Die Deutsche Wochenschau №637 (1942)

Agitation film.

A German family at the table counting their expenses.

The family is preparing to send a whole series of small packages, apparently to the front.

An appeal not to overload the field post with unnecessary mailings, not to bring down an avalanche of letters and parcels at the post office.

The film ends with shots of soldiers reading letters from home and receiving parcels.

Germany.

The Fuhrer's meeting with veterans of the National Socialist movement on November 9. A panorama of the hall, the guard of honor by the banners.

Everyone stands up, greeting Hitler.

Berlin.

The ceremonial laying of wreaths at the grave of Horst Wessel.

Munich.

A ceremonial ceremony on the occasion of Remembrance Day for the fallen /killed during the fascist putsch/.

Munich Gauleiter Paul Giesler and Field Marshal Keitel at the ceremony.

The laying of a wreath from the Fuhrer at the graves of the fallen.

Keitel lays a wreath from the OKW. A ceremonial march past the Eternal Flame.

Soldiers marching.

Wreaths on graves.

Defensive lines of Norway.

Here, as well as on the coast of France, the English Channel and the North Sea, the German armed forces are in constant combat readiness to repel an attack from the enemy.

German ships at sea, stormy waters of the fjord.

German coastal fortifications.

A training alert of the garrison troops.

The infantry takes up positions on the defensive line stretching along the entire coast.

The crew at the gun.

The mortar fires.

Shelling of the suspected enemy.

A smoke screen is placed over the coast for camouflage.

Airplanes control the area right up to the edge of the eternal ice, they are above the frozen bay.

An iceberg in the sea.

Torpedo boats close the entrance to individual fjords.

A torpedo battery.

German artillery positions in the fjord, disguised as peasant houses, guns.

Continued.

Northern Norway.

Military exercises on the German coastal fortifications.

All the bays along the coast are literally stuffed with artillery guns of all calibers, bunkers and special weapons.

Anti-aircraft guns protect the coast from enemy air attacks.

Heavy artillery crews are also ready to open fire at any moment.

Runways are evenly distributed along the entire coast, from which military air squadrons of airplanes and seaplanes can simultaneously take off.

Norway.

German naval units guard the coast of Norway.

Ship guns are at the ready.

The Norwegian coast has been transformed into an impregnable bastion, which must prevent any attempt by the enemy to break through to the European continent.

Finnish front.

Restoration work in liberated Karelia.

Logging for house construction, sawmill, board manufacturing.

Finnish soldiers on vacation are building houses for the families of fallen comrades.

Here, 52 houses are being built at the same time, which the Karelian units will then place on the foundations of the destroyed houses.

And now another village has been restored.

The Finnish flag flies.

A Finnish general, on behalf of the troops, hands over documents certifying property rights to the families of the dead Finnish soldiers at a general meeting of residents.

A woman with a child in her arms smiles.

USSR. Military action near Leningrad.

Artillery fire on Kronstadt.

Explosions on the territory of the plant.

A burning power plant.

German artillery shells the Soviet battleship Marat in the Kronstadt roadstead.

USSR. Military operations near Leningrad.

German and Finnish aircraft raid on Leningrad.

Bombing of Leningrad harbor.

USSR. Stalingrad Front.

Fighting on the approaches to the city.

German and Italian units in battle.

View of destroyed Stalingrad.

Broken Soviet equipment and tanks on the streets, broken trams.

A train with weapons captured by the Germans.

Ruins of the Stalingrad Tractor Plant, view of the workshops.

Soldiers in the trenches. .

On the German-French demarcation line.

On November 11, German units begin a march through unoccupied territory of France to the Mediterranean coast.

The announcer talks about this entry as a "response" to the special operations of the Allies in North Africa and preparations for the landing of troops in the south of France.

Crossing the demarcation line, the barrier on the border opens.

Movement of German motorized units to the Mediterranean coast.

Residents watch the movement of troops.

Columns of troops pass through Toulouse, Narbonne and other cities in the south of France.

German soldiers are resting.

French boys approach them with curiosity.

Soldiers sit on the parapet of the embankment, swinging their legs.

German tanks on the road to Marseille.

A train with fuel tanks for the Air Force travels by rail.

Troops march through the streets of Marseille.

German tanks at the Arc de Triomphe.