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Die Deutsche Wochenschau – Newsreel No. 600, 04 March 1942


1. Military operations in the Pacific Ocean.

 

Operations of Japanese troops from the moment of Japan’s entry into the war (charts, geographical maps).

 

– Map of military operations 1941 - early 1942.

 

– Targets of the Japanese army, black paint marked territories captured by the Japanese.

 

– Manila - the capital of the Philippines, the streets of the city, the harbour, the stock exchange in Manila. 25 December 1941 - the capture of Hong Kong.

 

– Views of Hong Kong, Chinatown.

 

– View of Hong Kong from a bird’s eye view of Victoria Peak.

 

– Announcer about the capture of the Japanese Malay Peninsula.

 

– Jungle in Malaya.

 

– Buddhist temple in Bangkok.

 

– Parade of Thai troops, is infantry, tanks.

 

– Announcer about operations on the island of Celebes.

 

– The capital of Celebes city Makasar, views of the city, street traffic.

 

– Announcer about the Japanese operations on the island of New Guinea and Java.

 

February 1942.

 

– Capture of Singapore, views of Singapore, Palembang.

 

– Announcer about the trophies of the Japanese army.

 

– Views of the island of Sumatra, drilling rigs on Sumatra.

 

– Japanese aircraft in the air, Japanese ships, firing guns.

 

– Landing landing of Japanese troops, Japanese soldiers in the jungle.

 

– Fragments of the battle.

 

– Movement of Japanese troops.

 

– A gun fires.

 

– Destruction of buildings as a result of bombing.

 

2. Map of Japan’s military operations in the Pacific.

 

Announcer about Japanese military action against Australia.

 

– Japanese aeroplanes in the air, bombs flying into the target.

 

– Footage from the air, explosions, flying bombs.

 

3. Germany.

 

The HQ of the Führer.

 

– Arrival of General Modell, Hitler shakes his hand.

 

– Adolf Hitler’s conversation with the generals, Modell, Baron von Richthofen, Reinhardt and others.

 

– A group of senior officers at a reception at the Führer, Hitler presents them with awards.

 

4. Eastern Front, on the line Vitebsk - Orel - Kursk.

 

Soldiers sawing wood.

 

– Prisoners of war at work.

 

– Field bakery, baking bread.

 

– At the slaughterhouse, taking out carcasses, cooked sausages.

 

– German soldiers with provisions on sledges sent to the position.

 

– Snow blizzard at the position, the soldiers stomping on the snow boots wrapped in rags, beat themselves on the sides of their hands from the cold.

 

– From the hole take out water bucket, horses drink.

 

– Delivery of ammunition.

 

– The German cavalry convoy is on the snow.

 

– Horses and people fall through the deep snow.

 

– Prisoners of war are clearing the road.

 

– Announcer about the severity of the Russian winter.

 

– Unloading ammunition, food distribution.

 

– The central section of the front.

 

– The Germans in the trenches, they smoke.

 

– German observer.

 

– A German gun Fires, the calculation at the gun.

 

– German soldiers digging trenches.

 

– Running infantrymen in camouflage.

 

– Building a dugout on snow-covered forward positions.

 

– German observer.

 

– The appearance of Soviet tanks.

 

– Fires German anti-tank and anti-aircraft artillery.

 

– Burning Soviet tank.

 

– German tanker climbs into his tank.

 

– Tanks and German infantry moving towards the forward positions.

 

– The beginning of a firefight, shooting German infantrymen.

 

– A firefight with Soviet troops.

 

– The Germans in the village, burning huts.

 

– Shoot German guns, machine guns.

 

– Captured Soviet soldiers.

 

– Destroyed Soviet tank.

 

– The corpses of dead Red Army soldiers.

 

– Germans smoking.

 

5. Crimea.

 

Column of German cars on the mountain road.

 

– Delivery of mail.

 

– Rest on the road, the soldiers drink fizzy Crimean wine.

 

– Romanian troops in the mountains near Sevastopol.

 

– Romanian general discusses the military situation.

 

– Skirmish with Soviet troops.

 

– Fires German artillery, the calculation of the gun, bring shells.

 

– Romanian infantrymen on the front line.

 

– Soviet prisoners of war, among them women.

 

6. German airfield in Sicily.

 

Rest of German pilots between flights.

 

– Pilot plays with a dog, a game of cards.

 

– Pilots at the aircraft.

 

– General Kesselring in the location of the part, he bypasses the formation of pilots.

 

– Pilot returns from a combat mission.

 

– Actions of German aviation to rescue the pilot.

 

– Rescue team sits in a boat and goes to sea in search of shot down German pilot.

 

– Hydroplane in flight, the discovery of a wounded fighter pilot in the sea, he is lifted on board the hydroplane and taken to the location of the German flying unit.

 

– The wounded pilot is sent to the hospital on a stretcher.

 

– German fighter raid on the island of Malta.

 

– German pilots sit on the cars, the planes take off into the air and headed towards Malta.

 

– Planes over the sea.

 

– View of Malta from the aircraft.

 

– Fragments of aerial combat with British aircraft.

 

– Burning English aircraft, it explodes.

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