Die Deutsche Wochenschau №654 (1943)

Germany.

Construction of military factories and workshops.

Enormous production and assembly workshops are being built using the latest construction technology.

Commissioning of workshops under construction.

Construction work.

Women go to the factory.

Women in the design bureau.

Women work in the manufacture of precision radio equipment.

Women at their machines.

In the workshops of a locomotive factory.

The Atlantic.

France, the Atlantic coast.

RAD (Reich Labor Service) and Organisation Todt soldiers installing fortifications on the Atlantic Wall.

Soldiers install barbed wire fences, drive wooden piles into the ground, and dig trenches reinforced with sandbags.

Construction of bunkers.

Anti-tank ditches and roadblocks.

German coastal artillery, guns in their nests.

A gun on a railway platform.

A sentry on duty.

German patrol boats and a destroyer on duty at sea.

The guns of a destroyer fire at British floating mines.

Various ships at sea.

An observer.

British bombers appear.

Alarm on board.

A German Messerschmitt 109 fighter in low-level flight.

An air battle in which the burning wreckage of the British plane falls into the sea.

The central section of the Eastern Front.

On the Smolensk-Orel-Kursk line.

A view of snow-covered terrain, a German airfield.

Repairs are underway, engines, chassis, etc. are being replaced.

A Focke-Wulf 189 reconnaissance aircraft returns from a mission.

Reviewing a container of film delivered by the aircraft at headquarters.

Staff officers decipher the photographs.

Police battalions and the Waffen SS are sent on a combat mission to capture partisans who are attacking railways and destroying bridges.

They are in a village, talking to a local woman.

Soldiers on a horse-drawn sleigh.

A light German tank is driving.

A partisan camp is surrounded.

Captured partisans.

One of them gives information.

A destroyed partisan camp.

Destruction of partisan weapons and ammunition.

Killed partisans.

A light aircraft "Storch" lands, it sends valuable captured documents to the German command.

Military operations in the area of Lake Ilmenskoye and Lake Ladoga.

Clearing roads of snow, a snowplow in operation.

Soldiers with shovels clearing snow.

Signalmen under enemy fire extend communications from a remote observation post.

Observer.

Shelling of Soviet positions.

German anti-aircraft guns firing.

A shot-down Soviet plane falls to the ground.

German soldiers in a trench.

Fragments of a firefight.

Alarm.

Preparing to repel a Soviet attack.

A German anti-tank gun firing.

The crew at the gun.

German Junkers in the air.

German planes attack Soviet tanks.

A company of infantry prepares to attack.

First aid to a wounded man.

German soldiers firing.

Killed Soviet soldiers.

A Soviet soldier emerges from a bunker.

Destroyed Soviet tanks.

The commander of the 28th Infantry Division, Lieutenant General of Artillery Johann Sinnhuber, awards soldiers with the Iron Cross.

Gerardus Mooijman, a gun commander in the 14th company of the SS Volunteer Legion Nordland, the first Dutch volunteer to be awarded the Knight's Cross, the general congratulates the 19-year-old hero.

He destroyed 13 enemy tanks in one day.

The southern sector of the Eastern Front.

Fighting between the Dnieper and the Donets.

German troops, tanks, and vehicles are moving east.

Tanks are moving along the highway.

A tanker stands on a hatch cover and looks around with binoculars.

A soldier fires a machine gun.

Close-up of the commander of the 1st Battalion, 1st Panzer Regiment, SS Division Leibstandarte SS Adolf Hitler, Knight's Cross recipient, SS-Sturmbannführer Max Wünsche.

Tank attack.

Destroyed Soviet tank.

Soviet soldiers surrender.

A burning windmill crumbles to the ground after burning out.

Fighting for a populated area.

Destroyed Soviet tanks on the streets of the village, destroyed Soviet equipment, ruins, remains of cars.

The commander of the Leibstandarte SS Adolf Hitler division, Sepp Dietrich, awards distinguished soldiers with Iron Crosses.

Military airfield.

Loading bombs onto planes.

German, Hungarian and Slovak aircraft bomb positions of Soviet troops.

Filming from an airplane.