Die Deutsche Wochenschau №711 (1944)

Germany.

Composer Hans Pfitzner conducts an orchestra performing music from his operetta "Käthchen von Heilbronn" on his 75th birthday.

Germany.

Tens of thousands of Berliners attend the Easter prize races at Berlin's Karlshorst racetrack.

A board with the names of the jockeys: Zimmermann, Albers, Chapman, etc.

There are many soldiers among the spectators.

The steeplechase begins.

Germany.

Berlin.

In front of the radio tower is a sculpture of a man and a woman with fragments of columns and books.

The newspaper "Reich" with the headline "Unbending Solidarity" above a photograph of Hitler with military leaders at headquarters.

The headline of the Greater German Radio, a doctor, in front of a microphone.

Rau reads a report from Reich Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels from the weekly "Reich" about the barbaric bombing of German cities by enemy aircraft.

Germany.

A coal mine in the Ruhr area.

The next generation of miners during a training session at a vocational school.

Training in a chemistry lab.

Practical training at a mine.

The boys are building a tunnel in a mine, driving in wooden fasteners.

The work is assessed by a committee and deemed good.

Presentation of diplomas upon graduation from the school.

Eastern Front /Karelia/.

Soldiers cut down a tree in the forest.

In their free time, soldiers at the front make wooden baby cradles as gifts for soldier-fathers.

Infantryman Schmetzer is the first man from the division who will be able to bring a cradle from the front for his little son.

A soldier takes a gift to his wife and son on leave.

Arriving by train in his hometown, he is met by his father.

A soldier with his family.

A small child is placed in a wooden cradle.

Italy.

The Cassino district.

A destroyed city after the Anglo-American bombing.

View of the places where the battles took place.

A statue and frescoes on the wall, accidentally surviving among the ruins.

Nine American tanks attack a mountain pass where German units have taken cover.

A soldier looks through a stereoscopic telescope.

Heavy artillery shelling of German positions before the tanks attack.

German anti-aircraft artillery opens return fire.

Shelling of American tanks.

Artillery fire forces German paratroopers to seek cover in the mountains.

Eastern Front.

Crimea area.

German transport plane "Giant" delivers reinforcements and ammunition.

On board there is a drawing: a winged elephant carries a large box in its trunk.

Enormous engines, cars and guns disappear into the belly of the "Giant".

A company of soldiers lands.

The plane is in the air.

It flies over the sea.

Planes and ships deliver various cargoes to German units defending the Crimea.

A German coastal anti-aircraft battery fires at Soviet planes.

Arrival of a German convoy at its destination.

Eastern Front, Kovel area, besieged by Soviet troops by March 16. In terrible weather conditions, tank and infantry units supported by SS units advance through the snow.

They have to break through to the city surrounded by the enemy in order to break through the encirclement.

One of the Luftwaffe squadrons supplies the surrounded soldiers with everything they need.

The plane heads to the Kovel area, drops food for the German troops who are surrounded.

Unloading "supply bombs" with various cargo for the troops.

View of Kovel.

German soldier resting, wounded.

German armored train on the tracks.

Operations of German troops to eliminate the encirclement.

Actions of Tiger tanks and infantry.

Air formations of Junkers-87s dive on enemy positions near Kovel, air battle.

Colonel Hoffman, commander of the units tasked with liberating the garrison.

In stubborn battles, German tanks pave the way for the grenadiers and SS units.

They approach the border of Kovel, fight in the suburbs.

Houses are burning all around, broken Soviet tanks are in the streets.

The Germans are leading prisoners, among them there are many Asian faces.

Wounded Soviet soldiers.

April 5, 1944 - lifting the siege of Kovel.

SS Gruppenführer Lieutenant General Herbert Gille and officers greet Colonel Hoffmann and award soldiers and officers who distinguished themselves in battle.

Sergeant Tastrof, one of the infantrymen who received the Knight's Cross, is congratulated by his comrades.