Die Deutsche Wochenschau №717 (1944)

Germany. "Mother's Day" instituted by the Nazis in Germany.

Parents visit their children who are on holiday at a children's sports camp.

The children meet their relatives at the train and take them to the camp.

Drummers and buglers play at the entrance. "Indians", children in costumes, jump out from an ambush to meet the arrivals.

A fun game begins.

Gauleiter of Steyermark Siegfried Uiberreiter presents the Order of Glory to mothers of many children.

Germany.

Hydrologist Professor Charlotte Möller.

She is sailing on a boat along the river, taking water samples.

Möller in the laboratory studying samples.

Her work is of practical importance in economic planning for industrial projects and for work in the colonies.

She is the first woman to have a reputation in the field of hydrography.

On May 14, 1944, the 5th German wartime competition in gymnastics on apparatus among men took place in the city of Krems.

Athletes on the parallel bars, Alfred Müller on the horizontal bar, rapid shooting.

The overall winner was Ernst Braun from Dortmund, he performs gymnastics exercises.

Germany.

Fragments of a boxing match between the teams of Germany and the Netherlands.

Sergeant Gustav Eder and the Dutchman De Jong are performing, Eder wins the match.

In those areas of Germany that were particularly frequently subjected to enemy air raids, the population receives special food supplements.

Newspapers with a report on new distributions of food products to the population of Berlin.

And in the fifth year of the war, despite the air terror, food is regularly distributed, which includes everything necessary.

Distribution rates.

Customers in stores, the sausage department, hanging out butter.

Food is loaded from warehouses onto trucks, loaders roll barrels, carry sacks.

Reich Minister of Food Supply Herbert Backe, who is responsible for organizing the people's nutrition, regularly checks the progress of his orders.

Backe at the warehouse, checking peas in a sack, inspecting a warehouse of meat carcasses.

France.

Arrival of German soldiers, former American prisoners, from the USA to the southern French port on the Swedish steamship Gripsholm.

Residents on the pier greet the prisoners.

Prisoners wave their hands from the steamship.

Veterans of African battles disembark.

For them, this is the last stage on the way to their homeland.

Prisoners board a train.

New Guinea.

Successful actions of the Allies in the Pacific theater of military operations.

American transports arrive on the island.

Landing of troops.

Attack by Japanese aircraft.

Explosions in the harbor.

Smoke from fires. (Story from an American newsreel).

Retreat of German troops from Romania.

Civilians fleeing the "Bolshevik terror".

Carts loaded with household goods move in a line along country roads.

Refugee camp.

Nurses of the German Red Cross take care of refugees.

They distribute soup from cans, look after refugee babies, bathe them.

Children sleep in cribs.

Romania.

Field airfield in Husi, where the Luftwaffe's attack squadron "Immelmann" is stationed.

One day with Major Hans-Ulrich Rudel and his team.

Major Rudel's pilots use the time remaining before takeoff for a football match.

Rudel himself is an excellent athlete, his day begins with physical education and track and field exercises.

He does push-ups, throws a javelin, a shot.

USSR. Pilots having lunch.

Taking off on a combat mission.

Major Hans-Ulrich Rudel boards the plane.

He is always in the thick of battles with the enemy; he has destroyed almost 200 enemy tanks single-handedly.

Planes in the air.

Bombing enemy positions.

On the front line near the Adriatic coast.

Mountainous terrain.

German observers report the enemy approaching.

A German tank destroyer emerges from cover.

A soldier wipes out the tracks in the sand with a basket.

Shelling the enemy.

Discussing the operation plan.

On another section of the front line south of Rome, a major battle has begun near the city of Cisterna with the advancing Anglo-American units.

All that remains of the city of Cisterna are ruins.

German soldiers stubbornly defend themselves against superior enemy forces.

A respite between battles.

German infantrymen are resting, sleeping, hiding in the ruins of a building.

German guns are firing.

Tanks counterattack.

Detachments of the so-called "green devils", so feared by the enemy, go on the offensive in the forest.

Corpses of enemy soldiers, destroyed tanks.

Captured Americans, many of them representatives of the peoples of the colonies.

Wounded German soldiers.

Sending the seriously wounded to the rear.

German infantry in battle, soldiers run between haystacks, shoot, lying in the grass.

Enemy aircraft in the sky, a soldier looks at the sky, examines a bag pierced by shrapnel.

Explosions on the ground.

Repelling a new American attack.

A destroyed American tank.

German Admiral Wilhelm Meendsen-Bolken at a meeting with the teams of German submarine destroyers.

Captain of the anti-submarine ship Otto Pollmann, awarded the Iron Cross for sinking 12 enemy boats, in front of the camera.

A German submarine goes on a raid, protecting a German convoy of ships in the Mediterranean Sea.

In a special room of the boat there are devices with which it is possible to determine the location of the enemy boat.

The noise of engines under water is heard.

An alarm sounds on the boat, the sailors run to their places.

Dropping depth charges.

Explosions in the water.

Oil on the surface of the water is a sign of a direct hit on the target.

The raid continues, a new battle is underway.

Romania.

A police division in the forest fights bandit squads, thereby providing enormous support throughout the battle.

The unit is sent to a village occupied by bandits.

Soldiers inspect a haystack, pierce it with a bayonet, look into the windows of houses in search of bandits.

Captured partisans.

Fires in the village.