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Die Deutsche Wochenschau – Newsreel No. 634, 29 October 1942


1. Italy.

 

Celebration of the 20th anniversary of the ‘March on Rome’ /the seizure of power by the fascists in Italy/. PNR Rome.

 

Building with Italian flag, bust of Il Duce.

 

Italian Ambassador Dino Alfieri speaks at the Italian Embassy in Berlin.

 

He talks about the significance of the March on Rome.

 

Mussolini's quote: ‘My blood is the cause of the Fascist revolution.’

 

Historical footage of the March on Rome on 28 October 1922. Armed columns enter the city.

 

Mussolini at the head of the Blackshirts, 1942.

 

King Victor Emmanuel III. Mussolini on the balcony.

 

Construction of new roads, bridges, residential buildings and holiday homes.

 

Drainage of marshy land in Agro Pontino.

 

Mussolini in the city of Littoria.

 

Mussolini with a pickaxe at a road construction site.

 

Children swimming in the sea.

 

Mussolini in one of the villages.

 

He takes part in agricultural work.

 

Italian ship.

 

Construction of a new road and villages in an African colony.

 

Settlers in a new house.

 

Marshal Italo Balbo, Governor-General of Italian Libya.

 

A new industrial enterprise.

 

Launching of a new military vessel.

 

Italian submarines, destroyers, cruisers, etc.

 

Combat aircraft.

 

A squadron in the air.

 

Italian infantry marching.

 

Tanks on parade.

 

A solemn formation of troops.

 

The Italian flag.

 

2. Eastern front.

 

The northern section of the eastern front in the Ilmen Lake area, where German troops are surrounded.

 

Colonel General Alfred Keller, responsible for supplying the surrounded troops by air, exits the aircraft and takes up his position.

 

Keller presents the Knight’s Cross to Peter-Paul Breu, commander of the 2nd Group of the 3rd Bomber Aviation.

 

NSKK Corps Commander Erwin Kraus inspects the ranks of the National Socialist Motor Corps.

 

Loading of ammunition and supplies by the NSKK. Vehicles with ammunition on the move.

 

They pass through Staraya Russa.

 

At the German air unit’s location, a pilot watches a puppy.

 

Loading of containers with shells, letters and newspapers onto a transport aircraft.

 

Planes take off into the air.

 

Dropping containers to surrounded soldiers.

 

Inscription on the ground: ‘We thank you.’

 

German soldiers reading newspapers.

 

Commander of the Totenkopf Division (‘Death’s Head’), SS-Obergruppenfüher Theodor Eicke, and commander of the 16th Army, Colonel General Ernst Busch, at a meeting in the forest.

 

German train travelling on narrow-gauge track, soldiers on platforms.

 

Infantrymen disembark.

 

They cross the bridge to their positions.

 

Horse-drawn carts with weapons and ammunition.

 

A fallen horse is pulled out of the mud.

 

Unloading at the final destination.

 

In the Ilmensky Lake area.

 

Supply troops with canisters on their shoulders walk across swampy terrain under enemy fire.

 

They reach the trenches and distribute food to soldiers in mess tins.

 

Firefight with Soviet troops.

 

German artillery fires.

 

Tanks with infantry on the attack.

 

Junkers in the air.

 

Tank crews watch the air battle from the ground.

 

A soldier watches the battle through binoculars.

 

A downed Soviet aircraft falls.

 

German artillery fires.

 

Soldiers on a break, lunch.

 

Fighting near the river.

 

German infantry advancing in a chain.

 

Signalmen pulling a cable.

 

A mortar firing.

 

A German tank in the forest.

 

Tanks firing.

 

A damaged Soviet tank.

 

Soviet prisoners.

 

Destroyed Soviet equipment. A view of the battle-scarred terrain.

 

Abandoned and destroyed Soviet equipment.

 

3. The North African front.

 

Meeting of German officers at the headquarters of a combat squadron.

 

Officers with maps.

 

The Kufra oases, which are British fortifications on the southern Egyptian-Libyan border, must be attacked.

 

German air unit.

 

A 1,000 km flight is planned, and the bombers are being prepared in a special way, even for a forced landing (spare petrol cans, food supplies, a pilot's kit: flask, mess tin, machete, sunglasses).

 

Flight over the Libyan desert.

 

View from the plane.

 

Bombing of the hangar at Fort Etak.

 

Burning oil tanks are visible.

 

Dive attack on anti-aircraft artillery positions, British rifle trenches, tanks.

 

4. Stalingrad Front.

 

German batteries unleash a barrage of fire on the northern outskirts of the city.

 

Smoke from fires.

 

German soldiers take cover in one of the anti-tank trenches.

 

An assault unit reaches residential buildings, behind which is the Barrikady artillery factory.

 

Soldiers take cover in the ruins of houses, run, and flee behind tanks.

 

Panorama of the burning city, the Volga River is visible.

 

5. Caucasian Front. Aerial view of Soviet positions.

 

German infantry on the march.

 

Soldiers climbing the mountains near Tuapse, horses with luggage.

 

Crossing a mountain river.

 

Among the rocks.

 

Firefight with the enemy.

 

German mortar crews in a mountain forest.

 

Soviet bunker.

 

Soviet prisoners.

 

Long-focus camera footage of the city of Tuapse.

 

German planes bomb the city.

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