Die Deutsche Wochenschau №683 (1943)

1. Germany.

Funeral in Berlin of General Kube, victim of the "Bolshevik assassination attempt" in Minsk.

Memorial service in the Reich Chancellery, in the Goebbels Hall, Dr.

Ley and other officials, Hitler at the memorial service.

Speech by Minister of the Eastern Territories Rosenberg.

Wreaths, Hitler raises his hand in a Nazi salute. 2. Germany.

Farewell at one of the train stations for children being sent to areas relatively safe from bombing.

Children with numbers.

They are given sandwiches and milk in bottles.

Children with teachers in train carriages. 3. Czechoslovakia.

Arrival of a train with children from Germany in Prague.

A welcoming banner hangs.

Camps of the Hitler Youth in Bohemia and Moravia.

Day of visiting parents from Germany. 4. Poland.

Harvest Festival in Waterland (former territory of western Poland, incorporated into Germany after 1939).

Hitler Youth camp, a line of young men.

On the sleeve is a triangle with the NDP. "Ost Waterland".

Youth at a celebration.

Axmann arrives, he is presented with a decorated sheaf.

Axmann walks around the line of young people, greets the girls.

Speech by Reich Youth Leader Axmann, he thanks the youth for their help in harvesting. 5. Germany.

Representatives of German farmers at a reception in the Reich Chancellery.

Presentation of awards to honored workers of agriculture. 6. Germany.

Rally in the Sports Palace in Berlin to honor the soldiers who liberated Mussolini.

The "savior" of the Italian Duce, Otto Skorzeny, and Goebbels walk through the hall.

Presentation of an award to General Schörner.

People from Skorzeny's detachment in front of the camera.

Goebbels's speech, an excerpt from his recorded speech. 7. Germany.

General Student inspects a flight unit, he walks around the line of soldiers.

The general's speech, presentation of awards to distinguished pilots.

The general greets the soldiers who liberated Mussolini, Otto Skorzeny (with a scar on his face) among his comrades.

A soldier with SS insignia shakes his hand. 8. Germany.

A sentry at the gates of the artillery military school.

A monument to the fallen artillerymen.

Theoretical and practical classes at the artillery school.

Instructors with cadets near a cannon, at a blackboard in the fresh air.

Cadets get into self-propelled artillery units and drive out of the school gates.

The self-propelled gun gets stuck in the sand, the cadets dig out the tracks.

Maneuvers on the ground.

Practicing techniques for interaction with infantry. 9. The coast of the Arctic Ocean.

One of the Luftwaffe field airfields.

Pilots are resting.

Preparing the planes for takeoff, loading shells.

They are in the air.

Bombs fall on a Soviet military base.

Yugoslavia.

German attack on partisans on the Istrian Peninsula in Croatia.

German tanks and motorized artillery advance along a mountain road.

A shootout with Yugoslav partisans in the mountains.

Dead partisans lie.

Weapons captured from a routed partisan detachment.

A shootout near a populated area.

Captured "bandits".

Street fighting on the streets of the city.

German soldiers among the ruins of houses.

Infantrymen use captured barricades for shooting.

Continuation.

The Arctic Ocean.

German bombers return to the airfield, fly over a convoy of German ships in the ocean.

A raid by Soviet torpedo bombers on the convoy.

Combat alert.

Fragment of a battle with enemy aircraft.

A shot down Soviet aircraft falls into the sea.

Eastern Front, central sector.

The retreat of the Germans from Smolensk.

Removal of materials and raw materials from populated areas abandoned in the order of "alignment" of the front.

Soldiers pass by huts, near which lie boxes, sacks, soldiers' knapsacks, from some of which the soles of boots are visible.

Trucks filled with bicycles.

Boxes and canisters are loaded into cars, the trains set off.

Trucks travel through Smolensk past the Assumption Cathedral.

A column of Soviet prisoners is led through the city.

Civilians fleeing from the Bolsheviks.

Families travel in carts.

Boys sit on the remains of the walls of a house, one smiles and salutes.

A Cossack on horseback in front of a herd of horses, they are led through the city.

The Germans drive herds of cows, flocks of sheep, carts with fodder are driving.

Dismantling telephone and telegraph lines.

Soldiers wind cut cable onto reels and load them into cars.

Explosion of buildings and structures of a strategic nature.

Detailed demonstration of the explosion of a water tower, individual buildings, warehouses, and a factory.

Black smoke in the air.

German soldiers pass by burning houses, log huts crumble.

German tanks in position, soldiers camouflage them and their guns with branches.

German artillery fires at the enemy.

German Heinkel-111 aircraft in the air.

They drop bombs on Soviet positions.

Traces of explosions on the ground.

Italy.

German and Italian officers inspect Italian fascist battalions in Trieste, which are coming under German command.

The general walks along the line of volunteers, they sign up.

German soldiers on the march towards the town of Pola, a sign by the road.

Occupation of an Italian port, view of various ships: torpedo boats, a training cruiser.

Pursuit of an Italian ship that has gone over to the side of the Badoglio government.

Destruction of the ship.

Italy.

German aircraft attack the island of Kefalonia, the largest of Italy's Ionian Islands, occupied by Badoglio's troops.

German units land from a ship on the island to carry out the operation.

Soldiers in shorts unload boxes of ammunition, motorcycles.

Advance into the island.