Die Deutsche Wochenschau № 598 (1942)

1. Germany.

In memory of the deceased Reich Minister Fritz Todt /8.2.1942/.

Historical footage: Todt front of the camera.

He is on the construction of the first motorway after 1933.

Hitler and Todt.

Todt supervises construction work: building strategic bridges, highways, the defensive line along the western border of Germany, on the construction of Todt strengthen the "Atlantic Wall" and the construction of strategic roads and bridges on the eastern front.

Speaker on his merits as minister of armaments and munitions.

Todt officers, builders, at the front of the workers.

Todt presents awards.

Todt sits in the plane.

Todt at the headquarters of the Fuhrer, he and Hitler.

Todt's funeral in Germany.

Todt's body being taken to Berlin, the coffin submerged in the car.

Arriving by train to Berlin.

Honor guard.

The coffin on the gun carriage.

The coffin is made to the premises of the Reich Chancellery.

Hitler expresses its condolences to the families of the deceased.

This Hitler Hitler at the tomb Todt.

Wreaths.

Carry the coffin Todt.

Declination banners.

Goering with the widow of the deceased.

Carrying the coffin from the building, he was again set on the gun carriage.

Funeral procession through the streets of Berlin.

2. Germany.

Admission to the Fuehrer Chancellery of the Prime Minister Vidkun Quisling in Norway. 3. Germany.

The visit of Marshal Ion Antonescu, Victor Germany 02.11.1942. Arriving by train, meeting with Hitler at the station.

They sit in the car.

The Fuhrer and the Romanian leader Ion Antonescu in the rate, the conversation at the map.

General Jodl on the report.

Check out Antonescu from Germany.

Goering with marshal's baton of Marshal escorts to the car.

4. Germany.

Hitler and Norwegian Prime Minister Vidkun Quisling.

Quisling and Norwegian Reich Commissioner Josef Terboven in the Reich Chancellery.

Presentation of a gift to the Fuhrer: a silver model of an ancient Viking boat

5. USSR. Eastern Front.

In the area of Ilmen Lake.

German soldiers go skiing.

Delivery of Finnish houses.

Arrival of transport planes.

Delivery of ammunition and food.

Cargo is taken to the front lines.

Tankers clear the tanks of snow, clean the gun, loading shells.

German tanks on the streets of the village.

The marines are in position.

Skirmish with Soviet troops.

A mortar fires.

Explosions.

Award distinguished soldiers with the Iron Cross.

Construction of a temporary railway on the ice cover of the lake.

The train goes on rails.

6. USSR. Military operations in the area of the southern coast of Crimea.

German patrol boats in the Yalta harbor.

View from the boat to the shore.

Croatian soldiers serving in the German Navy.

German patrols on the embankment in Yalta.

Soviet aircraft bombardment of German ships in the Black Sea.

The beginning of a skirmish with Soviet troops in a mountainous area, German and Croatian guns are firing.

In between fights, the soldier eats.

Presentation of Iron Crosses to Romanian officers.

The soldiers are on vacation, they are eating.

Romanian sentries.

Shelling of Soviet positions from anti-aircraft guns.

German bombers fly to bomb Soviet positions near Kerch/

7. USSR. Military operations in the region of Crimea.

View of the territory of Crimea from the plane.

8. Northern Africa.

German and Italian motorized units on the march on the road to the city of Derna.

Trucks, infantry in the city of Derna.

The defeated Anglo-American coastal battery.

Construction of fortifications.

General Rommel is with the officers, he's with the map of the area.

Italian artillery bombardment of the British escape routes.

Gunfight.

British tanks are burning.

British prisoners near the truck.

Burning American tank, damaged equipment.

German and Italian units on the march in the desert.

Motorcyclists, motor vehicles, tanks with infantry.

9. The English Channel.

German ships.

German admiral, commander of the battleships Otto Ciliax speaks to the sailors.

Admiral about the tasks of the ships "Scharnhorst", "Gneisenau" and others that must pass through the English Channel.

Ships in the campaign.

Submarines and escort boats.

Planes in the air.

German anti-aircraft guns fire at British planes.

Fragments of the naval battle of the break between Dover and Calais.

Downed English plane.

The caravan of ships continues on its way.