Die Deutsche Wochenschau №739 (1944)

Germany.

Gathering wild rowan berries and making juice for the army.

Pressing berries.

Bottles of juice.

Comparison with lemons in vitamin C content.

Germany.

Grand Admiral Karl Doenitz visiting submariners.

He gets out of the car and greets the officers.

Vice Admiral Helmut Heye greets Doenitz.

Doenitz goes around the new submarine crews and gives them a speech.

Submariners give a demonstration performance on boats.

Demonstration of human-controlled torpedoes.

Pilot of a controlled torpedo of the sabotage and assault group, Corporal Walter Gerhold, jumps from a boat into the water and directs the torpedo to the target.

Gerhold gets out of the water and takes off his helmet.

Western Front.

Map of military operations.

Strasbourg-Nancy-Belfort area.

Towns and villages in the west are on the front line.

Overview of the cities.

The city of Belfort, the stone-hewn monument "The Lion of Belfort".

The city of Metz, the ancient cathedral, the old fortress, from the gates of which soldiers are marching.

The Moselle Valley with its forests, the ancient city of Trier.

The inhabitants of these cities, although they are far from the front, feel the threat of its approach.

German anti-aircraft guns are shooting, protecting the city from the raids of the Anglo-American aviation.

Downed Anglo-American planes.

German soldiers are walking along the streets of the city, smiling faces of young infantrymen.

View of the city of Geilenkirchen.

Soldiers in the ruins of houses, weapons are exposed in a broken window.

Students of the officer school in Julich defending the city.

A non-commissioned officer without an arm approaches a group of soldiers with documents, discussing the situation.

German soldiers on the streets of the city.

A young soldier with the Iron Cross.

RAD fighters attack American tanks, fire at them with Faustpatrone.

Damaged American Shermans.

American prisoners of war.

Hungary, Romania.

Intensive defense characterizes the situation in the southeast of the front at this time.

The area of Debrecen and Grosswardein (Oradea).

German infantrymen who stopped the advance of the Soviet troops.

Soldiers walk through a harvested corn field.

German military equipment is moving.

There is a battle with the Soviet tanks that have broken through.

Infantrymen follow the tanks.

The Bolsheviks retreat.

Soviet soldiers surrender.

Typical faces, a young soldier in a Budenovka.

Destroyed Soviet tanks.

Germans in the liberated German village of Siebenbürgen (Transylvania).

Residents joyfully greet the German soldiers, treat them to wine and bread.

East Prussia (Poland).

German ships in the Baltic Sea shell Russian positions in Memel (Klaipeda).

Ship guns fire at the coast.

Fragments of the fighting in East Prussia between Goldap and Gumbinnen.

German tanks are driving, infantry is moving.

The area of Nemersdorf, which suffered from the Bolshevik terror just like other Prussian cities.

Burnt houses.

Corpses of women, children, old people, allegedly killed by the Russians.

Crosses over the graves of civilians, the names of 9, 13, 24 residents.

German infantrymen watch Soviet bombers in the sky.

The attack on Soviet tanks and infantry positions begins.

Tanks at the Ebenrode (Nesterov) position.

Destroyed Soviet tanks.

The Bolsheviks lost more than 400 tanks in a few days.