Tuesday, 22 September 2020

Die Deutsche Wochenschau – Newsreel No. 741 – 16 November 1944


1. Germany.

 

Germany honours the heroes of the National Socialist movement who fallen on November 9, 1923.

 

– Munich Gauleiter Paul Giesler and Field Marshal Keitel at the monument at the ceremony.

 

– Wreath from the Führer.

 

On this day in all areas of German Reich battalions of people’s militia take oath.

 

– In Konigsberg East Prussia Gauleiter Koch refers to a people’s militia forces, have distinguished themselves in battle.

 

– Those militias, the elderly, the young men.

 

– Oath at the flag.

 

– Volkssturm warriors, armed with Panzerfaust.

 

2. Germany.

 

Danzig.

 

Newspaper headline about the organization Volkssturm Knight Knight’s Cross with Oak Leaves, the captain of the submarine Werner Hartmann in Torne.

 

– Gauleiter of Danzig Albert Forster inspects Volkssturm unit.

 

– Reichsleiter, SA Obergruppenführer Wilhelm Schepmann addresses a speech to the militias.

 

– Ceremonial march militia fighters through the old Free and Hanseatic City of Danzig.

 

3. Germany.

 

Berlin.

 

– Hundreds of thousands of soldiers of the national militia gathered in Berlin on the square Wilhelmplatz at the Ministry of Propaganda of the building to take the oath.

 

– Hanging a banner: „Volkssturm fighting for his life and freedom of Greater Germany.“

 

– Reichsminister Dr Joseph Goebbels and the generals on the podium.

 

– The officer speaks from the balcony of the oath to the Führer, militias repeat after him.

 

– The ceremonial passing of Volkssturm soldiers.

 

– Goebbels delivers a speech to fight not only at the front, but also at home.

 

– Marching soldiers with Panzerfausts, squad in civilian clothes with rifles in their hands.

 

– The parade watching foreign attaché, Japanese Ambassador Oshima.

 

– The passage at the Brandenburg Gate.

 

4. Western Front.

 

Battles with the Anglo-American forces in the Vosges.

 

– On the line-Epinal-Nancy-Delfor.

 

– An incredible onslaught of a huge number of enemy troops and armoured vehicles. Anglo-Americans who were trying to budge the German front were stopped.

 

– German soldiers in anticipation of battle, a soldier reading a newspaper.

 

– In the trenches of mud and water, infantry shovels flinging muck.

 

– An observer looking through binoculars on the terrain.

 

– Soldiers from the machine-gun nest shell enemy group which broke from the forest area.

 

– Firing mortars, anti-tank gun.

 

– The soldier looks at the sky, where there are Allied planes.

 

– German armoured flak during an air raid.

 

– Laying explosive mines on the bridge under enemy fire.

 

– Lt.Gen. Edgar Feuchtinger awards Senior Corporal Henry Maurer, distinguished himself in the fight with tanks in the short run, the Knight’s Cross.

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