Die Deutsche Wochenschau – Newsreel No. 729 – 24 August 1944

1. Germany.

Total mobilization of women.

– Call in the press to women to take places of men in the workplace.

– Women in employment agencies.

– They have machine tools in munitions factories.

– Women-the controllers of the trams.

– Training women drivers, women driving.

– Female firefighters serving in the fire police.

– They are preparing to extinguish the fire.

2. Germany.

Corporal Beitnach the vacationer from the front, on leave at home.

– Meeting in his hometown, the hero is greeted at the station with flowers.

– The speaker reports about his feat: he knocked out Soviet tanks with bazookas.

– Parents, neighbours near the house.

– The hero with the mother.

– He’s in the carpentry shop, trying to work as a planer.

3. The Second front.

Fighting in Normandy.

– German cars with the infantry, camouflaged with branches.

– Boom for the bombers.

– Anti-aircraft battery in action.

– Shot down, burning on the ground an American airplane.

– German tanks in the attack, the artillery supports the tank attack.

– Burning and destroyed American tanks.

– Marines.

– Prisoners of the allied forces.

– Armoured car in action.

– German infantry on the outcome of the governmental positions.

– Fire heavy anti-aircraft guns.

4. Poland.

The suppression of the uprising in Warsaw.

– Warsaw in the fire.

– The shelling of the city.

– German troops in street fighting.

– Arrested and killed on the streets.

– German General Stagel directs the suppression of the uprising.

– The SS in battle.

– The shelling of rebel positions.

– The Germans in the ruins of Warsaw.

– Explosions, shooting bazookas.

– The evacuation of civilians from the city.

5. Eastern front.

The narrator on the big German offensive.

– Counterattack German troops.

– Infantry and tanks of the „Panther“ and „Tiger“ in the attack.

– Look in the seam of the tank.

– Support the attacks of ground troops from German aircraft.

– Fragments of air combat.

– A house fire with strafing.

– The movement of German reinforcements to the front.

– There is a column, escorted her children.

– Preparation techniques.

– Go train with the equipment and materials.

– The German division sent to the Eastern front. 

– Is equipment, tanks, infantry.