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Die Deutsche Wochenschau – Newsreel No. 638, 25 November 1942


1. Germany.

 

Military factory.

 

Workers in the workshops.

 

Air raid siren.

 

Office workers leave the office.

 

Workers turn off the machines, put on their overalls and helmets.

 

Workers who are members of the militia take their places at anti-aircraft guns.

 

Anti-aircraft gun firing.

 

2. France, Riviera.

 

German troops in occupied southern France.

 

German tanks driving along the motorway.

 

German tanks on the Mediterranean coast.

 

Installation of guns at the port of Marseille.

 

German ships in the port.

 

German anti-aircraft guns.

 

Anti-aircraft guns on platforms.

 

French soldiers serving in Hitler’s army.

 

A French officer gives explanations to German officers.

 

German troops in the city of Perpignan.

 

German vehicles.

 

The population watches German motorcyclists passing by.

 

German troops march along the coast.

 

Exchange of greetings with Spanish border guards.

 

German artillery on the Mediterranean coast.

 

German soldier on observation duty.

 

3. Africa.

 

Sending reinforcements to Africa.

 

German and Italian transport planes take off from an Italian airfield.

 

Soldiers boarding a transport plane.

 

Loading cargo at a southern Italian port.

 

Ship carrying soldiers and weapons being sent off.

 

Italian navy and air force escorting a convoy of German ships bound for Africa.

 

Shooting down a British mine.

 

Raid by British torpedo bombers on the convoy.

 

Fragment of the battle with British aircraft.

 

Torpedoes being launched, smoke screen.

 

The convoy of German ships continues on its way after repelling the attack.

 

Unloading of steamships in Africa.

 

4. USSR. Eastern Front.

 

Stalingrad area.

 

Germans observe the burning city.

 

German aircraft in the air.

 

 

Bombing of Soviet positions.

 

Views of Stalingrad in flames.

 

Explosions above the ruins.

 

German artillery firing.

 

A soldier fires at the street from a bunker.

 

Soviet soldiers surrender.

 

German infantrymen in the workshops of the destroyed Stalingrad Tractor Factory.

 

Soldiers eating during a break between battles.

 

5. USSR. On the Black Sea.

 

German and Romanian ships on a voyage.

 

Installing detonators on mines.

 

Dropping mines into the sea.

 

Caucasian Front.

 

German reconnaissance unit on skis in the Elbrus region.

 

German mountaineer climbing a mountain, he is on a cliff.

 

Alarm over the approach of Soviet troops.

 

The unit descends from the mountains and transmits a message to the German combat unit.

 

Firefight with Soviet troops.

 

Machine guns and mortars fire.

 

The Soviet unit is forced to retreat.

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