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Die Deutsche Wochenschau – Newsreel No. 605 – 08 April 1942


1. Germany.

 

Berlin.

 

– Day of the Wehrmacht.

 

– Mass revelry in Lustgarten.

 

– Displayed ‘carriage of Compiègne’, where the armistice between Germany and France was signed in 1918.

 

– Dr Goebbels at an anti-aircraft battery military exercise on the streets of Berlin.

 

– The population at the amusement rides.

 

– African elephant, making a collection of donations for the army.

 

– The population visits the barracks and accommodation of soldiers of the Wehrmacht.

 

– Distribution of food to the population.

 

– Competitions on boats on the river.

 

– Demonstration of skill soldiers motorcyclists.

 

– The population at the planes and tanks.

 

– Sappers with a ‘live’ bridge.

 

– Shooting from machine guns.

 

– Children throwing grenades.

 

– The population watching the exercises of infantry.

 

One of the aircraft factory.

 

– The process of assembling aircraft.

 

– Assembly of aircraft.

 

– Shop for the production of aircraft engines.

 

– Workers in the shop, women at the machines.

 

– Assembly of engines.

 

– Open the gates of the shop.

 

– A series of aircraft leaving the shop.

 

– Test flight group of newly built aircraft ‘Heinkel-111’.

 

Lübeck.

 

– Views of the city and individual architectural buildings before and after the raid of British bombers.

 

– Consequences of Anglo-American raids.

 

– The ruins of the Dome Cathedral XII century and other ancient buildings.

 

– The ruins of the Church of St. Mary.

 

– The Lubeck opera house was also destroyed.

 

– Announcer about the barbaric nature of the raid on Lübeck.

 

– In the old part of Lübeck there were no military facilities. factories and plants.

 

– Immediately after the raid, the National Socialist Party support group and the military began to help the population.

 

– The camp kitchen distributes hot food.

 

2. France.

 

An unsuccessful attempt to land a British landing at the town of Saint-Nazaire.

 

– The special operation by British commando forces and the Royal Navy had three objectives: disabling the dock, destroying the old locks at the harbour entrance, and destroying all ships, including submarines, anchored in the harbour.

 

– A group of British disembarked from several dinghies and were taken prisoner by a special team.

 

– The British are led out of the house.

 

– British soldiers whose task it was to destroy German submarines were killed or taken to linen.

 

– On the streets lie the corpses of English soldiers.

 

– Destroyed English boat in the water.

 

– Wrecked British and American ships and military equipment.

 

– Captured English paratroopers in fuel oil, they are directed to the lorry.

 

Destroyed and half-submerged English destroyer.

 

– He had to undermine the gate of the lock.

 

– The destroyer sailed under a German flag, but it is of English manufacture, German sailors show this flag and English markings.

 

3. Germany.

 

Presentation of awards by the Führer in his headquarters to a group of heroes - pilots Luftwaffe.

 

– Iron Crosses are Lieutenant Strelov (20-year-old Hans Strelov became the youngest holder of the Iron Cross), Major General Hube, Colonel Traut, Major Schultz.

 

–  Adolf Hitler and the pilots.

 

4. USSR. Eastern Front.

 

Transport base of the Luftwaffe.

 

– Refuelling transport planes.

 

– They take off into the air.

 

– View from the aircraft on the transport columns of lorries.

 

– Course to the front.

 

– Planes in the air.

 

– Dropping ammunition and food to parts that are surrounded.

 

– Landing of aeroplanes.

 

– Unloading of materials and cargo.

 

– Loading them on horse-drawn sleighs, from here the goods are sent to the front.

 

Military operations in the Donetsk region.

 

– The Soviet troops continue to attack with superior forces.

 

– Reflection of the Soviet attack by guns of all kinds.

 

– Fragments of the firefight.

 

– Calculation at the guns.

 

– Explosions.

 

– German soldiers shooting.

 

– Destroyed Soviet tanks.

 

– A German soldier is helping a wounded comrade. panorama of German positions.

 

– Panorama that opens before the German positions: countless dead soldiers on a snowy field.

 

5. USSR. On the central section of the front near the Donets.

 

Snowploughs preparing the road for transport column.

 

– Mobilised civilians and prisoners of war on clearing roads.

 

– Cars are on the cleared road.

 

– Horses, harnessed dragging the gun.

 

– The column is moving to the front.

 

– German tanks, infantry in camouflage.

 

– Infantrymen take up positions.

 

– Artillery fires on the Russians in the forest.

 

– Tanks and armoured vehicles rushing forward.

 

– Wide front German troops are on the offensive.

 

– There is a firefight.

 

– Shoot infantrymen.

 

– Fragments of a firefight.

 

– German soldiers after hours of battle enter the village.

 

– Trenches left by the Soviet troops, the corpses of Soviet soldiers.

 

– Burning village.

 

6. Indian Ocean.

 

German trade blockade in the Indian Ocean.

 

– A German ship discovers an English steamer.

 

– A special team is sent to the English ship.

 

– The crew of the English steamer is transferred to boats and taken aboard the German vessel.

 

– The English steamer is destroyed as weapons and ammunition are found on board.

 

– Captured English sailors on board a German ship.

 

– Unloading of prisoners on one of the islands.

 

– German ship continues the journey.

 

– Detection of an enemy ship attempting to escape.

 

– Shelling of the fleeing ship.

 

– Fire on the ship.

 

– Burning ship goes to the bottom.

 

– Announcer on the success of the German trade blockade in the Indian Ocean.

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