Die Deutsche Wochenschau №679 (1943)

1. Spain.

Fishing trawlers off the western coast of Spain, fishermen at work.

Large fish caught. 2. Serbia.

Militarized labor service on the German model in Serbia.

Young men doing earthworks (drainage). 3. Germany.

Hitler Youth and SNM (Union of German Girls) festival in Breslau.

Mass youth sports performances.

Pole vault, long jump, relay race.

Swimming in the pool, diving. 4. Germany.

Destruction in one of the German cities caused by American bombers.

A downed bomber.

Aid to civilians affected by the bombing, distribution of water and food.

Evacuation of children and women from areas subject to bombing, loading onto river ships.

An evacuated maternity hospital. 5. Germany.

The Fuhrer's headquarters, Hitler walking his dog.

Hitler and Himmler meeting in the park.

Military conference at Hitler's headquarters, Manstein, Goering, Jodl, Keitel, Doenitz present. 6. Eastern Front, central and southern sections.

On the Orel-Kursk-Kharkov line.

German soldiers on the march, units changing in the trenches.

At the German command post.

Explosions of shells from Soviet multi-barrel mortars.

A battery of German six-barrel mortars in action.

Counterattack by German tanks, they are on the streets of a village.

Tanks in battle.

A German tanker in a tank.

German infantry.

Continuation.

German guns firing.

Bandaging the wounded.

German infantry on the offensive.

Continuation of the battle at night.

In the morning, a panorama of the battlefield.

Burning and destroyed Soviet equipment. 7. Italy.

Evacuation of German troops from the island of Sicily to the Italian mainland.

Troops crossing the Gulf of Messina.

Bombing of the crossing by British planes.

German anti-aircraft battery in action.

A British plane explodes in the air and falls to the ground.

German guns firing, shells exploding.

German ferry docks, ferry unloading.

An American four-engine bomber makes an emergency landing in enemy territory.

General Gubel, commander of German troops in Sicily. 8. German airfield from the Mediterranean coast.

Pilots prepare for takeoff, sit in their cockpits.

German air raid on a British convoy, fragments of the battle.

Burning convoy ships. 9. German auxiliary cruiser Thor in the open sea, sailors on deck.

The ship's reconnaissance aircraft returns from another voyage.

The pilot reports the situation to the commander.

An enemy transport has been spotted.

The crew is taken on board.

The transport is confiscated and declared a trophy.

Another enemy ship.

The commander gets into a boat.

German sailors inspect the enemy ship.

It continues its journey under the German flag.

The cruiser fires at the enemy ship, it goes to the bottom.

Lively conversations are taking place in a bomb shelter where civilians are hiding from the bombing.

An air defense officer is telling the townspeople about incendiary bombs, their types, and how to extinguish them.

The story is illustrated by footage of firefighters extinguishing incendiary bombs.