Die Deutsche Wochenschau №709 (1944)

Germany.

German sculptor Richard Scheibe at work in his studio.

On the occasion of his 65th birthday, the sculptor was awarded the Goethe Medal for Art and Science.

The master is making a clay model of a nude male figure.

Scheibe's work is the head of a German soldier in a helmet.

Germany.

Cycling festival in Singen on Lake Constance.

Performance by female cyclists, six of them perform various turns in the arena.

German champion, naval officer Kurt Heimke, demonstrates tricks on a bicycle, he rides on one wheel, upside down.

There are many soldiers in the spectators.

Germany.

Circus.

Aerial gymnast Hildegard performs with a partner under the circus dome.

He is in a model of a glider, a special bar extends from the glider, and already on the end of this lever the girl performs risky exercises.

Germany.

Garmisch-Partenkirchen.

One of the shelters of the Hitler youth.

Reveille at the duty officer's whistle.

Morning toilet.

The boys who were taken away from the cities subjected to air attacks continue their education in the orphanage.

Aircraft modelers during their hobby group classes.

Labor lessons for the girls: they saw, cut, and sew.

A family home in Garmisch-Partenkirchen.

After work, parents can enjoy active recreation with their children.

Sledding.

Germany.

A ceremonial review of the Hitler Youth members who have joined the RAD /Imperial Labor Service/.

Drummers playing.

An officer inspects a line of young RAD soldiers.

Young soldiers with shovels.

Girls give the soldiers bouquets of flowers.

Front-line soldiers visiting the boys.

Germany.

The German Alps.

A mountain school for Waffen SS units.

Cadets run out of the barracks, a line of SS men with skis.

A trainer demonstrates the basics of mountaineering.

They walk, tied together with a rope.

Skis are not always useful for climbing a mountain.

Cadets use ice axes to pass through the crust.

Jumping over a chasm.

A rapid descent on skis.

Germany.

Military pilot school.

Colonel Hannes Trautloft, inspector of fighter aviation of the Eastern Front, gives a farewell speech to the formation of cadets.

Training airfield, pilots returning from a mission.

Continued.

Airplanes in the air.

Cadets exit the plane and report to the commander on the results of the flight.

Technician Sergeant Hartel is noted in his report to the Supreme Command of the Wehrmacht.

In his first seven flights, he destroyed eleven enemy aircraft.

Eastern Front.

Southern sector near Nikolaev.

Defensive battles of German troops.

Retreat of German troops during flood conditions.

Vehicles stuck in mud.

A motorcyclist barely moves along the road, clay sticks to the wheels.

Infantry soldiers in a village run between houses.

Signalmen install an antenna on the roof of a hut.

Infantrymen in the reeds.

They run through the water, a soldier falls.

Retreating troops blow up the railway, industrial facilities, warehouses, and shipyards of Nikolaev.

Military materials are being transported on boats and ferries on the Bug River.

Military escort boats.

Soviet planes in the air.

Bombs fall between the ships.

German anti-aircraft guns firing.

Ships continue their journey.

A downed plane falls.

Italy.

Cassino area.

During the landing of Anglo-American troops in Salerno on September 9, 1943, they managed to advance only 120 km.

In March 1944, the Allies launched another offensive on Cassino.

Fragment of a captured chronicle.

English soldiers advance in the ruins of the city.

Crossing the river on a pontoon bridge.

American infantry marches to Cassino.

American planes bomb Monte Cassino and the city.

Ruins of the city.

German paratroopers in the ruins of houses, the Americans gave them the name "Green Devils".

Fighting in the ruins of houses.

Field Marshal Albert Kesselring and Lieutenant General Richard Heydrich were awarded the Knight's Cross with Swords and Oak Leaves by the Fuhrer.

They are driving through the position in a car.

The area of enemy bomb explosions.

German positions at Monte Cassino and the monastery of the same name were significantly damaged after Anglo-American bombing that lasted several hours.

Grenade launchers fire.

Fragments of fighting.

In a pause: the wounded are sent to the rear.

Lieutenant General Heidrich's parachute division prepares for a counterattack.

Fragment of an American chronicle: American soldiers on the streets of Cassino, a shootout with the Germans.

German infantrymen run through the ruins under American fire.

Tanks on the street, assault guns.

Street fighting.