Die Deutsche Wochenschau №695 (1943)

1. Germany.

Professor Eickel, an eye specialist, at work in the clinic, examining child patients. 2. Germany.

Celebrations in the "Reichsbeitskammer" on the occasion of the 10th anniversary of the KDF organization /"Strength through joy"/.

Speech by Dr.

Ley at the anniversary meeting.

Presentation of awards to honored workers of the KDF. 3. USSR. Eastern Front.

Performance of a front-line theater in front of soldiers.

Artists on stage.

Performance of jugglers and eccentric comedians. 4. USSR. Gulf of Finland.

Movement of German warships in the Baltic Sea.

A minesweeper laying out underwater barrier nets in the Gulf of Finland.

1. Gulf of Finland.

Installation of anti-submarine barriers. 2. USSR. Eastern Front.

Crimea, battles on the Kerch Peninsula.

Romanian troops defeated the Bolshevik landing force.

During this operation, the Romanian troops were supported by German weapons.

German dive bombers showered the Russian landing force with bombs.

Fragments of an air battle between Soviet and German aircraft.

Rockets indicate the location of enemy positions to Romanian attack aircraft.

Soldiers in trenches watch the aircraft.

Assault guns with infantrymen sitting on them reach the forward positions.

Fragments of battles.

Captured Soviet gun.

The landing force is surrounded on all sides.

Most of the Soviet paratroopers are destroyed in close combat.

Captured Soviet weapons.

Wrecked Soviet ships on the coast.

Romanian General Corneliu Teodorini is awarded the Knight's Cross with Oak Leaves, he is on the front lines.

Soviet prisoners. 3. USSR. Loading a transport plane "Giant" flying to the Eastern Front.

Loading tanks, equipment, trucks, artillery, buses.

One plane can transport an entire regiment of soldiers with all their equipment.

1. USSR. Planes take off, in the air.

Soldiers in the plane.

View of the Ukrainian landscape.

Planes land.

Soldiers disembark.

Unloading tanks.

Advancement of German motorized columns, supply trains to the area of the city of Nikopol, they drive along dirty roads.

A car is stuck.

Resting on the way.

Soldiers bake pancakes, eat.

Someone sleeps in the car, others read the newspaper.

The column continues on its way to the front. 2. USSR. Battles for Nikopol.

A city in the lower reaches of the Dnieper.

Crossing the river on a pontoon bridge.

Accumulation of tanks near Nikopol.

The Nikopol bridgehead held out for several months under the pressure of Bolshevik attacks.

German infantrymen in the trenches.

An observer reports an enemy offensive.

Heavy German guns are firing.

A raid by Soviet attack aircraft.

German anti-aircraft guns are firing at a Soviet plane.

A pilot jumps with a parachute.

A burning plane on the ground. 3. USSR. The central sector of the Eastern Front.

German troops begin a counteroffensive.

Tanks are advancing, followed by infantry.

The enemy suffers heavy losses under heavy artillery fire.

In the former Soviet positions, the German soldiers can see countless destroyed tanks and equipment.

Corpses of Soviet soldiers.

A panorama of the area, a mill.

Burning buildings.

The Germans occupy a populated area.

German soldiers in the streets.

Soldiers who distinguished themselves in battle learn on the radio about the awards bestowed upon them by the Fuhrer.

Colonel General Adalbert Schulz, commander of a tank regiment, listens on the radio to a report about being awarded the Iron Cross with Oak Leaves, Swords and Diamonds.

Soldiers are resting.

Officers are drinking coffee.

Rocket launchers in action.