Die Deutsche Wochenschau №582 (1941)

Germany.

Visit of Slovak national leaders to the Fuhrer's headquarters.

Arrival of President Tiso and Prime Minister Tuka at headquarters.

They greet Hitler, Ribbentrop, Keitel.

Meeting with Hermann Goering at the train car.

Conversation through the window.

Farewell, the train sets off.

USSR. Finnish front.

Finnish troops in the area of Lakes Onega and Ladoga.

They throw more than half of their Karelian army to the Petrozavodsk direction.

Tanks, trucks, infantry are on the move.

As a result of repeated attacks, the Finns manage to break through the defense of the Soviet units.

Finns at a captured Soviet bunker.

An anti-aircraft gun fires.

A downed Soviet plane falls.

Finns in a populated area.

Ruins of houses.

On September 30, Finnish troops enter Petrozavodsk.

Finnish Women's Corps at the front, women cook food, distribute hot meals to soldiers.

Finnish Lieutenant General Erik Heinrichs presents soldiers with awards.

USSR. Battles for the island of Dago /Hiuma/, where the northern fortified sector with a small garrison of sailors was located.

On October 12, the Germans begin landing troops on the island.

The landing is supported by fire from batteries from the island of Saaremaa, the cruiser "Cologne" and four destroyers.

German artillery shells the island.

German warships shell the coastal fortifications.

Observers, searchlight operators.

Assault landing gliders attack the island.

Landing troops on boats.

Landing of German troops.

Unloading guns.

The Germans advance into the island.

Tanks.

Infantry.

Beginning of a firefight with Soviet troops.

A German gun fires.

A tank fires.

Burning people, tanks, equipment.

The Germans move forward.

They shell a farm, a burning house.

A mortar fires.

Continuation of shelling.

Battle for the town of Kärdla, burning buildings.

Germans on the island.

Conversations with the local population.

Residents greeting the Germans.

USSR. German troops advance towards Leningrad.

German sappers narrow the railway track and bring it into line with the international standard.

Replacing the rails.

A train goes across a restored bridge.

Unloading food, sacks of potatoes, and pigs from cars.

In a meat processing shop.

Hanging carcasses of dressed animals.

Loading bread and meat.

Delivering food to the forward positions near Leningrad.

Supplies arrive at remote positions.

A German soldier with a can in a trench, soldiers eating.

Alarm.

The crew at the gun.

Loading the gun.

The gun fires at the city.

Panorama of Leningrad.

Attack of Soviet tanks.

The gun fires.

Damaged and destroyed Soviet tanks, remnants of Soviet equipment on the road.

USSR. German aircraft bomb Soviet ports.

Aircraft in the air.

Pilot in the cockpit.

Bombs fly towards the target.

Filming of Odessa from an airplane.

Odessa port area.

Germans bomb Soviet transport ships.

Pilot in the cockpit.

German aircraft returning to its base.

German aircraft at the airfield.

Aircraft showing signs of damage received during the battle.

Romanian artillery shells Odessa.

Crew at the gun.

October 16, 1941 - Romanian troops enter Odessa.

Romanian soldiers on the streets of the city.

Remnants of street barricades and fortifications.

Romanians shoot down the Soviet star, strengthen the Romanian flag on the building.

Leaflets calling for order and calm.

The population reads leaflets.

The burnt-out post office building on Sadovaya Street.

Port area.

Panorama of abandoned equipment, cargo, cars.

A car that fell from the pier.

East of Odessa.

During a break in the fighting.

Germans and Romanians doing their daily chores: roasting a pig, shaving, getting haircuts.

Germans with chickens and geese.

Bathing in a trough.

A German reading an issue of the leaflet newspaper "Der Kampf".

Fighting in the Taganrog area.

Shelling of the city.

Defeated Soviet positions.

Corpses of soldiers.

German troops entering Taganrog.

A burning oil terminal.

A shootout.

A fire.

German artillery moves forward.

The infantry goes east.

Firing guns, flying planes, running infantrymen.

Firing flamethrowers.

Explosions.

Tanks on the attack.