Die Deutsche Wochenschau №706 (1944)

Germany.

A short fiction film from the Thomas series.

In this story, Thomas scolds his mistress, Frau Schmeller, for wasting electricity, but does not save it himself.

Thomas hears a tenor singing on the radio, who suggests that he look in the mirror.

Germany.

Dr.

Robert Ley /head of the Reich Labor Service/ visits a school for political training for wounded soldiers and officers.

He walks around the line of cadets on the parade ground.

Ley talks to cadets in the classroom.

The teacher conducts a lesson on tactics, a cadet with a glove on his right wounded hand answers.

The cadets prepare for the lesson in the room.

They are in the library near a huge globe.

Sports activities, young people doing somersaults over the backs of four comrades.

Germany.

The population helps with coal mining.

Older men pull a cart filled with coal along a track, pour it out on a waste heap, and return to the mine.

A miner in the coalface with a drill in his hands.

Women doing odd jobs, loading coal into a mine car with shovels and rolling it to the surface.

Men using a lever and a rope pull the mine car along the rails.

Two miners breaking up seams meet each other at a hole they have broken and shake hands.

Germany.

The population hides in a bomb shelter after an air raid alarm.

People sit on benches waiting for all-clear.

Men in air defense helmets play cards, a girl plays with a doll.

Germany.

Winter camp for members of the fascist organization "Workers' Front".

Training in skiing without poles.

Combat training for soldiers, they ski in camouflage suits with weapons and a drag for the wounded.

Soldiers go down hills, take a prone position and shoot at a target.

A soldier makes a crossbar out of ski poles and mounts a carbine on it.

The entire team skis downhill.

Germany.

Swimming performances in a pool.

A mass dive from different heights.

At the coach's whistle, the athletes dive into the water one after another.

Comic jumps.

Synchronized swimming of girls, they imitate a rose, then a wheel.

The spectators applaud.

Germany.

Training teenagers in various professions in the training workshop of the German aviation industry, the children at the machines.

The children learn to solder, sharpen, weld.

The parts are measured with calipers.

Experienced workers initiate future mechanics into all the intricacies of production.

Germany.

March 16 - Day of Remembrance of the Fallen Heroes.

A funeral ceremony at the pantheon of fallen soldiers, dedicated to the memory of soldiers who died in the war.

Solemn formation, inspection of the troops.

A line of Wehrmacht and navy officers.

Laying of wreaths.

Grand Admiral Karl Doenitz lays a wreath from the Fuhrer.

Solemn march of soldiers from the Grossdeutschland division past Doenitz.

Eastern Front.

On the Zhitomir-Kirovograd-Nikopol line.

In one of the Luftwaffe squadrons.

Messerschmitt-109 and Heinkel-111 aircraft are standing in a field, getting stuck in the mud.

A tractor is leveling the field.

Mechanics are turning the aircraft around.

Another aircraft is being pulled out with the help of a tractor.

The mechanics are barely walking through the mud in their boots, cleaning the chassis with shovels.

A German reconnaissance aircraft takes off.

The squadron commander, Knight's Cross recipient, Major Heinrich Höfer watches the takeoff through binoculars.

While waiting for a report, all aircraft are put on combat alert.

Aerial bombs are loaded onto the aircraft.

Major Höfer supervises the takeoff of his squadron.

Junkers-88 and six Heinkels-111 aircraft are in the air, bombing Soviet positions.

German attack aircraft repel an attack by Soviet fighters, an air battle is underway.

Italy.

Italian front.

Combat operations in the Nettuno area.

German soldiers march along muddy roads.

Bad weather and difficult local conditions make it difficult for the troops to operate.

Soldiers load ammunition onto horses and lead them through the mud.

Unloading at a firing point in the mountains.

Soldiers in wet clothes are resting, eating and smoking.

An observer looks through binoculars.

Enemy shelling from a grenade launcher, shell explosions are visible in the distance near a populated area.

Soldiers run through the ruins of houses.

German tanks advancing near the city.

Fragments of the battle with the Anglo-American troops at Anzio.

Commanders at the map.

German guns and mortars are firing.

Soldiers are lying down near the cacti.

The battle continues until dark, fires are visible in the distance.

Military operations in the Vitebsk area.

Pictures of the winter campaign, a snow-covered village.

German trucks on the road.

Soldiers clearing the roads of snow, they help a car to pass.

Ammunition and food supplies being delivered by horse, carts with cargo are moving.

The convoys stop in a populated area, local residents are unloading boxes.

A caravan of carts and sleds continues on its way through snow-covered terrain.

Soldiers in camouflage suits are moving through the snow, convoys are coming towards them.

Soldiers are walking through the forest, during a break they drink schnapps from a bottle, which they pass to each other.

A road sign to Müller's group, which is located in the forest.

German dugouts with humorous names above the entrance, an observation post in a tree, to which a stepladder leads.

A signalman with a telephone at the top surveys the surroundings.

Installation of barbed wire fences.

Corporal Schreiber, holder of the Knight's Cross, with his squad in a trench.

Artillery fire on advancing Soviet troops.