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Die Deutsche Wochenschau – Newsreel No. 642, 21 December 1942


1. USSR. Eastern Front.

 

In the Leningrad area.

 

A German soldier skates on the ice of the bay.

 

Soldiers in a bunker.

 

German soldiers in camouflage uniforms walk by, one of them with a pipe in his mouth, the soldiers smoke.

 

Building barriers from snow drifts.

 

Germans take over abandoned Soviet trenches.

 

They observe Soviet positions.

 

The start of a firefight.

 

A machine gun fires.

 

View through an embrasure.

 

Central section of the Eastern Front.

 

At reserve positions.

 

Repairing tanks and painting them white.

 

Raid by Soviet bombers, repelling the raid.

 

Equipment of a reconnaissance unit in camouflage uniforms.

 

Tanks moving into position.

 

Vehicles driving along a snow-covered road.

 

Clearing snow from roads and trenches.

 

German artillery fires on the enemy.

 

Guns firing.

 

2. Tunisia.

 

German aircraft fires on Anglo-American positions.

 

Damaged American tank.

 

Downed American fighter plane.

 

Positions recaptured from the Anglo-Americans.

 

Corpses of Anglo-American soldiers.

 

Destroyed British military equipment.

 

German tanks in the city of Tebourba, city residents.

 

Captured British paratroopers.

 

The first American prisoners.

 

A German transport plane heads for Tunisia.

 

A squadron in the air.

 

Aircraft landing and unloading.

 

Frontline rations are being issued to soldiers at the warehouse of one of the companies.

 

Soldiers eating fruit.

 

Soldiers making a Christmas tree out of wooden slats from boxes and tin cans.

 

Submarines at sea.

 

3. Northern section of the Eastern Front.

 

Sailors on a boat.

 

Christmas presents for sailors.

 

Preparing Christmas trees for the Christmas holiday.

 

Decorating a Christmas tree in a dugout.

 

Soldiers on skis carrying a Christmas tree.

 

Soldiers making toys and souvenirs.

 

Cake with the inscription ‘1942’ in cream. Making toys for the children of fallen comrades.

 

Packing toys into boxes.

 

Soldiers drawing.

 

Their paintings and drawings.

 

4. Germany.

 

Christmas days in Germany: winter landscapes, deer in the forest, deer eating food.

 

Packing gifts for frontline soldiers (among the packers are film actresses Marika Rökk and Luise Ulrich).

 

Children by the Christmas tree.

 

Children visiting the wounded in hospital.

 

A family by the Christmas tree, by the radio.

 

The sound of bells ringing.

 

Soldiers at the front receive parcels.

 

They drink wine, read letters from home, look at gifts.

 

A sentry on duty.

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