Die Deutsche Wochenschau №553 (1941)

April 1941. Berlin, Wilhelmplatz.

Goebbels reads the Fuhrer's address to the soldiers of the Southeastern Front.

Wilhelmstrasse 75. Press conference at the Foreign Ministry.

Announcement of notes from Germany to Yugoslavia and Greece.

April 16. Fire is opened on enemy positions.

German soldiers in the mountains.

Motorized columns.

The first Serbian prisoners.

German tanks cross the border.

A bridge set on fire by the Serbs, German sappers put out the fire.

A German tank.

On the Greek border.

Bombs are attached to the planes.

The pilots receive their mission.

The planes take off.

View from the plane of the moving German columns.

German planes over the mountains.

Bombing of enemy positions, explosions.

Planes in flight.

Italian planes in southern Yugoslavia, planes dropping bombs. 1. Germany.

Funeral of the Chief Sanitary Inspector of Germany in Berlin, Professor Waldmann.

Colonel General Fromm lays a wreath from the Fuhrer. 2. Prague.

Wehrmacht parade on the occasion of the second anniversary (15.3.1939) of the formation of the Reich Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia.

President Hacha and Reich Protector Neurath review the parade.

A German cameraman is working. 3. Bratislava.

Celebration of the 2nd anniversary of "independent" Slovakia.

Dr.

Tiso reviews the parade.

Cavalry, motorized units and tanks are moving.

4. Germany, Hanover.

Drilling rig, oil is being extracted.

Oil workers.

Tank cars with oil. 5. Germany.

Arrival of settlers from Bessarabia.

Unloading baggage.

Distribution of orders for occupation of houses.

Settlers proceed to the estates allocated to them.

The family of a settler having tea. 6. German refugees on the border with Yugoslavia.

Distribution of food to them.

Receiving ships with refugees in the port of Vienna.

Unloading things.

Refugees disembark. 7. Germany.

German girls arrive to work according to their assignments.

Girls at a watch factory.

Cooking for young workers, lunch. 8. Germany.

Braunschweig, 250th anniversary of the city theater.

Ceremonial act in the castle, reading of a greeting from Dr.

Goebbels.

Exhibition for the anniversary, viewed by Gauleiter Lauterbacher.

Models of the scenery. 9. Germany.

Goebbels receives the actor Emil Jannings to thank him for his work on the image of President Kruger in the film "Uncle Kruger".

Presentation of an honorary ring to Jannings for his services to cinema. 10. Sculptor Klimsch at work.

Statue by Klimsch.

Danzig, exhibition of works by the artist and sculptor.

German soldiers in the halls of the exhibition.

11. Southern Front.

German general awards the Iron Cross to a corporal.

Soldiers walking past.

Comrades congratulate the recipient.

Railway sappers at work.

Construction of a railway bridge underway.

Delivery of bridge trusses.

Selected aspects of construction work.

Company commander reports on completion of work.

The first train crosses the bridge.

Bulgaria.

Maneuvers by German troops.

Tsar Boris and Field Marshal List observe the maneuvers.

Tank training attack.

Infantrymen on the offensive.

The "enemy" is shelled by artillery.

Infantry attack.

Generals.

12. Sending planes to Africa.

Loading planes at a military airfield.

Planes take off.

Unloading in Africa.

Ammunition and provisions are sent to the front lines.

Arrival of German tank crews in Africa, they change into tropical uniforms.

Distribution of mail, new issues of the Oasis newspaper.

German anti-aircraft battery.

There is a sandstorm, German vehicles are moving into the storm. 13. Germany.

Launching of another submarine at one of the shipyards.

Loading of supplies and torpedoes.

Discussion of the situation with Grand Admiral Doenitz.

The submarine sets off on a voyage.

The submarine is at sea.

A convoy of enemy ships is spotted.

Alarm, the crew takes their places according to the battle schedule.

Release of torpedoes, explosion.

The submarine surfaces.

The submarine continues on its way.

Shelling of another enemy vessel.

Announcer about the successes of the German submariners.

Germany.

Funeral of the Chief Sanitary Inspector of Germany in Berlin, Professor Waldmann.

Expression of condolences to the family.

Wreaths.

Coffin covered with a banner.

Bowed banners.

Wreaths

Germany.

German railway sappers at work.

German vehicles move through the mud.

Sappers get out of the vehicles.

They get to work.

Driving piles.

Bridge construction.

Assembly of steel structures.

Their transportation.

A finished span.

Material for the next span is delivered along it.

Individual moments of construction.

A locomotive with a train moves across a bridge.

Czechoslovakia.

Prague.

Wehrmacht parade on the occasion of the second anniversary of the formation of the Reich Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia /15.3.1939/.

Ceremonial march.

Reich Protector Neurath and generals.

The elderly president of the Protectorate of Hacha.

Equipment, guns, and tanks are moving.

A German cameraman is working.

Germany.

Oil fields on the territory of the General Government.

Derricks.

Oil workers.

Drilling rig.

Oil is flowing.

It is collected in tanks.

Oil refinery.

Fuel tanks Czechoslovakia.

National holiday in Bratislava.

Slovak and Nazi flags.

Lodge.

President Tiso and his retinue.

Soldiers marching.

Drummers.

Orchestra.

Infantry.

Cavalry.

Artillery.

Tanks