Die Deutsche Wochenschau №603 (1942)

1. Germany.

A short film from the series What Everyone Should Know, dedicated to pork production in Germany.

Data on its production and consumption, as well as feed production from 1933 to 1938. The importance of pork in nutrition.

Pork carcasses.

Sausage production workshop.

Workers in the workshop.

Foreign workers, prisoners of war.

Information on pork consumption. 2. Germany.

Stuttgart, the funeral of the German industrialist, engineer and inventor, founder of the automobile company Robert Bosch.

Reich Minister Funk expresses condolences to the family of the deceased.

The laying of a wreath from the Fuhrer. 3. Austria.

Graz, the capital of Styria /former Austria/.

Fascist demonstrations on the occasion of the anniversary of the Anschluss.

Goebbels arrives.

The population greets him enthusiastically.

A motorcade of cars goes through the streets of the city.

Jubilant crowds.

Goebbels in the car.

Continuation of the demonstration in Vienna, a huge crowd of people.

Goebbels appears in the car, his speech to the assembled /without sound/.

1. Austria.

Vienna.

A mass meeting of the population.

A huge crowd of participants. 2. The English Channel.

A section of the Atlantic Wall fortifications.

An admiral and generals inspect the formation of soldiers.

The ceremonial opening of a super pillbox named after Todt, the recently deceased Reich Minister.

The inscription on the pillbox "Todt Battery". 3. A hero pilot returns to his unit.

He is greeted by his comrades.

The hero pilot is awarded by Hitler. 4. Germany.

The Fuhrer at his headquarters.

Goering arrives at headquarters for a meeting.

Goering gets out of the carriage.

He walks along the road with the generals.

Hitler greets Goering.

They enter the headquarters. 5. USSR. Eastern Front.

In the Leningrad area.

Soldiers dig the earth.

Construction of fortifications.

Blasting operations.

Construction of bunkers.

Artillerymen strengthen their position.

The beginning of a firefight with Soviet troops.

A German gun firing.

Germans in a populated area.

Distinguished soldiers being awarded the Iron Cross.

Headquarters of the Blue Division.

A sentry.

German General Georg Lindemann presents an award to Spanish General Muñoz Grandes.

Ammunition being delivered along a snowy road.

Clearing roads of snow in 30-degree frost.

Soldiers clearing snow.

A soldier with a frozen moustache and an icicle under his nose.

A village covered in snow.

Passages made in the snow.

A German observer.

The Germans are going on the attack.

German tanks.

A German gun firing.

Explosions.

Fragments of a firefight.

The aftermath of the shelling of Soviet positions by German artillery.

Destroyed tanks.

The bodies of Soviet soldiers in the snow.

1. USSR. On the Crimean section.

A train carries tanks and weapons to the Crimea.

Tanks on platforms.

Unloading tanks.

They are sent to the front.

Unloading spare parts and fuel.

Reinforcements are sent to Feodosia.

Unloading ammunition and bombs at the forward positions.

Germans in the trenches.

Soldiers resting on the porch of a village hut.

They are preparing food.

A German catches a chicken.

Combat operations.

German soldiers bring shells.

A German gun fires.

Crews at the guns.

German and Romanian punitive detachments are sent on an operation against the partisans.

Fragments of a firefight.

A burning village.

Detonation of captured ammunition. 2. A port in the Aegean Sea.

German boats at sea.

An Italian submarine takes on depth charges.

Detection of an enemy submarine.

Launch of torpedoes.

Explosions.

Destruction of an enemy submarine.

Italian aircraft escort convoys of ships to North Africa.

Enemy aircraft are fired upon.

Ship guns fire.

The attack is repelled.

The convoy continues on its way. 3. North Africa.

Rommel and Italian General Cavaliero discuss the situation at the front.

Rommel and Italian generals.

An aircraft in the air.

German pilot Hans Joachim Marseille returns from a flight.

His colleagues greet him.

German artillery fires.

An exchange of fire with the enemy.

A shot down British aircraft falls to the ground.

The remains of the aircraft.

Italian fighters take off.

They attack the enemy and his columns.

Receiving messages at a German command post.

The beginning of a sandstorm in the combat zone.

Soldiers put up tents.

After the storm, the soldiers emerge from their shelters.

German tank crews.

Tanks in the desert.

They are moving to the front line.

Tanks on the march.