Die Deutsche Wochenschau – Newsreel No. 736 – 12 October 1944

1. Germany.

Workers miners mobilized at the end of a hard day in the mines for defense work.

– They dig trenches and trenches.

– At the train station workers unload wagons with military material: fuel reserves, the coils of wire, bars.

– Construction of bunkers for two people.

– In general, the province mobilized non-combatant on defence work.

– Stuff officers build field fortifications.

– Senior officer considers calluses on his hands.

– Men and women digging anti-tank ditches.

2. Eastern front.

The Baltic countries.

– Estonian volunteers serving in the German army.

– Evacuation of Estonia at the approach of the Soviet troops.

– The refugees from areas occupied by the Bolsheviks, sit on a ship in Reval (Tallinn), soldiers help residents go to the ramp, bear children in her arms.

– The ship in the sea.

– A woman feeds her baby on the deck.

– An elderly woman thanked the captain for salvation.

– Latvian young soldiers take an oath to the German Reich.

– They will be held service in the auxiliary parts of the Luftwaffe.

– The solemnly passing soldiers.

– They welcomed the German officer.

3. Eastern front.

The German counter-attack on the eastern front.

– New combat aircraft Focke-Wulf 190 in flight.

– The squadron is flying at a low height, troops attacked the car and on the road.

– Fragments of air combat.

The northern section of the Eastern Front Kurland.

– The infantry is on the foggy woods, ride a disguised self-propelled guns.

– German infantrymen in combat.

– Burning the Soviet T-34 tanks.

– German sergeant tank shells burst through Panzerfaust.

– German soldiers approach the downed Soviet tank, examine it.

4. Poland.

Warsaw.

– The final suppression of the uprising.

– German planes bombarded the rebels from the air.

– The explosion of the building where lies one of the largest pockets of resistance.

– Huge house explodes in several parts and is practically crumbles to dust.

5. France.

Western Front in Lunéville district, Nancy.

– German tanks sent to the front.

– Marines begin an operation to clean up the forest from the enemy.

– General tank troops Hasso-Eckart von Manteuffel during a discussion about the upcoming tank counterattack.

– Tanks and infantry moving forward.

– Fragments of the battle with the Americans.

– Captured by the Americans.

– Fighting for Lunéville.

– German tanks.

– Smoke fire.

– During a visit to the western regions threatened enemy, Reich minister of propaganda Joseph Goebbels visited the headquarters of Field Marshal Walter Model’s, where he met with the situation at the front.

– After saying goodbye Goebbels meeting with Field Marshal and gets in the car.

6. Germany.

After a visit to the front Reich minister of propaganda Dr. Joseph Goebbels speaking at a meeting of workers in Cologne, 10.04.1944. on a poster Kind: „The front and the homeland one goal - to win the fight.“

– Dr. Goebbels delivers a speech on the need to fight to the end.

– Reich minister Dr. Goebbels confirms that the arrival of the Anglo-American troops is not so bad, as the arrival of Bolsheviks.

– It sounds patriotic song.

A great number of German tanks „King Tiger“, lined up on the field, the commander of the column circles.