Saturday 30 September 2023

The Architecture of Wilhelm Kreis – Part I

Part I – Projects for War Monuments

  

Design for a national monument to Bismarck in Bingen am Rhein

 

Ink sketch of a project for a monument

 

Design of a project for a memorial near Kutno

 

Memorial for a German Military Cemetery near Oslo

 

Sketch for a war memorial

 

Planned monument to the German tank-force in Africa

 

Project for a Monument to the Fallen in Russia, general view

 

Design for the Court of Honour at the Freiheitsplatz, Bingen am Rhein

 

The Hall of Soldiers in Berlin, view from the Runder Platz

 

The Hall of Soldiers in Berlin, view from the north-south axis

 

The Hall of Soldiers in Berlin, interior with 40 m stone arches

 

The Hall of Soldiers in Berlin, interior

Sunday 24 September 2023

The Reich in Photos - Reichsparteitag Großdeutschland, 5 - 12 September 1938 – Part 1

The 10th Party Congress was named the “Rally of Greater Germany” (Reichsparteitag Großdeutschland, September 5-12).

  

 

 

 

           

Friday 22 September 2023

Die Deutsche Wochenschau – Newsreel No. 567 – 16 July 1941


1. Formation of anti-Soviet military legions in Denmark and Norway.

 

Scenes at the recruiting station, registration of recruits, drill.

 

– Dutch legionnaires marching through the streets of Amsterdam before sending them to the Eastern Front.

 

2. Frankist Spain.

 

Anti-Soviet demonstrations in the streets of the city.

 

3. Spanish military echelon, heading to the Eastern Front, stops passing at the railway station in Bordeaux.

 

Vichy soldiers greet the soldiers of the „Blue Division“.

 

4. Italy.

 

Benito Mussolini inspects a motorised division before sending it to the Soviet-German front.

 

5. Romania.

 

Anti-Soviet rally at the German Embassy in Bucharest.

 

– Romanian troops leaving for the Eastern Front, marching through the streets of Bucharest.

 

6. Slovakia.

 

Parade in Pressburg Slovak troops leaving for the Eastern Front.

 

– Head of the fascist government Josef Tiso on the podium.

 

7. Horthy Hungary.

 

Hungarian army units destined to be sent to the Eastern Front, marching through the streets of the city.

 

8. The northern section of the Soviet-German front (Zalla district).

 

Movement of German vehicles on forest roads difficult to pass.

 

– German soldiers on the construction of military roads.

 

– Finnish colonel takes part in a meeting of German officers.

 

– The Soviet air raid on German positions, bomb bursts.

 

– German anti-aircraft guns in action.

 

– Shot down a Soviet bomber.

 

– In the battle are included German fighters, their fight with Soviet aircraft.

 

– The flow of tracer shells

 

– Movement on the bridge of German cyclists.

 

– German troops (infantry and wagons) are passing through the village.

 

– Moving on country roads.

 

– In one of the Ukrainian villages nationalists put up a poster welcoming the National Socialists.

 

– The inhabitants meet the Germans with bread and salt.

 

– Destroyed as a result of the fighting city.

 

– German soldiers destroy the Soviet flag, smash plaster bust of Stalin.

 

10. The offensive of German troops in Kiev.

 

The accumulation of Soviet military equipment, defeated by German aircraft.

 

– Derailed Soviet train.

 

– Movement of German convoys, wagons, cavalry, reconnaissance armoured vehicles on dusty roads.

 

– Light infantry guns (cannons and machine guns) are firing on the village.

 

– Burning village (filmed from a great distance).

 

– Captured Soviet soldiers with their hands raised up.

 

– Among the captives many Asian faces, a woman-fighter.

 

– Burning Soviet tank, burning houses.

 

– German soldiers are walking on a field of rye, tear poppies, collected bouquets they put on the grave of their buried comrade.

 

11. The German offensive on the city of Bialystok and Minsk.

 

Movement of tanks, cyclists.

 

– Tanks cross a rivulet.

 

– Infantry and carts on the march.

 

– Motorcyclists with difficulty moving on poor country roads.

 

– Destroyed bridge over the river.

 

– Engineer troops build pontoons.

 

– Cars with a trailer of artillery on the pontoon bridge forcing the river.

 

– Lunch at the soldiers in the camp canteen.

 

– Rest at the camp.

 

– Soldiers, gutting chickens.

 

– Travelling barber shop.

 

– Washing cars.

 

– Bathing horses.

 

– Games at the soldiers

 

12. Fighting in the Minsk direction.

 

German motorised units are passing through the streets of captured Minsk.

 

– The facade of a multi-storey party and government administrative building.

 

– The ruins of the city.

 

– The population, left homeless, trying to save from under the ruins of the surviving remnants of household goods.

 

– Movement of German troops on the eastern outskirts of Minsk.

 

– Soviet posters calling on the population to fight the National Socialist invaders.

 

– The action of German heavy guns, fired at the advancing Soviet tanks.

 

– A group of Soviet tankers taken prisoner.

 

– Close-ups of Soviet prisoners of war.

 

– The prisoners at the collection point, among them there are women.

 

– A column of prisoners at the crossing.

 

– A panorama of a cluster of broken Soviet equipment.

 

– German soldiers inspecting a captured Soviet tank-fortress.

 

– Soviet defeated airfield.

 

13. The Baltic front.

 

The entry of National Socialist troops in Riga.

 

– Destruction in the city.

 

– The population, driven by the occupiers to clear the streets of rubble and debris.

 

– Unloading of arrested Jews from the truck.

 

– Jews on digging ditches.

 

– Digging graves of Latvian nationalists killed by the Bolsheviks.

 

– Weeping women.

 

– The corpses of murdered children.

 

– Beating the Jews.

 

– Synagogue burning at night.

 

14. Actions of German aviation on the Soviet-German front.

 

Attack of a bomber squadron on Soviet troops' positions near Lake Peipsi.

 

– A fierce air battle with Soviet fighters.

 

– Dressing a wounded German pilot in the cockpit.

 

– Direct fire at a Soviet aircraft.

 

– German bombers raid on Soviet military transports.

 

– Broken Soviet railway train loaded with military equipment.

 

15. Military operations on the territory of Estonia.

 

Advance German motorised columns.

 

– German artillery is firing on Soviet positions.

 

– Burning Soviet tanks.

 

– A column of German tanks moving in the forest on a country road.

 

– Field howitzers in action.

 

– German motorised units enter the village.

 

– Burning village, fighting in its streets, fires.

 

– Movement of German carts, infantry, motorised units, tanks towards Leningrad.