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Die Deutsche Wochenschau – Newsreel No. 629, 23 September 1942


1. Germany.

 

Klagenfurt.

 

A group of wounded German soldiers on an excursion to a medieval castle and museum.

 

Lunch for the wounded; children give them flowers and gifts.

 

2. North Africa.

 

German guard post on the Mediterranean coast near Tobruk.

 

German troops in the desert.

 

Germans and Italians take up positions.

 

German artillery fires, crew at the gun.

 

Shells are brought up, guns are loaded.

 

German anti-aircraft artillery fires at targets at sea.

 

Return fire from naval artillery.

 

Explosion on a British ship carrying ammunition.

 

British soldiers rescued from the sea.

 

British prisoners of war being sent to a camp.

 

German flag on a British torpedo boat captured by the Germans.

 

Cleaning up the captured boat.

 

Ships in the Tobruk roadstead.

 

Unloading a transport ship.

 

Loading various cargoes onto trucks.

 

Trucks and equipment heading towards El Alamein.

 

3. Caucasian Front.

 

German transport in the Black Sea.

 

German troops are being transferred from Crimea to the Caucasus.

 

German ships are shelling Soviet positions on the coast.

 

German anti-aircraft guns are firing, crew at the gun.

 

Fragments of shelling.

 

Arrival at the shore at sunset.

 

Unloading of a German ship.

 

Anti-aircraft guns firing.

 

A downed Soviet bomber burning.

 

Romanian troops marching in the foothills of the Caucasus.

 

Localised fighting.

 

Damaged Soviet tanks.

 

Defectors.

 

German anti-aircraft artillery firing at a Soviet aircraft.

 

The aircraft crashes to the ground.

 

A train departing for the Caucasus Mountains.

 

German mountain infantry units in carriages and on platforms.

 

The train travels through picturesque countryside.

 

Arrival at the final destination.

 

Unloading of equipment and ammunition.

 

View of the Caucasus Mountains.

 

Germans loading horses with luggage.

 

Caravan of horses in the mountains.

 

Infantrymen, mountain riflemen.

 

Germans in the forest.

 

Firefight with Soviet troops.

 

Providing assistance to the wounded.

 

German artillery firing. Battlefield.

 

4. Stalingrad Front.

 

German airfield near Stalingrad.

 

German aircraft in the air.

 

Captain Graf’s plane lands after completing its 100th combat mission; he is greeted by friends. Stukas flying to Stalingrad.

 

View from the plane of Soviet positions.

 

Bombing of a Soviet tank column, explosions.

 

Planes in the air, bombing.

 

German observers.

 

5. Stalingrad Front.

 

A German soldier looks at the city through binoculars.

 

There are fires in the city.

 

German tanks are advancing, close-up of tank tracks.

 

Infantry troops are advancing.

 

Soviet soldiers surrender, a soldier in a quilted jacket waves his hand towards the city.

 

Shelling of Stalingrad from artillery, explosions.

 

Soldiers run through the forest.

 

Tanks move towards the city, view from the tank's observation slit.

 

Tank battle on the approaches to the city.

 

German soldiers take a break.

 

They sit and lie in a trench, someone reads a newspaper, they rest.

 

A soldier photographs tank crews.

 

A soldier eats canned food from a tin.

 

The fighting continues. Aerial view of the city from a distance.

 

Tanks enter the city, passing by houses.

 

Ruins, remains of chimneys, fallen poles, burning houses.

 

Fighting in the harbour and at the freight railway station.

 

Soldiers climb the embankment to the railway tracks, cross them, shoot.

 

At the Volga.

 

Killed horses on the tracks.

 

Smashed trains, overturned carriages.

 

Factory building.

 

Germans firing small arms, running past houses and a church.

 

A dead Soviet soldier leaning against the steps of a porch.

 

Soldiers walking through the city. Ruins from above, smoke, the Volga River.

 

Germans spread an Imperial flag on the ground as a signal, looking up at the sky.

 

German bombers fly overhead. Aerial shots, explosions, bombs falling.

 

Forts and fortifications are visible.

 

Bomb explosions and fires in Stalingrad at night, seen from the air.

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