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Die Deutsche Wochenschau – Newsreel No. 635, 4 November 1942


1. Italy.

 

Celebration of the 20th anniversary of the “March on Rome”.

 

Parade of military units.

 

Arrival of the German delegation led by Reichsleiter Robert Ley.

 

Meeting at the railway station in Rome, guard of honour.

 

Reception at the Duce’s residence in Palazzo Venezia.

 

– Dr. Robert Ley delivers Hitler’s personal message to Mussolini.

 

Mussolini visits an exhibition of the achievements of the fascist regime (XX Mostra della Rivoluzione Fascista).

 

The Duce and his entourage leave the exhibition and are greeted by fascist activists.

 

A peasant woman gives the Duce a basket of flowers.

 

2. The Pacific Ocean.

 

Japanese ships assemble in the southern Pacific Ocean.

 

Japanese ships on the move.

 

Alarm.

 

Sailors take their places.

 

Guns are aimed.

 

An American aircraft carrier is fired upon.

 

Gunners at their guns.

 

Japanese ships firing their guns.

 

Japanese planes in the air.

 

Japanese bombers raid one of the American bases.

 

Announcer reports on the successes of the Japanese fleet.

 

American fleet losses on a diagram.

 

3. USSR. Eastern Front.

 

The Battle of Stalingrad.

 

German guns firing at the Barrikady factory.

 

German aircraft in the air.

 

German crew at the gun.

 

4. USSR. Germans in destroyed Stalingrad.

 

German soldiers among the ruins.

 

German tanks.

 

Germans fighting in the streets.

 

Railway tracks. Wreckage of a destroyed factory.

 

Soviet prisoners of war.

 

5. USSR. Caucasian Front.

 

On the Tikhoretsk-Krasnodar-Maykop line.

 

German airfield in the Terek area.

 

Pilots discussing the plan of operation.

 

German planes in the air.

 

View of Soviet positions from the air.

 

German artillery officers studying a map.

 

The start of shelling of Soviet positions.

 

Mortars firing.

 

Germans in the foothills of the Caucasus.

 

Disinfection unit in the mountains.

 

Germans running to bathe in a mountain river.

 

View of the mountains.

 

German mountain riflemen put on camouflage coats.

 

A reconnaissance group goes into the mountains.

 

The group among the eternal snows on a mountain slope.

 

Firefight with the enemy.

 

A German machine gun fires.

 

6. Africa.

 

The African front. Desert landscape.

 

A German soldier surveys the desert terrain from a mountain.

 

Rommel arrives at the command post.

 

He talks with officers and gives instructions.

 

Rommel consults with officers over a map.

 

German soldiers marching.

 

They take a break.

 

A soldier with a machine gun.

 

Firefight with Anglo-Americans.

 

German company on the offensive.

 

Explosions.

 

Killed British soldiers.

 

Captured British position.

 

British soldier surrenders.

 

German tanks advance.

 

Burning enemy tanks.

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