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Die Deutsche Wochenschau – Newsreel No. 599, 25 February 1942


1. Germany

 

In Berlin, the Führer congratulated the entire German people on the 9th anniversary of the Reich.

 

– Procession with flags in the Palace of Sports, a favourite meeting place for National Socialists.

 

– Adolf Hitler is walking down the aisle, all pulling hands.

 

– The Führer welcomes the wounded - the guests of honour of this meeting, followed by Goering, Goebbels.

 

– The Führer said: “Any weakling can endure victory, but only the strong in spirit can endure the blows of fate. Providence bestows the supreme victory only on those who remain firm despite adversity. The victory of our motherland requires first of all tireless labour in the production of military equipment, weapons and vehicles. Even if the enemy's numbers triple, we will still crush them as before. This war we are waging not only for the German people, but for the whole of Europe, and therefore for all civilised mankind.

 

– The listeners are cheering, stretching out their hands.

 

2. Germany.

 

Military exercises cadets in various military schools (communications school, military engineering, artillery, etc.).

 

– Cadets’ infantry school at classes on combat training.

 

– Future officers must master not only the ability to use a grenade and rifle, but also heavy infantry weapons.

 

– Field exercises at a tank school.

 

– Training officers of rapid reaction troops.

 

– Cadets are riding bicycles, a stop on the ground.

 

– Close-up of the Commander of the Iron Cross Major Nimak, he conducts practice with topographical maps.

 

– Classes in sports, swimming.

 

– Radio classes at the communications school.

 

– To beat the morse code, you need to be able to work with the hand.

 

– A cadet at the transmitter.

 

– In the sapper school taught the basics of undermining tanks.

 

– Rehearsal of the reflection of a tank attack.

 

– Cadets and the instructor, who gives instructions and explanations.

 

– Soldiers with the instructor on the ground.

 

– Bomb squad is trained to capture a bunker with flamethrowers and explosive devices.

 

– Marching through deep forest drifts develops endurance and stamina.

 

3. USSR. Eastern Front.

 

Finnish front.

 

– Delivery of ammunition and food in Karelia.

 

– Horse cart moving through the forest.

 

– They are soldiers.

 

– Soldiers in the forest.

 

– Break, cooking on the fire.

 

– Soldiers at the fire.

 

– A short sleep after a long transition.

 

– Sappers restore the destroyed bridge.

 

– Clearing railway tracks from the snow.

 

– On the rails is a train.

 

– Receiving supplies and food.

 

– Sleigh wagon.

 

– He moves on the restored bridge.

 

– They are soldiers.

 

– Field kitchen.

 

– In a populated area.

 

– Soldiers help to move out of place stuck car.

 

– In the location of the flying unit.

 

– Pilots clean the aircraft from the snow and prepare for departure.

 

– Planes take off into the air.

 

– Distribution of food to soldiers.

 

– The queue to the distribution point.

 

– Couriers on skis delivered hot food to the forward positions.

 

– Soldiers in camouflage.

 

– Handing the division commander of the Iron Cross.

 

– And there in front of the enemy positions are visible, they are under continuous observation.

 

4. USSR. Northern section of the eastern front.

 

Horse artillery takes a fighting position.

 

– Observers recorded rockets, which means that the Russians are preparing to attack.

 

– A police regiment was tasked to neutralise an enemy detachment surrounded and breaking through to their own.

 

– German skiers overcome wire fences.

 

– Infantry in a populated area, fighting are for every house.

 

– The village is captured, lying dead Soviet soldiers.

 

– Captured Bolsheviks.

 

5. North Africa.

 

Movement of German tank units from Tripoli to Benghazi.

 

– Colonel-General Rommel in the car follows in Benghazi.

 

– The results of the bombardment of British positions.

 

– The entry of German troops in Benghazi.

 

– The population welcomes German and Italian soldiers.

 

– Poster depicting Benito Mussolini and Adolf Hitler.

 

– Captured enemy transport.

 

– On the beach.

 

– British soldiers are going to surrender as prisoners.

 

– Column of British prisoners, among them Indians and Africans.

 

– The prisoners at the assembly point.

 

– Colonel-General Rommel consults with officers.

 

– German gun is firing.

 

– Italian gun fires on the positions of the British.

 

– An officer is watching the military action through binoculars.

 

– Rommel with officers.

 

– Burning British military equipment.

 

– Rommel examines the captured English tank.

 

– He on the tank through binoculars examines the positions.

 

– The battlefield east of Cyrenaica went to the Germans.

 

– German tanks are on the offensive.

 

– They are in the desert sands.

 

6. The Atlantic.

 

German submarine in the campaign to the American coast.

 

– The life of submariners on board the boat.

 

– Awakening sailors.

 

– They put on robes, go on deck.

 

– Change of watch, sailors put on waterproof uniforms.

 

– Sailor settles in a hammock for rest.

 

– The boat near New York.

 

– On the horizon, the enemy boat.

 

– Firing it from the onboard gun.

 

– Sailors bring a shell.

 

– The enemy vessel is on fire.

 

– Battle alarm on the submarine.

 

– Sailors take their places according to the combat schedule.

 

– The commander of the boat, Lieutenant Commander Erich Topp, Knight's Cross, gives the last orders.

 

– The enemy launches a bombing attack.

 

– The inside of the boat appears bursting water.

 

– Works to repair the accident.

 

– Pumping out the water.

 

– The accident is eliminated.

 

– Sailors on holiday.

 

– They drink coffee.

 

– The boat in the North Atlantic.

 

– Sailors in their battle stations.

 

– The hatch opens.

 

– The commander is on board.

 

– Ice frozen on the surface of the boat.

 

– Announcer on the sinking of 80 ships between 24 January and 21 February.

 

7. The English Channel.

 

German battleship “Prince Eugen” accompanied by destroyers and aircraft in the strait.

 

– The British themselves call it the largest of the ships that made a breach in British naval rule.

 

– A naval battle to break between Dover and Calais.

 

– Here the British finally become bolder, they attack the German ships from the air and sea.

 

– Shelling British ships, firing German board guns.

 

– The bombardment of British aircraft from anti-aircraft guns.

 

– Falling downed British aircraft and pilot with a parachute into the sea.

 

– Data on downed British aeroplanes.

 

– German sailors on board their ships.

 

– Announcer on the successful combat camaraderie of the fleet and aviation.

 

– Squadron entered the North Sea.

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