Die Deutsche Wochenschau №564 (1941)

Germany.

Football match for the German championship at the Olympic Stadium in Berlin.

On the field are the teams "Scharke" - Westphalia and "Rapit" - Vienna.

Reich Minister of Sports Hans Tschammer- und Osten and Reichsleiter, Gauleiter of Vienna Baldur von Schirach among the spectators in the stands.

A penalty kick is scored against Vienna.

The game ends with a score of 4x3 in favor of Germany.

Germany.

Arrival of the Japanese Ambassador Oshima in Hanover for the manifestation of the German-Japanese Friendship Society.

Parade of detachments of Hitler Youth with the flags of the states parties to the Tripartite Pact.

Ceremony of accepting Oshima as an honorary member of the Academic Council of the University of Göttingen in Lower Saxony.

Italy.

Venice, 15 June 1941. Ceremony on the occasion of Croatia's accession to the Tripartite Pact.

Arrival of the Italian and German Foreign Ministers, Count Ciano and Joachim Ribbentrop, and the Croatian leader Ante Pavelić.

A meeting of the ministers in the Doge's Palace.

Signing of the final document.

Germany.

Arrival of the Italian Minister of Culture, Alessandro Pavolini, in Germany.

Goebbels meets Pavolini at the airport.

The purpose of the visit is to exchange views between the two ministers.

Pavolini lays wreaths at the tomb-pantheon of fallen heroes.

Pavolini is received by the Fuhrer in the presence of Goebbels.

North Africa.

Lieutenant General Erwin Rommel, commander of the German Africa Corps, presents the Italian General Italo Gariboldi with the Iron Cross 1st and 2nd class.

They shake hands.

Africa.

Moving troops to new positions.

Defensive fortifications on the approaches to Tobruk.

German infantry in the desert, German heavy artillery fires.

Lieutenant General Erwin Rommel watches the battle.

Observation gliders adjust artillery fire.

A crew at a gun, loading shells, firing.

German planes bombing English transports near Tobruk.

Soldiers watch the returning planes.

Two soldiers hold a large banner with a swastika for observation from an airplane.

An enemy plane falls and burns on the horizon.

The crew of a sunken ship surrenders to the Germans, they float in a boat, among them the wounded.

An explosion on an English ship with ammunition.

Germany.

German air force generals at a conference with Goering on the operational situation, among them: Field Marshals Hugo Sperrle, Erhard Milch, Colonel General Hans Jeschonek, Field Marshal Albert Kesselring, Colonel General Alexander Löhr and others.

Goering talks with the generals.

Germany.

Early morning of June 22, 1941, deserted streets, a milkman and a postman walking.

Radio House.

Preparing a broadcast with the text of the Fuhrer's address. 5.30 a.m.

Reich Propaganda Ministry.

Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels reads out the Fuhrer's statement about the "conspiracy" between the USSR and England and about Germany's decision to begin military action against Russia.

Everyone is listening to the radio.

Hitler says: "I have decided to put the fate and future of the German Reich back in the hands of our soldiers." Ribbentrop's speech at a press conference, reading out Germany's note to the Soviet Union.

People are reading newspapers.

Map of military operations of Germany and its allies against the USSR. Invasion of Nazi troops into the territory of the USSR. Early morning of June 22. German artillery begins shelling the Soviet side across the river.

Fires, explosions.

A German gun is firing.

East Prussia, a signpost to the Lithuanian city of Eydtkau (now the village of Chernyshevskoye in the Kaliningrad region).

German soldiers are breaking down a high border fence, breaking down a border barrier.

German soldiers are making their way along the fences, running along the street, they are at the customs building.

Lithuania, a signpost to Kaunas (Kovno) 99 km.

The first battles on the Lithuanian-German border.

Soldiers are removing a Lithuanian border sign.

German equipment on the street of a Lithuanian village, a shootout.

Soldiers are running with a cannon, the shootout lasts from evening until morning.

Burning buildings.

A flamethrower operator is running with a cylinder on his back.

Orderlies carry a wounded man on a stretcher.

The first Soviet prisoners, they leave the building with their hands raised, a German leads a wounded Soviet prisoner.

A group of prisoners, many half-naked, in their underwear.

The Germans cross a river on a pontoon bridge.

German infantry in the attack.

A German gun fires on the railroad.

Crossing various sections of the Soviet border with fighting.

German infantrymen, motorcyclists.

Soldiers move the barrier aside, cars with soldiers drive by.

German light tanks drive off the railroad bridge.

On the bridge, German soldiers watch the prisoners who are repairing the flooring, laying boards.

The advance of German troops towards Kaunas.

Troops march day and night, motorcycles camouflaged with branches drive by.

Driving past a populated area, a mill.

Artillerymen near a heavy gun.

A view from above of the road with moving motorized units, a river is visible in the distance.

The Germans are crossing the San River.

Sappers are repairing the bridge, clearing it of mines.

Trucks are driving, German soldiers are walking.

A German tank is driving along the railway tracks.

Soviet prisoners are being led across the bridge, many barefoot, half-dressed or in their underwear.

A German airfield.

Large-caliber bombs are being brought to the planes on a cart.

German planes in the air.

The first raids on Soviet cities and villages.

A pilot in the cockpit, bombs are flying.

Explosions, fires on the ground.

Burning objects on Soviet territory.

A squadron in flight.