Die Deutsche Wochenschau №614 (1942)

1. Holland.

Arrival of Reichsfuehrer of the SS and Police Heinrich Himmler in The Hague.

Inspection of the guard of honor.

Himmler meets with the leader of the Dutch fascists, Mussert.

The oath-taking ceremony for the Fuhrer by Dutch SS volunteers.

Himmler's speech.

The parade of the SS troops in The Hague, Himmler on the platform. 2. Latvia.

Visit of the Reich Minister for the Occupied Eastern Territories Rosenberg to Riga.

Meeting at the train station.

Gauleiter Lohse greets Rosenberg.

Latvian girls and children present flowers to Rosenberg.

Laying of wreaths on the graves of fallen German soldiers.

Rosenberg meets the population at the ruins of a medieval German knight's castle.

Participants in the solemn ceremony.

Presentation of gifts to Rosenberg.

Rosenberg and a girl.

Rosenberg drives past welcoming Latvians. 3. Eastern Front.

Central sector.

Hitler visits the headquarters of Field Marshal von Bock.

Hitler leaves the building.

Cheering crowds.

The Fuhrer gets into the car.

Soldiers greet the Fuhrer.

The car drives along the street to the airfield.

Hitler says goodbye to Bock and other generals and gets on the plane.

The Fuhrer is in the plane, he is heading to Finland at the invitation of Marshal Mannerheim.

Pilot Captain Bauer.

View of Finland from the plane.

Hitler, Keitel, Sepp Dietrich in the plane.

Head of the Fuhrer's press service.

Landing near the Finnish front.

Finnish President Risto Ryti meets Hitler.

Hitler inspects the line of German generals, the guard of honor.

The Fuhrer greets General Dietl and informs him of his promotion to the rank of colonel general.

Hitler meets Mannerheim, exchanges handshakes.

Hitler and Mannerheim with Ryti and Keitel climb into the marshal's carriage.

Mannerheim is awarded the Order of the German Eagle in gold.

View of the decree signed on June 4, 1942 on the award in honor of the 75th anniversary.

Conference of the German and Finnish generals.

Farewell to the Fuhrer.

Hitler bids farewell to Mannerheim.

Departure. 4. The Battle of Kharkov.

Announcer on the beginning of the Soviet offensive.

Scheme of the Soviet offensive on the map.

View of the area.

Advancing Soviet infantry.

German guns firing.

German observer.

Appearance of Soviet tanks.

German guns firing.

Mortar men.

Continued.

German guns firing.

Fragments of the battle.

Destroyed village.

Destroyed Soviet equipment.

Battle diagram.

Announcer on the failure of the Soviet offensive.

A train with weapons heads to the front.

An Italian regiment disembarks, Italian soldiers walk.

German infantry in the trenches.

A German plane drops bombs on Soviet positions, explosions.

May 17 - the beginning of the German counteroffensive.

Diagram of the encirclement of Soviet troops by May 22, 1942. German tanks moving forward.

Motorcyclists, tanks, infantry in cars are driving.

Germans on the streets of a populated area.

Hungarian and Romanian infantry, horse-drawn wagons are driving.

The ring around three Soviet divisions is closing.

The first prisoners.

Destroyed Soviet equipment, guns, burning Soviet tanks.

Explosions (shot from the ground at close range).

Planes in the air.

Consequences of the German bombing.

Destroyed Soviet equipment, trains.

Scheme of the further course of the battle.

Continued.

German artillery fires at Soviet tanks.

German tanks on the attack.

Fragments of a tank battle.

Soviet soldiers surrender.

Motorized units on the offensive.

Destroyed Soviet tanks.

Croatian soldiers.

Destroyed Soviet equipment.

Burning huts.

The Germans advance through the fire.

Scheme of the destruction of the Soviet group near Kharkov.

Military operations in the Donets River area.

German and Hungarian artillery in action.

Bombing of Soviet troops from the air, explosions.

German plane in the air.

Burning building.

June 30, 1942. End of the Battle of Kharkov.

Destroyed equipment.

A huge number of destroyed tanks and vehicles.

View of the destroyed Soviet positions from the air.

Announcer about the Battle of Kharkov as one of the crushing defeats of the Soviet army.

Panorama from above of destroyed Soviet equipment.

Huge columns of Soviet prisoners.

A colossal assembly point.

Prisoners are coming.