Die Deutsche Wochenschau №604 (1942)

East Prussia, Rastenburg.

Tsar Boris III of Bulgaria at Hitler's headquarters, shaking hands.

Boris III boards a train, the train departs.

Station.

Boris is met by Reich Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop, Field Marshal Wilhelm Keitel and generals.

The Tsar goes to Reichsmarschall Hermann Goering's hunting estate, Karinhalle, shaking hands.

Signing the book of honored visitors.

Germany.

Mountain riflemen maneuvering in Bavaria.

Mountainous terrain.

Sappers with inflatable boats walk through the snow, overcoming a mountain ridge.

Crossing a river, landing on the opposite bank.

Building footbridges from prepared materials, sappers lay out footbridge sections, cross the river.

Fragments of the battle.

Building another crossing.

Attack in the mountains.

A soldier uses a flamethrower during the storming of a bunker.

Germany.

Construction of a submarine at a shipyard.

Various operations, turning of parts, welding.

Assembly of the submarine.

Arrival of the captain and the crew of the submarine.

Atlantic.

Launch of a German submarine.

The crew accepts the boat.

Raising the flag.

The boat leaves on a mission.

Grand Admiral Karl Doenitz discussing the fleet’s next tasks with the submarine command.

The submarine returns after an operation in the Caribbean Sea.

A ceremonial welcome, an orchestra playing.

Presentation of the German Cross in Gold to the commander of the submarine U-156, Lieutenant Commander Werner Hartenstein.

Doenitz talking with the commander.

Grand Admiral Doenitz at a base on the Atlantic coast of France.

He inspects the submarine crews.

Doenitz delivers a speech on the tasks of the submarine fleet.

Presentation of the Iron Cross to distinguished submariners.

Germany.

German hospital.

Sisters care for the wounded.

A sister distributes medicine to the wounded.

Catering unit.

Preparing meals.

Distributing them to the wounded.

The staff distributes milk to bedridden patients.

Finnish front.

In the area of Lake Ladoga.

Finnish soldiers treat their skis before setting out on a campaign, warming them over a fire and applying ointment.

The detachment leaves for a combat mission.

It is freezing cold here.

A close-up of a soldier with a frozen moustache and beard.

Finnish soldiers leave the base, pulling a gun on a sled.

Shelling of Bolshevik positions.

Shelling of Soviet positions.

Guns are loaded with large-caliber shells and fired.

USSR. Central section of the Eastern Front.

German sappers build a railway bridge to replace the one blown up.

Sappers at construction.

A new bridge was built in a few weeks.

View of the finished bridge.

Military operations near Leningrad.

Ice jams explode on the river.

German troops and supply trains advance in severe frost.

View from the cabin of a car onto a snow-covered road.

A soldier in a cart covers himself with an animal skin.

The Germans walk along the highway, pass a populated area.

Residents on the street.

A German sentry in a fur coat covers his face with a mitten, trying to keep warm.

A sleigh with horses.

A special team clears the roads and a fuel depot of snow.

A German heavy gun, it fires at the enemy.

The suburbs of Leningrad are visible.

There is a shell with a shield indicating that this is the 100,000th shell fired from the gun.

The position of anti-aircraft gunners.

Repelling an attack by Soviet tanks.

A destroyed Soviet tank.

German soldiers near a burning tank.

German tanks take up new positions.

Russian prisoners.

German tanks in a counterattack.

Italy.

North Africa.

Vice Admiral Naokuni Nomura and Rear Admiral Tabei arrive at the German division stationed in Sicily.

Field Marshal Albert Kesselring and Colonel General Erwin Rommel talk with the Japanese.

A transport plane departs for Africa.

Soldiers board and a gun is loaded.

The pilot attaches a movie camera to the plane.

A teddy bear hangs above the cockpit window.

Airplanes in flight.

An airplane over African territory, a former Italian colony.

The plane lands.

Field Marshal Kesselring and his officers inspect the arriving units.

The plane returns from a combat mission.

Colleagues present the pilot with champagne and flowers on the occasion of his 200th sortie.

A Junkers-52 in flight.

Italian fighters take off.

Airplanes in flight.

Fragments of an air battle with the British.

Explosion of a British plane crashed to the ground.

Tobruk harbor under the plane's wing.

German planes bomb a British cargo ship.