Die Deutsche Wochenschau №702 (1944)

Germany.

A popular science film from the series "What Everyone Should Know" about the forestry industry.

Logging.

Rafting on a mountain river.

Winter timber skidding.

Timber removal.

Stripping trunks of bark.

Sawing into boards.

Unloading boards.

A village.

Furniture manufacturing.

Wagon construction.

Sleeper manufacturing.

Paper, artificial silk, etc.

An announcer about the military importance of forest resources.

Germany.

Berlin.

A fragment of a hockey match for the German championship between the teams of the cities of Berlin and Klagenfurt in an open stadium.

The match ended with a score of 7:4. There are many soldiers among the spectators.

Austria.

Army alpine skiing competitions among Luftwaffe teams, the Hitler Youth, and Hermann Goering divisions.

Winter landscape, the town of Zell am See in the snow.

Participants in the competition lined up on the square, the flag was raised.

Slalom competitions, the best was Wachtmeister Max Pichler.

Cross-country skiing, Hammerstein shows the best time.

Spectators cheer on the athletes, a blanket is thrown over a skier at the finish.

Downhill skiing, Walter Thering, a member of the Hitler Youth, wins.

Germany.

Heidelberg, view of the fortress towers, the city gates, a detachment of students marching through them.

Heidelberg University.

Classes in various faculties.

The students are members of the paramilitary student organization "Langemark".

Soldiers from the front can also study during their leave.

On the wall hangs a portrait of the Imperial student leader Gustav Adolf Scheel, who is the founder of the Langemark program.

Cadets at lunch, on vacation.

A Knight's Cross recipient talks about his impressions of the front.

In the classroom, chemistry lab.

Students preparing for classes in the library reading room.

Germany.

Girls and women of the Imperial Service of Labor Formations, who replaced men at their combat post.

Girls board a tram, the driver of which is a woman.

Auxiliary service in a hospital.

Girls prepare food in the kitchen, bandage the wounded.

Women in defense plants, learning to operate machines.

A woman at a testing apparatus.

Germany.

The famous German artist and engraver Professor Paul Hermann in his workshop at work.

He is drawing a schooner on a seascape.

Working with an engraving on metal, elaborating a woman's head.

On February 4, 1944, the Fuhrer awarded the 80-year-old master the Goethe Medal.

Germany.

Berliners who survived the trials of aerial terror receive special awards on February 10, 1944. Reich Minister of Propaganda, Reich Defense Commissioner, and Gauleiter of Berlin Joseph Goebbels speaks to the Berliners and presents awards to the worthy men and women of Berlin on behalf of the Fuehrer.

He presents the Chief of the Berlin Gau Office Gerhard Schach and the Chief of the Berlin Police (Polizei President) Count Wolf Heinrich von Helldorf with the Knight's Cross with Swords for their work in wartime Berlin.

At the same time, several unknown comrades were awarded the Iron Cross.

Germany.

The Fuehrer presents awards to distinguished inventors and scientists.

A ceremonial meeting in the hall, with Reich Minister of Armaments and Munitions Albert Speer speaking.

The head of the Labor Front, Dr.

Robert Ley, presents awards.

Dr.

Fritz Schott was awarded the prize named after Reich Minister Todt, who died two years ago.

Eight researchers and inventors were awarded gold badges: Technical Director August Könder from Krefeld, Engineer Karl Dawis from Cologne, Engineer Walter Eicholz from Lüdenscheid, Engineer Georg Goellner from Tangermünde, Professor Karl Pölzhuter from Holzheim, Engineer Ernst Rutschka from Heidelberg, and Major General Engineer Uto Gallwitz, who died a heroic death.

Germany.

Grand Admiral Karl Dönitz inspects the crews of submarines and patrol vessels at the naval base.

The sailors run to the improvised tribune, Dönitz speaks.

Conversation with the crew members.

The Grand Admiral walks the line of sailors, awards the best.

Battles for the cities of Nettuno and Aprilia.

In planning a large-scale landing, the Anglo-American forces hoped to achieve a decisive turnaround in military operations in southern Italy.

But they once again underestimated the strength of the Wehrmacht and the tactics of the German command.

German troops on the streets of Nettuno.

Tanks, infantry.

Heavy guns located on the bridgehead prevented the enemy from making a massive breakthrough.

Unlike the section of the front near Cassino, the environs of Nettuno are low-lying terrain, which became good cover for the German troops.

The exchange of fire between heavy artillery guns became the decisive factor in the battle of Nettuno.

Aprilia, a city at the foot of the Albanian Mountains, which was in enemy hands, was again occupied by German troops.

Command and observation posts at a German artillery battery.

German mortars firing.

A camouflaged observation post, transmitting a message by radio.

More than four thousand prisoners were taken on the section of the front near Nettuno.

Captured Americans in Rome with the Colosseum in the background.

A view from above of a huge column of prisoners.

Among them are former soldiers of the elite British battalions that were surrounded and defeated near Aprilia.

Residents watch the movement of the column.

USSR. Eastern Front.

Vitebsk area.

German soldiers are sent on leave to the near rear.

Boarding the vehicles.

A general with leavers.

Distribution of rations.

Movement of German transport columns along the streets of Vitebsk.

Delivery of the wounded.

Loading them into carriages.

View of the commandant's office.

Frontline theater, a soldier looks at a poster of the film newsreel "Wochenschau".

A soldier with the newspaper "Panzerfaust".

A German messenger on a motorcycle rides through the snow.

Soldiers are sleeping in the dugout, a messenger arrives.

Raising the alarm of the battle group.

This group is intended as the next shift for the front line.

Breakfast.

Riding through the forest.

Alarm at the observation post.

Repelling an attack by Soviet tanks.

German anti-aircraft guns firing.

A shootout at night.