Die Deutsche Wochenschau №693 (1943)

Germany.

The Grand Mufti of Jerusalem, Muhammad Amin al-Husseini, visits Muslim units serving in the German army.

He walks around the formation and talks to young soldiers.

At the tent city, he inspects the unit's food supplies, the work of the field bakery, and the cook brings him freshly baked bread.

Parade of Muslim units.

USSR. The work of German railway workers in the occupied regions of the USSR. A wagon-building plant.

Manufacturing railway cars, manufacturing springs at the plant.

A ceremonial plaque on a car: "20000, 23.9.1941-23.10.1943".

Workers at the construction site of a railway line.

Installation of track structures.

A locomotive on the way.

A checkpoint, a switchman with a rifle.

Raising a locomotive damaged as a result of sabotage.

Engine driver and assistant engineer with weapons in their hands in the locomotive cab.

Germany.

Railwayman's Day in Germany, 7.12.1943. Berlin.

Minister of Transport Dr.

Julius Dorpmüller at a ceremonial meeting of Reichsbahn railway workers.

Presentation of awards and honorary badges to distinguished railway workers.

Reichsbahn State Secretary Albert Gansenmüller is awarded the Iron Cross.

The Knight's Cross with Swords is received by Reichsbahn Chief Inspector Hellenthal, railway manager Grimm, engine driver Kinderwater (he receives the cross from fighter pilot Captain Walter Nowotny), railway manager Lammerts, engine driver Birschenk and General President Dr.

Godefroy.

Excerpt from a speech by Reich Minister of Propaganda Joseph Goebbels /recorded/.

Goebbels congratulates the awarded workers.

Reichsleiter Dr.

Robert Ley is present at the meeting.

Lapland.

Northern Front.

German soldiers being sent home on leave.

They travel by cart, then by truck.

Leave-takers at the assembly point, handing out leave certificates.

Boarding railway freight cars.

The train heads south.

A stop in the Finnish town of Kotka.

Soldiers at the hairdresser's.

They are on a ship.

Arrival at a German port.

At the distribution point in Memel, they receive the "Fuhrer's Gift", a special package.

Boarding the cars.

The train departs.

Germany.

Preparing for Christmas.

Bakers making Christmas buns.

Female signalmen and soldiers making toys.

In the navy.

Sailors making children's toys.

Finished toys.

With soldiers in the Mediterranean.

Instead of a Christmas tree, a decorated palm tree.

In the north, a soldier with Christmas trees.

Eastern Front.

Combat operations near Zhitomir.

German squadron.

Pilot Lieutenant Emil Lang, holder of the German Cross in Gold, talks about his sortie.

Celebration of pilot Lang's 100th sortie.

Zhitomir station, tanks and gasoline cans are being unloaded.

Tanks move to their positions.

Unloading supplies and ammunition.

Tankers having a snack, eating honey from the combs.

German infantry, vehicles, and guns move to new positions.

German soldier in a trench.

Soviet Il-2 attack aircraft attack.

German four-barreled anti-aircraft gun firing.

Crew at gun.

Soviet aircraft under fire, aircraft crashes.

The firefight continues.

Infantrymen on the attack.

Tiger tank firing.

Mortar.

Killed soldiers, damaged equipment.

Destroyed bridge.

The Germans enter completely destroyed Zhitomir.

Traces of heavy fighting, dead Soviet soldiers lying on the ground.

A sign on the building reading "Zhitomir City Commandant's Office", a cathedral visible in the background.

Burning buildings.

Broken cars.

Germans on the city streets.

German soldiers and convoys passing by against the backdrop of burning buildings.

The Indian Ocean.

German submarine U-98 of Lieutenant Commander Robert Giese.

Work on the upper deck.

An observer with binoculars, the island of Madagascar is visible.

The enemy appears.

Alarm.

The submarine dives.

The enemy ship is observed through the periscope.

The commander gives the order to surface.

Shelling of the enemy vessel.

It is burning and sinking.

Boats with the crew of the sunken vessel.

A German cameraman at work on board the boat.