Friday, 22 August 2025

Die Deutsche Wochenschau – Newsreel No. 620, 22 July 1942


1. German base on Crete.

 

Escort aircraft stand on the field, weapons and equipment lie on the ground.

 

Soldiers are resting.

 

A German transport ship is being loaded for shipment to North Africa.

 

Soldiers on board the ship entertain themselves, organising playful competitions.

 

A German sailor talks to an Italian soldier.

 

2. North Africa

 

The harbour of Tobruk.

 

The remains of sunken British ships after the German assault on the fortress.

 

Soldiers disembarking in Africa. A tank of drinking water stands nearby, and soldiers pour water into canisters.

 

Tanks heading towards El Alamein.

 

Italian and German aircraft escort the convoy.

 

The harbour of Sollum.

 

Vehicles on the highway.

 

Aircraft in the air.

 

Supply trucks drive to Sidi Barrani.

 

View of Sidi Barrani from an aircraft.

 

The fortress of Mersa Matruh, captured by the Germans and Italians.

 

Aircraft fly on.

 

Pilot in the cockpit.

 

Egyptian coastal railway station with trains carrying military supplies.

 

Camp for British prisoners of war behind barbed wire.

 

Prisoners in the camp.

 

Prisoner baking flatbread on a homemade stove.

 

Equipment moving towards El Alamein.

 

A German soldier stands next to a sign with the words ‘Wevella Road’ written in English.

 

He crosses it out and writes ‘Rommel Road’ in German.

 

A convoy of vehicles on the march.

 

Aircraft in the air.

 

Aerial view of the highway.

 

Tanks and vehicles are moving, artillery is being transported.

 

The Atlantic coast of Europe.

 

German fortifications at Pas-de-Calais.

 

A German observer.

 

German artillerymen in their underwear cleaning their guns.

 

Alarm.

 

Guns aiming.

 

German anti-aircraft guns firing.

 

A downed aircraft falling.

 

German fighter planes before take-off.

 

A downed British aircraft that crashed into a building; another that crashed into a canal.

 

Downed British aircraft on the sand.

 

3. Germany.

 

A German submarine returning from a raid on the American coast.

 

Sailors prepare flags with records of the tonnage of downed ships.

 

Sailors engaged in everyday activities, taking a shower.

 

Commander Erich Topp of U-552 on the bridge, the bridge wall painted with two devils holding torches.

 

The boat moves forward.

 

Meeting with another submarine.

 

Lifebuoys and boards with the names of destroyed enemy ships are hanging.

 

The boat arrives at the base.

 

Grand Admiral Dönitz congratulates the crew.

 

Flowers are presented.

 

The commander and crew.

 

Nurses treat the sailors, who drink beer from bottles.

 

The boat enters its designated bunker.

 

Preparing the boat for its next voyage.

 

In the engine room.

 

Loading food and ammunition.

 

The boat sets out on another raid.

 

On deck.

 

Near the American coast.

 

An enemy freighter is spotted.

 

Shelling.

 

The submarine moves forward.

 

Attack.

 

Explosion on the steamer.

 

The boat submerges.

 

The damaged enemy steamer is visible in the periscope.

 

Torpedoes are launched.

 

The steamer sinks.

 

Announcer reports on the successes of the German submarine fleet.

 

Footage of sinking and burning ships.

 

4. Eastern Front.

 

On the Kursk-Voronezh-Voroshilovgrad line.

 

Destroyed Voronezh.

 

A German soldier looks at the city from the top of a building, on which the Nazi flag is already flying.

 

Views of the city.

 

On the streets of Voronezh, captured by the Germans on 17 June 1942.

 

Germans on the streets.

 

Ruins of the city.

 

Residents with bundles walk along a destroyed street.

 

Civilians forced to clear the streets.

 

German vehicles on the streets.

 

Debris, a monument to Lenin, dead bodies.

 

A soldier washes himself from a water tap.

 

A German milks a cow and drinks milk.

 

A German soldier prepares an omelette.

 

German positions on the banks of the Don River.

 

Crossing the river.

 

Remains of Soviet equipment destroyed in the June battles.

 

Destroyed vehicles and military equipment.

 

German soldiers sleeping.

 

Alarm, German artillery firing.

 

Anti-aircraft gunners fire at a Soviet bomber.

 

It falls to the ground and explodes.

 

German artillery fires.

 

Destroyed Soviet equipment, a burning Soviet tank.

 

Cavalrymen ride by, one of them holding a mandolin.

 

Motorised units and infantry moving south.

 

A tank is driving along, with cyclists visible riding along the highway.

 

Hungarian infantry on the march.

 

German infantry at a destroyed bridge across the Donets River.

 

Attempt to repair the bridge.

 

Germans advancing.

 

Germans on horseback in a village.

 

Fragments of a firefight with Soviet troops.

 

Soviet prisoners.

 

Germans helping the wounded.

 

Burning buildings.

 

Germans in a village.

 

A church is visible in the distance.

 

A German gun firing.

 

Machine gunners.

 

A Slovak battery in firing positions.

 

A huge column of prisoners marching towards the camera.

 

View of the column from the flank.

 

German artillery firing.

 

Burning train with fuel, abandoned by Soviet troops.

 

Germans in the Lisichansk area.

 

Fragments of a firefight.

 

German infantry on the attack.

 

Germans entering Lisichansk.

 

German tanks on the streets of the city.

 

German infantry marching through the streets.

 

German aircraft taking off to bomb Soviet positions near Voroshilovgrad.

 

Bombs flying towards their target.

 

Pilot in the cockpit.

 

Signal given for German troops to advance.

 

View of Soviet positions.

 

Burning Soviet tanks.

 

German observer.

 

Germans on the streets of Voroshilovgrad on 14 June 1942.

 

Soldiers on the march east of Voroshilovgrad.

 

Tanks driving towards the camera.

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