Die Deutsche Wochenschau №645 (1943)

1. Game plot.

A security guard comes to an apartment and points out the poor blackout.

The owner of the apartment tries to argue with the security guard, but he proves he is right.

He explains the importance of blackout and urges everyone to take this matter seriously. 2. "Pictures of the Homeland".

The city of Ulm.

Soldiers on leave on an excursion.

Ancient streets and buildings, the town hall.

The famous Munster Cathedral. 3. The coast of the English Channel.

Construction of new concrete parking lots for German submarines off the French coast.

Fragments of a gigantic construction site, workers.

An almost finished parking lot.

A German submarine returning to harbor from a combat voyage.

Captain Mergen, his combat merits.

Belated presentation of Christmas presents to the crew.

An Italian submarine.

The captain and crew are greeted by their colleagues.

Traces of enemy shelling.

Italian sailors on board the submarine. 4. Western Mediterranean.

Italian troops land on the island of Corsica.

Italian motorized columns and scooters move along the streets of Ajaccio.

Italian units occupy former French coastal fortifications. 5. North Africa.

Panorama of Tunis.

General von Arnim with officers at a conference.

German tanks advance south.

Continuation.

German tanks in a local village.

A crowd of natives welcoming the German troops.

Arab women and children.

The Germans buy food.

Children by the tanks.

Distribution of souvenirs.

Continuation of the march, the equipment heads to the Atlas Mountains, the equipment on the highway.

Conversation with local residents.

Shelling of British outposts. 6. The Caucasian Front.

German sappers at work.

Fighting in the forest.

Flamethrower operations to destroy Soviet pillboxes. 7. The central sector of the Eastern Front.

The retreat of the German troops.

German infantry and supply trains move through the snow.

A soldier with a dog.

General Model inspecting new positions, he talks to the machine gunners.

Destroyed Soviet positions, destroyed equipment, corpses of Soviet soldiers.

Changing of the guard among the Germans at the front line, soldiers descend into the trenches.

The replaced soldiers exchange fire with Soviet units.

German sniper.

German artillery begins artillery preparation.

Grenadiers and sappers take up initial attack positions.

German advance under Soviet artillery fire.

The detachment reaches Soviet trenches.

A bunker explodes.

German infantrymen in battle.

Soviet prisoners.

German planes attack Soviet positions.

Bombs are dropped on a populated area where a concentration of Soviet combat forces and equipment is discovered.

Explosions.