Die Deutsche Wochenschau №723 (1944)

Germany.

The 70th birthday of the writer Wilhelm von Scholz, honorary doctor of Heidelberg University.

He is in the garden with his dog.

He is in the library; photographs of scenes from plays based on his books hang on the walls.

Scholz in his study.

Germany.

During the war, four sisters became the mistresses of their brother’s sawmill, who had gone to the front.

They are by the cars.

A postman rides up on a bicycle, hands over a letter from his brother, they read.

Performing various operations.

Warehouse for finished products /boards, commercial timber/.

Girls roll logs.

Germany.

Female instructors in the equestrian schools of the Wehrmacht.

Here, wagon and riding horses are trained for the front.

Horse breaking.

Women on horses.

A walk in the countryside, overcoming obstacles.

Czechoslovakia.

Prague.

Opening of the German art exhibition "RAD - 1944" /Reich Labor Service/.

The exhibition presents works by artists from the Imperial Labor Service, the best of which were awarded a prize.

RAD Director Konstantin Gierl and Reich Minister Hans Frank climb the stairs.

In the exhibition hall: sculptures and paintings reflecting the life and daily life of RAD fighters.

Oberfeldmeister Fitzler, holder of the Knight's Cross, became the prototype for the hero of one of the paintings.

Germany.

Goebbels's speech in Breslau on July 8, 1944. The hall.

The standard-bearers walk down the aisle.

A panorama of the hall.

Goebbels's appearance.

He is on the podium.

Goebbels speaks of a large-scale enemy offensive against Europe, the prevention of which requires significant efforts from each individual and the entire nation as a whole.

The audience greeted the announcement of the use of the new V-1 weapon with thunderous applause.

Goebbels's long speech, live recorded.

A standing ovation from the audience.

Eastern Front, Karelia.

Transportation of German troops to the front to support Finnish troops.

Delivery and unloading of food and ammunition.

A German company of mountain riflemen on a ferry.

Crossing a lake, soldiers resting, sleeping, taking advantage of the moment.

A German boat.

Landing on the shore.

A Finnish "son of the regiment" - a teenage boy named Teppo with the Finnish unit.

He saddles a horse, mounts it, jumps from the back of a soldier, and rides.

Teppo is one of the fastest and most agile couriers, providing great assistance to the soldiers.

He talks to women, they hug the boy.

At the positions of the Finnish artillery.

A meeting of officers at a map.

Shelling of Soviet positions.

The crew at the gun.

France.

Western Front.

Map of the coast.

Normandy.

Reservists leaving for the front.

Vehicles on the highway.

Faces of infantrymen.

View of the column from behind.

Distribution of a frontline newspaper.

Soldiers reading a newspaper.

Headline: "Eisenhower Didn't Take Us by Surprise." Infantrymen on bicycles.

Overturned vehicles.

Observer.

Air raid siren.

Vehicles and infantry under cover.

German anti-aircraft battery firing.

Downed American four-engine plane crashes.

German units in the ruined French town of Avranches.

Cathedral.

German soldier playing the organ.

Interior of a bomb-damaged cathedral.

Discussion of the martial law in a Waffen-SS unit.

Officers over a map.

Tanks and infantry moving forward.

Tank camouflaged by branches.

German observer.

Carrying shells.

Uncasing a gun.

Infantrymen pause.

They are eating something.

A German with a young boar caught in the forest.

A German infantryman in a swamp.

A Waffen-SS unit surveys the area.

An observer in a tree.

The beginning of a firefight with the enemy.

The tanks counterattack.

A German gun fires.

Explosions.

Mortars.

The infantry attacks the Anglo-American positions.

Destroyed American tanks.

Distinguished soldiers are awarded the Iron Cross.

One of the heroes is Senior Lieutenant Lustig.

The advance of German tanks.

Germans in a burning city.