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Die Deutsche Wochenschau – Newsreel No. 633, 21 October 1942


1. Greece.

 

Short film. “Wehrmacht Helpers.”

 

Volunteer Wehrmacht helpers arrive in Greece from Germany.

 

They change into military uniforms.

 

Women in front of the camera.

 

They work as telephone operators, radio operators, etc.

 

They relay messages to their superior.

 

The women at work.

 

After work.

 

Lunch.

 

Leisure time.

 

Sports activities.

 

Swimming in the sea.

 

Visiting Greek antiquities.

 

2. Germany.

 

Congress of writers from fascist countries and satellite states in Weimar.

 

Goebbels’ speech at the congress.

 

Close-ups of deputies, Weimar Gauleiter Fritz Sauckel, and Reich Chamber of Writers President Hans Jost.

 

3. Mediterranean Sea.

 

Italian submarine on a voyage.

 

Enemy ship spotted.

 

Submarine submerging.

 

Crew at their battle stations.

 

Commander Captain Enzo Grossi observes the English ship through the periscope.

 

Destruction of the enemy ship.

 

The boat surfaces.

 

Sinking English ship.

 

4. Germany.

 

A German submarine returns to its home port after a military operation in the Atlantic.

 

Captain Hofmeier on board with a megaphone in his hands.

 

Flowers are presented to the sailors.

 

Sailors on board the boat, image of a cat arching its back.

 

Lieutenant Commander Reinhard Zuren smiles, standing with his crew on deck.

 

Officers inspecting the formation.

 

A heroic submariner is knighted.

 

Lunch.

 

Sailors on the pier read letters from home.

 

5. USSR. Far North.

 

German ship.

 

Cleaning the deck.

 

German ships in a Norwegian harbor on combat alert.

 

Guns ready for battle.

 

German aircraft.

 

German destroyer working with submarines.

 

German ships at sea.

 

Guns.

 

Firing at an enemy convoy.

 

Explosions.

 

The squadron keeps going.

 

6. USSR. Eastern Front.

 

Near Leningrad.

 

German soldiers at their posts.

 

7. USSR. German artillery shelling a populated area.

 

In the Lake Ladoga region.

 

German soldiers at captured Soviet positions.

 

Corpses of Soviet soldiers. Battlefield.

 

Destroyed Soviet equipment, tanks.

 

8. USSR. Near Stalingrad.

 

German tank on the move.

 

German artillery shelling cities, shell explosions visible.

 

German company in cover.

 

Soldiers among the ruins.

 

Fragments of fighting in the city.

 

Ruins of Stalingrad.

 

View of the Volga River.

 

German artillery firing.

 

9. USSR. Caucasian Front.

 

German truck with trailer.

 

Delivery by rail (to the Novorossiysk area) of reinforcements for Hitler's troops.

 

Large railway station, destroyed trains.

 

Maikop-Tuapse sign.

 

German soldiers on the march.

 

Tanks on the march.

 

German artillery shelling Tuapse.

 

German crew at a gun, firing.

 

SS division soldiers on the march.

 

Sappers removing mines from the road.

 

German mortar crews firing at Soviet positions, exchange of fire.

 

Germans in a populated area.

 

A German soldier throws a grenade into a residential building.

 

A German plane in the air.

 

View of Soviet positions from the plane.

 

A pilot in the cockpit.

 

A massive raid by German bombers on the city of Grozny.

 

Explosions, bombs flying toward their target.

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