Wednesday, 12 November 2025

Die Deutsche Wochenschau – Newsreel No. 631, 7 October 1942


1. Germany.

 

Berlin, Kaiserhof Hotel.

 

– Reception hosted by Foreign Minister Ribbentrop on the occasion of the second anniversary of the signing of the Tripartite Pact.

 

– Guests and diplomats in the hotel courtyard.

 

– Italian Ambassador Alfieri and Japanese Ambassador Oshima in conversation with Joachim von Ribbentrop.

 

– Reich minister Ribbentrop’s speech, audience.

 

Reception in Berlin by Propaganda Minister Dr Goebbels for African hero Field Marshal Rommel, their meeting with journalists.

 

– Erwin Rommel’s speech on operations in Africa.

 

Rommel leaves for a reception with the Führer.

 

– Adolf Hitler presents Rommel with a marshal’s baton.

 

Sports Palace in Berlin.

 

Opening of the 1942/43 Winter Relief Campaign.

 

Banners and standards are brought in.

 

Reich minister Dr Goebbels and Rommel arrive and walk down the central aisle of the auditorium.

 

Erwin Rommel and Dr Goebbels are in the hall, and those present greet them.

 

Dr. Joseph Goebbels takes the podium and reports on the results of the 1941/42 Winter Relief campaign. of 1941/42.

 

The results of these campaigns from 1933 to 1942 are shown on a diagram.

 

The data is accompanied by footage showing aid being provided to various groups in need.

 

The hall applauds; among the audience are Field Marshal Keitel, Rommel, and Dr. Ley.

 

The Führer appears and greets Rommel.

 

The Führer on the podium.

 

Rommel and Himmler in the presidium. Pan of the hall, singing of the anthem.

 

2. Eastern Front.

 

The far north of Finland.

 

German horse-drawn carts.

 

Soldiers building a primitive water pipe to deliver water to the hospital.

 

Nurses in the hospital distribute food to soldiers.

 

Loading supplies and transporting them by horse on a narrow-gauge railway.

 

Supplies arrive at the front lines, soldiers eat.

 

Soldiers dig trenches, secure their positions.

 

Sappers crawl along, pulling communication lines.

 

The start of a firefight with Soviet troops, artillery fire, artillery crew.

 

An aerostat rises with an observer-corrector. Tundra.

 

Heavy battery fire.

 

Tundra.

 

German tanks advance to the front lines in the forests of Karelia.

 

Tanks firing.

 

Germans at positions recaptured from the Russians.

 

3. Central section of the Eastern Front.

 

On the Smolensk-Kursk line.

 

German columns advance.

 

In the background - a balloon.

 

Observation post of German artillerymen on the bell tower of a church.

 

German guns firing, crew at the gun, explosions.

 

Burning houses.

 

German observer.

 

Food distribution in German trenches.

 

Shelling of a Soviet bunker, direct hit.

 

German soldiers in trenches and at their positions.

 

Attack by Soviet tanks.

 

German anti-tank guns firing.

 

A damaged Soviet tank is burning.

 

Crew at the gun.

 

Colonel General Model walks among the soldiers, talks to them, awards Iron Crosses.

 

Infantrymen in trenches.

 

Soviet aircraft in the air.

 

German advance guard takes up positions.

 

Machine gunners firing.

 

German soldiers in a trench.

 

Corpses of Soviet soldiers in a trench captured by the Germans.

 

The firefight continues.

 

The advance unit returns to its starting positions.

 

Assistance is provided to the wounded.

 

Soviet prisoners are interrogated by a German officer.

 

The commander talks to soldiers of the German advance guard, awarding Iron Crosses.

 

German soldiers and local residents harvesting crops in the nearby rear.

 

Harvesting grain.

 

A cart with harvested grain.

 

On the threshing floor, grain is being threshed and scattered.

 

Harvesting cabbage.

 

Sign ‘State property’ — property of the German Reich.

 

Livestock on a farm, a herd of cows, a flock of sheep.

 

German squadron at its airfield, planes taking off for the Stalingrad area.

 

German guns shelling the city.

 

Germans occupy the outskirts of Stalingrad, captured Soviet airfield.

 

Officers observe the area through binoculars, guns firing.

 

An armoured vehicle drives through the suburbs of Stalingrad.

 

Fragments of street fighting.

 

The ruins of the city are visible.

 

Germans raise the flag of the Reich over a half-destroyed church.

 

Stalingrad, the Volga River is visible.

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