Die Deutsche Wochenschau №576 (1941)

Eastern Front.

Hitler receives Hungarian dictator Admiral Miklos Horthy at his headquarters.

Horthy seeks the withdrawal of Hungarian units from the front in Ukraine and their transfer to service "to maintain order" in the occupied countries, citing their poor military-technical equipment.

Horthy is received by the Supreme Commander-in-Chief of the Army.

Horthy visits Brauchitsch and Goering.

Discussion of the situation at the front near a map.

USSR. Eastern Front.

Northern sector.

German soldiers of the RAD service build fortifications.

Presentation of Iron Crosses to those who distinguished themselves in the work.

Unloading meat and other products.

Soldiers drink coffee.

A common favorite, a tame bird, sits on a soldier's cap.

Advancement of troops.

Crossing a river.

A transport plane drops cargo by parachute.

Laying a new communication line.

Sappers pull a cable.

Southern Front.

Krivoy Rog area.

Romanian troops advancing on the Black Sea coast.

Convoys and soldiers march along the road.

Marshal Ion Victor Antonescu, Romania's commander-in-chief at the front with his soldiers, talks to officers.

Hungarian cavalry troops on the march.

The Soviet retreat routes are marked by fires and destruction here too.

A burning oil storage facility.

Enormous clouds of smoke rise in the air.

Soldiers dip their hands in the river, but a layer of oil remains on their hands.

Ukrainian peasants collect leaking gasoline for tractor engines.

The city of Krivoy Rog, the center of not only the metallurgical, but also the oil and chemical industries.

Views of the city, a metallurgical plant, mines.

Despite the incredible wealth of natural resources, the Soviet government did not care at all about the lives of the workers (the announcer says).

A workers' settlement, primitive, dilapidated huts.

Women cook something on a stove outside.

A multi-story building of the plant's administration.

Battle in the Dnepropetrovsk area.

German guns are shelling the city from the opposite bank of the Dnieper.

A radio operator takes cover among the rubble.

Assault boats are forcing the river under enemy fire.

Dnepropetrovsk, a large part of this fiercely resisting city is ablaze.

The retreating Soviet troops are carrying out Stalin's order here too and setting fire to entire city blocks.

Burning buildings.

City streets.

Ruins of buildings.

A construction battalion has entered the city with the vanguard of the troops.

It is necessary to clear away the ruins, which could collapse at any moment.

The Germans are blowing up the rubble.

German soldiers are clearing the streets.

Removing the remains of a roadside communication line.

Continuation.

German troops cross the Dnieper with the help of a pontoon bridge and ferries.

Troops on the march. 4. The central section of the Eastern Front.

The Nazi flag is raised, German soldiers line up on the square.

A building decorated with garlands.

A joint meeting of the German occupation authorities and the local population in Minsk.

Transfer of control to the local authorities.

Smolensk.

A radio station broadcasting in Russian is on.

The population listens to the radio in the street.

The commandant's office building in Smolensk, a German sentry stands.

People read a newspaper on a stand, mark the advance of German troops on a map.

Trade in a store, women with string bags buy vegetables.

The main railway station, the arrival of a German echelon.

Soldiers unload bread.

Motorized units of the German army advance to the east.

Vehicles go along a muddy road, a bridge.

Guns are carried on a truck, motorcycles with weapons.

Tanks drive past antitank obstacles.

Artillery shelling the positions of the "Bolsheviks".

A radio operator in headphones.

A battle for a populated area, a tank is moving.

The body of a Soviet soldier in a field.

German equipment is crossing a river, infantry is moving.

A column of Soviet prisoners of war is moving along the road. 5. Occupied territories in the rear.

German sappers are restoring a destroyed bridge, diving operations.

Restoring bridges on roads.

Using the labor of Soviet prisoners of war, they are carrying sleepers, digging the earth.

A car is driving past a construction site, oncoming cars are coming.

German motorcyclists.

A front-line workshop for routine repairs of motor vehicles.

Mechanics are working, welding. 6. The northern sector of the Eastern Front.

The entry of German troops into Revel.

Destruction in the port, a sunken destroyer.

A blown-up military train, derailed, a disabled Soviet armored train.

Sunken ships in the port.

Broken guns on the shore.

7. Eastern Front, Velikiye Luki area.

German soldiers extract floating timber on the Lovat River for building and repairing bridges.

German cavalry on the march.

Horse-drawn supply trains, horses struggling to pull carts.

Veterinary care of horses, sick and wounded horses are taken to an assembly point, where they receive assistance.

Horses bathing in the river.

Soldiers resting in the forest.

They sleep on the ground, a soldier warms his feet by the fire.

Soldiers shave, play cards, carry boxes of beer.

Soldiers chase chickens and geese, catch a pig.

Field kitchen.

Soldiers eat boiled chickens.

Mail distribution. 8. Military operations near Leningrad.

German planes bomb roads and columns of Soviet troops.

Bombing of an enemy fortified area.

Burning Soviet tanks.

Bomb explosions.

Flight over the White Sea-Baltic Canal.

Bombing of a populated area.

German infantry moves to new positions.

Preparation of tanks and infantry for an attack.

Demining a road.

A populated area captured by the Germans, street fighting, fires.

Attack of German infantry under cover of artillery fire.

Artillery duel.

Artillery shelling of Leningrad.