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Die Deutsche Wochenschau – Newsreel No. 649, 10 February 1943


1. Germany.

 

Construction of new military factories in Germany. A. Speer, the initiator and director of the construction project, with his “construction staff.” A view of the military facilities under construction.

 

– A view of the workshops at the new military factory.

 

– Workshop buildings at military enterprises.

 

– Assembly of weapons.

 

– Installation of a huge electric turbine.

 

– Workers heading to the military factory.

 

– Female workers in the workshops of the military factory.

 

– Assembly of tanks.

 

– Workers gather during their lunch break for a rally.

 

– Arrival of Goebbels and Speer.

 

– Reichsminister Dr. Goebbels’ speech narrated by the announcer.

 

– Workers applaud.

 

Grand Admiral Dönitz, appointed Commander-in-Chief of the Reich Navy, leaves his former post in France.

 

– Karl Dönitz and officers at the entrance to his office.

 

– Dönitz gets into a car.

 

– Karl Dönitz and Raeder at the Führer’s headquarters.

 

– Grand Admiral Raeder is appointed Inspector General of the German Navy.

 

– The admirals and the Führer.

 

2. North Africa.

 

On the Tunisian front.

 

– Unloading of Italian and German transport ships in one of the ports of Tunisia.

 

– Loading of weapons and food onto trucks.

 

– British air raid.

 

– Anti-aircraft gun prepares for battle.

 

– German fighters take off.

 

– Scenes from an air battle.

 

– German anti-aircraft guns firing.

 

– A captured British pilot.

 

– A downed British plane crashes to the ground.

 

3. Central sector of the Eastern Front.

 

On the Smolensk-Bryansk-Demyansk line.

 

– German supply convoys moving through a blizzard.

 

– Soldiers escorting a horse-drawn train.

 

– Soldiers clearing snow from the trenches.

 

– Soldiers clearing trenches.

 

– Installation of barbed wire barriers and tripwire traps.

 

– Soldiers in trenches and dugouts.

 

– A soldier on guard duty.

 

– Scenes of skirmishes with Soviet troops (night shots).

 

4. Military operations south of Lake Ladoga.

 

German field fortifications (barbed wire barriers, trenches).

 

– Advancing Soviet tanks (filmed from a distance).

 

– German infantry preparing to repel the attack.

 

– Howitzers firing; crew at the gun.

 

– Machine gunners firing. A soldier reloading a muzzle-loading grenade launcher. Damaged Soviet tanks, bodies of Soviet soldiers.

 

– Advance of German tanks and grenadier units.

 

– Firefight.

 

– Tanks and infantry advancing toward Soviet positions.

 

– One of the German military airfields.

 

– Clearing snow from the airfield.

 

– Checking engines, loading bombs.

 

– A bomb is being transported by truck.

 

– A large high-explosive bomb is being attached to a Junkers Ju-88 aircraft.

 

– Aircraft take off.

 

– Junkers Ju-87 and Fw-190 fighters in the air, pilots in the cockpit.

 

– A massive German air raid on Soviet rear areas.

 

– Bombs flying toward their targets.

 

– Numerous fires caused by exploding bombs (view from an aircraft).

 

– Scenes from an aerial battle. 

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