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Die Deutsche Wochenschau – Newsreel No. 617, 1 July 1942


1. North Africa, Libya.

 

Battles with the 8th British Army, battle diagram.

 

Marshal Rommel develops a plan of attack, he and his officers.

 

Scheme of actions taken by German troops.

 

A large concentration of British prisoners, columns passing along the roads.

 

Destroyed equipment.

 

Fragments of aerial combat in the area of Marmarik.

 

Breakthrough of German tank units in the direction of Sidi Rezegh and El Adem.

 

The military situation on 11 June 1942 on the scheme.

 

German units are moving towards Akhroma, to the shore of the Mediterranean Sea.

 

The encirclement of British troops.

 

A lot of prisoners.

 

Announcer of the capture of 60,000 British.

 

The offensive on 14 June in the area of El Alamein.

 

Fighting in the area of Tobruk.

 

The encirclement of Tobruk 18 June 1942 on the scheme.

 

German and Italian guns shooting. 20 June - the assault on the fortress of Tobruk.

 

Rommel monitors the course of the fighting.

 

Massive offensive of German and Italian troops, shelling, explosions.

 

Rommel directs the operation.

 

German equipment is moving forward on the cleared by sappers passages in minefields.

 

German units on the offensive, shelling positions of the British.

 

– Erwin Rommel.

 

Reflection of the British tank attack.

 

Carrying the wounded.

 

Burning British equipment.

 

British prisoners.

 

German and Italian units are moving forward.

 

Destroyed American tanks.

 

Rommel examines taken by the Germans British positions and fortifications.

 

Defeated British positions.

 

British prisoners of war, among them many soldiers from the coloured population of the colonies.

 

German units are moving forward.

 

The British are trying to evacuate the fortress by sea.

 

German anti-aircraft artillery shells the British ships.

 

The surrender of Tobruk on 25 June 1942.

 

Jubilant German soldiers.

 

German planes in the air. NDP destroyed British positions and fortifications from the air.

 

A view of the captured fortress from an airplane.

 

Announcer about the huge losses of the enemy.

 

Columns of prisoners.

 

German units are passing by columns of prisoners of war.

 

German units in the fortress.

 

On the streets of Tobruk, the ruins of buildings.

 

Fire at the oil storage facility.

 

Rommel with officers at the map discusses the state of war.

 

The Germans are moving forward in the desert.

 

2. Crimea.

 

Military operations near Sevastopol, the scheme of battles.

 

Announcer about the fortifications of Sevastopol, making it almost impregnable.

 

Movement of German tanks, infantry, wagons to Sevastopol.

 

German planes are flying towards Sevastopol, bombs falling on the city.

 

View of besieged Sevastopol from the aircraft.

 

Explosions and fires in the city.

 

German pilot in the cockpit, falling bombs.

 

Falls downed aircraft.

 

Fragments of air combat.

 

Air battle.

 

Sevastopol under a hail of German bombs.

 

German observation post.

 

Shooting machine gun.

 

Infantry goes into the attack.

 

– Flamethrower in action.

 

Destroyed Soviet fortifications on the outskirts of the city.

 

Interrogation of a prisoner.

 

Destroyed guns.

 

Destroyed barracks, residential buildings.

 

Fortifications literally turned into powder.

 

Artillery continues to shell Sevastopol, explosions.

 

Fires a gun.

 

Romanian and German troops in the so-called inner fortress.

 

The ruins of buildings.

 

The harbour area.

 

Heavy street fighting in Sevastopol.

 

Germans with weapons on the streets of the city.

 

The shelling of Soviet positions on the other side of the bay.

 

Shoot heavy German guns.

 

German infantrymen on the streets of the city.

 

Defectors.

 

Germans in the ruins of the building: Shooting machine gun.

 

View of the harbour.

 

Fires a German gun ‘Dora’, loading the gun, its barrel close-up, pointing.

 

Smoke of fires and explosions over Sevastopol.

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