meeting.

 

General Manstein accompanies Bock and Antonescu as they inspect the positions.

 

Romanian and German soldiers are on the mountain road.

 

On the roads of the Crimea is machinery, tanks.

 

On top of the mountain is an ancient building.

 

The beginning of the shelling of Soviet positions near Sevastopol.

 

Soldiers load the cannon shell with the inscription: ‘On Sevastopol’.

 

Shoot German guns.

 

In the distance is visible city.

 

The cameraman shoots gunfire.

 

Liaison goes to the neighbouring battery.

 

Continued shelling.

 

Infantry goes on the attack.

 

The last shooting cameraman Waldemar Zakeus, who died in this battle.

 

Assisting the wounded.

 

Continuation of heavy fighting.

 

German aviation in the air.

 

Infantrymen watching the bombardment of Soviet positions. NDP Soviet positions.

 

German infantry advancing.

 

Captured Soviet soldiers. ‘Junkers’ take off in the air.

 

View of Sevastopol from the aircraft.

 

German pilot in the cockpit.

 

Bombs fly into the target, explosions, flying bombs.

 

Explosions in the city.

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