Tuesday 12 January 2021

Die Deutsche Wochenschau – Newsreel No. 747 – 04 January 1945


1. Germany.

 

Members of the „Hitler Youth“ celebrate old German folk festival solstice.

 

Downhill skiing with torches in their hands.

 

The Hitler Youth boys around the bonfire.

 

3. Germany.

 

Mountain of the Wehrmacht in the mountains on the teachings.

 

4. Germany.

 

Ice-skaters in the Sports Palace in Berlin.

 

Singles and pairs.

 

The audience - many of them soldiers.

 

Performance of ballet on ice.

 

5. France.

 

Exchange of German prisoners of war with the Americans in one of the Atlantic ports.

 

Sailing vessel with the Americans.

 

German soldiers arrive, they are greeted by the commandant of the fortress and the garrison commander.

 

6. Germany.

 

German nurse preparing Christmas gifts from the Red Cross for German soldiers on the front.

 

The soldiers at the front reading letters.

 

7. Atlantic.

 

Allied paratroopers, defeated and captured by the Germans.

 

Crippled ships and port facilities.

 

8. Hungary.

 

German ace Rudel at the headquarters of the phone.

 

Rudel on a mission: a raid on Soviet tanks.

 

Burning city, destroyed Soviet tanks.

 

9. Western Front.

 

Strasbourg area, Belfort.

 

The shelling of the Anglo-American positions with V-1, night shooting.

 

Reflection of the attack of the Allied troops who landed, the first captive Americans.

 

Bodies of dead American soldiers.

 

German tanks burst into the village, the promotion of German reinforcements.

 

German tanks overcome barbed wire and enter the village.

 

Infantry smokes out the Americans from individual homes.

 

Marines shoot, installation of the V-1, tanks.

 

Marines on the streets.

 

Captured Americans leaving their homes.

 

The whole American regiment with a white flag goes into captivity.

 

Destroyed American equipment, tanks.

 

German soldiers in the destroyed American tank, trying to speak on an American phone.

 

Waffen SS General Sepp Dietrich in positions among the soldiers.

 

German infantry goes forward.

 

The spoils of war, destruction of tanks, equipment and property.

 

German tanks and motorized units in the attack.

 

American prisoners, they are wounded.

 

American bombers in the air, they fired at the German anti-aircraft guns.

 

Calculation at the guns.

 

German fighters in the air.

 

German soldiers watching the air battle.

 

German tanks in the reclaimed village.

 

Local residents welcomed the soldiers.

 

General Model with soldiers who apart the rubble.

 

General talks to soldiers.

 

American prisoners of war.

 

The faces of Germans.

 

Faces of the black prisoners of war.

 

Collection point for prisoners.

 

A brief respite for the soldiers, they drink schnapps, eat, smoke.

 

Faces of the soldiers.

 

German tanks coming through the streets of a busy city.

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