Friday, 12 March 2021

Die Deutsche Wochenschau – Newsreel No. 751 – 10 February 1945

 

1. Germany.

 

The arrival in Germany of a train with the wounded from the Eastern Front.

 

Adults, children and young people welcome the wounded.

 

Packets with refreshments from the Red Cross.

 

The wounded soldiers with family and friends.

 

Check out the wounded in the bus.

 

2. Western Front.

 

The retreat of the German troops to new positions.

 

Shooting of the German artillery.

 

Shooting of the rocket launchers.

 

The skies above the battlefield are streaked with traces of British bombers and German fighters thrown towards them.

 

Enemy occupied the village is under fire from German tanks.

 

Tanks sent to break through the enemy, and that the German heavy tanks resist the forces from the east.

 

Fierce battle, military equipment.

 

Traces of heavy fighting.

 

The anti-tank ditches to fill up the trenches with tanks.

 

German infantry in action.

 

3. Poland.

 

Eastern front.

 

On the line Danzig Lodz.

 

The retreating German troops and the Germans refugees in carts from East Prussia.

 

Cities overflowing crowds of refugees and Soviet prisoners.

 

Soviet prisoners of war and Germans are building fortifications.

 

The reception of refugees in the German reception center.

 

Distribution of documents.

 

The refugees are eating.

 

Soldiers of the Volkssturm infront of the camera.

 

They handed out weapons and equipment.

 

With mini-trucks roll wedges „Goliaths“, self-propelled guns.

 

Unloading shells.

 

4. Poland, Silesia.

 

German tanks are going forward.

 

Highway.

 

Preparing for street fighting, building barricades in Katowice.

 

A squad of fighters Volkssturm with Panzerfausts are occupying the position.

 

German tanks.

 

5. East Prussia.

 

German artillery shells the Soviet positions.

 

Transport aircrafts are delivering bombs and Panzerfausts.

 

Ammunition dropped from aircraft on parachutes to the location of German troops.

 

6. Kurland.

 

Scenes of movement of German convoys in the blizzard.

 

Soldiers dig a truck stuck in the snow.

 

7. Hungary.

 

Already two months the defenders of Budapest, cut off from the main army, are fighting hard, grueling battles.

 

The population is working on the construction of barricades in the streets.

 

German and Hungarian anti-aircraft gunners fired on Soviet tanks.

 

Destroyed Soviet tanks near Budapest.

 

The offensive of the German armored forces to the south-west of Budapest in the area between Budapest and Lake Plattenzee (Balaton), access to the Danube.

 

Padded Soviet assault guns and tanks.

 

Freed Hungarian city, the population welcomed the Germans.

 

City of Stuhlweißenburg (Szekesfehervar) after the release of the German troops, a view of the town hall.

 

Soviet cavalry patrol was in the area of the German artillery fire.

 

Start a shootout.

 

Shooting German guns.

 

German tanks in the forest.

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