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Die Deutsche Wochenschau – Newsreel No. 618, 8 July 1942


1. Germany.

 

Führer’s headquarters.

 

– Adolf Hitler is presenting an award to SS Opergruppenführer SS Eicke.

 

– Officers congratulate Eicke.

 

– Pilots from the African German Corps in Führer’s headquarters, among them a prominent pilot Hans-Joachim Marseille.

 

– Adolf Hitler awards Marseille with the Kinght Cross.

 

– Conversation with the pilot about his exploits in Africa.

 

Führer’s headquarters.

 

–  Adolf Hitler receives arrived in Germany with a return visit to the Finnish Marshal Mannerheim.

 

– Meeting on the platform.

 

– Adolf Hitler and Gustav Mannerheim sits in the car, arrival at the headquarters.

 

– Guard of honour at the building.

 

– General Jodl gives explanations on the map.

 

– Adolf Hitler and Gustav Mannerheim greeted by Grand Admiral Reder and Reichsführer-SS Himmler, they walk along the path of the park.

 

– Adolf Hitler, Field Marshal General Runstedt and other officers.

 

– The Führer’s farewell to Mannerheim.

 

– Mannerheim waving from the carriage window.

 

Reichsmarschall Hermann Göring receiving Mannerheim in his residence.

 

– Göring and Mannerheim get into the car.

 

– Göring and the Finnish Marshal discuss military problems.

 

– In Göring’s entourage, General Jeschonek.

 

2. Eastern Front, in the area of Lake Ilmen.

 

Scheme of the encirclement of Soviet troops in the cauldron near Volkhov on the map.

 

Horses with a field kitchen stuck in the mud.

 

German soldiers go on the mud.

 

Food and ammunition are delivered by narrow gauge railway, the soldiers ride on an open platform.

 

At the German soldiers’ stronghold, the soldiers are smoking.

 

Company Waffen SS advancing through the forest, a firefight with Soviet troops.

 

A German soldier throws a grenade into a Soviet bunker.

 

Soviet soldiers surrendering as prisoners.

 

Operations by Spanish, Flemish and Dutch troops.

 

Destruction of mines.

 

Volunteers of the Dutch battalion in the offensive.

 

Tanks go forward, exchanging fire with Soviet troops.

 

The tank goes through the forest, knocking down trees and squashing bushes.

 

Shooting tanks and mortars.

 

Under cover of tanks infantry goes forward.

 

Explosions, fires.

 

German command centre.

 

Charging the gun, it fires.

 

Soldiers eat in the pause between battles.

 

German planes in the air, bombs are flying at Soviet positions.

 

View of Volkhov from the aircraft, flying bombs, explosions on the ground.

 

Pilots in the cockpit of the aircraft.

 

Bombing line of Soviet fortifications.

 

German tanks go forward.

 

Infantry sneaking through the woods, the soldiers go on the sinking place.

 

Shoot machine gunners.

 

Soviet soldiers are surrendering, carrying as a white flag soldier’s underpants, the Germans are searching the prisoners.

 

Destroyed cars, guns and other Soviet equipment.

 

Scattered brass band instruments, a German picks up a bent trumpet.

 

Traces of fighting, graves of Soviet soldiers with helmets.

 

3. The central section of the Eastern Front on the map.

 

Operations of German troops.

 

The figure of an observer with binoculars at dusk.

 

They are German tanks, infantry.

 

View of the going tanks from an aeroplane from a low point.

 

On the tank stretched the German flag.

 

Attack of German troops.

 

Soviet defectors.

 

Mortar fires, machine gunner in full height.

 

Soviet prisoners, the Germans are talking to them.

 

Coming German tanks, firing artillery, cannon hits the Soviet bunker.

 

Burning village.

 

4. Fighting in the area of Sevastopol. “Stukas” are preparing to take off for Sevastopol, the aircraft in the air.

 

Pilot ace, who shot down 100 enemy planes, sits in the cockpit.

 

Take off the planes, a view of Sevastopol from above, the seashore, bombing.

 

German guns are firing at the enemy, soldiers smoking in the pause.

 

Attack of tanks and infantry.

 

Liaison officers establish communication, transmission of messages.

 

Planes are bombing Sevastopol. NDP on top of the Soviet fortifications.

 

Field Marshal General Manstein with binoculars in combat positions, examines the ruins of the ruined fort ‘Maxim Gorky’, shakes hands with soldiers-attackers.

 

Broken Soviet guns.

 

Fierce street battles in Sevastopol.

 

Destroyed city, the hulks of buildings.

 

Sunken ships in the harbour of Sevastopol.

 

– The German Imperial flag over the fortress.

 

The ruins of the city, a church, a mosque with the German Imperial flag raised above it, burning buildings.

 

Broken guns, narrow gauge.

 

Column of Soviet prisoners wandering along the road.

 

5. North Africa.

 

Fortifications near Tobruk, ships in the harbour.

 

Marshal Rommel in combat positions.

 

The soldiers bathe naked in the sea, wash.

 

Rommel interrogates a captured British general.

 

Kesselring and Rommel talking, discussing the military situation at the map.

 

Preparing a convoy for the campaign, pouring petrol into the tank, in canisters.

 

Rommel in the car examines the positions of German troops.

 

Movement of German vehicles and tanks in the desert to the Egyptian border.

 

German artillery fires, wire fences on the Libyan-Egyptian border, fighting.

 

German troops travelling towards Sollum, fighting for the town, seashore.

 

Signpost “Sollum” at the fortress.

 

Artillery fire on British tanks.

 

Attack of German tanks and infantry on Marsa Matruk, the capture of the city.

 

Burning shot down English fighter on the ground.

 

Captured Englishmen.

 

Shot down British tanks, the inscription on the tank ‘Rosemary’.

 

Column of British prisoners, many cover their faces, walking past the camera, among the prisoners many blacks.

 

German tanks on the march.

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