Die Deutsche Wochenschau №665 (1943)

Germany.

At one of the Luftwaffe flight schools.

Training aircraft are parked on the field, cadets march past.

Theoretical classes.

An instructor works with cadets on the airfield, demonstrating the actions of a pilot on a model glider.

Training flights on a glider.

The glider is attached to a light aircraft by a cable and rises into the air.

Various aerobatic maneuvers are performed.

An instructor during classes with cadets in the auditorium, explaining the structure of an engine near the aircraft.

Navigation classes.

Cadets plot an aircraft course on maps.

A cadet before his first flight on an aircraft with a motor.

Light aircraft take off.

Yugoslavia, Croatia.

Zagreb.

A ceremonial acceptance ceremony of Croatian volunteers into the Waffen-SS division.

A Croatian general inspects the formation.

Taking the oath to the Fuhrer.

A ceremonial march past Croatian and German officers.

Eastern Front.

A line of Estonian volunteers in Luftwaffe uniform stands in a field, they are fighting under the fascist flag.

German officers walk around the line.

Close-up of the "Estland" patch on the sleeve.

Volunteers take the oath near the Estonian and fascist flags.

Estonian SS Panzergrenadier Battalion "Narwa" on the Eastern Front, they are marching along the road.

Self-propelled artillery is moving.

Soldiers deploy a gun, fire a grenade launcher, machine guns, and cannons.

Night shooting, a trail of tracer bullets in the sky.

Eastern Front.

Spain.

The 250th Regiment of the Spanish Blue Division marches through a Russian village, lines up.

On command, the soldiers disperse, smoke.

The return of wounded Spaniards to their homeland from the Eastern Front by train.

Meeting at the Spanish border station of Irun.

The wounded are being transferred, the seriously wounded are carried on stretchers.

French border guards greet soldiers, shake their hands.

A train with wounded is heading to Spain.

Northern section of the Eastern Front /Murmansk/.

Junkers bombers take off.

Close-up of a hand with a flare gun, giving a signal.

Bombs are dropped from planes to eliminate ice jams.

Free flow of water.

Training and education of dogs in the SS troops on the Eastern Front.

Dogs run towards a soldier leaving a dugout.

A soldier carries a tank of food over his shoulder, distributing food to dogs.

Soldiers take dogs to training.

Dogs carry out various commands, detain the "enemy".

Providing medical care to a dog, a veterinarian bandages a paw.

Germans with dogs go on patrol.

Transportation of the wounded on dog sleds.

Then the wounded are carried on specially designed drags attached to horses.

Ferrying the wounded across mountain streams on horses, then by cable car through gorges and mountains.

Loading the wounded into an ambulance.

Continued.

Norway.

A convoy of ambulances in a Norwegian port.

Delivery of the wounded to a hospital ship.

The wounded are lowered from a steep bank into a boat using ropes and taken to the ship, where they are given first aid.

German Colonel General Eduard Dietl inspects the hospital, talks to the wounded before sending them home, and, as always, hands out packs of cigarettes to the soldiers.

Distributing lunch to the wounded.

Life on board.

The wounded play chess.

A session in the ship’s cinema, a ballerina dances on the screen.

Soldiers sit on the deck, looking at the shore.

Farewell to Norway.

The ship leaves for Germany.

The southern sector of the Eastern Front.

On the Orel-Kharkov-Stalino line.

A reconnaissance detachment of SS troops travels in special amphibious vehicles.

The detachment on maneuvers.

The soldiers jump out of the moving vehicles, lie down with their weapons, and practice combat techniques.

Then they jump into passing vehicles while still moving.

The amphibious vehicle overcomes a water obstacle, the Volkswagen has a special device for driving on water.

The vehicles drive out onto the opposite bank.

Field Marshal Erich von Manstein leaves the headquarters, gets into a vehicle, and drives through the city.

Soldiers line up near the building, Manstein walks around the formation, and talks to a wounded soldier.

Manstein is at the forefront, walking along the trenches, examining the enemy positions through binoculars.

The ruins of a house are visible ahead, a German soldier jumps out of a trench, runs to the house, grabs a cast-iron pot from the ruins, and runs back.

He and his comrades examine a pot, put potatoes in it, and cook it.

The soldiers eat from mess tins.

Alarm, soldiers running along a trench, firing from cover.

A shootout with the Russians.

Artillerymen firing a mortar, cannon, and light gun.

A series of explosions is visible.

The Atlantic.

The coast of Europe, a canal.

Loading mines onto minesweepers.

A German convoy at sea, escort aircraft in the sky.

View from a deck filled with shells onto ships.

Mining of sea routes.

Close-up of a stopwatch in hand.

German sailors on deck throwing mines overboard.

Air raid alarm.

Anti-aircraft gunners firing at Soviet aircraft.

One of the ships rushes to the aid of another on fire.

Overloading the wounded.

Putting out the fire.

The damaged ship is taken in tow.

Light German naval vessels hunt for British submarines off the coast of Holland.

Dropping depth charges.

Explosions on the surface of the water.