Die Deutsche Wochenschau №573 (1941)

Finland.

Preparing to bomb Murmansk.

A German airfield near Murmansk, preparing for takeoff.

Soldiers load shells onto a plane.

The squadron's winged mascot, a tame falcon, sits on a soldier's greatcoat sleeve.

German planes in flight, the midnight sun shining.

Bombs falling on the airfield in Murmansk.

Bombing of port facilities.

The Lake Ladoga area.

German cavalry galloping along the road.

Smoke from fires rises beyond the forest.

Burning huts.

The advance of German and Finnish troops, who pursue and destroy three Soviet divisions.

Finnish sappers build a crossing over a river.

They carry logs, lay footbridges, along which soldiers cross to the other bank.

German troops on the march.

Bombing of the locks of the White Sea-Baltic Canal.

The GPU used political prisoners to dig the canal, tens of thousands of them died from the hardships and burden of barbaric forced labor.

The southern sector of the Eastern Front.

The Fuhrer arrives at the headquarters of the commander of Army Group South, the plane lands at the front airfield.

Field Marshal Gerd von Rundstedt and Colonel General Alexander Löhr, commander of the 4th Air Fleet, salute the Fuhrer.

Hitler in a car, soldiers salute him.

Hitler drives through a village, then along the highway.

He enters the headquarters, then leaves it.

Hitler in a car.

Soldiers salute the Fuhrer.

USSR. Romanian troops move towards Odessa.

Close-up of soldiers' feet in boots marching along a dusty road.

USSR. German cyclists move towards the city of Nikolaev.

German equipment moves along a muddy road.

The population of one of the settlements east of the Bug greets German soldiers, an old woman offers a soldier a treat in a car.

In the south of Ukraine.

Many cities and villages had German names.

Palatinate and Swabian peasants once conquered these lands.

Elections of a new burgomaster in the village of Worms (Vinogradnoe) on the western Bug captured by the Germans.

German officers shake hands with the elected elder.

Continuation.

The Germans are advancing on Nikolaev.

Hungarian officers explain to the Germans how their units are deployed.

German forward units in the lower reaches of the Bug.

Crossing the Bug River.

Machine gunners guard the crossing.

The Germans at the railway, they blow it up, stopping a Soviet armored train.

Shelling of Nikolaev by German and Hungarian artillery.

Burning fuel depots.

German tanks and infantry on the offensive.

German assault units enter Nikolaev.

Port facilities and shipyards in the harbor have been captured, a cruiser under construction, four destroyers and a submarine on the slipway.

The retreat route of Budyonny's army.

Broken trains.

Destroyed railway station and station.

The evacuation of military materials has been stopped here.

Miserable dwellings of port workers.

The Red Army's main building.

Beggarly neighborhoods, here people live worse than animals.

A poor family with children sits near their hut.

Homeless children.

In the central sector of the Eastern Front.

After the battle at Roslavl, the Germans move to Gomel to strike at Marshal Timoshenko's army.

Supply trains and motorized units travel along broken roads.

German infantry and artillery move in the dust.

German guns fire at Soviet positions.

View from a slit in a tank.

Numerous strikes allow the German army to encircle Soviet divisions in Gomel.

A Soviet echelon is burning on the railway track.

An assault group is riding on a handcar, clearing debris from the road and demining the railway bed.

Shelling an oncoming Soviet patrol on a handcar.

The infantry removes a huge tree from the tracks, the tanks move forward, crushing the trees.

A tank fires at the enemy.

A destroyed and set on fire Soviet tank.

The Bolsheviks lost 169 tanks in this battle.

Soviet prisoners of war are being searched.

Cavalry rides along the road past wrecked vehicles.

Dead soldiers.

After ten days of attacks, Gomel has collapsed.

Ruins of the city.

Germans enter the city.

Cyclists ride past the ruins.

Continuation.

The capture of Gomel.

A huge column of prisoners is moving along the road, a collection camp.

The prisoners are sitting, lying on the ground, there are women among the prisoners.

A captured women's battalion.

The women are peeling potatoes and boiling them in a pot.

Asian faces of the prisoners.

A view of a huge crowd of prisoners. 6. The Eastern Front.

General Brauchitsch arrives at the headquarters of the Northern Front by car, he is met by Field Marshal von Link and General Küchler.

They enter the headquarters.

A sentry is on duty.

They leave the house.

Brauchitsch gets into a light aircraft. 7. Map of the Eastern Front.

Narva.

German supply trains, guns, infantry on the road to Narva.

A river with rapids, a destroyed bridge.

View of the city of Narva from the river.

A panorama of the city, fires, flames are pouring out of the windows of houses.

Night footage, the city is burning.

Narva in the morning, a view of the ancient fortress.

German soldiers on the march. 8. Balloon balloon in the air.

Signalmen at work.

Cyclists ride along the shore, on footbridges.

Guns are carried along planks.

Artillery is firing at Novgorod.

Communication is carried out by telephone.

German infantry on a dusty road.

Troops are walking along a wooden bridge, a soldier with a flamethrower, tanks.

A gasoline tank is burning.

German artillery is firing.

Trenches left by Soviet troops, corpses of Soviet soldiers in the field.

German motorcyclists enter the city.

A view of the city and the Kremlin is across the bridge.

Continuation of the plot.

The Germans are advancing on Nikolaev.

Hungarian officers in the company of Germans.

German tanks and Hungarian troops on the bank of the Bug, crossing the Bug.

Machine guns guard the crossing.

Explosion of the railway.

Artillery fire on the city of Nikolaev.

Burning fuel depot.

German tanks and infantry on the offensive.

German units enter Nikolaev.

Port facilities in the harbor, a battleship under construction on the slipway.

List of captured trophies.

Destruction in the city.

Burnt tram, ruins of the city, destroyed railway station and station.

Miserable housing of workers.

Red Army House.

Beggarly neighborhoods, a poor family with children, children. 5. Central sector of the Eastern Front.

The Germans are advancing on Gomel.

German infantry and artillery move in the dust, German guns shell Soviet positions.

View from a slit in a tank.

A burning Soviet train, destroyed carriages on the tracks.

German sappers on a handcar inspect and clear the railway tracks.

Oncoming Soviet patrol under fire.

Infantry clears rubble.

German tanks move forward, a tank fires at the enemy.

A destroyed and set on fire Soviet tank.

Destroyed Soviet equipment, corpses of soldiers.

Captured Red Army soldiers.

Cavalry attack.

View of burning Gomel, ruins of buildings.

Germans enter the city.