Die Deutsche Wochenschau №714 (1944)

A short propaganda film from the Thomas series.

Thomas flirts with a girl on a train, but she does not respond to him.

Thomas decides that his tie is to blame, takes off his tie and sends it to his mistress, Frau Schmoller, with a note: put the tie with the other things.

Thomas calls on viewers to donate things to those in need and, like him, to contribute to the 1944 collection campaign.

Germany.

Berlin.

Speech by the leader of the Hitler youth movement, Arthur Axmann, to young workers of military factories, participants in all-German professional competitions.

Close-up of the diploma of Karl Schantz, who won the metal forging competition.

The hall in which the competition participants have gathered is covered with a mosaic floor, assembled by members of the Hitler Youth and the women's organization.

The guys receive diplomas from the hands of Reich Minister Herbert Backe.

The winners also receive a special chest badge.

The second diploma, shown in close-up, was awarded to Gerda Zühlke as a film editor.

Martin Muschmann, Gauleiter of Saxony, is present at the ceremony.

Germany.

Speech by Reichsleiter and head of the German Labor Front Dr.

Robert Ley at a workers’ meeting at a military plant that has received the title of “Model National Socialist Enterprise.” German workers awarded for their valiant labor.

Interior Minister Walter Funk presents “Pioneer of Labor” diplomas to distinguished workers /1.5.1944/.

Germany.

Demonstration of clothing models remade from old clothes at one of the plants.

Poster for the show.

Models present their models on a wooden platform during a lunch break.

Spectators, female workers at a military plant.

Dresses made from different fabrics, a dark dress made from a man’s tailcoat.

Germany.

Bicycle races in rainy weather through the streets of Berlin to mark the opening of the season.

Fans on the track.

Germany.

Lieutenant General Karl-Wilhelm Specht, Knight's Cross with Oak Leaves, Inspector General of the Army Command Staff, inspects future officers serving their national labor service.

Work detachments march with shovels in their hands.

The general stands in front of the soldiers sitting on benches, checking their theoretical training.

Specht fires a rifle at a target.

The cadets demonstrate their athletic skills to the general: they tug-of-war in two teams, perform athletic exercises, run an obstacle course over rough terrain, and wrestle.

Austria.

Meeting between Hitler and Mussolini at Klessheim Castle near Salzburg /22-23.4.1944/.

Hitler and Mussolini walk together through the palace hall to hold a meeting in which the Allies decide to continue the fight until victory.

Marshal Rodolfo Graziani and Field Marshal Wilhelm Keitel take part in the meeting.

Groups of German and Italian officers conversing, Chief of the Reich Chancellery Otto Meissner.

At the end of the meeting, Mussolini, accompanied by German generals and Marshal Graziani, visits Italian troops and observes maneuvers.

Germany.

Military and merchant ships at the pier.

Paul Hellmann, first captain of the merchant ship Osorno, awarded the Knight's Cross.

The captain is congratulated by his colleagues.

He presents awards to the sailors.

A meeting in the convoy captain's wardroom before departure.

A convoy of German ships at sea, escorted by minesweepers, a cruiser and aircraft.

A sailor near an onboard gun, a dog sits.

A sailor signals with flags.

Barrage balloons in the air.

Enemy aircraft appear, alarm on board.

Anti-aircraft guns fire at the enemy.

The convoy of ships continues on its way.

Eastern Front.

The Immelmann Squadron celebrates its 100,000th sortie at one of the German frontline airfields.

A plaque with this number is attached to the propeller.

The commander of one of the units, Colonel General Otto Dessloch, accompanied by the squadron commander, Lieutenant Colonel Hans-Karl Stepp, inspect the formation of pilots, among them the holder of the Knight's Cross with Oak Leaves, Swords and Diamonds, Major Hans-Ulrich Rudel.

Awarding of pilots, two new Knight's Cross holders appear in the unit.

Aircraft on the field are preparing for takeoff.

The squadron flies in three wedges.

Battles near Narva.

The Germans have set up a fairly large and well-fortified bridgehead here.

Grenadiers in camouflage suits await the attack in the trenches.

Latvian SS men prepare guns for battle, carry shells.

A raid by Soviet aircraft, soldiers take cover in the trenches.

A shot down Soviet plane, burning on the ground.

An officer looks at his watch, the hands show 16-00. The beginning of the German counterattack.

Heavy guns, mortars, and cannons are firing.

Soldiers are firing machine guns.

The commander is receiving messages over the radio.

A German rocket launcher is firing.

The infantry and the Waffen-SS are preparing for battle, soldiers are jumping out of dugouts.

Tanks of the Feldgerngalle division are advancing.

A panorama of a huge field across which infantry is running.

A view from a slit in a tank along a moving column.

The infantry and the Waffen-SS are breaking through barbed wire.

Tanks and cannons are firing.

The corpses of dead Soviet soldiers are lying on a snow-covered field.

Captured Soviet soldiers are walking.

German soldiers are resting in a captured village after the battle, they are eating, smoking cigarettes, one of the soldiers shows his helmet, pierced by a shell fragment.

Awarding of distinguished Latvian SS men in the trenches with German Iron Crosses.