Die Deutsche Wochenschau №699 (1944)

1. Germany.

Sculptor Alex Trost at work.

Facade of the Museum of Arts building and view of the Royal Square in Munich. 2. Germany.

A group of German soldiers on leave on an excursion in a coal mine in the Ruhr area.

Descending into the mine. 3. Germany.

Unloading a merchant ship in Stettin, unloading boxes and bales.

Conference of sailors of the German merchant navy.

Speech by Dönitz (among those present are Kaufmann and Axmann), he speaks about the contribution of the merchant navy to the "final victory". 4. Departure of Dutch volunteers to serve in the German National Socialist Corps, they are at the assembly point.

Medical examination.

Distribution of equipment.

Volunteers leave for the station in Utrecht, board the train, departure. 5. Atlantic coast of France.

Field Marshal Rommel and Jodl with the generals discuss the strategic situation.

They are inspecting the forts of the "Atlantic Wall".

Rommel on a boat.

Arrival at a military airfield, inspection of the pilots' formation.

Rommel in a tank unit.

Crews near tanks.

Rommel tries soldiers' soup.

He takes a parade of military units. 6. The English Channel.

An airfield of German night fighters on the coast of the English Channel.

A pilot returns to his unit after a flight.

Pilots in their unit, their daily life in their free time.

Medical examination, physical exercises, games.

Distribution of mail, pilots reading letters.

Walk, lunch, playing billiards.

Tactical exercises.

Dinner.

Preparation for takeoff.

Discussion of atmospheric conditions.

A pilot awaiting takeoff.

Playing chess, cards.

Alarm, pilots boarding planes.

Pilots after a mission.

Announcer on the success of the German Air Force's night raids.

Pilots smoking.

Continuation.

Radio operator at work.

Pilot returning from a mission.

Italy.

Delivery of ammunition, warehouse of large-caliber shells.

Loading them into vehicles.

German guns.

Construction of defensive lines, camouflage of tanks.

Attack of enemy bombers.

German anti-aircraft guns firing.

German fighters on the attack, fragments of an air battle.

Remains of a downed aircraft.

German military airfield, return of German fighters from a raid.

During rest moments: skiing, playing in the snow.

Mountain landscapes, German observer in the mountains.

Mule caravan with military cargo.

German detachment in a village, preparing food.

Porters carry food to remote posts.

Snowstorm in the mountains. 8. Central sector of the Eastern Front.

Movement of German transport columns in a blizzard near Vitebsk.

Clearing roads of snow.

Germans pushing a car.

Snow removal equipment.

A convoy buried in snow, vehicles in a snowstorm.

Snow-covered positions, infantrymen with shovels clearing trenches and ditches.

A thaw, vehicles moving along a washed-out road.

Prisoners taken near Vitebsk in a column.

Artillery in action, German tanks moving.

Battles near Vitebsk.

Corpses of killed Soviet soldiers, wrecked equipment on the battlefield.

Data on Soviet troop losses from December 13, 1943 to January 12, 1944. Fragments of a firefight.

Germans on the streets of a village they captured.

A mortar battery in action.