Die Deutsche Wochenschau – Newsreel No. 748 – 11 January 1945

 

1. Germany.

 

Record volunteers in the Volkssturm.

 

– Headlines from the Fuehrer decree of October 1944 on the establishment of the Volkssturm.

 

– Poster urging recorded in the militia 7-28 January 1945.

 

– At the recruiting office, record older men, boys.

 

– Collection of clothing and shoes.

 

– Admission things in the population.

 

– Warehouses with the collected items.

 

– Volkssturm soldiers are getting their uniforms.

 

– They are armed with Panzerfaust.

 

– They are on the march.

 

– Oath.

 

Leipzig monument „Battle of Nations“.

 

– Subscription of the Volkssturm in Leipzig.

 

– Speech by Himmler.

 

– A solemn march of the Volkssturm with banners.

 

– Manifestation in the square, speech of the Gauleiter.

 

Slogans: „No sacrifice can be too great for the victory,“ „Call of the Fuhrer - this is our holy order.“

 

Ceremonial march battalions Volkssturm.

 

– Soldiers with rifles, shotguns, Panzerfausts.

 

– Representatives from Buntzlau and other areas.

 

 

 

2. The Eastern Front.

 

Fragment of battle in the Baltic and East Prussia.

 

– Reflection of a Soviet troops attack.

 

– Counterattack German grenadiers.

 

– The narrator speaks about the losses of the Bolsheviks.

 

German torpedo boats in the Baltic Sea.

 

– Fighting in the area Gumbinnen.

 

– Shoot the German warship.

 

– German tanks in Gumbinnen, they go ahead.

 

– Marines rush.

 

Hemmersdorf village, burnt houses.

 

– The corpses of civilians.

 

– 9, 13, 24 graves of those killed in the hostilities peaceful German inhabitants.

 

German infantrymen in the line of fire.

 

3. France.

 

Exchange of prisoners between the German and American sides.

 

– American prisoners in boats.

 

– German infantrymen.

 

– German generals counsel.

 

– German soldiers reading letters from home.

 

– Damaged American technology and beached ships.

 

4. Western Front.

 

German tanks.

 

– Captured from the American town.

 

– The corpses of American soldiers.

 

– German tank on the streets.

 

– Captured Americans.

 

5. Ardennes.

 

German troops in the offensive.

 

– German planes dogfight.

 

– Shoot the German anti-aircraft guns.

 

– German tanks in the attack.

 

– Start German planes dogfight.

 

– German pilots in combat with American planes.