Die Deutsche Wochenschau №620 (1942)

North Africa.

German base on Crete.

Escort planes are on the field, guns and uniforms are on the ground.

Soldiers are resting.

A German transport ship is being loaded for shipment to North Africa.

The soldiers on board the ship are having fun, organizing humorous competitions.

A German sailor talks to an Italian soldier.

Tobruk harbor.

The remains of sunken British ships after the Germans stormed the fortress.

Soldiers landing in Africa.

There is a cistern with drinking water, a soldier pours water into canisters.

Tanks leave in the direction of El Alamein.

Italian and German planes escort the column.

Sollum harbor.

Cars on the highway.

Planes in the air.

Trucks with supplies are driving to Sidi Barrani.

View of Sidi Barrani from an airplane.

The fortress of Mersa Matruh taken by the Germans and Italians.

The planes fly on.

The pilot in the cockpit.

A station on the Egyptian coastal railway, with trains carrying military supplies at a standstill.

A camp for British prisoners of war behind barbed wire.

Prisoners in the camp.

A prisoner bakes flatbread on a homemade stove.

Equipment moving toward El Alamein.

A German soldier near a board with the inscription in English: "Whewell's Road." He crosses it out and writes in German: "Rommel's Road." A column of vehicles on the move.

Airplanes in the air.

Aerial view of a highway.

Tanks and vehicles moving, guns being transported.

The Atlantic coast of Europe.

German fortifications on the Pas-de-Calais.

A German observer.

German gunners in their shorts cleaning their guns.

Alarm.

Aiming the guns.

German anti-aircraft guns firing.

A downed plane falling.

German fighters before takeoff.

A downed British plane that fell on a building; another that crashed into a canal.

Downed English planes on the sand.

Germany.

A German submarine returning from a raid to the shores of America.

Sailors prepare flags with records of the tonnage of downed ships.

Sailors doing household chores, taking a shower.

Continued.

U-552 commander Erich Topp on the bridge, the wall of the bridge is painted with two devils with torches.

The boat moves forward.

Meeting with another submarine.

Lifebuoys and boards with the names of wrecked enemy ships are hanging.

Meeting the boat at the base.

Grand Admiral Doenitz sends congratulations to the crew.

Presentation of flowers.

The commander and crew.

Nurses treat the sailors, they drink beer from bottles.

The boat enters the bunker assigned to it.

Preparing the boat for the next voyage.

In the engine room.

Loading food and shells.

The boat leaves for another raid.

On the deck.

Near the American coast.

An enemy freighter is spotted.

Shelling.

The submarine moves forward.

Attack.

Explosion on the steamer.

The boat submerges.

A damaged enemy steamer is visible through the periscope.

Torpedoes are fired.

The ship is sinking.

The announcer talks about the successes of the German submarine fleet.

Footage of sinking and burning ships.

The Eastern Front.

On the Kursk-Voronezh-Voroshilovgrad line.

Destroyed Voronezh.

A German soldier looks at the city from the top of a building on which a fascist flag is already hanging.

Views of the city.

On the streets of Voronezh, taken by the Germans on June 17, 1942. Germans on the streets.

Ruins of the city.

Residents with bundles walk along a destroyed street.

Civilians, herded together to clear the streets.

German vehicles on the streets.

There is debris, a monument to Lenin, and dead people.

A soldier washes himself from a pump.

A German milks a cow and drinks milk.

A German soldier makes an omelette.

German positions on the banks of the Don.

Crossing the river.

Remnants of Soviet equipment, destroyed in the June battles.

Destroyed vehicles, military equipment.

German soldiers are sleeping.

Alarm, a German gun is firing.

Anti-aircraft gunners are firing at a Soviet bomber.

It falls to the ground and explodes.

A German gun is firing.

Destroyed Soviet equipment, a burning Soviet tank.

Cavalrymen are riding, one of them holds a mandolin.

Continuation.

The movement of motorized units and infantry to the south.

A tank is moving, cyclists are visible from it, who are riding along the highway.

Hungarian infantry on the march.

German infantry at the destroyed bridge over the Donets River.

An attempt to restore the bridge.

The Germans are moving forward.

Germans on horses in a populated area.

Fragments of a firefight with Soviet units.

Soviet prisoners.

The Germans provide assistance to the wounded.

Burning buildings.

Germans in the village.

A church is visible in the distance.

A German gun is firing.

Machine gunners.

A Slovak battery in firing positions.

A huge column of prisoners is walking towards the camera.

A view of the column from the flank.

A German gun is firing.

A burning train with fuel, abandoned by Soviet troops.

Germans in the Lisichansk area.

Fragments of a firefight.

German infantry on the attack.

The Germans enter Lisichansk.

German tanks on the city streets.

German infantry marching along the streets.

German planes set off to bomb Soviet positions near Voroshilovgrad.

Bombs fly towards their target.

Pilot in the cockpit.

Signaling the German troops to advance.

View of Soviet positions.

Burning Soviet tanks.

German observer.

Germans on the streets of Voroshilovgrad on June 14, 1942. Soldiers on the march east of Voroshilovgrad.

Tanks drive towards the camera.