Die Deutsche Wochenschau – Newsreel No. 727 – 10 August 1944

1. Germany.

Despite the differences in age, gender and profession, the whole German nation is fighting.

– In the east, you need to build defences before the onset of the Bolsheviks.

– German youth is sent to the construction of new fortifications.

– Boys at work: they dig anti-tank ditch.

– Soldiers leading them.

– Older men and women at work.

– View from the plane on strengthening ready.

2. Eastern front.

The section from the Baltic Sea to the north end of the Carpathians a lull between battles.

– On the road going trucks.

– German motorized infantry moves to the front.

– The tanks on the highway.

– German artillery is pounding the Soviet positions.

– Knight Knight's Cross with Oak Leaves Sturmbannfuhrer SS-Hubert Erwin Mayerdress commanded a battery of heavy guns.

– German artillery and anti-tank guns firing at the advancing Soviet tanks.

– German heavy tanks in the offensive.

– It is necessary to free the village, fiercely defended by the Bolsheviks.

– SS troops before the assault.

– Captured Russian village house in her blaze.

– Soldier shows that the bullet hit the bowler.

– The commander of the 5th SS Panzer Division "Wiking" SS Gruppenführer Herbert Gille, together with his soldiers defending Kovel, on the radio to call in reinforcements.

– German infantrymen with light infantry guns under the cover of tanks begin to counterattack.

– The tanks shelled positions of the Bolsheviks.

– German soldiers captured from the Russian village in the town of Kovel district.

– They eliminated the breakthrough of the front line.

– Burning a Soviet tank.

– German soldiers walk past a broken tank, drop into the slot.

3. Western Front.

– Petain’s French police in the fight against the guerrilla terrorists.

– Interrogation of captured bandits.

– In one of the rural roads of France after the raid.

– A car with broken windows.

– French field police checks of vehicles and drivers.

– Verification of documents.

– A farm owner suspected of aid bandits.

– French counterfeit money distributed by the Americans.

– German infantry sent to the front.

– Flak batteries are placed on the open fire on the approaching squadron of American bombers.

– The enemy repulsed a raid, and convoys continue the path.

– In combat position, the unit commander gives the order.

– The soldiers in the trenches.

– Field-Marshal Hans Günther von Kluge inspects one of the sectors of the front.

– At one of the stations seen approaching enemy tanks opened fire on them.

4. Western Front.

– Several enemy tanks pulled back and now stand just in front of the position.

– Marines and paratroopers, armed with anti-tank weapons, destroy the tanks in the vicinity of the position.

– A soldier with a helmet with camouflage net.

– Reflection of American tank attack.

– Unknown grunt hero, hit by two heavy American tank for a few hours on the same day awarded the Iron Cross, Commander shakes his hand.

– German tanks in a counterattack.

– Artillery firing day and night.

– Sorties of the enemy supported only through the regular logistic supply through the English Channel.

North Sea.

– The German U-boat in the raid.

– Scenes inside the boat.

– Giving commands.

– The crew at work.

– Release torpedoes.

– Trouble with the appearance of the aircraft.

– Immersion, surfacing and other maneuvers.

– Hole in the boat, its liquidation.

– The crew on board the boat pops up.