Die Deutsche Wochenschau №701 (1944)

Newsreel №55390, 2 parts, Duration: 0:19:33
Studio UFA

Reel №1

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1. Germany.

Motorcyclist and cyclist competitions at an indoor stadium. 2. Germany.

Performance by juggler and floor acrobat Unos.

He stands on his index finger, which rests on a ball on a stand, juggling hoops. 3. Germany.

The house of the German artist Fritz Klimsch in Steiermark, Klimsch at the church, with his family at the table, at work.

Book illustrator Professor Mayer at work. 4. Germany.

Goebbels inspects the areas of Berlin damaged by bombing, he talks to residents.

Gauleiter of Berlin Ernst Bohle and Goebbels at a feeding center for bombing victims, distributing food to the victims.

Sappers and the population at construction work to eliminate the consequences of an air raid. 5. Germany. 25 years of the German civil transport airline Lufthansa.

German passenger planes of different years.

Announcer about the successes of German civil aviation.

The Westphalia floating airfield, a plane takes off.

Footage from the first transatlantic flight.

Heroes of the Berlin-New York-Berlin flight.

Flights depart for Konigsberg and Bucharest. 6. Germany.

German fighter pilots in their homeland.

A tour of a military plant (Novotny among the pilots).

Conversations with workers, exchange of experience. 7. Norway.

German soldiers training in skiing, lessons with an instructor, skiing. 8. Germany.

The Fuehrer holds a meeting with generals at his headquarters, including Keitel, Doenitz, Manstein, Küchler, and others.

Reel №2

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9. Germany.

Funeral of the commander of the Rotenburg tank battalion, General Schulz, killed on the Eastern Front.

General Manstein at the funeral.

Funeral procession, medals for the dead.

Laying of wreaths, farewell salute. 10. Eastern Front.

West of the Zhitomir-Kirovograd-Nikopol line.

Soldiers on leave return to the front by train.

Distribution of provisions.

Soldiers shave and wash.

Arrival of the train.

Arriving vacationers register at a special point.

They head to their companies.

Again with their front-line comrades, lunch, exchanging impressions.

Fun in the snow.

Tank formations at their starting positions in a Russian village.

Soldiers in the trenches.

Tank and grenadier units on the offensive.

Clearing the field of mines.

Preparing for the attack.

Beginning of the artillery preparation.

A captured village on fire, destroyed Soviet equipment. 11. Italy.

At the positions of German troops.

Bombing of Monte Cassino, explosions, destroyed city.

German soldiers in camouflaged dugouts.

German officers develop a reconnaissance plan.

The reconnaissance company leaves for the enemy's location.

Clash with an American reconnaissance group, firefight.

Killed American soldiers.

A captured "tongue" is taken to the location of German troops, interrogated.

The Germans begin shelling, a gun fires. 12. England.

A massive raid by German aircraft on London.

Takeoff, bombers in flight.

Night bombing of London.

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