Die Deutsche Wochenschau №569 (1941)

1. Eastern Front.

Goering arrives at the Eastern Front by train, he is in a Luftwaffe division, goes around the generals, greets General Student, talks to pilots who have received high decorations from the Reich.

Goering goes around the formation of pilots.

Goering makes a speech. 2. Germany.

Goering receives Croatian General Slavko Kvaternik in a train carriage, they shake hands.

Kvaternik gives Goering gifts from the Croatian people: a richly inlaid antique sabre, a box, a hatchet, etc. 3. Volunteers from European countries leave for the Eastern Front.

Denmark.

A Danish battalion is heading to the Eastern Front.

A procession of legionnaires through the streets of the city.

Spain.

New reinforcements of the "Blue Division" leave for the front, a farewell ceremony at the station.

A ceremonial march of reinforcements of the Italian army on the Eastern Front.

Crown Prince Umberto on the tribune.

Residents greet the soldiers.

The train departs from the platform. 4. USSR. Northern sector of the Eastern Front.

Operations of German fighters and torpedo boats off the coast of the Murmansk Peninsula.

Fragment of a battle with Soviet ships.

A burning Soviet ship.

Germans and Finns repair roads, remove stones.

A horse-drawn carriage makes its way with difficulty along the broken road.

Battle near the town of Salla.

A gun fires.

Shelling of Soviet positions.

Crossing the river.

The Germans land on the opposite bank and march through the burning village. 5. Bessarabia.

German troops march along the road, combing the forest.

German infantrymen in ambush.

Aiming a gun.

The Germans search Soviet prisoners.

German infantrymen at the Dniester.

They are crossing the river in boats and launches.

Construction of a pontoon bridge.

The crossing in action.

Transportation of heavy weapons.

Column of Soviet prisoners.

USSR. Bessarabia.

The camera shows the faces of individual soldiers-prisoners, selected tendentiously.

6. USSR. Bessarabia.

Hungarian and Slovak troops advance.

Soldiers drag motorcycles.

A blown-up bridge, soldiers making their way along a temporary crossing.

Slovak troops advance along the highway. 7. USSR. Kiev area.

A concentration of Nazi troops on the approaches to the city.

German infantry and tanks are advancing.

Waffen-SS troops are crossing the Dnieper River in boats and pontoons. 8. USSR. Polotsk-Vitebsk area.

German cavalry on the march.

Infantrymen are advancing.

Fragments of the battle near Polotsk.

The Germans are shelling Soviet positions with cannons and machine guns.

Signalmen are laying a communication line.

Germans in the village.

Explosions.

A destroyed Soviet battery, corpses of soldiers.

Polotsk engulfed in flames.

The Germans are moving along the remains of a blown-up bridge.

Burning ruins of buildings.

Destroyed houses, completely burnt-out buildings.

The Germans force the Daugava.

Construction of a new bridge.

German soldiers in the village they have captured.

Horses drink water, eat hay.

A German kneads dough in a trough.

Hunting for a pig.

Butchering the carcass.

Cooking pork.

Distributing the finished dish.

German troops moving in the direction of Vitebsk.

The capture of a farmstead, carried out by a patrol that arrived on a handcar.

A station, destroyed station buildings, a locomotive circle.

Broken trains on the tracks.

Railway sappers restore the tracks.

A captured Soviet locomotive sets off on its journey.

USSR. Front near Vitebsk.

Retreat of Soviet troops.

Destruction of their cities by the Bolsheviks before retreat.

Vitebsk, burning buildings set on fire by retreating troops.

USSR. Destruction of their cities by the Bolsheviks before retreat.

Vitebsk.

Burning buildings set on fire by retreating Bolsheviks.

Karelia, burning houses.

Ruins of Chisinau.

USSR. Columns of Soviet prisoners of war.

German units move to the East.

Motorized infantry.

Tanks.

Northern section of the Eastern Front.

German planes attack concentrations of Soviet troops located in the vast forests around Lake Peipus, bombing of a railway junction.

German soldiers cross the "Stalin Line".

Fragments of the battles.

Soviet soldiers surrendering.

German troops move to the East.

Motorized infantry.

Destroyed railway line.

German bombs fly at a Soviet column.

Estonia.

Tartu under the plane.

Destruction in Tartu.

This 900-year-old city suffered particularly heavy losses from GPU terror.

The ancient cultural monuments of this old German settlement in the east lie in ruins, residential buildings are completely destroyed.

New victims of the GPU are discovered every day.

Corpses of civilians.

SS troops on the offensive north of Lake Peipus.

Shelling of Soviet fortifications.

Tanks and motorized infantry may continue the offensive.

Captured Red Army soldiers, their faces in front of the camera /Asian types were selected/.

The Germans go on the offensive.

Individual settlements are taken by storm.

Huts burning at night, dead lie in the streets.

The Germans force the water line.

Germany.

Air force base.

German planes prepare for the first flight to Moscow.

The Wehrmacht report of July 22 says that German pilots are taking revenge on the Soviets for the Bolshevik attacks on Helsinki and Bucharest.

German planes are in the air.

They are dropping bombs on the Soviet capital.

Fires visible from above on the banks of the Moscow River remain after the first aircraft have flown.

Explosions.

A huge fire in the Kremlin area.