Die Deutsche Wochenschau №632 (1942)

Germany.

A gathering in the Berlin Sports Palace to celebrate the Nazi holiday, Harvest Day.

Reich Marshal Hermann Goering and the Reich Minister of Propaganda, Gauleiter of Berlin Joseph Goebbels appear.

State Secretary of the Reich Ministry of Food Supply Herbert Backe announces the awarding of high decorations to the most worthy figures and organizers of agricultural production.

The director of the farm Kurt Lettler, who works in the occupied eastern lands, receives the Knight's Cross with Swords.

Farmer Ernst Ritter is awarded the Knight's Cross.

Goering presents the awards to them on behalf of the Fuehrer.

Goering delivers a speech on the importance of the "eastern territories" captured by Germany for supplying Germany.

An ovation in the hall.

Goering leaves the Sports Palace.

Together with two new holders of the Knight's Cross, he passes the guard of honor.

Germany.

Arrival of a food train from Ukraine.

This is a gift from the Gauleiter, Reich Commissioner of Ukraine Erich Koch to the Gauleiter of Berlin Joseph Goebbels.

Unloading boxes.

Soldiers unload eggs, poultry, etc.

Statistics on the consumption of bread, meat and fats in Germany from 1917 to 1942, diagrams.

Data on the main indicators of agricultural production.

The announcer talks about the collapse of plans to strangle Germany with hunger.

USSR. Caucasian Front.

Military operations and everyday life of German mountain rifle troops in the mountains.

Soldiers on a mountain road at an altitude of 3000 meters above sea level.

Distribution of food, mail, cigarettes.

The column prepares to continue its journey.

Soldiers against the backdrop of the Caucasus Mountains.

USSR. Caucasian Front.

Elbrus, German battery in the mountains.

Repelling attacks by Soviet troops.

German artillery in action.

Soviet soldiers surrender.

Battlefield: corpses of Soviet soldiers lie.

Stalingrad Front.

Map.

German artillery fires at Soviet tanks.

View of tanks in the field from above.

German officer looks through a telescope.

German bomber operations.

Destroyed Soviet tanks.

German tanks break through to the northern part of Stalingrad, tanks drive past the fence, along the street.

A self-propelled anti-aircraft gun with artillerymen moves.

Ruins of a factory, houses, the grain elevator building is visible.

Awarding of the Knight's Cross to Senior Sergeant Karl Freundner.

With his self-propelled anti-tank gun, he destroyed ten Soviet tanks in just half an hour.

Soviet prisoners of war near Stalingrad walk across the field.

USSR. Military operations south of Lake Ladoga.

German artillery and infantry on the offensive.

USSR. Military operations south of Lake Ladoga.

A tank unit receives an assignment, the commander looks at a map.

Tanks are advancing.

Destruction is the result of bombing by German planes.

Craters, corpses of soldiers lie there.

A burnt forest.

German anti-aircraft artillery repels an attack by a Soviet plane.

The plane falls.

Military operations in the area of Lake Ilmenskoye, a map.

A balloon with an observer in the basket rises.

German artillery in action.

German soldiers are sleeping, they are woken up.

An SS unit in the trenches before the assault, an offensive.

Mud in the trenches, the soldiers' boots get stuck.

Sappers clear the battlefield of mines.

Soviet soldiers surrender, prisoners are sitting, a woman is among them.

German planes are flying, Soviet transport is being bombed, a road and the sea are visible.

A carpet of bombs in the sky.