Thursday, 22 September 2022

Die Deutsche Wochenschau – Newsreel No. 531 – 06 November 1940


1. Germany.

 

Harvesting vegetables in Germany.

 

– Harvesting cabbage from the fields.

 

– Women gather potatoes into baskets after the passage of the potato harvester.

 

2. German Austria.

 

Reichsautobahn – building the road Munich - Linz - Vienna.

 

– Work in the quarry, the explosion of rock, broken stones are loaded into trolleys.

 

– Construction site in Salzburg, work in progress. 24-meter pillars will support 188 meters of the viaduct span.

 

– Camp for the builders of the road.

 

– Good living conditions have been created for the moral support of the workers.

 

– Workers shower, shave, get a haircut at the barbershop, play chess, read newspapers, get mail.

 

– Lunch for the workers.

 

– Concert in the camp.

 

– On stage dancing ballet group.

 

Spitzenberg near Heinburg in the Lower Danube.

 

– Gauleiter Hugo Juri opens training airfield of the organization Hitlerjugend, the airplanes, which were given the names of the fallen combat pilots.

 

– The pilot removes the sticker from the side of the machine, with names on it - Klaus von Bolen, Emmerich Sikora and others.

 

– Young people are pulling the glider with ropes, the pilot gets into the cockpit, take off from the hill.

 

3. Poland.

 

A trip through the eastern regions for the SA Chief of Staff Victor Lutze provides for a visit to Marienburg Castle.

 

– Together with his entourage he walks through the courtyard of the castle.

 

– A visit to the military cemetery and the grave of former comrade-in-arms, SA Obergruppenführer and police chief in Kiel, head of the SA Nordmark assault group (Kiel), who died in Poland in the early days of the war, Joachim Meyer-Kuid.

 

– Close-up of the cross and plaque.

 

– In Litzmannstadt (Łódź) Lutze meets the new unit, which celebrates Freedom Day.

 

– Gala parade in front of Lutze and SA General Hasso von Manteifel.

 

Krakow salutes the first Polish Governor General Dr. Hans Frank, he makes a speech.

 

– At the residence of the governor-general set up a new flag of independent Poland.

 

– Frank next to a bust of Hitler.

 

4. Germany.

 

Police and SS parade on Adolf Hitler’s Square in Berlin.

 

– Riding cavalry, orchestra musicians on horseback.

 

– SS Reichsführer Heinrich Himmler is on the podium among top police and military officials.

 

– Residents greet them.

 

5. France.

 

Occupied territory.

 

– Telephone exchange in occupied Paris.

 

– The women at work, they connect subscribers to the front and Germany, are receiving telegrams.

 

Warehouse of military uniforms (clothing and linen) captured from the French.

 

– Sorting and sending clothes French workers under the supervision of German soldiers.

 

– Loading in cars and shipped to Germany.

 

Sending to Germany, a trophy of French heavy military equipment, tanks.

 

– Broken tank drag chains on the platform.

 

– The composition leaves.

 

Manoeuvres of the German liaison forces in the occupied territory.

 

– The soldiers in inflatable boats boosting the water barrier.

 

– They landed on the shore, unfolding equipment.

 

– Run over the terrain.

 

– The Communicators at work, they pull the communication line.

 

– Fragments of the conditional battle.

 

– Machine gun firing at the enemy.

 

– Run over soldiers.

 

– Explosions.

 

– The communicators set the connection, check it.

 

6. Italy.

 

The German Imperial Labour Service Orchestra under Herms Neel gives a concert for the wounded Italian soldiers in Rome.

 

– The orchestra, the musicians.

 

7. Africa North.

 

After the capture of Sollum and Sidi Barrani, Italian construction crews build roads in the desert.

 

– They are unloading stone to build the road.

 

– Finished road.

 

– A truck is driving along the road.

 

– Signpost made of stones.

 

8. Pacific theatre of military operations.

 

Japanese airfield, pilots in formation Japanese planes take off.

 

– Japanese squadron in the air, it takes a course for Burma, the planes bombed the Burma Road.

 

9. Germany.

 

German submarines returning to port after combat operations.

 

– Lieutenant Commander Joachim Schepke looks out from the bridge of the boat.

 

– The emblem of the boat is an otter.

 

– He has 40,000 register tons on his last account.

 

– Submarine Lieutenant Commander Günther Prien, who sank 200,000 register tons.

 

– The Führer awarded him the Knight’s Cross with oak leaves.

 

– On the shore the sailors are met with an orchestra.

 

– Submarine Lieutenant Commander Otto Kretschmer, who also reported the elimination of ships of 200 thousand register tons.

 

– He was awarded the Knight’s Cross with Oak Leaves.

 

– The boat goes out on a new combat mission.

 

Hermann Goering inspects the Air Force unit on the English Channel, which distinguished itself in the air battles against England.

 

– Major Helmut Wieck, one of the aces of the squadron Richthofen, reports to the Reich Marshal.

 

– Goering bypasses formation of pilots, talking to them.

 

– Then he visits the division named after Horst Wessel, goes around the line of pilots, shaking hands.

 

Old newsreels: Captain Oswald Belke, an inventive tactician in aerial combat, at the aircraft.

 

– He crashed 24 years ago after his fortieth victory.

 

– Members of the squadron named after Belke visit the tomb of the ace of World War I in Dessau together with the mother of the hero and lay a wreath.

 

10. France.

 

One of the units of the German Air Force.

 

– The commander of the squadron named Belke reports on the readiness to begin operations against England.

 

– Pilots reinforce the bombs.

 

– Planes Heinkel-111 take off into the air, flying toward England.

 

– The pilots open the hatches, the bombs fall on English territory.

 

– The operator removes the cockpit.

 

– The fires on English territory.

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