Die Deutsche Wochenschau №648 (1943)

A popular science film from the series "What Everyone Should Know" dedicated to potatoes.

Harvesting potatoes, they are on the table.

Data on their production from 1938 to 1942. Animals eat potatoes and their waste.

Potatoes are delivered to the store.

Tips for storing potatoes.

A storage area where potatoes can "breathe", where the necessary temperature and humidity are maintained.

Potato diseases.

Instructions on the need to sort and properly store the vegetable.

Germany.

The signing of the Japanese-German Economic Agreement in Berlin on 20.1.1943. The signing ceremony.

Ribbentrop and the Japanese ambassador Oshima sign the document.

Germany, Berlin.

On January 30, Reichsmarschall Hermann Goering gives a speech in the premises of the Ministry of Aviation to representatives of the Air Force, Navy and Ground Forces.

Goering's speech, retold by the announcer, about the continuation of the struggle of the German people and their Wehrmacht as the guarantor of the existence of Europe.

The audience.

Close-up of ace pilot Adolf Galland.

Germany.

Berlin.

Ceremony in the Reich Chancellery to mark the tenth anniversary of Hitler's rise to power.

Reichsleiter Dr.

Robert Ley delivers a speech calling on the Germans to mobilize their efforts to bring victory closer.

Albert Speer, head of the German Labor Front, and Dr.

Ley present awards to the most distinguished home front workers.

Germany.

The Berlin Sports Palace, the traditional gathering place of the Berlin National Socialists.

Reich Minister Joseph Goebbels addresses the entire German people.

A delegation of the Italian Fascist Party, led by Tardini and the Italian ambassador to Berlin, Dino Alfieri, walk through the hall.

Goebbels' speech as narrated by the announcer.

In his opening remarks, Goebbels says: "We have boundless confidence in our soldiers.

There is no one among us who does not have a fanatical desire to make a worthy contribution to the struggle with their work, their faith in victory."

In conclusion, the Reich Minister reads out the Fuhrer's appeal, in which he says that the shield of the German Wehrmacht is called upon to protect all of Europe. "

What would have happened to the entire German people and to the whole of Europe if, at the last minute, the Wehrmacht had not deployed its forces against threatening Asia."

Speer, Himmler, Rosenberg, Ley and others are in the presidium.

Listeners.

At the end of the meeting, Goebbels calls on the entire people to unite under the traditional slogan of the National Socialists: "The Führer commands - we obey." There are shouts of approval in the hall, everyone raises their hands in a fascist salute.

The Atlantic.

A German submarine is on its way.

The raid has been going on for more than two months, all the torpedoes have been used up.

Another submarine comes to the rescue.

Signals are transmitted from the bridge about the readiness to transfer the torpedoes.

The commander is transferred to it, the process of transferring the torpedoes must be discussed in detail.

The torpedo is lowered into the water, the propeller and warhead are wrapped in life jackets to protect against possible damage.

The seven-meter colossus is carefully transferred to the boat.

The boat descends 3 meters, the torpedo is to be secured on the upper deck.

The torpedo is located between the net breakwaters.

The commander gives the signal, the boat surfaces, and the torpedo is installed on the guide axis.

The boat continues on its way.

The alarm signal is on the boat, the crew takes their places.

A neutral Swedish fishing vessel is visible through the periscope, it is let through.

An American yacht appears, here such small vessels on certain waves are supposed to notify about the location of German submarines.

The sailboat will be sunk, the crew abandons the ship.

Atlantic.

A Swedish trawler is visible through the periscope.

The submarine lets it pass.

The submarine continues its journey.

An American yacht in the ocean, the crew abandons the yacht.

The submarine fires at it from its guns, the yacht sinks.

North Africa.

Tunisia.

Cars drive to the front past the remains of ancient structures, the ruins of an aqueduct from the time of Carthage.

A sapper stops a car, warning about mines, and puts up a sign.

At the forward line of German troops.

German officers at a meeting.

On the right is Knight's Cross recipient Lieutenant Colonel Walter Koch, one of the heroes of Eben-Emael.

Arabs carry boxes of ammunition for German units.

A break, the Germans eat local mutton soup, try local oranges from a box, get their hair cut.

Soldiers do laundry, read newspapers.

Germans in the trenches.

An observer climbs up a windmill.

Camouflaged machine gun nests, soldiers peering out from behind cover.

A gun crew.

The start of a firefight.

German soldiers moving forward.

Officers over a map.

Captured Americans.

German soldiers on the front lines.

Knocked out American tanks.

A German soldier with a captured machete knife.

German fighters take off on alert.

Enemy planes attack a German runway, bomb explosions are visible.

Anti-aircraft gunners provide barrage fire.

A downed plane is burning on the ground.

Fighter planes returning from a victorious flight.

The pilot, Knight's Cross with Oak Leaves recipient Captain Kurt Ubben, leaves the cockpit; to date he has shot down 101 enemy planes.

Another pilot, Major Joachim Müncheberg, Knight's Cross with Oak Leaves and Swords recipient, shot down four British planes during this flight.

Field Marshal Albert Kesselring talks to the pilots.

Pilot Captain Heinz Baer tells his comrades about the flight.

The wreckage of smoking English planes lies all over the desert.

Northern sector of the Eastern Front, northern Karelia.

A German horse-drawn convoy moves through the snow on sleds.

Snow removal machines clear the road.

Soldiers clear snow with shovels.

Motorized columns move through the forest in deep snow.

A German detachment disembarks from trucks and continues on foot.

Soldiers on the march.

Arrival at the forward positions.

Soldiers at the dugouts.

General of the Infantry Karl Weisenberger awards the Knight's Cross to Lieutenant von Einem for excellent work as an artillery observer and then inspects the formation of soldiers with him.

USSR. Battles near Leningrad.

Delivery of food and ammunition by sleds and trucks.

Unloading a train with ammunition.

A German heavy gun shells the Lake Ladoga area.

Central sector of the front, map.

Knight's Cross with Oak Leaves recipient Colonel General Walter Model is in position, talking to soldiers.

Frequent changes in position mean that signalmen have a particularly difficult task.

They are laying a cable secured to special poles, which will be used to communicate between the command posts of individual units.

Signalmen in a trench, communication established.

A raid by Soviet aircraft.

Bombs explode in close proximity to the German trenches.

Alarm.

German artillery, mortars and machine guns fire at Soviet tanks.

Counterattack by German infantry, Germans in camouflage suits flee.

The battlefield after the attack.

Destroyed Soviet equipment.

German soldiers taking a smoke break.

Continuation of the firefight.