Die Deutsche Wochenschau №656 (1943)

Germany.

Breslau (Wroclaw).

Mass recruitment of young people into the ranks of the Nazi organizations "B.D.M." and "Hitler Youth".

The hall is filled with young people.

Buglers are playing.

Gauleiter of Lower Silesia Karl Hanke and officers are walking down the aisle.

A speaker on the tribune.

Oath of allegiance to the Fuhrer by young men and women joining the Hitler Youth.

Atlantic.

English Channel.

Atlantic coast of Western Europe.

Work on further strengthening the Atlantic Wall.

View of fortifications.

Guns in bunkers.

German coastal artillery in Norway.

German observer on the bank of the channel.

Sentries.

Sailors at a naval base.

Field Marshal Gerd von Rundstedt inspects troops in the Atlantic Wall zone.

Construction of a new bunker.

Soldiers of the RAD and the Todt Organization at construction work.

Fortifications.

Wire entanglements.

View of construction sites.

Heavy guns in bunkers.

Changing of the watch in the garrison troops.

Italy.

Grand Admiral Karl Doenitz in Italy.

He is received by the commander of the Italian fleet, Admiral Arturo Ricciardi.

Inspection of the guard of honor.

Doenitz and Ricciardi get into the car.

Doenitz at headquarters, inspecting the line of officers.

Doenitz arrives at the base of German submarines in the service of fascist Italy.

The admiral inspects the line of German naval officers, including Lieutenant Commander Georg Schewe.

The return of a German submarine to an Italian harbor after the end of hostilities in the Mediterranean.

Lieutenant Commander Albrecht Brandi with his crew on the deck of the boat.

A military orchestra plays on the shore.

German Rear Admiral Leo Kreisch, commander of the torpedo boat forces in Italy, greets Brandi, inspects the line of sailors with him, and awards distinguished German submariners.

North Africa.

Near Tunisia.

German and Italian tanks on the march.

Field Marshals Erwin Rommel and Albert Kesselring in a car on the way to the front.

German airborne troops are sent to their positions in military vehicles, a cannon is attached to the vehicle.

The cannon is being installed.

Knight's Cross recipient Major Vitsikh (?) and officers discuss the military situation.

German soldiers resting on the way.

Soldiers sleep, read newspapers, eat canned food.

Two soldiers play with a turtle.

Negotiations with the Commander-in-Chief via field communications.

Kesselring at the telephone.

An observer looks through a stereoscopic telescope.

British and American tanks on the offensive.

German Junkers in the air, planes bomb concentrations of British tanks.

German artillery fires.

German tanks on the attack.

A burning British tank.

An ambulance tank on the battlefield, providing assistance to the wounded.

German reserves on the march.

German Staff Sergeant, platoon commander of a field battalion Ewald Mrusek, the first to be awarded the Knight's Cross on the Tunisian front, walks along the road among soldiers.

Captured British and American soldiers walk, throwing down their weapons.

British and American positions captured by the Germans.

German soldiers walk past the corpses of British soldiers on the ground.

Disabled Anglo-American equipment.

View of an English trench.

Gas masks, flashlights, weapons, and ammunition are lying around.

German soldiers near damaged American tanks.

Major Vitsikh awards soldiers with Iron Crosses.

Eastern Front.

On the Smolensk-Kursk line.

Supply soldiers transport cans and boxes of food by rail on a hand-built sailing platform, they pass by the ruins of houses.

Soldiers are having lunch.

On one of the sections of the front.

Soldiers in camouflage suits are having lunch near a shelter made of snow blocks.

A detachment of sappers carries out a series of explosions on the ground, they blow up trees, making blockages on the road.

Sappers with mines go to the dugout.

Blowing up a railway line, the sapper's hand turns the handle of the detonator.

The blown up house flies into the air.

A detachment of sappers passes, village huts explode behind them, they look back.

A sapper places a mine on a wooden bridge, which the detachment passes on the retreat route, catches up with his comrades.

The Germans retreat to new positions.

Installation of guns.

An observer in protective glasses raises the alarm.

Attack of Soviet tanks /tanks are visible in the frame/.

German anti-tank artillery and anti-aircraft guns are firing.

Fragment of the battle.

Destroyed Soviet tanks.

Corpses of Soviet soldiers in the snow.

Southern section of the Eastern Front.

On the Kharkov-Stalino (Donetsk) line.

Soldiers are resting, they are eating sandwiches.

A motorcyclist is sleeping in the sidecar of his motorcycle.

Tankers are replenishing fuel and ammunition supplies for their tanks.

Colonel Walter Hoernlein, commander of the Grossdeutschland division, is walking with a cane at the positions of his division.

Tanks are marching towards the Donets.

Tanks are shelling Soviet positions.

German artillery is firing.

Soviet soldiers are surrendering.

A shootout with the enemy.

German soldiers in a Russian village.

Fragments of a street battle.

Soldiers are going around houses, a Soviet soldier comes out of a hut and surrenders.

A burning Soviet tank.

German tanks move forward.

Destroyed Soviet equipment.

Corpses of Soviet soldiers in trenches.

German airfield near Kharkov.

Massive launch of German bombers.

Bombing of Soviet positions and populated areas.

Bombs fly towards the target.

Explosions.