Die Deutsche Wochenschau №710 (1944)

Germany.

Oldenburg.

Celebration of the 65th birthday of the writer August Hinrichs.

The writer is walking in the park, a forester approaches him and shakes his hand.

View of Hinrichs's honorary diploma from the guild of craftsmen of the city of Oldenburg, 1936. Hinrichs is working on a play in his office, typing.

He is at a rehearsal for a performance of his new folk play at the theater in Oldenburg, discussing the outline of the role with an actress.

Austria.

Tour of the Croatian dance ensemble in Vienna.

Fragment of the concert.

Performance of a folk dance by the ensemble.

Soldiers in the hall.

Germany, Kolberg.

More than 100 athletes of the German army take part in a cross-country race over a distance of 7,500 meters.

Start of the mass race.

Athletes run over obstacles, through mud, and through ditches with water.

The winner is a representative of the air club from the city of Stralsund, Max Rennen.

Germany.

Classes at the School of Artistic Woodcarving in Pirna, Saxony.

Students under the supervision of a master during class.

They carve wooden figures; a boy injures himself with a knife.

The master carves the head of the puppet theatre character Kasper with a long nose.

A puppet theatre performance featuring Kasper.

Young spectators.

Germany.

A German military factory.

Making guns for ships.

Germany.

Alsace-Lorraine.

German construction teams rebuilding farms that were destroyed during the war in France and returning their homes to their owners.

A meeting of residents where the keys were ceremonially handed over.

People enter a rebuilt cowshed.

Italy.

Master Hagi Weiss (?), creator of copies and models of works by famous artists and architects of the past: Michelangelo, Raphael, Botticelli, Donatello and others.

Models of the cathedrals of Orvieto, Siena, Florence, and St.

Peter's in Rome by Weiss.

Pictures of famous sculptures and paintings in Italy.

Germany.

A performance for wounded soldiers at the Peasant People's Theatre in Schliersee, Bavaria.

Soldiers sit at tables in the auditorium, girls in national costumes carry coffee.

On the stage, against a backdrop depicting a scene of folk life, two girls in national costumes perform, singing a folk song to the accompaniment of a national string instrument played by a man.

Italy.

Knight's Cross recipient, Colonel Heinrich Trettner, commander of the 4th Parachute Division, presents Iron Crosses to soldiers who distinguished themselves in the battles near Nettuno.

Presentation of a special banner to soldiers at their positions.

Comrades congratulate the soldier on his award and give him a bouquet of wild flowers.

A pause between battles.

A soldier, sitting on the grass, carves a craft out of a twig.

The soldiers are busy with their daily chores: shaving, playing cards, reading newspapers, frying pancakes in a frying pan.

A soldier holds a puppy in his arms, another jokingly puts a helmet on the dog, everyone is smiling.

An alarm sounds at the battery, a sentry shouts into a megaphone.

The artillerymen run to the guns.

American planes in the air.

They are fired upon by German anti-aircraft guns and guns.

A close-up of a burnt, abandoned pancake.

Explosions on the ground.

A reconnaissance aircraft takes off from an Italian airfield.

A German pilot takes photographs, collecting new data on the enemy.

Over the Anzio harbor.

The reconnaissance aircraft returns to base.

Processing aerial reconnaissance data at headquarters.

New targets for German long-range guns are set on the map based on the photographs.

A German heavy gun on a railway platform begins shelling the port of Anzio.

The crew at the gun.

Explosions.

The guns fire.

Eastern Front.

The Narva and Lake Peipus area.

Reinforcements for Army Group North (commander, General of the Cavalry Georg Lindemann) in trucks and tanks are heading to the front line.

Cars and horse-drawn convoys travel along the road in a blizzard.

A soldier approaches a car and lights a cigarette from the driver.

A German reconnaissance detachment moves along snow-covered Lake Peipus; a settlement is visible from a hill.

A scout records data.

German guns fire at Soviet positions.

A German detachment in a village, soldiers search houses.

Soviet soldiers surrender.

Repulse of a Soviet counterattack.

German soldiers fire machine guns, rifles, and anti-aircraft guns.

German ships shell Narva from the sea.

Massive attack by German attack aircraft on the Soviet rear.

Shelling of terrain and Soviet tanks from low-level flight.

Germany.

Hero pilot Major Hans-Ulrich Rudel in Berlin.

He is awarded Diamonds to the Knight's Cross with Oak Leaves and Swords.

He is with German officers and soldiers, talking about his battles and his military career.

He boards the plane.

The plane takes off and heads towards the eastern front.