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Die Deutsche Wochenschau – Newsreel No. 593 – 14 January 1942


1. Germany.

 

Series: ‘What everyone should know’, about tobacco.

 

– Tobacco factory, production of cigarettes.

 

– Data on tobacco consumption in Germany in 1938-42.

 

– Map of tobacco plantations in the Balkans.

 

– Data on consumption of cigarettes and tobacco by Wehrmacht and civilian population.

 

Funeral in Berlin of a prominent figure in the defence industry, head of a well-known of a well-known German wheel rim company, Dr Borbett.

 

– At funeral ceremony attended by the Reich Minister of Armaments and Munitions

 

– Fritz Todt, Reichsleiter Dr Ley, Reichsminister of Economics Walter Funk.

 

– Funk makes a mourning speech.

 

– Reichsminister Funk and Artillery General Emil von Leeb lay a wreath from the Fuhrer.

 

– Bowed banners.

 

Military factory, making machine guns.

 

– Workers in the shop for various operations.

 

– Assembly of machine guns.

 

The German people provide winter clothes and skis for the Eastern Front.

 

– The population is sent to the collection point.

 

– Sorting and repair of things at the collection point, their packaging.

 

– Warehouse collected things.

 

– Announcer on the success of the campaign “War Winter Relief’ 1941-42 years.

 

– Loading things in the wagons.

 

– The train is sent on the road.

 

– Train on the road.

 

– Unloading things from the wagon at the front.

 

– Lorries with things follow the location of German units.

 

– Arrival at the site, unloading things.

 

– At the clothing warehouse.

 

– Distribution of shoes and warm clothes soldiers.

 

– Soldiers try on ski boots, warm clothes.

 

2. USSR. Eastern Front.

 

Finnish front.

 

– Finnish soldiers on the march.

 

– The appearance of the Soviet fighter.

 

– A Finnish anti-aircraft gun opens fire.

 

– Finns in the area of the White Sea-Baltic Canal.

 

– Fragments of a firefight with Soviet troops.

 

– Finns in a populated area, street fighting.

 

– Transporting the wounded.

 

– Soviet prisoners of war.

 

3. Eastern Front.

 

Military operations in the area of Leningrad.

 

– Routine repair of vehicles in the repair shop.

 

– Blacksmith shop.

 

– Repair motorbike.

 

– Soldiers eat.

 

– Issuing fuel and lubricants and spare parts.

 

– Loading ammunition on the vehicle.

 

– The car goes on the road.

 

– Soviet prisoners of war at the logging, they are building protective fortifications against snow drifts.

 

– German horse cart on the road.

 

– Delivery of ammunition to the forward positions.

 

– They are unloading ammunition.

 

– Soldiers in the trench.

 

– Digging trenches.

 

– Making wire fences.

 

– German observers.

 

– The beginning of the shelling of Soviet positions, firing a German gun, mortar.

 

4. USSR. Central section of the Eastern Front.

 

Along the line Smolensk-Bryansk-Kursk.

 

– View of the estate of Leo Tolstoy in Yasnaya Polyana.

 

– The announcer says the Wehrmacht defence of the estate of the great writer.

 

– Military operations near Moscow.

 

– Digging trenches in the frozen ground.

 

– The construction of a dugout.

 

– Installation of guns.

 

– Shootout with Soviet troops.

 

– Burning Soviet tank.

 

– Burning house.

 

– The Germans on the streets of the burning village.

 

– Shot down Soviet tanks.

 

– Soviet prisoners.

 

– A German officer throws a cigarette butt, the prisoners pick it up.

 

5. USSR. Southern section of the eastern front.

 

Along the line Kremenchug-Stalin-Taganrog.

 

– Italian troops in the fighting.

 

– Fires a gun, a firefight with Soviet troops.

 

– Italian soldiers on the offensive in the bend of the Donets.

 

6. Africa North.

 

German and Italian troops are moving to new positions.

 

– German tanks and vehicles on a campaign in the desert.

 

– German soldiers at rest, some sleeping.

 

– German equipment.

 

– Soldiers at lunch.

 

– General Rommel awards German Colonel Schmidt.

 

– German aircraft trying to stop the attack of the Allied troops.

 

– Squadron in the air.

 

– Fragments of air combat with the Anglo-Americans.

 

– Shot down English aircraft.

 

– General Rommel monitors through binoculars over the course of the battle.

 

– German and Italian troops are fixed on new positions.

 

– German tanks. panorama of the desert.

 

– German gun, near him a combat calculation.

 

– Reflection of attacks of British tanks.

 

– Announcer about the continuation of heavy fighting in North Africa.

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