Die Deutsche Wochenschau №627 (1942)

Hungary.

Funeral in Budapest of the Regent's son, Admiral Horthy, Istvan Horthy, who died on the Soviet-German front.

Funeral ceremony in parliament.

German Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop lays a wreath on behalf of the Fuhrer.

Wilhelm Keitel with a marshal's baton.

Italian Foreign Minister Count Ciano lays a wreath on behalf of the Italian government.

Members of foreign delegations.

Funeral cortege on the streets of Budapest.

Admiral Horthy, his wife, Ribbentrop and others follow the coffin.

Northern Africa.

German airfield on the southern coast of Greece.

Tent city.

Pilots receive provisions for the flight to Africa.

Italian paratroops board transport planes to Africa.

Soldiers put on life jackets.

The plane takes off.

Soldiers in the cabin, one clutching a dog to his chest.

Landing in Africa.

This transport group celebrates its 150,000th flight; a poster with this number is attached to the arch.

Unloading of troops and equipment.

Italian troops immediately proceed to El Alamein.

The plane returns for the next mission.

German pilot Hans-Joachim Marseille jumps from the cockpit of his fighter, he has already scored 125 victories.

Marseille surrounded by his comrades.

He received the Knight's Cross with Oak Leaves, Swords and Diamonds for his exploits.

Field Marshal Erwin Rommel and Field Marshal Albert Kesselring talk with Italian Marshal Ugo Cavalieri, Marshal Ettore Bastico and other Italian officers.

The Egyptian sector of the front.

Italian self-propelled guns move through the desert.

The ancient oasis of Siwa is an important base for the British Air Force.

German and Italian units enter thousand-year-old Siwa, cars and tanks are driving by.

The commander of the Italian garrison greets the troops, the residents raise their hands in a fascist salute.

German artillerymen near the city.

Lunch in the city with locals.

Sheikh Ali, the richest man in the oasis.

The Germans are treated to grapes, the Arabs load grapes into a car.

The Germans bathe naked in Cleopatra's pool.

Reichsmarschall Hermann Goering on the eastern front visits wounded soldiers awaiting dispatch to their homeland.

He inspects a hospital train before it is sent to Germany.

Goering and the wounded, medical staff.

USSR. The central sector of the front on the Smolensk-Bryansk-Kursk line.

At the forward positions.

A meeting at the command post.

The half-destroyed building of the city theater, converted by the Germans into an artillery observation post.

German artillery fires at Soviet positions.

A tank fires.

Continued.

Central section.

German anti-aircraft guns repel an attack by Soviet tanks.

Defeated Soviet positions, dead Soviet soldiers lie there, broken Soviet tanks.

Military operations near Stalingrad.

The 6th Field Army of the Wehrmacht of Friedrich Paulus is involved here.

The movement of German troops across the steppe towards Stalingrad, a large concentration of troops is observed.

Filtering water for motors.

Marching across the Russian steppes, soldiers' boots kicking up dust as they walk.

Bathing horses in a tributary of the Don.

The horses are doused with water from a bucket, fed.

German soldiers pluck and roast caught chickens, milk cows.

Infantry on the march across the steppe, they cover 60 km a day.

Tanks crossing the pontoon bridge over the Don.

Captured Soviet soldiers surrender their weapons, run across the bridge, cars with German soldiers drive past.

German bombers take off.

Bombing of Soviet positions near Stalingrad.

Bomb explosions on the ground, aerial view.

German tanks on the offensive.

German motorized units reach the Volga, views of the Volga.

German infantry on the offensive near Stalingrad.

The infantry consolidates its position near the Stalingrad-Moscow railway line.

A German reconnaissance aircraft in the air.

USSR. Military operations near Stalingrad.

German artillery shells Stalingrad.

Panorama of the city on fire.

Soldiers in armored vehicles.

German soldiers walk through the dust, smiling at the camera.

Cars and guns drive by.

USSR. Caucasian front.

German motorized troops on the roads of the Caucasus drive past broken Soviet tanks.

Soldiers at a rest stop, they drink wine, raw eggs, eat watermelons, sit by the fence.

Infantrymen climb onto a tank, drive, motorcyclists drive past a burning house.

Germans near Pyatigorsk, view of the city from the road.

A detachment of the Caucasian militia created by the Germans.

Caucasians in papakhas ride horses along the road.

The movement of German mountain rifle units to Elbrus along a mountain road.

Camels with cargo.

A flock of sheep blocks the road, shepherds drive the herd away.

On the bank of a mountain river.

Against the background of the river, a Caucasian in a papakha on a horse.

Germans are walking along a mountain path.

View of Elbrus.

A soldier drinks water from a mountain river.

Climbing Elbrus on a snow crust with ski poles.

Weather station in the mountains.

Germans at the top, installing a sign.

Views of the Caucasus Range.