Die Deutsche Wochenschau №727 (1944)

Germany.

Regardless of age, gender and profession, the entire German nation is fighting.

In the east, defensive fortifications must be built against the Bolshevik offensive.

German youth are sent to build new fortifications.

Young men at work: they are digging an anti-tank ditch.

Soldiers direct them.

Older people and women at work.

A view from an airplane of the completed fortifications.

The Eastern Front.

There is a lull between battles in the area from the Baltic Sea to the northern tip of the Carpathians.

Trucks are driving along the road.

German motorized infantry is moving towards the front.

Tanks on the highway.

German artillery is shelling Soviet positions.

SS-Sturmbannführer Hubert-Erwin Meyerdress, holder of the Knight's Cross with Oak Leaves, commands a heavy gun battery.

German artillery and anti-tank guns are shelling the advancing Soviet tanks.

German heavy tanks on the offensive.

It is necessary to liberate a village fiercely defended by the Bolsheviks.

SS troops before the assault.

A captured Russian village, its houses are ablaze.

A soldier shows that a bullet has hit a pot.

The commander of the 5th SS Panzer Division "Viking", SS Gruppenführer Herbert Gille, together with his soldiers, is defending Kovel; reinforcements have been called over the radio.

German infantrymen with light infantry guns, covered by tanks, begin a counterattack.

Tanks fire on Bolshevik positions.

German soldiers in a village recaptured from the Russians near the city of Kovel.

They have eliminated a breakthrough in the front line.

Destroyed Soviet tanks.

A burning Soviet tank.

German soldiers walk past a destroyed tank, peer through a crack.

Western Front.

French Petain's militia in the fight against partisan "terrorists".

People with raised hands are led out of the building, a column of arrested people is led.

Interrogation of captured "bandits".

On a rural road in France after a raid.

A car with broken windows.

French field police check vehicles and drivers.

Documents are checked.

The house of a farm owner suspected of helping bandits is set on fire.

French counterfeit money distributed by the Americans.

German infantry is sent to the front.

Alarm, soldiers take cover on the side of the road.

Anti-aircraft batteries located here open fire on an approaching squadron of American bombers.

The enemy raid is repelled, and the transport columns continue on their way.

At a combat position, the unit commander gives an order.

Soldiers in the trenches.

Field Marshal Günther Hans von Kluge inspects one of the sections of the front.

Approaching enemy tanks are spotted at one of the posts, fire is opened on them.

Western Front.

Several enemy tanks break forward and now stand directly in front of the position.

Infantrymen and paratroopers, armed with anti-tank weapons, destroy tanks in the immediate vicinity of the position.

A soldier in a helmet with a camouflage net.

Repelling an American tank attack.

An unknown heroic infantryman, who knocked out two heavy American tanks in a few hours, is awarded the Iron Cross the same day; his commander shakes his hand.

German tanks counterattack.

Artillery fires day and night.

Enemy sorties are supported only by regular rear supplies across the English Channel.

North Sea.

A German submarine on raid.

Scenes inside the submarine.

Giving commands.

The crew at work.

Launching torpedoes.

Sounding the alarm when an aircraft appears.

Submersion, surfacing and other maneuvers.

A hole in the boat, its repair.

The crew on board the surfaced boat.