Die Deutsche Wochenschau №703 (1944)

Germany.

German biochemist Professor Adolf Butenand, 1939 Nobel Prize laureate, at a microscope.

He is the director of the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Biochemistry, and among other things, he studies sex hormones in the life of organisms.

He and his assistants at a table of repeated results of previous studies.

Animal experiments.

Germany.

Munich University.

Ceremony of appointing Arthur Seyss-Inquart as president of the German Academy, 10.2. 1944. Goebbels presents him with a certificate of appointment signed by the Fuhrer.

The new president takes an oath on the podium.

He calls on scientific and creative personnel to cooperate, speaks about the tasks of the German Academy.

Germany.

German winemakers at a factory, in addition to them, French workers are working.

Huge barrels of wine.

A taster takes samples for the laboratory.

Stacking bottles.

Making sparkling wine.

Packing, stacking bottles in boxes.

The Henkel label on the box.

Belgium.

Fragments of a boxing match in Brussels at the European Championships.

The fight between the Fleming Karl Sis and Van Deuren.

The winner Karl Sis.

Germany.

Rehearsal of the ballet troupe of the UFA film studio in Berlin.

Fragments of classes, girls at the ballet barre.

Applying make-up, putting on costumes.

A girl puts on a top hat in front of a mirror.

Rehearsal of a dance on pointe shoes.

A girl in a top hat and a shiny costume tap dances on the piano, then she joins the others.

They perform the Royal Waltz in long ball gowns.

Germany.

A rest home where Luftwaffe pilots who returned from captivity in the USA and Canada rest.

View of the sanatorium building on Tegernsee.

Front-line pilots arrive to visit their comrades.

Two rows of pilots line up near the porch, they greet one of the most famous pilots of bomber aviation, Knight's Cross with Oak Leaves and Swords holder Colonel Joachim Helbig.

Major General of Bomber Aviation Dietrich Peltz greets the pilots.

One of the pilots talks about his battles and the circumstances of his capture, shows a clipping from an English newspaper with his photo.

Major Werner Baumbach is surrounded by pilots, one of them tells him something on a model airplane.

The pilots are outdoors, they are sitting on deck chairs in the sun.

Their comrades sneak up on them and throw snow at them, a playful fight begins.

France.

French fishing boats, protected by German destroyers, are fishing in the Atlantic Ocean.

English bombers appear.

The ship's anti-aircraft guns fire, the planes fly away.

Fishermen on the schooner cut up and salt herring, smoke the fish.

Part of the catch will go to the German Wehrmacht.

Italy.

Trucks.

German units in the mountains.

Food and ammunition being delivered by trucks.

Mountain positions are being equipped with great difficulty.

Ammunition and food being delivered to the unit's location by donkey.

A soldier carries loaves of bread.

An attack by Anglo-American bombers, their bombs falling on a village.

German anti-aircraft guns firing.

The Abbey of Monte Cassino, which had stood for centuries.

The view of the abbey before and after its destruction by Anglo-American aviation.

Artillery fire destroyed the Benedictine abbey.

The abbot of the Monte Cassino monastery, Don Gregorio Diamare, leaves for Rome in a German car accompanied by German soldiers.

He expresses gratitude to the German officers.

The papal residence of Castel Gandolfo is in ruins, there were 15 thousand refugees in it, mainly women and children.

The bodies of murdered refugees, which are carried out from the ruins.

Destruction in the city after enemy air raids.

Northern section of the Eastern Front.

On the Shlisselburg-Luga-Novgorod line.

German troops retreat to pre-planned positions.

Retreat of the German column.

Explosive operations of German sappers.

Blowing up a bridge.

Buildings are burning.

Smoke from the fire.

A tank unit in a pause between battles.

Soldiers are eating and drinking wine.

A soldier is shaving in the cold.

German soldiers digging trenches.

German Panther tanks that ensured the "orderly" retreat of German troops.

A shootout between German infantry and Soviet troops.

Eastern Front.

Kirovograd area.

In a German tank division. "Tigers" are going to counterattack.

German infantry is advancing against a background of white snow.

The enemy group is cut off and is being fired upon by heavier artillery.

Infantry and tanks are moving forward.

German guns are firing.

The radio calls for six-barreled mortars, they hit Soviet positions.

A destroyed Soviet position.

Knocked out tanks on the field, corpses of Soviet soldiers.

A column of Soviet prisoners.

Crimea.

Street fighting in Kerch.

German and Romanian troops defend the northern outskirts of the city.

German infantry await orders.

Romanian soldiers move forward with loaded horses.

Close-up of a soldier in a papakha.

German artillery fires.

Shelling of a Soviet outpost.

Explosions.

German infantry prepares to storm.

Fragments of street fighting.

Germans on the streets of destroyed Kerch.

Cavalier of the Knight's Cross with Oak Leaves and Swords Major Erich Berenfenger at the command post.

German Junkers planes fly, bombing bridgehead positions.

Announcer on the collapse of Soviet plans to capture Kerch.