Die Deutsche Wochenschau №584 (1941)

Newsreel №55210, 4 parts, Duration: 0:34:54 B/W
Studio UFA

Reel №1

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1. Germany. "Pictures of the Homeland".

Greetings from Hamburg.

City streets, buildings, shop windows, monuments, canals.

Construction of apartments for workers, commissioning of the construction site. 2. Germany.

Young female employees of the military auxiliary service.

They are in a dormitory, changing into uniform.

Writing letters to their families.

Girls at classes, at work: they work as tram conductors, visit the sick in the hospital.

Sports performances of girls in front of the wounded in the hospital, exercises with rings. 3. Germany.

Berlin, Sports Palace.

Fragments of a hockey match. 4. Germany.

A ceremonial meeting of the old Nazi guard on November 9 in Munich at the "Lesenbräukeller" on the occasion of the next anniversary of the Munich Putsch (11/9/1923).

Dr.

Ley is sitting at one of the tables.

The appearance of the Fuhrer, he is greeted by old fighters, Hitler's speech.

Ceremony in memory of the fallen at Feldherrnhalle, view of the pantheon.

Laying of wreaths by Gauleiter Adolf Wagner.

Ceremonial formation of units.

Laying of wreaths, wreath from the Fuhrer.

General Friedrich Fromm at the ceremony. 5. The coast of the English Channel.

Night alarm for German anti-aircraft gunners.

Repelling an attack by English aircraft, explosions.

Keywords

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Reel №2

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Continuation.

Downed British planes at a recycling collection point.

Loading scrap metal onto platforms, the train leaves for Germany. 6. At the VMF-Center-Nord command post.

A room with numerous teletypes, sailors receiving and sending messages.

A group of admirals, headed by Admiral Carols, discussing the military situation. 7. The northern section of the Eastern Front.

Preparing mines in a special workshop.

Transporting mines by rail, unloading mines, loading them onto a destroyer.

Laying mines in the Baltic Sea off the coast of Khiuma Island.

Appearance of Soviet ships, start of a firefight, explosions.

Fragments of a naval battle.

German ships. 8. USSR. Military operations in Karelia.

Finnish Women's Corps "Lotta" at the front.

Female observers.

Women help Finnish soldiers: distribute food, donate blood.

Awarding of distinguished girls.

A column of captured Soviet soldiers, captured at the construction of winter barracks for Finnish soldiers, they drag logs.

Finnish boats in the Baltic Sea.

Shelling of Soviet positions.

Landing of Finnish troops on the island, fighting.

Keywords

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Chronicle Subjects:

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Reel №3

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USSR. Karelia.

Attack of the Finnish infantry.

Fishing on Lake Ilmen.

A trade deal between fishermen, local residents and a group of German soldiers.

Distribution of Russian-language newspapers among the local population.

An issue called "Pravda", headlines: "The defeat of the Bolshevik troops on all fronts".

A meeting of peasants held by the German occupation authorities, an appeal to the peasants.

Peasants in front of the camera.

A clothing warehouse.

Issuance of winter clothing, uniforms and gloves to German soldiers.

German soldiers building winter barracks, laying stoves.

Soldiers resting by the fire.

USSR. Military operations near Leningrad.

Using the stove of a burnt-down house.

A German scoops up water.

German soldiers riding in a boat.

A dog.

A soldier falls.

Beginning of the shelling of Soviet positions.

Germans in a populated area.

Prisoners.

Lithuanians "forcibly" mobilized into the Soviet Army, their interrogation.

Artillery shelling of Leningrad.

A gun fires.

A panorama of Soviet positions, explosions.

A panorama of a destroyed village.

A quote from Hitler's speech: "Leningrad will fall into our hands!" USSR. Crimea, south of Perekop.

A veterinarian examines a horse.

German soldiers resting: washing, writing letters, mending clothes, cleaning weapons.

Soldiers reading a military newspaper.

A battery of heavy guns in action.

Infantry on the attack.

USSR. Battles for Donbass.

German equipment, tanks moving forward.

Fire from tank guns on residential buildings converted into bunkers.

Providing assistance to a wounded German.

View of the city of Mariupol.

Germans near the grain elevator.

Dnieper Hydroelectric Power Station, view of the half-destroyed dam.

A special team at the hydroelectric power station.

High-voltage electric wires.

Dnepropetrovsk Machine-Building Plant.

Panorama of the destroyed plant, collapsed structures.

German mountain rifle troops on the march towards the city of Stalino (Donetsk).

Convoys on horses and camels are moving.

Panorama of the mining settlement.

Keywords

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USSR. Mining village, German convoys drive past a waste heap.

Residents of the village.

The announcer draws attention to the Mongoloid features left over from the invasion of Genghis Khan, the faces of the people.

Soviet prisoners.

A panorama of their faces.

A column of prisoners is walking, some are carrying branches and brushwood.

A prisoner camp in a field.

Eastern Front.

The 6th Army, led by Field Marshal Walter von Reichenau, captures Kharkov on October 24-25, the Germans enter the city.

Cannons fire, the walls of houses collapse from explosions.

Tanks on the streets of Kharkov, fierce street fighting.

German assault groups overcome fierce enemy resistance.

Barricades, ditches and minefields built at every intersection hinder advancement through the city.

A Soviet propaganda poster depicting a Red Army soldier hangs on the wall.

A dead horse on the street, a barricade.

City views, Gosprom building.

Wretched poor neighborhoods.

USSR. Central section of the front.

Vyazma.

The Germans cross the Volga near Kalinin.

Terrible autumn thaw, trucks get stuck in the mud.

Soldiers help pull out a car.

Tractors and a truck on a trailer drive along a muddy road.

A pig looks out of a barn.

Silhouette of a German soldier sharpening a knife.

A cook makes sausage from a pig, soldiers eat.

RAD soldiers on bicycles set off for road work.

Field Marshal Kesselring inspects the area.

German planes in the air, shelling Soviet positions and trains.

Pilot in the cockpit.

View from the plane of the advancing German units, a road with cars is visible

Keywords

USSR, World War 2, troops, prisoners, USSR, World War 2, troops, propaganda, tanks, population, USSR, World War 2, troops, pets, construction, roads, personalities, military leaders, BBC

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