Die Deutsche Wochenschau №712 (1944)

1. Germany.

Celebration of the 55th birthday of the Fuhrer.

Symphony concert in the Berlin Philharmonic, musicians, listeners.

Goebbels giving a speech.

Berlin, the orchestra marches along Unter den Linden.

German girls greet the soldiers.

Festively decorated ruins of houses with Nazi flags.

Men and women read a newspaper.

Many flags, slogans of loyalty to the Fuhrer.

The Reich Chancellery, diplomats and honored guests leave entries in the book of honored visitors.

Slogan on the ruins: "The military city of Berlin greets the Fuhrer." View of the ruins.

Slogan: "Our walls have collapsed, but our hearts have stood." 2. Germany.

Hitler at the review of the tank corps.

Keitel, Doenitz, Guderian are also present, engineer Bauer congratulates the Fuhrer.

Hitler and his retinue inspect new tank models. 3. Moldova.

Eastern Front, southern sector.

Retreat of German troops from Bessarabia.

Population follows Germans, a string of carts loaded with household goods.

Trains with soldiers on the way.

Infantry in the city.

Germans blow up key industrial enterprises and strategic facilities, buildings burn.

Movement of German motorcades, Tiger tanks, infantry across the bridge, then along muddy rutted dirt roads.

Equipment is pulled out of the mud.

A tank crosses a river.

Continuation.

Fragment of a firefight with Soviet troops.

Infantry and tanks in a counterattack.

Soviet tanks are burning.

German artillery is firing.

Infantry in the attack.

In the enemy trenches.

Germans in rough terrain.

Invasion of a village.

Burning equipment.

Paratroopers collect parachutes.

Soldiers rest after the battle. 4. Repelling intensified attacks by Allied aircraft on German cities.

Notification to the fighter base about the beginning of the raid.

Pilots get into their cars, put on helmets.

Fighters take off, they are in the air.

Alarm in the city, an empty street with a stopped tram.

At an industrial plant.

Fire brigades are preparing for the raid.

The wounded are transferred from the hospital to bomb shelters.

German fighters attack, fragment of an air battle.

Wreckage of downed American planes.

Captured American pilots in Hamburg, interrogation of prisoners.

Cemetery of dead American pilots.

A German fighter pilot talks about a combat mission and a fight with the Americans.

Awarding of those who distinguished themselves.

The pilot talks about the desire of young pilots to quickly join the fight.

Young pilots in front of the camera.

Child firefighters in helmets, members of the air defense.

The alarm is over, all clear.

People come out of shelters, passengers fill the tram again.

Another attack by allied aircraft.

German air defense headquarters, an officer on the phone.

Anti-aircraft gunners begin firing at enemy planes.

An American plane that made an emergency landing.

American pilots get out.

German anti-aircraft gunners.

German fighters.

Air defense headquarters, officers give orders.

A fragment of an air battle with the Americans.

A shot down American plane falls, another plane explodes.

German pilots in the cockpit.

Fragments of an air battle.