Die Deutsche Wochenschau №588 (1941)

Germany. "Pictures of the Homeland".

Nuremberg.

Famous for the 12th century imperial castle Kaiserburg, where every German king was obliged to spend the first day of his reign.

Passers-by on the streets.

Market square with the Frauenkirchen cathedral, fountains.

Here in 1835 the first train in Germany departed by rail.

Nuremberg is famous for its Toy Museum; in the Middle Ages the city became the capital of toy production.

Ancient monuments.

The most famous native of Nuremberg is the famous medieval artist Albrecht Dürer.

Germany.

Salzburg.

The inauguration ceremony of the new Gauleiter Dr.

Gustav Scheel.

Cars on the streets.

Reichsleiter Dr.

Robert Ley and Dr.

Scheel.

They inspect the guard of honor.

The ceremony is indoors.

Ley thanks the former Gauleiter Reimann and presents Scheel with a document on his inauguration.

Presentation of the banner.

Germany.

Soviet prisoners of war at work in Germany.

They march in formation.

They are doing earthworks on the railroad.

Prisoners in front of the camera.

Germany.

Berlin.

Fragment of the boxing match between Neusel and Seidler.

Germany. 8.12.1941. The Fuehrer's headquarters.

Hitler receives the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem.

Hitler greets the Mufti, who reached Germany with great difficulty via Italy.

Germany.

Hitler receives General Eduard Dietl, the hero of Narvik, at his headquarters.

Hitler, Keitel, Jodl and Dietl are talking.

They are at a map.

France.

Florentin-Vérigny station.

Meeting of Reichsmarschall Hermann Goering and Marshal Henri Philippe Petain.

Goering talks with Petain near his carriage about the fate of Germany and France.

Near the train, Goering also says goodbye to Admiral Darlan.

Germany.

SS-Sturmmann Fritz Christen became the youngest recipient of the Knight's Cross in the German Wehrmacht at the age of 16. Fighting in the SS anti-tank division "Death's Head" as a gunner, he prevented an attempt by 15 Soviet tanks to break through.

In 24 hours, he destroyed 13 enemy tanks.

Christen comes home from the front on leave, he is near the house with his parents.

He talks about his stay at the front.

Christen with his father, a forester, and his friends in the forest near a campfire.

Germany.

In one of the German ports.

Launching of a new submarine.

Flowers are presented to the crew.

Sailors in front of the camera.

The boat sets off on its first combat voyage in the English Channel.

Submarines that have arrived at base after completing combat missions.

Victory pennants are fluttering on the boat.

Girls give flowers to the sailors.

Sailors unpack mail bales and read letters.

Italy.

The German submarine U-81, which destroyed the British aircraft carrier Ark Royal, in an Italian port.

The submarine's commander Friedrich Guggenberger in front of the camera.

The Atlantic coast of Europe.

At a fighter airfield on the coast of the English Channel.

German pilots near their planes.

Necessary work is being carried out.

A movie camera is being installed on the plane.

The pilots are having fun with a teddy bear and dogs.

A German observer with binoculars on the coast, reporting to the command post.

The pilots hurry to their vehicles.

Fighters take off, they are above the village.

German soldiers watch the air battle from the ground.

A shot down English plane on the shore of the English Channel.

A German squadron in the air.

Returning to their airfield.

One of the pilots, Colonel Galland, gets out of the plane.

USSR. Northern Front.

Map of Finland and border areas.

Officer with map.

Captured Soviet soldiers at forced labor building winter quarters for German troops; they are building a sauna.

After the sauna, German soldiers rub themselves with snow and dive into an ice hole.

Finnish troops delivering supplies to the front on reindeer.

Finnish soldiers in the area between Lake Onega and Lake Ladoga.

Troops crossing the lake by boat.

They disembark.

Mine clearance work.

Mine explosion.

Soldiers in the forest.

German planes in the air.

Killed Soviet soldiers.

Soviet prisoners.

USSR. Front near Leningrad.

Captured barge with provisions for Leningrad.

Unloading meat carcasses.

Signalmen at work.

They are pulling cable.

Reestablishing communication lines.

Battery near Leningrad.

It is shelling the city.

Clouds of explosions.

USSR. Front near Moscow.

German transport columns heading to the front.

Abandoned and damaged Soviet equipment.

Movement of German troops.

German soldiers occupy a village.

Actions of scouts from the Grossdeutschland division.

Searching for mines.

A soldier removes a mine from the ground.

Departure of General von Bock from Guderian's headquarters.

Guderian's tanks on the offensive.

The commander gives the order to go on the attack.

A tractor with a gun.

USSR. Front near Moscow.

Tanks in action.

Artillery supports the attack with fire.

Infantry follows the tank.

Captured Russian village near Moscow.

Tanks break into the village.

Burning houses.

Soldiers search one of the houses.

Captured commissar.

Column of Russian prisoners.

North Africa.

Map of military operations.

Information on Allied losses.

More than 9,000 British soldiers, 114 tanks, and 700 aircraft were captured in the very first battles.

German and Italian troops fight against a numerically superior enemy.

German motorcyclists ride.

Artillery moves to new positions.

Taking positions.

Shelling the enemy.

Repelling an attack by British tanks.

German guns fire.

Italian planes attack a British transport column.

German Junkers fighters in the air.

A burning British tank.

An intermediate camp for British prisoners.

Prisoners are sent to the rear in vehicles.

German tanks in the desert.

Italian infantrymen on the offensive.