Die Deutsche Wochenschau №696 (1944)

Germany.

A Reich Labor Service (RAD) camp in Upper Bavaria for military training.

Morning, physical exercise.

Fun in the snow.

RAD soldiers jump and run.

Leaving the camp for the training ground.

Combat training in snowy terrain: throwing grenades, simulating an attack Italy.

A column of American prisoners marches through the streets of Rome.

The ruins of the monastery in Monte Cassino.

German soldiers transport the surviving books and paintings from the Monte Cassino Abbey to the Vatican.

A representative of the Luftwaffe Division "Hermann Goering" hands over the valuables to the clergy.

An Italian Catholic priest and members of the public thank the Wehrmacht officers.

Unloading valuable manuscripts, works of art, and the world's oldest globe.

Italy.

Delivery of equipment and ammunition to the southern Italian front.

Unloading from wagons at the station.

The ammunition is sent to the front.

Weather conditions led to flooding in the valley.

Trucks moving by water.

Food delivery to the mountains by horse and mule.

A detachment of Alpine riflemen on skis.

The detachment is resting, then continues on its way.

In combat positions.

Knight's Cross recipient Horst von Usedom instructs paratroopers.

Observers in the mountains.

Infantrymen.

Machine gunners fire on enemy troops.

German anti-aircraft gunners fire on American bombers.

An anti-aircraft battery in action.

Data on American losses in December 1943. Downed American planes.

Aiming a large-caliber gun.

American prisoners.

A column of prisoners of war heading to Rome.

Among the prisoners of war are Indian soldiers.

The southern sector of the Eastern Front, Crimea.

German Heinkel 111 planes in the air.

Bombing of Russian positions north of Kerch.

View from the pilot's cockpit of the explosions below.

German positions near Nikopol.

Germans dig trenches and trenches.

Repulse a Soviet tank attack.

German artillery fires.

Continued.

Eastern Front, near Nikopol.

Destroyed Soviet equipment, a wrecked T-34 tank.

Air battle, the remains of a downed Soviet plane.

German tanks on the offensive.

Infantry.

Artillery shelling Russian positions.

Corpses of Soviet soldiers, abandoned Soviet equipment, ammunition.

The Germans enter Zhitomir.

Fierce defensive battles are underway against Soviet attacks.

A burning house.

German soldiers warm themselves by the fire of a burning house.

Ceremonial formation of the 199th Infantry Regiment of the 57th Division, which inherited the traditions of the 16th Bavarian Reserve Regiment from the times of World War I (named after its commander, the "List Regiment"), in which Adolf Hitler served as a corporal.

To commemorate this, the regiment was named the "List Regiment".

Distinguished soldiers are awarded the Iron Cross.

The Atlantic coast of France.

Field Marshal Erwin Rommel at the headquarters of Field Marshal Gerd von Rundstedt, commander of all army groups in France.

Rommel inspects the West Wall fortifications on the ocean shore.

Anti-tank obstacles.

Large-caliber guns.

Rommel and a group of officers.

German artillery battery.

Soldiers.

German pillboxes and bunkers on the shore.

The generals enter one of the bunkers, inspect the fortifications, discuss military matters.

Alarm rehearsal, soldiers running, formation.

A heavy howitzer on a railway platform leaves the hangar.

The generals inspect it.

They are at the gun.

The gun crew.

Rommel inspects the gun up close.

They are transporting shells.

Aiming the gun.

Preparing to fire.

The gun barrel.

The Atlantic.

German destroyers cut through the waves of the Atlantic Ocean.

A signalman on duty.

An Arado 196 reconnaissance aircraft in the air, an allied air raid.

Alarm on board, crews take their places according to the battle schedule.

Gunner.

Loading the guns.

The gun fires.

Shell casings on the deck.

The ship's anti-aircraft guns fire.

Shells explode.

Night photography.

The commander discusses the situation.

Torpedoes are sent to the target.