Die Deutsche Wochenschau №617 (1942)

1. North Africa, Libya.

Battles with the British 8th Army, battle diagram.

Marshal Rommel develops an offensive plan, he is with officers.

Diagram of actions taken by German troops.

Large concentration of British prisoners, moving in columns along the roads.

Destroyed equipment.

Fragments of an air battle in the Marmarik area.

Breakthrough of German tank units towards Sidi Rezegh and El Adem.

Martial law on June 11, 1942 on the diagram.

German units are moving towards Achroma, to the Mediterranean coast.

Encirclement of British troops.

Many prisoners.

Announcer about the capture of 60,000 British.

Offensive on June 14 in the El Alamein area.

Battles in the Tobruk area.

Encirclement of Tobruk on June 18, 1942 on the diagram.

German and Italian guns are firing.

June 20 - storming of the Tobruk fortress.

Rommel monitors the progress of the battle.

Massive offensive of German and Italian troops, shelling, explosions.

Rommel leads the operation.

German equipment moves forward along passages in minefields cleared by sappers.

German units on the offensive, shelling British positions.

Rommel.

Repulsing a British tank attack.

Carrying out a wounded man.

Burning British equipment.

British prisoners.

German and Italian units move forward.

Destroyed American tanks.

Rommel inspects the British positions and fortifications taken by the Germans.

Continuation.

Defeated British positions.

British prisoners of war, including many soldiers from the colored population of the colonies.

German units advance.

The British are trying to evacuate the fortress by sea.

German anti-aircraft artillery fires at British ships.

The surrender of Tobruk, June 25, 1942. Jubilant German soldiers.

German planes in the air.

A panorama of the destroyed British positions and fortifications from the air.

A view of the captured fortress from an airplane.

An announcer about the enemy’s enormous losses.

Columns of prisoners.

German units pass by columns of prisoners of war.

German units in the fortress.

Ruins of buildings on the streets of Tobruk.

Fire at an oil storage facility.

Rommel and his officers discuss the military situation at a map.

The Germans are moving forward through the desert. 2. Crimea.

Military operations near Sevastopol, battle plan.

The announcer talks about the fortifications of Sevastopol, making it almost impregnable.

The movement of German tanks, infantry, and supply trains toward Sevastopol.

German planes fly toward Sevastopol, bombs fall on the city.

A view of besieged Sevastopol from an airplane.

Explosions and fires in the city.

A German pilot in the cockpit, bombs fall.

A downed plane falls.

Fragments of an air battle.

Continued.

Air battle.

Sevastopol under a hail of German bombs.

German observation post.

Machine gun firing.

Infantry goes on the attack.

Flamethrower firing.

Destroyed Soviet fortifications on the approaches to the city.

Interrogation of a prisoner.

Destroyed guns.

Destroyed barracks, residential buildings.

Fortifications literally turned into powder.

Artillery continues to shell Sevastopol, explosions.

Gun firing.

Romanian and German troops in the so-called inner fortress.

Ruins of buildings.

Harbor area.

Heavy street fighting in Sevastopol.

Germans with weapons on the streets of the city.

Shelling of Soviet positions on the other side of the bay.

Heavy German guns firing.

German infantrymen on the streets of the city.

Defectors.

Germans in the ruins of a building: Machine gun firing.

View of the harbor.

The German gun "Dora" firing, loading the gun, its barrel close-up, aiming.

Smoke from fires and explosions over Sevastopol.