Die Deutsche Wochenschau №626 (1942)

France.

The Atlantic coast of Europe, near Dieppe, after a battle between German troops and the Anglo-American landing force.

Field Marshal Gerd von von Rundstedt inspects military trophies.

Awarding the most distinguished soldiers with the Iron Cross.

An officer pins the Iron Cross to a wounded soldier.

The Atlantic Ocean.

A bunker for German submarines.

Captain 3rd rank Erich Topp returns to the submarine base after completing his mission, he reports to the port commandant.

A ceremonial dinner for the submarine crew, the sailors are sitting at tables outdoors, Erich Topp next to SS-Obergruppenführer, SS General Sepp Dietrich.

Grand Admiral Erich Raeder greets the sailors who made the heroic raid to the coast of the USA. He is followed by Grand Admiral Karl Doenitz.

Grand Admiral Raeder adjusts the cross on a sailor’s chest and shakes his hand.

Germany.

Hitler's headquarters.

Captain 3rd rank Erich Topp heads to the Fuehrer's headquarters to award him the Swords to the Knight's Cross with Oak Leaves.

The Fuehrer's chief adjutant, Rudolf Schmundt, looks over papers with the staff officers.

Captain Werner Baumbach, commander of the 1st Group of the 30th Bomber Aviation, is at the entrance to the headquarters.

Hitler comes out to him and congratulates him on his award: the Knight's Cross with Oak Leaves and Swords for sinking Allied ships with a tonnage of over 300,000 tons.

Baumbach introduces his crew to the Fuehrer: gunner, Oberfeldwebel Wilhelm Braun, radio operator, Oberfeldwebel Heinrich Thies, and navigator, Unteroffizier Gerhard Baerwald.

Baumbach talks to the chief of the OKW operations department, General Alfred Jodl.

Werner Baumbach with his crew in front of the camera.

They are at a plane leaving for the front.

The central sector of the Eastern Front on the Smolensk-Rzhev-Orel-Kursk line.

Arrival of freight trains with weapons and ammunition, new tanks for the German Army Group Center.

At the forward positions.

A pause in the fighting.

A soldier carries loaves of bread in his hands.

Dirty infantrymen smile at the camera, eat canned food in the trenches.

Artillery shelling of attacking Soviet troops of Timoshenko's army near Rzhev.

Mortars and anti-aircraft guns fire at Soviet tanks, a crew at a gun.

Fragments of an infantry firefight.

The Soviet attack is repelled.

Destroyed Soviet tanks, a knocked-out tank is stuck above a trench.

Wounded German soldiers are given first aid.

The infantry is preparing for a counterattack, running through the fog through the forest to the river.

Overcoming a water obstacle on pontoons.

On the opposite bank, soldiers lie down with weapons.

Soviet artillery hits the crossing.

German tanks cross the river, a mechanic looks through a crack.

Shelling of a Soviet bunker.

The attack of German tanks and infantry continues.

A tank drives through the forest.

Attack of German aviation.

USSR. Central sector of the front.

Infantrymen observe the actions of the German aviation.

The infantry advances forward, jogs.

German artillerymen drag a gun, fire.

A burning village, flames of a fire.

A front-line cameraman films.

Fighting in the upper reaches of the Don.

Italian troops - cavalry, infantry and artillery - in action.

A German airfield near Stalingrad.

Operational and tactical conference in a German squadron.

Captain Ernst Kupfer, holder of the Knight's Cross, commander of the 2nd assault aviation group, mounts his horse, gallops to the plane, gets into the car with the gunner.

The planes take off.

A massive raid by German bombers under the cover of Italian fighters on Soviet fortifications between the Volga and the Don.

View of the Don from the air.

The Germans begin bombing Soviet tank units.

German tank crews observe the bombing.

A reconnaissance plane in the sky, flying over a heavy gun crew.

Artillerymen carry shells on stretchers to a howitzer.

A tank brigade prepares to attack, tanks are advancing.

Attempts by Soviet troops to stop a German tank attack.

German artillery prepares for battle, a heavy howitzer fires.

Tanks are advancing, infantry follows the tanks.

The Germans are moving across the steppe.

The Caucasian Front.

German infantry on the march along a dusty road.

Romanian troops force a river in inflatable boats under enemy fire.

Fighting with Soviet troops in the forest.

An operation to exterminate Soviet "cuckoos" /shooters in a tree/, a sniper falls down.

German troops are moving in the direction of Maikop.

German motorcyclists ride past a long burning warehouse.

The movement of German troops forward, vehicles and self-propelled guns are driving.

PNR Maykop.

German troops advance.

Continuation.

Caucasian Front.

German soldiers marching, motorcyclists and trucks passing by.

View from a car of the road, a destroyed church.

Arrested "commissars" being led down the street.

On the streets of Maikop.

Soldiers with a captured Soviet flag exiting a building, close-up of the "Gostorgovli Challenge Banner".

Infantry and cavalry on the city streets.

Leading a column of prisoners.

German soldiers on bicycles, motorcyclists on the highway.

Battle for oil fields.

Aiming a heavy gun, the gun firing.

During a break between battles, the Germans eat watermelons.

Fragments of a firefight /night shot/.

German soldiers pass by a station.

A soldier with a rifle walks against the backdrop of a fire, oil tanks are burning.

A burning oil well.

German fighters in the air.

Fragments of an air battle.

A burning oil depot set on fire by the Bolsheviks.

German soldiers advancing south.

Tanks are coming.