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Die Deutsche Wochenschau – Newsreel No. 614, 11 June 1942


1. Holland.

 

Arrival of Reichsführer SS and Police Heinrich Himmler in The Hague.

 

Bypassing the guard of honour.

 

Himmler’s meeting with the leader of the Dutch fascists Mussert.

 

The ceremony of swearing an oath to the Führer Dutch SS volunteers. Himmler’s speech.

 

Parade of SS troops in The Hague, Himmler on the podium.

 

2. Latvia.

 

Visit Reich Minister for the Occupied Eastern Territories Alfred Rosenberg in Riga.

 

Meeting at the railway station.

 

Gauleiter Lohse welcomes Reichsleiter Rosenberg.

 

Latvian girls and children give Rosenberg flowers.

 

Laying wreaths at the graves of dead German soldiers.

 

Meeting of Alfred Rosenberg with the population at the ruins of medieval German knight’s castle.

 

Participants of the ceremony.

 

Offering Rosenberg gifts.

 

Rosenberg and a girl.

 

Rosenberg drives a car past welcoming him Latvians.

 

3. Eastern Front.

 

Central section.

 

– Adolf Hitler’s visit to the headquarters of Field Marshal General von Bock.

 

Adolf Hitler leaves the building.

 

Jubilant crowds.

 

The Führer gets into the car.

 

Soldiers greet the Führer.

 

The car goes down the street to the airfield.

 

– Adolf Hitler says goodbye to Bock and other generals and gets on the plane.

 

The Führer in the cabin of the plane, he is going to Finland at the invitation of Marshal Mannerheim.

 

Pilot Captain Bauer.

 

View of Finland from the aircraft.

 

– Adolf Hitler, Keitel, Sepp Dietrich in the cabin of the aircraft.

 

Head of the press service of the Führer.

 

Landing in the area of the Finnish front.

 

Finnish President Risto Ryuti meets Hitler.

 

Hitler bypasses the formation of German generals, a guard of honour.

 

The Führer welcomes General Dietl and informs him of his promotion to the rank of Colonel-General.

 

Meeting Hitler and Mannerheim, the exchange of handshakes.

 

– Adolf Hitler and Mannerheim with Rüti and Keitel go up to the Marshal’s carriage.

 

Mannerheim is awarded the Order of the German Eagle in gold.

 

View of the decree signed on 4 June 1942 on the 75th anniversary of the award.

 

Meeting of the German and Finnish generals.

 

Seeing off the Führer.

 

– Adolf Hitler says goodbye to Mannerheim.

 

Departure.

 

4. The battle of Kharkov.

 

Announcer about the beginning of the Soviet offensive.

 

Scheme of the Soviet offensive on the map.

 

View of the terrain.

 

The advancing Soviet infantry.

 

German guns shooting.

 

German observer.

 

The appearance of Soviet tanks.

 

Shoot German guns.

 

Fragments of the battle.

 

Destroyed village.

 

Destroyed Soviet equipment.

 

Scheme of the battle.

 

Announcer about the disruption of the Soviet offensive.

 

Train with weapons is sent to the front.

 

Italian regiment disembarking from the carriages, are Italian soldiers.

 

German infantrymen in the trenches.

 

German aircraft drops bombs on Soviet positions, explosions.

 

17 May - the beginning of the German counter-offensive.

 

Scheme of the encirclement of Soviet troops to 22 May 1942 German tanks moving forward.

 

Motorcyclists, tanks, infantry on vehicles on the move.

 

The Germans on the streets of the village.

 

Hungarian and Romanian infantry, riding horse-drawn wagons.

 

The ring around the three Soviet divisions closed.

 

The first prisoners.

 

Destroyed Soviet equipment, guns, burning Soviet tanks.

 

Explosions (shooting from the ground at close range).

 

Planes in the air.

 

The consequences of the German bombing.

 

Destroyed Soviet equipment, railway trains.

 

Scheme of the further course of the battle.

 

German artillery shelling Soviet tanks.

 

German tanks in the attack.

 

Fragments of tank battle.

 

Soviet soldiers surrendering as prisoners.

 

Motorised units on the offensive.

 

Destroyed Soviet tanks.

 

Croatian soldiers.

 

Destroyed Soviet equipment.

 

Burning huts.

 

The Germans are moving forward through the fire.

 

Scheme of destruction of the Soviet grouping near Kharkov.

 

Military operations in the area of the Donets River.

 

German and Hungarian artillery in action.

 

Bombardment of Soviet troops from the air, explosions.

 

German aircraft in the air.

 

Burning building.

 

30 June 1942. The end of the battle of Kharkov.

 

Destroyed equipment.

 

A huge number of hit tanks, cars.

 

View of defeated Soviet positions from the air.

 

Announcer about the battle of Kharkov as one of the crushing defeats of the Soviet army.

 

Panorama from above destroyed Soviet equipment.

 

Huge columns of Soviet prisoners.

 

Colossal assembly point.

 

They are prisoners.

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