Die Deutsche Wochenschau №575 (1941)

Newsreel №54935, 3 parts, Duration: 0:58:50 B/W
Studio UFA

Reel №1

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North Africa.

German soldiers in a dugout shelter near Tobruk.

German guns fire at British troops trying to break out of encirclement.

Stukas in flight.

They drop bombs on British positions.

Explosions.

German tanks moving in the direction of Sallum.

A destroyed British tank.

General Rommel inspects the positions.

A tanker gets out of the tank, covered in moisture due to the monstrous heat.

He cooks an omelet on the hot surface of the tank.

A crowd of Bedouins on camels, a maharajah, an official in a pith helmet are moving.

The Bedouins carry the maharajah on their shoulders and bow to him.

Pilots on vacation.

A performance for the Germans.

A snake charmer.

A donkey-riding competition.

A boxing match.

A power-meter competition.

A homemade carousel.

Sports festival with participation of native population, tug-of-war competition.

Finland.

Northern Norway.

USSR. Northern sector of the Eastern Front.

German Colonel General Eduard Dietl in front of the camera.

Germans repel an attack by the "Bolsheviks".

Machine gunners fire.

Soldiers bandage the head of a wounded man.

Finnish Prime Minister Johan Rangell inspects the ruins of a village after the battle, German forward positions, captured trophies.

German soldiers carry pontoons, build a bridge.

German soldiers overcoming a water obstacle.

Soldiers walk along a plank flooring, dragging guns.

Germans enter Viipuri /Vyborg/, annexed to the USSR in 1940. Guns fire.

Infantrymen on the offensive.

Keywords

Africa North, World War 2, military leaders, personalities, troops, BBC, tanks, weapons, snakes, sport, rest, entertainment, population, Finland, Norway, USSR, military leaders, personalities, soldiers, weapons, fortifications, World War 2, state, figures

Reel №2

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USSR. Krivoy Rog.

Romanian leader Marshal Ion Victor Antonescu in his positions, inspecting the battlefield.

Trophies: ammunition, canisters of gasoline.

Ruins of the city, destroyed mines.

German specialists are restoring the surviving mines.

Miserable dwellings of miners.

Poor neighborhoods.

In a room among piles of things lies a child in a basket, flies are crawling on him.

A woman combs lice out of her daughter's hair.

Women go to the well to fetch water.

A ceremonial administrative building with the inscription: "House of Specialists".

The GPU building.

Prison, cells.

A punishment cell, a German soldier demonstrates a punishment cell, stands in a narrow pencil case of the room.

Anti-Semitic and anti-Soviet poster.

Ukrainian police officers at military exercises.

The rise of a suspended balloon.

Information is transmitted by radio.

The artillery receives an order to open fire.

The gun fires.

In the frame - the 5000th shell of the battery.

The aftermath of a German artillery barrage.

Broken equipment, dead soldiers.

Rest during the offensive.

Horses grazing.

The march continues.

German cavalrymen head east.

Peasants watch the cavalry pass.

The western bank of the Dnieper.

German artillery shelling Dnepropetrovsk.

A Soviet fighter in the air.

German and Hungarian anti-aircraft guns firing.

Sappers are sent to put out a burning bridge.

Sappers continue their work under fire.

A downed Soviet plane falls to the ground.

A gun crew at a gun.

Motorcyclists ride along a restored bridge.

Keywords

USSR, World War 2, destruction, miners, beggars, children, women, jail, police, intelligence, BBC, radio, soldiers, weapons, military equipment, cavalry, artillery, river, sappers, bridge, fire, population

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5. USSR. The advance of Hitler's troops on the city of Reval (Tallinn).

German sappers defuse Soviet mines.

Reval (Tallinn), view of the fortress and cathedral.

Germans on the streets of the city.

The population welcomes the "liberators".

A cart with men drives by, they wave Estonian flags.

A jubilant crowd.

Girls ride with German soldiers in a car.

Estonian women and girls with German soldiers.

The Germans are treated to cigarettes, thrown into the air, kissed. 6. The advance of German troops on the Baltic port.

The infantry moves across the river, across the field.

German artillery fires.

A raid by German aircraft on Soviet ships.

Destroyed Soviet tanks and vehicles, coastal guns abandoned by the Soviet Army.

Corpses of Soviet soldiers.

The road to Reval and the Baltic port.

Abandoned trucks with guns, tractors near the plant.

Captured Soviet soldiers march in a column along the road. 7. Military actions in the Leningrad region.

Discussion of plans for the operation in a Luftwaffe unit.

They are transporting shells, loading them onto planes.

The planes take off into the air, they are in flight.

Bombing of Soviet positions, roads, troop concentrations.

Soviet trenches after the bombing, corpses of soldiers in the trench, in the forest.

German troops are marching.

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