Die Deutsche Wochenschau №730 (1944)

Germany.

Along with the German troops fighting at the front, the work of the defense industry continues.

Peasants are harvesting.

The highlands of Bavaria.

Here, the peasants achieve large harvests at the cost of great physical exertion.

Haymaking.

The hay is mown and loaded onto carts.

The urban population helps the peasants.

Young men and women from the Imperial Labor Service arrive on weekends to harvest.

A grandson and grandmother at work.

Consequences of new measures in Germany in connection with the declaration of "total war.

The Economic Council, in cooperation with the labor exchanges, is working everywhere to find employment for the population not employed in production.

Newspapers with a list of events /"Lokal-Anzeiger", "Volkischer Beobachter"/.

People reading newspapers.

Closure of theaters in Berlin on September 1, 1944. Women at a recruiting station.

An entire troupe of a film ballet is employed at one of the Berlin defense plants.

Women processing parts.

Women in the locker room, in the laboratory.

During the lunch break.

Children of female workers in a kindergarten.

Germany.

Use of trams for transporting various goods in cities.

A tram pulls a car attached to it.

Germany.

The civilian population in the east of the country, as in East Prussia, is working on the construction of earthen fortifications.

Germany.

Battle-tested naval sailors are in the ranks.

Vice Admiral Helmuth Heye presents awards to distinguished sailors.

Lieutenant Alfred Vetter, group commander of the 211th Sabotage and Assault Unit, is presented with the Knight's Cross.

At the same time, several torpedo boat drivers are presented with the German Golden Cross.

Both groups where the awards were presented were presented to the Supreme Commander-in-Chief of the Navy, Grand Admiral Karl Dönitz, who walks through the line of sailors.

Close-up of Lieutenant Vetter talking with Petty Officer 1st Class Berrrer.

Since the opening of the second front, the German Navy has sunk 4 cruisers, 9 destroyers, 2 corvettes, 1 special purpose vessel, and 35 steamships and cargo ships.

Germany.

Honoring 22-year-old fighter pilot Erich Hartmann.

Squadron commander Senior Lieutenant Hartmann at a reception with Hitler, awarding the pilot the Knight's Cross with Oak Leaves, Swords and Diamonds for the 300th enemy aircraft shot down.

General of Aviation Hans Seidemann congratulates him on the award.

Western Front.

Retreat operations of the German troops.

By conducting retreating maneuvers and putting up staunch resistance, the German command managed to repel the enemy troops and gain time to bring up fresh forces and heavy weapons.

Infantry on the move.

Carts.

Vehicles heading to positions.

Crossing a pontoon bridge.

German troops in a French city.

A soldier photographs passing tanks, motorcyclists ride.

Street fighting, firefights.

Tank battle with the enemy.

Eastern Front.

Privates building trenches and dugouts near Narva.

Waffen-SS General SS-Obergruppenführer Felix Steiner and Belgian Nazi leader Leon Degrelle, recently nominated for the Knight's Cross with Oak Leaves, discuss the situation.

Tanks shell Soviet positions.

Heavy guns fire.

Poland.

Suppression of the Warsaw Uprising.

Street fighting in Warsaw.

German guns shell city blocks.

German soldiers on the city streets.

Tanks and assault guns begin to storm individual buildings.

Then the infantry storms the remains of the buildings.

Under cover of a smoke screen, the infantry breaks forward.

German tanks on the streets.

Burning Warsaw.

German guns and flamethrowers fire.

USSR. German bombers take off.

Airplanes fire machine guns at Transport columns, tanks, ground targets in the rear of the Soviet army.

Aerial view of roads and moving equipment.

An airplane dives down, approaching a target.

A fuel truck explodes.