Thursday, 22 April 2021

Die Deutsche Wochenschau – Newsreel No. 754 – 16 March 1945

 

1. USA. Dispersal of labour demonstrations in the United States.

 

– Police disperse protesters.

 

– The arrest of demonstrators.

 

2. Western Front.

 

The fighting in the flooded area with the advancing Anglo-American troops.

 

– Grenadiers are going on a mission, the soldiers put machinegun belts and Panzerfausts, one camp stove on his shoulders.

 

– Soldiers marching down the road past the houses.

 

– The position of the river.

 

– The Germans are firing on enemy positions.

 

– General talking with the soldiers.

 

3. Germany.

 

General Vlasov inspects units of the Russian Liberation Army (ROA).

 

– Parade.

 

– Vlasov and a German general for foreign volunteers recruitment Ernst August Kostring.

 

– Arriving soldiers with Panzerfausts.

 

4. The USSR. Eastern front.

 

Reflection of Russian offensive by German infantrymen on a section of the front in the Courland.

 

5. East Prussia.

 

Transporting the wounded on the ice on an iceboat from areas threatened by the Soviet army.

 

– German refugees from East Prussia on carts, soldiers are chasing a herd of cows.

 

– The ruined city of Marienburg.

 

– Street fighting against the Bolsheviks.

 

– Officer award distinguished themselves in combat soldiers.

 

– Destroyed Soviet tanks.

 

– Burning tank.

 

Second retaking by German troops of the city of Guben.

 

– A woman is giving water to a soldier.

 

– Street fighting.

 

– German soldiers with Panzerfaust.

 

– Soviet prisoners.

 

6. Germany.

 

District of Görlitz, the battles on the way to Dresden.

 

– Dr. Goebbels officers watching shooting self-propelled guns.

 

– Reich Minister Dr. Goebbels visits the ruins of the city Lauban freed by German troops, he made a speech to the soldiers.

 

– On the square in Lauban, before the formation of soldiers Dr. Goebbels shakes hands with Colonel General, Commander of the Army Group “Center” Ferdinand Schörner.

 

– Dr. Goebbels is shaking hands with the young soldier, gives him the Iron Cross.

 

– The Bolshevik atrocities - disfigured corpses.

 

–  In Görlitz Dr. Goebbels is calling for a fierce defence - 11.3.1945.

 

7. Germany.

 

Hitler was surrounded by staff officers.

 

– He talks with the generals.

 

– Soldiers greet Hitler.

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