Die Deutsche Wochenschau №735 (1944)

Germany.

The fascist holiday "Harvest Day".

A festive meeting on the occasion of Harvest Day.

Reich Minister of Propaganda, Reichsleiter Joseph Goebbels greets the workers of German agriculture gathered in the hall.

Awarding of the Knight's Cross to the eight most distinguished workers, who most successfully implemented the principles of agricultural policy during the war.

State Secretary of the Reich Ministry of Food Supply Herbert Backe gives a speech.

Award ceremony.

Awards are received by: Kurt Hecht (President of the Economic Association for the Potato Industry); Reinhold Huber (leader of farmers in Carinthia); Helmut Körner (leader of farmers in Wartheland); Dr.

Walter Flöhmbaum (President of the Economic Association for Cattle); Gustav Behrens (Chairman of the Reich Peasants' Union); Wilhelm Bloedorn (leader of farmers in Pomerania); Albrecht Brunnenbaum (head of the farmers' section of the Reich Peasants' Union).

Goebbels announces the gratitude and appreciation of the Fuhrer and the entire German people to German agricultural workers.

Germany.

Speech by Grand Admiral Karl Doenitz to workers at a shipyard in the district of Westphalia on the inadmissibility of capitulationist, defeatist sentiments.

Faces of the workers. .

Germany.

Arrival in Berlin of a group of naval sailors, torpedo boat pilots, at the invitation of Reich Youth Leader Arthur Axmann /Imperial Youth Leader/.

The sailors exit the carriage and are greeted with flowers.

Accompanied by young comrades from the naval unit "Hitler Youth", the guests go to a reception with the Reich Youth Leader.

They board a bus.

Axmann greets the sailors.

Among them are Knight's Cross recipient Lieutenant Alfred Vetter, commander of a sabotage and assault unit, and Knight's Cross recipient Oberleutnant Walter Gerhold, a guided torpedo pilot.

Demonstration of a single-seater torpedo boat controlled by a man.

A teenager puts on a torpedo pilot's uniform.

Vetter talks about battles in France and operations against British destroyers.

USSR. Eastern Front.

The Germans fight partisans in the Carpathians.

An assault gun brigade receives an order to clear a village in the eastern Carpathians of the enemy.

The guns advance from their starting positions in a wide front toward the designated target.

There are tanks camouflaged with branches and self-propelled guns.

A gun fires at huts.

A medic applies a plaster to the cheek of a wounded soldier.

The village is surrounded and destroyed as a "nests of resistance", the huts are burning.

Italy.

The battlefield on the Adriatic Front.

The enemy opens artillery fire on a peasant farm, horses that have broken free gallop.

Artillery battles continue almost non-stop in this area.

The regiment commander at the command post during a discussion of the situation. 88-mm anti-aircraft guns are shelling the enemy's rear support roads.

The radio operator is firing a message in Morse code at the radio.

View of the cliffs of San Marino.

During the retreat, the sappers hold out to the last.

Bombs are planted to blow up the bridge.

The sapper turns the handle of the detonator.

German sappers tie mines to tree trunks.

Thanks to the blowing up of the forest, the road will be blocked in several places.

The Second Front.

The end of the 1st British Airborne Division near Arnhem.

Thus began the ten-day Battle of Arnhem, which ended with the greatest tactical and military success of the Germans achieved during the landing of the Western forces.

On September 17, Anglo-American troops landed approximately three parachute divisions in the area of Eindhofen, Nijmegen and Arnhem with the aim of intensifying operations on the western border.

The English landing force descends by parachute.

Soon after, the German command managed to encircle the airborne division operating in the Arnhem area and destroy it over the next ten days.

Burning English planes at the airfield.

German infantry on the march.

Corpses of English and American soldiers.

German guns and anti-aircraft guns fire at enemy transport planes.

Prisoners, destroyed American equipment.

The Germans inspect the captured trophies, light English cigarettes.

German infantry in Arnhem, street fighting.

A machine gun fires.

German soldiers near houses.

A house with an English parachute left on the roof.

Captured American prisoners.

A railway station that the paratroopers were supposed to take by storm.

A column of prisoners.