Die Deutsche Wochenschau № 557 (1941)

Germany.

The speech of the führer in the Berlin sports Palace on April 29, 1941.

He goes through the hall to the Presidium, in the retinue of generals, admirals.

Hitler's speech to the young officers-graduates of all types of troops: army, Navy, Luftwaffe, Waffen SS. It causes them to remember the responsibilities and tasks of the national socialist Wehrmacht.

The applause of the audience.

The Fuhrer leaves the Palace of sports.

Germany.

The speech of the führer in the Berlin sports Palace on April 29, 1941.

He goes through the hall.

The Fuhrer on the podium.

Speech of the Fuhrer.

The applause from the audience.

The Fuhrer leaves the Palace of sports. (repeat 2nd story 1st part).

Austria.

The train of the Fuhrer sent to Styria after the victorious "Serbian March".

The train rushes along the rails.

The Types Of Styria.

Arriving at the station Spillelisten.

Hitler welcomes local Gauleiter Siegfried Uiberreither.

Hitler out of the car.

He with his party.

The population acclaims of the Fuhrer.

In the city of Marburg (Maribor), an old German city, which was reunited with the Reich.

Hitler rides standing in the car.

From Marburg Hitler sent in in the city of Graz, capital of Styria.

Jubilant crowds.

Cars on the streets of the city.

Hitler was surrounded by young people.

Hitler with children.

Hitler on the balcony of the building official together with the Gauleiter.

Farewell to the residents.

Hitler in the city of Klagenfurt, welcomed him Gauleiter of Carinthia Franz Kutcher.

They are in the car.

Cheers of the crowd.

Police held back the enthusiastic residents.

Hitler in the famous hall - the residence of the local administration.

Children bring flowers to the Fuhrer.

Hitler talks to young people.

Hitler on the balcony, downstairs cheering crowd.

Yugoslavia.

Military operations of the Wehrmacht.

The operation 6-17 April 1941 is explained on the map.

The attack on Yugoslavia was carried out from several sides from Italy, Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria, and Austria.

The main blow was inflicted from the territory of Bulgaria towards Niš and Skopje.

German Panzer divisions broke through the Yugoslav lines, and on 10 April established contact with Italian troops in Albania.

German and Hungarian troops on 12 April occupied Belgrade.

The remnants of the Yugoslav army retreated to Sarajevo, where on April 17 surrendered.

The attack on Greece by German troops also started from the territory of Bulgaria in the direction of Thessaloniki.

Greece.

Simultaneously with the action against Yugoslavia, German troops of the 12th army begins offensive against Greece in Thessaloniki.

The mountainous terrain hampers the movement of troops.

German officers looking through binoculars in mountains.

The signalman on the phone sends a message.

Infantry and tanks on the mountain road.

A pointer to Thermopylae, where retired British expeditionary force, ally of the Greek troops.

On the road going German tanks.

On the sidelines are broken machines.

Crossing the river by ferry.

The battle for Athens.

A skirmish with the English, Australian and new Zealand troops.

German guns firing, the calculation tools.

German infantry goes forward.

The view from the plane to Athens, the ruins of the Acropolis.

April 27 Athens taken by German forces.

Shortly before his escape, the British dumped on the runway of the airport the wreckage of the technique, trying to make it unusable.

On the ground lying abandoned military equipment, technology, British aircraft.

The holes in the glass of the cockpit.

A German plane lands at the airport.

On the streets of Athens, riding motorcycles, cars with officers.

With one of the soldiers photographed the movement of the parts.

Drive past the Acropolis.

German troops in Patras, riding motorcycles.

The actions of the motorized brigade of the SS Leibstandarte Adolf Hitler", which stands out Annini to Patras, then to cross to the Peloponnese.

In Eastern Greece, they will meet with units of the Italian army. "Junkers" off the air, they bombed positions of the British in the Peloponnese.

The advance of German and Italian troops meeting them in Greece.

The commander of the SS division "Leibstandarte Adolf Hitler" SS General Sepp Dietrich in conversation with the Italian General, commander of the 25th army corps "Cambria" Carlo Rossi.

Prisoners captured in Greece.

The column of prisoners coming out of the gates of the barracks, sitting on the ground captured.

SS troops occupied the coast from Patras and crossing to the Peloponnese.

Assault boat with a gun on Board.

Ashore down armored vehicles, unloaded motorcycles.

The gunners visiting the future site of the fortifications.

German motorcyclists are sent to clean the Peloponnese from the enemy.

The SS meet landed in Corinth mountain rifle parts.

Mountain arrows thrown by the enemy technique continue to chase the fleeing enemy.