Die Deutsche Wochenschau №661 (1943)

The Atlantic coast of Europe.

Map, the canal between Europe and England.

Construction of fortifications on the Atlantic Wall.

Workers at work.

Soldiers drive piles into the shore, carry poles.

Wire fences.

Lunch break, soup is poured into the soldiers' pots from a canister.

A soldier shows his comrades a trick: he tears a newspaper and then unfolds it whole.

Reading newspapers.

View of the powerful structures of the Atlantic Wall.

Reichsleiter, head of the Imperial Labor Service Konstantin Gierl inspects the fortifications, he examines the guns.

German soldiers on bicycles ride around the fortification zone.

English bombers appear, the soldiers throw themselves on the side of the road.

Artillery fires from a bunker.

A shot down English plane falls to the ground, burning.

The Leningrad Front.

Map, points Leningrad, Kronstadt, Shlisselburg.

A train with guns and soldiers is moving to the front.

A soldier on a platform cuts bread and distributes it to his comrades.

Volkhov swamps, flooded terrain.

Crossing the river on boats and motorboats, ferrying food supplies.

View of the banks in the thickets, trees in the water.

Cavalier of the Knight's Cross, Oberleutnant Land in a boat.

Transporting hay in two connected boats.

Unloading food supplies on the shore.

A soldier holds a bottle of alcohol in his hands and smiles.

Lunch on the way, right in the boats.

A horse pulls a boat through shallow water.

Soldiers in boats float down the river, stopping at a checkpoint in the middle of the river.

A soldier gets out of the boat, pours water out of his boots, and goes into a hut.

A divisional commander goes around the posts in a boat, walks along the footbridge into a bunker.

Near the next hut, a soldier pours water on his comrade, scooping it up from the river.

Soldiers walking along the bridge.

Observation post in a tree, overview of the area.

Germany.

Ceremonial meeting in the Mosaic Hall of the Reich Chancellery in Berlin, dedicated to the 10th anniversary of the formation of the Labor Front and the May Day holidays.

Above the stage is the symbol of the German Labor Front and the dates 1933-1943. Speech by SA-Obergruppenführer, head of the German Labor Front Dr.

Robert Ley at a workers' meeting, awarding of individual heads of enterprises and workers of the defense industry, leading workers, with certificates of honor on behalf of the Fuhrer.

Westphalian miner Konrad Grebe receives an award - the "Innovator of Labor" badge.

Central section of the eastern front.

Map.

Dug trenches, posts with barbed wire on the front line.

Observer with binoculars.

A signalman is hiding under a Soviet tank, knocked out right above the trench, he is communicating with headquarters.

The officers at the headquarters at the map, having received the message, make adjustments.

German artillery is firing, explosions are visible in the distance.

The battle continues until dark.

A populated area is burning, German soldiers are running against the backdrop of fires, trying to dismantle the burning huts with hooks, axes, and carrying out things.

North Africa.

Tunisia.

Retreat of German and Italian troops in the Atlas Mountains.

German tanks move to new positions.

Infantrymen advance.

The last German column cuts down trees to build roadblocks.

A tank carries a gun.

Italian sappers digging an anti-tank ditch.

View from a fortification embrasure onto the terrain.

Tanks in a cactus field, guns being installed behind the ditch.

Supply of ammunition.

Camouflaging guns.

Armored vehicles.

German paratroopers capture a mountain peak that dominates the terrain.

Beginning of the Anglo-American shelling.

German artillery opens return fire.

Fragments of the firefight.

An observer looks through a stereoscopic telescope at the opposite bank.

German Junkers-87s in the air.

Bombing of British positions.

Bombs fly towards the target.

Soldiers from the ground observe the actions of the aircraft.

Artillery fires at the enemy.

A heavy gun among cacti, the crew at the gun.

The gunner looks through the eyepiece.

The attack of the British tanks has been repelled.

Burning tanks.

In one week, 193 British tanks were destroyed.

The Atlantic.

A German submarine.

Establishing contact with the supply boat.

Launching a boat.

A hose for pumping fuel is thrown from the supply boat.

Loading provisions /vegetables, coffee, cheese/.

Lifting torpedoes on board.

Completion of loading operations.

The submarine continues its journey.

Cooking eggs in the galley.

The crew is having lunch.

The submariners are playing chess.

Toys they made in their spare time.

Aquarium.

The sailors on the deck are watching the sunset.

Alarm.

A British freighter has been spotted.

The submariners take their places according to the battle schedule.

At the periscope.

A British merchant ship is visible through the periscope.

Launching torpedoes.

Burning English freighter.

Submarine continues its journey.