Die Deutsche Wochenschau №619 (1942)

Czechoslovakia.

Prague.

Celebration of the 70th birthday of the President of the Reich Protector of Bohemia and Moravia, Dr.

Emil Hacha.

An orchestra in front of a house.

A crowd of people.

Hacha at the window.

Members of the government and delegations from the population congratulate the President.

Presentation of addresses.

Reich Minister Dr.

Hans-Heinrich Lammers, head of the Reich Chancellery, conveys congratulations from the Fuehrer to Hacha, then Deputy Reich Protector of Bohemia and Moravia Hans Daluege approaches him and presents him with a bust of Hitler.

Austria.

Salzburg.

European Student "Days of Culture".

Representatives of twenty-four countries tour the city.

Meeting of student representatives.

Speech by the Gauleiter of Salzburg, Reich Student Leader Gustav Adolf Scheel.

Opening of an exhibition of young artists.

Viewing of the exhibition.

Battle paintings.

Sculpture by Ivo Beuker "Work and Defense".

Germany.

Munich.

On July 4, the opening of the Great Art Exhibition of 1942 took place, where 680 works of painters and sculptors are on display.

Goebbels arrives and opens the exhibition.

Exhibits: bust of the Fuhrer by Hermann Joachim Tages; bust of Mussolini by Josef Thorak; "The Wave" - a sculpture of a reclining nude woman by Fritz Klimsch; "Mother and Child" - a sculpture by Josef Thorak; "Defender" - Arno Breker; sketch of the German Stadium in Nuremberg by Otto A. Hirth.

The public in the exhibition halls.

Paintings: "

The Fisherwoman"

by Julius Engelhardt, "

The Rendezvous"

by Julius Engelhardt, "

At the Mirror"

by several artists, "

Riders on the Seashore"

by Josef Pieper, portrait of the Führer Rudolf Gerhard Zill, "

Knights of the Leibstandarte Cross"

by Ernst Krause, "

People at War"

by Schmitz-Wiedenbrück, "

Across the Russian Steppe"

by Rudolf Lipus, "

The Battle"

by Rudolf G. Wörmer, "

The Final Crossing of the Upper Rhine"

by Wilhelm Sauter and other patriotic and battle paintings.

Germany.

Field Marshal Erich von Manstein, the victor of Sevastopol, goes to Hitler's headquarters.

The Führer meets him, they shake hands.

Manstein greets Field Marshal Keitel and Jodl, Chief of the OKW Operations Department.

France.

A submarine returns to base from a voyage to the Atlantic.

The U-124 submarine approaches the pier; the crew is met by their comrades on the shore.

Mail is distributed to the sailors.

An announcer talks about the victories of German submariners.

Captain Johann Mohr, a hero submariner, is in front of the camera; he sank American ships with a deadweight of 39 thousand tons.

The Nazi flag.

The sailors drink beer and hug women.

Turtles brought from the Caribbean.

A ceremonial formation.

Presentation of flowers.

The crew is presented with a black pig for good luck.

Grand Admiral Karl Doenitz awards distinguished sailors.

The Arctic Ocean.

A German base in northern Norway.

Long-range reconnaissance gliders take off and eject from the ground.

A large Anglo-American convoy is spotted.

The pilot is in the cockpit.

He transmits information in Morse code to the command post.

Grand Admiral Karl Doenitz gives instructions.

Submarines go on a raid.

Junkers-88 and Heinkel-111 aircraft in the air.

Submarines at sea.

Continued.

Airplanes in the air, pilots in the cockpit.

View of a convoy of ships from above.

Airplanes and submarines attack the convoy.

Bombs fly towards their target, explosions are heard.

Destruction of the convoy.

Burning and sinking ships.

About 260 thousand tons of strategic cargo for the Soviet Union were destroyed.

Military operations in the Murmansk area.

German bombers arrive at the airfield.

A drawing of a kite on the fuselage of the aircraft.

One of the pilots is presented with a wreath in connection with his 100th combat sortie, then the second.

Colonel General Hans-Jürgen Stumpf, commander of aviation in the Far North, inspects the flight unit, he presents the Knight's Cross to pilot Rudolf Müller, who destroyed 48 enemy gliders.

Colonel General Eduard Dietl arrives at the northern front with a unit of sappers and fighters of the Todt organization.

The ceremonial formation of construction teams that will build roads in the tundra.

General Dietl walks around the formation of fighters, talks to them.

Dietl takes the parade.

Continuation.

RAD fighters building wooden platforms for the advancing troops.

Romanian and German units moving along the platform.

Distribution of shells from a truck.

A short rest en route.

German planes in the air.

Bombing of Soviet columns and units.

Explosions.

Crossing the Oskol, sappers building a wooden bridge across the river.

A gun fires.

An enemy tank is burning.

Infantrymen in battle, soldiers throw grenades into an enemy bunker.

Soviet soldiers surrender.

A column of Soviet prisoners, German tanks drive past them.

Dead Soviet soldiers on the battlefield.

The Germans force the Oskol River in inflatable boats.

A German observer with binoculars.

Stukas in the air.

Bombing of Soviet positions.

View of Soviet positions from the air.

Consequences of the bombing: huge quantities of destroyed Soviet equipment.

Burning equipment on the streets of a ruined city.

German infantrymen on bicycles.

Destroyed buildings, destroyed station.