Die Deutsche Wochenschau №660 (1943)

Germany.

A ceremonial meeting of the NSDAP in the Berlin Philharmonic in honor of the Fuhrer's birthday /54 years/.

A panorama of the hall filled with workers and soldiers, Goebbels's speech, the audience.

The Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Hans Knappertsbusch performs Ludwig van Beethoven's Ninth Symphony, the choir sings.

The audience applauds.

Austria.

Wounded German soldiers and vacationers from the front arrive in Vienna on the Fuhrer's voucher.

They are on the observation deck, a view of St.

Stephen's Cathedral and the surrounding buildings.

A bus with soldiers travels along the city streets.

Soldiers on a train, arriving in Graz.

A banner hangs greeting the Fuhrer's 800,000th guest.

Residents greet the vacationers, present flowers.

Soldiers and officers on the city streets.

The Archduke John Fountain, one of the female figures of the monument, personifying the Mur River.

A visit to the main square of the city - Hauptplatz, Schlossberg Castle, the Clock Tower, from where there is a view of the surrounding area.

Soldiers walking with girls.

Germany.

Artillery School in Jüterbog.

Cadets during ballistics classes.

During classes with special optical devices, cadets examine aerial photography footage and decipher it.

Classes with models depicting an area with a populated area and trees.

Cadets look through stereoscopic tubes and record data.

Conducting a mock battle on a model, the instructor gives explanations.

Practical classes at the range, cadets at the guns.

Target practice with a small-caliber gun.

The guns fire at targets - house models.

A heavy gun is loaded.

An observation glider in the air, a view of the range with guns.

The appearance of tanks.

The head of the school, Lieutenant Colonel Günther Hoffmann-Schönborn, holder of the Knight's Cross with Oak Leaves, looks through binoculars.

Tank guns fire at targets.

Military operations near Leningrad.

Movement of supply trains and troops along the road.

A shield with a warning inscription stating that this intersection is within enemy visibility.

Camouflage of the road with branches and trees.

Mesh panels on poles are stretched over the road at certain intervals.

They create obstacles for exploding shells.

Supply trains pass along the road.

A firefight with the enemy.

A German gun fires.

German observers.

Shelling of Leningrad from long-range guns.

Ruins of a church.

A heavy gun on a platform fires.

Occupied Ukraine.

Ukrainian peasants at agricultural work.

Plowing the land on horses.

At the positions of an anti-aircraft battery.

The life of German soldiers in a village.

Soldiers get water from a well, Ukrainian women stand nearby with buckets.

Soldiers pour water for horses.

A soldier carries a newborn calf, puts it on the hay.

Soldiers near a mare, one imitates pumping milk, lifting the animal's tail, others slip a calf to the mare.

Soldiers at leisure, they read, clean their boots, a soldier plays the harmonica.

A soldier at the table smears his face with cream from a jar, does not notice that there is a jar of shoe polish nearby and stains his face, everyone laughs.

They heat water in a suspended bath over a fire, help a comrade wash himself.

Reserve units are sent to the front lines.

Along the road there are convoys, equipment, troops.

The Black Sea.

German and Italian transports at sea.

A convoy of ships.

Escort aircraft with double frames.

The pilots look down at the moving ships, notice the appearance of Soviet torpedo bombers.

The aircraft begin shooting and bombing enemy boats, three damaged torpedo bombers burn in the sea.

The convoy continues on its way.

Battles in Kuban.

German positions, German artillery fires.

Junkers-87s in the air, they bomb Soviet positions, explosions.

Burning Soviet tanks.

German soldiers in the trenches, attack.

A burning tank sent to the USSR by the Americans.

Announcer about the capture of the "Kuban bridgehead" by the Wehrmacht.

German aircraft take off into the air, bomb Soviet positions.

Bombs fly, explosions.

Bombing of an industrial city and a railroad /view from an airplane/.