Die Deutsche Wochenschau №699-2 Working material (1944)

Newsreel №55396, 2 footages, Duration: 0:15:21 B/W
Studio UFA

Reel №1

Italy.

Map.

German vehicles on the move.

A warehouse of shells and bombs.

Loading them onto vehicles.

A German gun.

The Germans are building fortifications.

A German at an anti-aircraft gun.

It is firing.

The anti-aircraft gun is firing at American planes.

Explosions.

German guns are firing.

The crew at the gun.

The machine gun is firing.

The remains of downed American planes.

A German airfield.

Pilots.

Northern Italy.

In moments of rest.

Skiing.

Downhill.

Skiers are sunbathing, while others are throwing snow at them.

A cheerful brawl.

A German with a radio in the mountains.

A caravan of German troops is on the move.

Unloading the delivered ammunition and food.

The caravan continues on its way.

A fascist flag in the mountains Germany.

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

Conference of sailors of the German merchant navy.

Doenitz's speech.

Among those present are Kaufmann and Axmann

Keywords

Italy, World War 2, soldiers, mountains, weapons, military equipment, explosion, fortifications, BBC, entertainment, sport, troops, State, symbolism, aerodrome, Germany, World War 2, Navy, Germany, military leaders, personalities, World War 2

Reel №2

Holland.

Volunteers in the yard.

Medical examination.

Issuance of uniforms.

Formation in uniform.

Boarding the train in Utrecht.

Farewell.

The train departs Germany.

German mine.

German front-line soldier descends into the coal face.

Coal cart.

Front-line soldiers at the mine France.

Atlantic coast.

Meeting at headquarters.

Rommel and the generals.

A huge gun.

Rommel makes an inspection trip on a patrol boat.

He and the generals inspect the airfield.

Getting to know the flight crew.

Rommel inspects the artillery and tank units, tries lunch.

Self-propelled guns travel along the road.

Rommel and the generals review the USSR parade.

Eastern Front.

Along the Vitebsk-Zhitomir-Kirovograd line.

Soldiers clear snow drifts.

A motorcyclist is helped out of the snow.

A car is pulled out.

Snow removal equipment.

Horse-drawn wagons.

A German convoy covered in snow.

A German position.

A dugout.

Germans with shovels in a trench.

They are clearing it of snow.

A vehicle is moving through mud.

Soviet prisoners of war.

A column of prisoners of war.

Germans over a map.

A tank is moving.

An observer.

Explosions.

A self-propelled gun is firing.

A tank is moving.

Corpses of Soviet soldiers.

A destroyed Soviet position.

Damaged equipment.

Corpses.

A burning village.

Germans in the village.

Burning huts.

A column of German trucks.

A rocket launcher is firing.

Keywords

Holland, World War 2, volunteers, Germany, mine, World War 2, France, Atlantic, World War 2, military leaders, personalities, Navy, aerodrome, BBC, weapons, parade, USSR, World War 2, soldiers, military equipment, natural phenomena, tanks, explosion, prisoners, pets, highways, cars, fire, fortifications

Scene №1 Deutsche Wochenschau No. 699 (working material)

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Map of Italy.

Loading ammunition onto vehicles.

Artillery.

Building fortifications, camouflaging tanks.

Air raid siren.

Anti-aircraft guns firing.

Airplanes in the sky.

German fighters.

Wreckage of an airplane on the ground.

German skiers descending a mountain.

Soldiers playing snowballs.

Mountain landscape.

Radio operator at work.

Mule caravan with military supplies.

German detachment in a village, preparing food.

Porters carrying food to outposts.

Snowstorm in the mountains.

Unloading a merchant ship.

Conference of sailors of the German merchant navy.

Doenitz's speech (among those present are Kaufmann and Axmann), he speaks of the contribution of the merchant navy to the "final victory".

Calendar:

1944

Scene №2

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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 train station in Utrecht, board the train, departure.

Germany.

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

Descending into the mine.

The 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 formation of pilots.

Rommel in a tank unit.

Crews near tanks.

Rommel tries soldiers' soup.

He takes the parade of military units.

The central sector of the Eastern Front.

The movement of German transport columns in a blizzard near Vitebsk.

Clearing the roads of snow.

The Germans push 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.

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