Die Deutsche Wochenschau №657 (1943)

Newsreel №62839, 3 parts, Duration: 0:20:35 B/W
Studio UFA

Reel №1

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Germany.

Short film "The Reichsmarschall Division".

Division soldiers march through the gates of a barracks in the Berlin district of Reinickedorf.

On the gate is the name: "General Hermann Goering Division".

Soldiers and officers.

View of the barracks and officers' houses.

Close-up of the armband with the division's name.

Goering inspects the division, he walks around the formation of soldiers.

Soldiers at self-propelled guns and armored vehicles.

Artillerymen demonstrate how to work with an anti-tank gun.

Boarding the vehicles.

Division maneuvers at the training ground.

Soldiers board half-tracks with a light anti-aircraft gun.

Motorcyclists and self-propelled guns travel along the road.

Soldiers cross a river in a boat.

They fire machine guns, mortars, and flamethrowers.

Tanks fire.

Explosions on the ground.

A tanker in a tank.

A tank driver addresses German youth from the screen, calling on them to serve in their division.

Keywords

Germany, World War 2, State, figures, personalities, Goering, soldiers, troops, tanks, weapons, river, explosion, artillery, military equipment

Reel №2

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General Province, Breslau (Wroclaw).

Funeral in his homeland of a prominent figure in the field of foreign policy, the German ambassador to Madrid Hans Adolf von Moltke.

The coffin, covered with a flag with a swastika.

A wreath from the Spanish ambassador, from the caudillo Franco.

German Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop at the funeral, in the background, the Gauleiter of Lower Silesia Karl Hanke.

Laying of a wreath from the Fuhrer.

Germany.

Berlin.

Funeral ceremony for one of the prominent figures in the German sports movement, the first Reichssportführer Hans von Tschammer und Osten /25.3.1943/ in the Mosaic Hall of the Reich Chancellery.

Reich Minister of Propaganda Joseph Goebbels makes a speech.

Laying of a wreath from the Propaganda Ministry.

Coffin with wreaths, wreath of the Finnish Olympic Committee, Hungarian and Danish representatives, from Goering.

In the hall among the public Reichsleiter Wilhelm Frick, Reichsleiter Alfred Rosenberg.

Funeral procession on the streets of Berlin.

Coffin on a gun carriage at the Brandenburg Gate.

France.

Arrival of the German submarine U-177 after completing a combat mission to the home port.

Sailors on the shore watch the approaching submarine.

Submarine commander, Knight's Cross holder, Lieutenant Commander Gerhard Bilig.

Fellow submariners greet their comrades.

Loading torpedoes, ammunition, food onto the submarine, refueling.

Submarine on a new raid in the Atlantic.

Observer.

Announcer on the successes of the German submarine fleet.

Germany.

Hitler's residence.

Reception by the Führer of the Italian General Italo Gariboldi, commander of the Italian troops on the Eastern Front.

Presentation of the German award to the general - the Knight's Cross.

Eastern Front.

Lake Ladoga region.

German soldiers riding in a cart.

In the forest.

German Lieutenant General Johann Sinnhuber, commander of the 28th Jaeger Division, inspects an artillery position.

Keywords

General Province, World War 2, funeral, State, figures, personalities, laying of wreaths, Germany, funeral, sport, State, figures, personalities, Goebbels, laying of wreaths, funeral ceremony, World War 2, France, World War 2, Navy, sea, weapons, personalities, Germany, World War 2, State, figures, personalities, Hitler, reception, military leaders, awarding, troops, USSR, World War 2, military leaders, troops, personalities

Reel №3

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Continuation.

Lieutenant General Johann Sinnhuber talks to soldiers and officers.

Installing barbed wire entanglements on the banks of the Neva.

Beginning of shelling of Soviet positions.

Soviet artillery exchanges fire with German tanks.

Soldiers run for cover.

Putting out a fire in a German dugout.

Repelling Soviet attempts to break through the German line between Lake Ladoga and Lake Ilmen.

German artillery, machine guns, and light guns fire.

Soldiers are awarded the Iron Cross.

Grenadiers turn their camouflage jackets from the light side to the dark side.

Tanks and infantry move to the forward positions.

German infantrymen follow a tank.

They are in a copse.

A tank shells a Soviet bunker.

The Germans are attacking.

They are carrying a wounded man.

A tank and infantrymen move forward.

A destroyed Soviet bunker, corpses of Soviet soldiers, destroyed equipment.

A Soviet soldier is discovered in a shelter.

Prisoners.

In a moment of calm.

German soldiers eat and smoke.

The infantry continues on its way.

A shootout in the forest.

A Soviet soldier surrenders.

A German fires a machine gun from a shelter.

Machine gunners.

German artillery shells Soviet positions.

Soviet aircraft raid a German battery, bombs explode.

German anti-aircraft gunners shell Soviet aircraft.

A burning Soviet aircraft falls to the ground.

German aircraft at the airfield.

Junkers jets take off.

A fragment of an air battle.

German artillery shells Soviet positions.

Keywords

USSR, World War 2, BBC, artillery, tanks, soldiers, rest, lake, explosion, weapons, prisoners, wounded, military leaders, awarding, awards

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