Die Deutsche Wochenschau №658 (1943)

New Guinea.

Australia.

Japanese naval units move toward the coast of New Guinea.

Americans bomb Japanese ships.

Japanese troops land on New Guinea.

Japanese units move forward in the jungle.

Capture of a British airfield destroyed by Japanese aircraft.

Japanese planes take off to bomb the port of Darwin, an important British stronghold in Australia.

Pilots in the cockpit.

View from the plane of the northern coast of Australia, the port of Darwin.

Bombs fly toward the port.

Eastern Front.

Central sector.

Thaw at the front, streams flow.

Spring thaw.

Cars drive along a flooded road.

Soldiers advance along laid planks, boots sinking in the mud.

Soldiers help motorcyclists pull out a car.

Laying flooring from poles on strategic roads.

At positions between Lake Ladoga and Lake Ilmen.

Continued.

On Lake Ladoga.

Soldiers bail water out of trenches, use a pump, bail water out of dugouts with buckets.

Cleaning weapons, guns, helmets, washing tanks.

Inspecting personal weapons.

A soldier washes his hair, pouring water on himself from a mess tin, another shave his comrade.

A soldier breaks off a twig near a willow with swollen buds.

Artillery opens fire on Soviet positions.

After the battle, damaged Soviet tanks stand.

Corpses of Soviet soldiers.

The terrain mutilated by the battle.

Knocked out Soviet tanks.

The famous "tank killer" Oberleutnant, holder of the Knight's Cross Niggemann (in glasses).

The commander of the 2nd Army, General of Infantry Walter Weiss greets the soldiers who distinguished themselves in destroying tanks, he shakes Niggemann's hand.

Northern Finland and Karelia.

Lapland Front.

Soldiers with Haflinger horses.

Small and hardy, they are well adapted to the conditions of this land and find their way even on a limited trail.

They arrive at a German military base with their cargo.

Weapons, ammunition and mail are unloaded every six days.

The horses are resting.

Winter Karelian forest, a deer is walking between the trees.

Scouts in camouflage suits are sent on a combat mission.

They must destroy a recently established Soviet base.

They walk through the snow.

The gun is installed, shelling begins.

A grenade launcher fires.

The infantrymen go on the attack and capture the enemy base.

Soldiers walk along a trench, enter a dugout.

A captured gun, corpses of Soviet soldiers in the snow.

A wounded soldier is placed on a sled and pulled with ropes.

A dog sled pulls a sled with a wounded man.

Norway.

One of the fjords.

Loading the wounded onto a hospital ship.

The ship at sea.

Disembarking in a German port.

The hospital train is en route, further transportation of the wounded across Germany.

Austria.

Mussolini's visit to the Fuhrer, 7-10.04.1943. The train arrives, Hitler is waiting on the platform.

Mussolini gets off the train.

Meeting of the Fuhrer and the Duce at the Kessheim Palace near Salzburg.

Ribbentrop and Keitel greet Mussolini.

Colonel General, Chief of the General Staff Kurt Zeitzler reports on the situation at the fronts.

Germany.

Fuhrer's headquarters.

Grand Admiral Karl Doenitz visits the Fuhrer.

Doenitz is awarded the Oak Leaves to the Knight's Cross for his unique services in submarine warfare.

Conversation between the Fuhrer and the Grand Admiral.

Announcer on the successes of the German submarine fleet.

Germany.

Grand Admiral Doenitz inspects the personnel in one of the naval units.

Atlantic.

Caribbean Sea.

German submarine in the Caribbean Sea during a northern winter storm.

Everyday life of submariners during the voyage.

Sailors play cards, have lunch.

Cleaning the barrels for launching torpedoes.

Lubricating and loading torpedoes.

On Christmas Eve, the temperature on the submarine reaches 38 degrees Celsius.

The commander reads a radiogram from Grand Admiral Doenitz with congratulations.

In the galley, a Christmas cake is being prepared.

Books and gifts are distributed.

The commander is presented with a model of a submarine.

A gift has been prepared for the radio operator - a cactus made of potatoes with matches stuck in it, the sailors are having fun.

Two days later, the submarine arrives in the area of operations off the coast of the Lesser Antilles near Curacao.

The sailors examine Curacao through binoculars.

The commander at the periscope, he applies the lens of a movie camera to the periscope to film the island.

The port of Nassau is visible.

The appearance of a ship of the allied fleet.

It is fired at with torpedoes.

A damaged sinking ship.