Die Deutsche Wochenschau №585 (1941)

Germany.

Pictures of the Motherland.

Greetings from Stuttgart, the capital of Baden-Württemberg.

In the 16th century it became the ducal residence.

Bird's eye view of the city.

Streets.

Castle Square, where most of the architectural and historical monuments are located.

Tower clock.

Ancient cathedral.

Famous natives of the city: storyteller Wilhelm Hauff, philosopher Georg Hegel, engineers Ferdinand Porsche and Gottlieb Daimler.

Thanks to these inventors, the city became one of the centers of the German automobile industry.

Germany.

Harvest in Swabia.

A cart with apples.

Loading apples into wagons.

Germany.

Berlin.

A ceremony in honor of the 75th anniversary of operetta composer Paul Linke.

The hero of the day is greeted by Propaganda Minister Goebbels.

The composer is solemnly presented with a medal in the Berlin Town Hall.

In the evening, in the Volkstheater, Paul Linke conducts his operetta "Frau Luna" performed by the Berlin Operetta company.

Excerpts from the performance.

Presentation of flowers to the hero of the day.

Germany.

Sending children from the northwestern regions of Germany to the south of the country.

Children and women in a carriage.

Landscapes in southern Germany.

Semmering station.

Children and women arriving at the station.

Children resting, taking a walk.

A woman with a baby.

Germany.

Tobacco warehouse.

Sorting, drying, crushing, etc.

Cigarette production.

Stuffing machine.

Automatic cigarette packing line.

Finished product warehouse.

Sending them by car.

Germany.

Field Marshal Goering awards distinguished Luftwaffe pilots.

Awards ceremony.

Goering hands out Iron Crosses, claps a pilot on the shoulder.

Finnish front.

During a break between battles: Commander of the 36th Corps, General of the Cavalry Hans Feige awards Iron Crosses to Finnish soldiers who distinguished themselves in battle.

German units in Karelia.

Horse-drawn convoys pass by tanks.

After the capture of Jaanislinna (Petrozavodsk), eastern Karelia is systematically cleared of Bolsheviks.

Soviet units hide in dense virgin forests.

Tanks in the forest, breaking trees along the way.

Shelling of Soviet positions.

Guns firing.

Another fierce battle in the forest.

The Bolsheviks surrender, two soldiers carry a wounded man.

German infantrymen in camouflage suits move forward, carrying weapons on a sled.

Near Leningrad.

Construction of a bridge with ice cutters, movement of a train across the bridge.

Wooden structures of the bridge are filled with large boulders.

Germans unload stones along chutes into mine cars and transport them to the construction site.

Lumber yard.

German train.

Unloading cows and goats.

Warm winter clothing that has arrived at the front.

Arrival of a vehicle with food, its unloading.

Soviet prisoners unloading.

Germans settle into winter quarters.

A soldier collects firewood, carries it to a dugout, and lights a stove.

Soldiers rub themselves with snow.

German soldiers sort out the woolen clothing that was sent.

A German puts on a camouflage suit over his fur coat and puts a hat on his head.

Special insulated boots and a fur coat for observers and sentries.

A reconnaissance unit on skis.

Discovery of a Soviet detachment.

A shootout with Soviet troops.

Fragments of the battle.

Explosions.

Red Army soldiers going to surrender.

Military operations near Moscow.

German Colonel General Maximilian Weichs, who celebrated his 60th birthday, in his positions.

Weichs's divisions and corps fought in Poland and the Balkans, on the Western Front.

Later they helped in the battles near Kiev and Bryansk.

He presents Iron Crosses to distinguished soldiers.

An attack on a Soviet position north of Moscow.

Part of the city is in the outer defensive ring.

A machine gunner fires.

Infantrymen fire.

Soviet soldiers going to surrender.

German infantry in a village.

Continued.

Military operations near Moscow.

In the morning.

View of Soviet positions and fortifications destroyed by the Germans.

Destroyed equipment.

Corpses of Soviet soldiers covered in snow.

One hundred kilometers from Moscow.

Field kitchen with hot food for soldiers.

Horses eating.

Germans in camouflage suits.

Infantry marching.

Tanks and other equipment driving through the mud.

Announcer about the "indescribable" state of Russian roads.

Prisoners of war working to clear roads.

German soldiers getting stuck in the mud.

A soldier trying to pull his boot out of the mud.

Transports with reinforcements and ammunition driving by.

Tanks in a village.

Transport aviation airfield.

Loading fuel in barrels onto a transport plane.

The plane takes off, a toy monkey hanging above the pilot's cabin window.

It flies low over the German columns.

There are barrels of fuel in the cargo compartment.

USSR. Southern sector of the front.

On the Krivoy Rog, Dnepropetrovsk, Stalino-Mariupol line.

View of Kharkov from an airplane.

A huge industrial enterprise /apparently, KhTZ/.

A German plane lands on the central square of Kharkov near the Gosprom building, etc.

Miserable dwellings of workers and the poor against the backdrop of administrative colossuses.

Preparation of the next issue of the front-line newspaper "Ost-Front".

Distribution of the finished issue to soldiers.

Caricature of Stalin.

The population buys the anti-Soviet newspaper "Voice of Poltavshchyny" at a kiosk, the issue in the reader's hands.

Blown up railway bridge across the Dnieper.

Ceremonial opening of a new bridge built by German sappers.

Trains go across the bridge.

View of the bridge.

A column of Soviet prisoners.

A separate column of "identified" Jews.

View of the column from the air.

Faces of soldiers.

Typical Jewish faces.

Boarding of German infantry on a barge on the Dnieper.

Soldiers with weapons on a barge.

Soldiers disembarking.

German wounded being sent to the rear on a barge, comrades giving them a smoke.

USSR. Fighting in Crimea.

German cyclists on the road to Simferopol.

The destruction of a Soviet factory, converted by Soviet troops into a fortress and taken by the Germans by storm.

A camera pans through the ruins of the factory.

A view of a destroyed Soviet armored train.

German anti-aircraft gunners fire at Soviet planes.

One plane falls down.

Its burning remains.

Romania.

November 8, a victory parade takes place in Bucharest.

King Michael I, Marshal Ion Antonescu, and Queen Mother Elena are on the steps of the Royal Palace on Victoria Square.

King Michael I attaches awards to the banners of the units that distinguished themselves in the battles for Odessa.

German Field Marshal Wilhelm Keitel is present at the parade.

Awarding of officers, whom the king makes knights of the Order of Michael the Brave.

Continued.

Awards ceremony.

Parade of the "victors".

Romanian troops, led by General Iosif Yakobich, who won the victory over Odessa, march under the Arc de Triomphe.

Solemn march of infantrymen, equipment drive by.

A German group of troops stationed in Bucharest, led by General Arthur Hauffe, marches.

Africa.

General Rommel inspects the line of soldiers, awards those who distinguished themselves in battle.

Preparing a festive dinner.

A soldier carries a plate of food.

The soldiers eat.

A soldier in a protective net from insects.

The soldiers bring an awning to protect the table from the invasion of annoying flies.

The feast continues.

A newsreel cameraman in a protective net, covered in flies.

A soldier writes a letter in a protective net.

Flies walk all over the letter.

At the front near Sallum.

A tank attack.

Tanks moving through the desert.

Shelling enemy positions.

Guns firing.

Rommel watching the battle.

Fragments of the shelling.

Tanks returning after a successful operation.

Tanks in the desert.

Burning and destroyed British tanks.

The English Channel.

German ships patrolling at sea.

Sailor observers with binoculars.

German escort planes.

The German convoy continues patrolling.

A German plane at the airfield.

The pilot gets into the cockpit.

The planes take off.

The plane over the channel.

View of the English coast.

Shelling of an English plane.

Bombing of an English ship.

Explosions.

Bombs.

Burning ships.

Shelling of ships with machine guns.

A burning and sinking ship.

The pilot transmits a message to the submariners.

Another ship is sinking.