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Die Deutsche Wochenschau – Newsreel No. 650, 17 February 1943


1. Germany.

 

German miners at work.

 

– A miner drills into the rock.

 

– Coal is shovelled into mine cars.

 

– A view of the mine building; mine cars carrying coal are moving.

 

Dortmund, steelworks, general view.

 

– Workers at the blast furnaces; molten metal is flowing.

 

– Casting of turbine parts.

 

– Machining of parts.

 

– Molten metal is poured into a mould.

 

– Assembly of the turbine.

 

– The finished turbine is being taken out of the factory; it bears the inscription: ‘Wagner, Dortmund’.

 

– The new turbine on a railway platform.

 

– Power station, the new turbine is in operation.

 

– A worker at the control panel.

 

2. The Eastern Front.

 

The Murmansk region.

 

– Supplies being transported to the front by reindeer sleighs.

 

– Soldiers on skis leading reindeer.

 

– The first rays of the sun after the polar night.

 

– A soldier on guard duty with binoculars.

 

– Soldiers take up new positions.

 

– Soldiers with submachine guns and machine guns crawl through the snow.

 

– A soldier surveys the terrain through binoculars.

 

– The start of a firefight.

 

– German artillery firing.

 

– A crew manning a gun.

 

– A medical detachment of skiers on the move.

 

– A wounded man is being dressed in a trench; he is wrapped in a fur and placed on a dog-drawn sledge.

 

– Two soldiers unfurl a Red Cross flag on the snow; another fires a signal flare into the air.

 

– Arrival of a medical transport aircraft; loading of the wounded.

 

– The aircraft takes off.

 

– South of Lake Ladoga.

 

– Soldiers at their positions.

 

– Soviet aircraft in the air.

 

– A reconnaissance unit on the move.

 

– Transporting the wounded.

 

– The wounded are taken to the field hospital.

 

– A wounded man is being led away.

 

– Loading the wounded into an ambulance.

 

– The central sector of the Eastern Front along the Smolensk–Bryansk–Kursk line.

 

– A column of German reserve soldiers with supply wagons is moving through the snow.

 

– A field kitchen wagon skids on the slippery snow.

 

– An observation post in the forest, built from logs.

 

– A soldier climbs a ladder, enters the room from which the enemy is being observed.

 

– The observer raises the alarm at the appearance of Soviet soldiers.

 

– The start of a firefight near the village.

 

– Soldiers in camouflage uniforms fire grenade launchers, machine guns and anti-tank guns.

 

– The gun crew.

 

– The ‘Feldherrnhalle’ regiment in camouflage uniforms on the offensive.

 

– German soldiers take cover behind a haystack, find a communication cable and cut it.

 

– The end of the battle.

 

– The bodies of Soviet soldiers in the snow.

 

3. The Atlantic.

 

A German submarine in the North Atlantic.

 

– Four lookouts with binoculars scan the horizon in different directions.

 

– A British convoy is sighted.

 

– A diagram showing the movements of the convoy and the German submarines.

 

– German naval communications and intelligence operations.

 

– Officers at headquarters.

 

Grand Admiral Karl Dönitz coordinates the actions of German submarines off the coasts of Greenland and Labrador.

 

– A submarine receives orders to attack enemy ships.

 

– Alarm on the submarine; the crew takes their stations.

 

– Diagram of the German Navy’s submarine operations.

 

– Manoeuvres to evade an enemy destroyer.

 

– The convoy attempts to escape the submarine attack.

 

– The submarine dives.

 

– The enemy convoy is visible through the periscope.

 

– An attack according to plan.

 

– A voiceover announcing the destruction of the convoy.

 

– Sailors on the submarine.

 

– Shockwaves and damage to the boat caused by a depth charge explosion.

 

– Repairing the damage.

 

– Launching torpedoes.

 

– Sinking of Allied ships.

 

– Scenes from a night battle.

 

– Sinking of a tanker; oil burning on the surface of the water.

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