Die Deutsche Wochenschau №647 (1943)

Germany.

The city of Eisenach.

The legendary Würzburg Castle was a poetic center of the Minnesingers (troubadours) in the Middle Ages.

Martin Luther spent his childhood here, and translated the New Testament into German in Würzburg.

Richard Wagner made Würzburg the center of his opera "Tannhäuser".

Street traffic in the snow-covered city.

Founded 900 years ago, Eisenach is one of the oldest cities in Thuringia.

It is known as the place of life and work of many great Germans, for example, it is the birthplace of Johann Sebastian Bach.

Germany.

Torchlight procession in Berlin to celebrate the 10th anniversary of Hitler's rise to power in Germany.

Historical footage: Hitler in the window of the Reich Chancellery.

Immediately after the new government took effect, an attack on unemployment began.

Three million Germans were able to work again.

Footage of shock labor of the Germans.

The curve of falling unemployment.

New bridges and highways in Germany.

A sculptor at work.

Works of the "new art".

An art exhibition in Munich.

New sports facilities.

Construction of new buildings.

Examples of the "new" German architecture.

New houses for workers.

Commissioning of cottages for workers.

Caring for children.

In a kindergarten.

Children with teachers, children on vacation playing sports, swimming.

View of a youth shelter.

New German ships: "Robert Ley" and others.

Vacationers from the organization "Strength through Joy" on board a ship.

German ships and planes, tanks, soldiers.

The North Sea.

One of many German patrol boats at sea, it protects the German coast.

Alarm on the boat.

A message transmitted to the coastal artillery about a raid by English aircraft.

The work of the German maritime communication and information service.

The message is transmitted to the air defense headquarters.

Knight's Cross recipient, Air Force General, organizer of the Third Reich's air defense system, Josef Kammhuber with his staff, receiving radio messages.

Night attack aviation pilots.

Knight's Cross recipient with Oak Leaves, who destroyed 50 enemy aircraft, Major Helmut Lent, conferring with the pilots.

German fighter pilots take their seats in the cockpits.

Aircraft in the air.

A pilot in contact with air defense headquarters.

Tunisia.

Armaments being delivered on German ships in the Mediterranean.

Italian flotillas escort cargo ships.

A smoke screen is placed over the ships.

British torpedo planes approach.

Onboard guns fire, the plane is hit and plunges into the sea.

The crew is taken on board and taken prisoner.

Arms and ammunition are unloaded from transport ships in one of the Tunisian ports.

Guns unloaded from the ship.

Coastal fortifications and guns captured from the French.

Test shots from captured guns.

In the south of Tunisia, motorized and infantry units begin an offensive against de Gaulle's troops, which occupy key points on the highways running through the Atlas Mountains.

They move along the road with infantrymen.

Fighting.

Anglo-American equipment is destroyed.

A column of English prisoners, more than four thousand of them were taken.

Eastern Front.

Near Leningrad.

German supply trains on the road leading to the front line.

A piercing east wind has covered the road with a layer of ice.

The infantrymen are taking up new positions.

A panorama of the terrain, it is covered with countless fortifications.

An observer notices a new target.

Artillery is firing at a Soviet observation post.

Stormtroopers are moving forward on skis, they will have to take up defensive positions on the broken enemy positions.

The icy ground has to be cut down.

Engineer units are restoring positions recaptured from the Soviet troops, digging trenches, making platforms.

The platforms are covered with snow to camouflage them from air raids.

The firing point is primitive, but the entire field can be easily fired upon from here.

Repulsing an attack, machine gunners are firing.

Heavy artillery and anti-aircraft guns are firing.

Several dozen destroyed Soviet tanks are standing in front of the trenches, most of them were blown up by the infantry in close combat.

A tank that has fallen into a trench.

USSR. Military operations in the Velikiye Luki area.

A shootout.

German guns are firing.

German soldiers in front of the camera, close-ups of the faces of the Velikiye Luki heroes after a successful breakout from encirclement.

Eastern Front.

At a position southeast of Lake Ilmen.

German soldiers in a trench, guard posts.

Changing posts.

The enemy is firing shells with remote detonators.

A soldier in a trench is trying to eat frozen bread.

There is very little time for lunch.

The artillery is ordered to open barrage fire, a shootout is underway.

Soldiers are carrying a wounded man on a drag.

Self-propelled artillery is ordered to counterattack together with tanks.

Reconnaissance vehicles are moving forward.

The path passes through an abandoned village.

Infantrymen are waiting in the forest ahead, the attack is about to begin.