Die Deutsche Wochenschau №570 (1941)

1. The Fuhrer's visit to the Eastern Front.

Hitler gets off the plane, soldiers run across the field.

General Keitel meets the Fuhrer.

Traveling in a car.

Soldiers greet the Fuhrer.

Hitler at the headquarters of one of the divisions, discussing the military situation with General Leeb over a map.

Hitler leaves the headquarters, jubilant crowds of soldiers greeting the Fuhrer.

Hitler leaves. 2. Enrollment of volunteers to fight Bolshevism.

Young Dutch volunteers, their send-off to the front.

Croatian volunteers.

Croatian Marshal Kvaternik says goodbye to the volunteers.

A ceremonial send-off at the train station.

The Italians leave for the Eastern Front, send-off at the train station. 3. The northern sector of the Eastern Front.

The offensive of Hitler's troops in the area of the city of Salla.

Artillery shelling of Soviet positions.

A gun crew in action. 4. The southern sector of the Eastern Front, Moldova, Bessarabia.

Romanian troops cross the Dniester.

Romanian and German officers discuss the military situation.

King Mihai of Romania and General Antonescu at the positions of the Romanian troops.

German troops cross the Dniester, they cross the river in boats and launches.

German soldiers on the march, they walk through a cornfield.

A shootout with Soviet troops.

A search of the residents of an occupied settlement.

Captured Red Army soldiers, many of them wounded, the wounded are carried by their comrades.

German planes over the city of Balta, a panorama of the destroyed city from an airplane.

Victims of the GPU, corpses of the murdered lie on the ground.

Arrested Jews, driven by the Germans to a concentration camp.

A column of Jews. 5. In the Vinnitsa region.

The population is repairing the roads.

Cars and buses drive along broken roads.

Soldiers pull a bus out of the mud.

Hungarian troops on the Bug River.

Hungarians in a populated area.

Fighting for Vinnitsa.

Bridges blown up by the "Bolsheviks", destroyed Soviet equipment, corpses of soldiers, a dead Soviet soldier at the wheel of a destroyed car.

Germans on the streets of Vinnitsa.

A Hungarian officer congratulates German soldiers and presents them with commemorative badges.

6. The central sector of the Eastern Front.

Conference at the headquarters of the German troops.

The Supreme Command of the Army.

Preparation for battle on the Stalin Line.

German artillery shelling Soviet positions.

German planes in the air.

German generals monitor the battle.

The battle for Mogilev.

German troops entering the burning and destroyed Mogilev, ruins of buildings.

A hospital in the building of the city party committee, doctors and the wounded in the hospital.

A Soviet airfield after a raid by the German air force, destroyed Soviet planes.

War trophies captured by the Germans.

Captured Red Army soldiers.

A column of prisoners.

In the Smolensk area.

Burning villages.

A destroyed freight train.

German troops advance.

July 16, 1941, the Germans enter Smolensk.

Fragments of street fighting.

German soldiers in a firefight.

Soviet Red Army soldiers dressed in civilian clothes, prisoners.

Two women - "GPU employees".

Jews clearing rubble.

Jews with stars on their clothes clearing rubble, taking out trash.

A distillery in a church building, a power plant in another church building.

The workers' miserable dwellings.

Rickety children.

The civilian population returning to their homes.

Continuation.

Return of civilians.

Residents talking with German soldiers.

Old women and women blessing the "liberators".

German troops moving forward.

German tanks, tanks attacking.

German soldiers in battle.

A burning village near Smolensk, blazing houses.

German soldiers against the backdrop of a fire. 7. A raid by German bombers on Moscow.

Pilots in the cockpit.

Planes in the air.

Anti-aircraft guns firing.

View of Moscow at night from a German plane.

Bombs flying, explosions against the backdrop of the night sky. 8. Military operations in the Lake Peipus area.

A Soviet train with weapons captured by the Germans.

Propaganda materials, portraits of leaders.

Restoring communication lines, laying telephone cable.

Waffen-SS troops in the Lake Peipus area, they are in battle.

Infantry guns shelling Soviet positions.

Burning Soviet tanks.

Continued.

Captured Soviet soldiers.

RAD battalion and Todt organization restoring roads and bridges.

Construction of a new road.

German troops on the highway.

German artillery shells Soviet positions.

Soviet Red Army soldiers surrender.

German troops march east.

Germans rest.

Funeral of a fallen comrade.

Soldiers in a wooded area.

Punitive operations to "clear" the forest of partisans, clearing obstacles on the road.

The Germans continue to move forward.

German artillery fires.

Crossing a river.

Soviet bombers raid the German forward positions.

Fragments of an air battle.

Shot down and burning Soviet planes fall to the ground.