Die Deutsche Wochenschau №662 (1943)

War in the Pacific.

Japanese operations in Burma.

Japanese tanks moving towards Mandalay.

Japanese soldiers.

Sign: 82 km to Mandalay.

Shelling of British positions.

Burning oil fields.

Japanese soldiers continue their journey against the backdrop of oil rigs.

The Japanese navy at sea.

Shelling of British ships.

A Japanese aircraft carrier.

An airplane takes off from it.

Bombing of the Ceylon military harbor of Trincomalee.

The Pacific Ocean.

The American aircraft carrier Hornet in the ocean.

The crew on board.

The aircraft carrier is shelled by Japanese planes.

The carrier's guns return fire.

Fragments of the battle.

The carrier's guns fire.

An American plane falls from the side.

Bombs fall on the deck of the aircraft carrier.

Fire on the aircraft carrier, clouds of smoke in the air.

American sailors put out the fire.

A damaged aircraft carrier lies in the water, heavily listing to one side. /The film was taken from an American aircraft carrier before it sank on October 25, 1942, near the Santa Cruz Islands/.

Germany.

A short propaganda film.

Residents are taking shelter from the bombing in a basement.

An instructor in a helmet explains how to put out incendiary bombs, urging them not to lose heart and not to panic.

Germany.

The funeral of the leader of the Nazi storm troopers /SA/ Viktor Lutze, who was in a car accident while on a personal trip with his family /7.5.1943/.

Funeral ceremony in the Reich Chancellery.

Hitler expresses his condolences to the relatives of the deceased.

Lutze is posthumously awarded the highest award of the Reich, the German Order.

Goebbels makes a speech.

The funeral cortege on the street.

The guard of honor company.

The procession next to the Brandenburg Gate.

By car, the coffin with the body of the deceased is headed to Lutze's hometown.

Arrival in Hanover.

The funeral cortege proceeds through the streets of Hanover.

On the way to the cemetery.

The funeral in a small rural cemetery.

The coffin is lowered into the grave.

A farewell rifle salute.

Germany.

Locomotive factory.

The process of assembling locomotives.

Workers at various operations.

Assembly of wheel sets.

Installation of various parts.

The locomotive leaves the factory workshop.

USSR. Eastern Front.

German supply trains moving along a pole plank laid in marshy terrain.

Soldiers walking through the mud.

A makeshift cart moves along the railroad tracks.

Soldiers unload food and wine bottles and transfer them to carts.

The carts move along ground flooded with water.

A horse is pulled out of the mud.

Ammunition is unloaded.

Beer is poured from a barrel that was sent.

Soldiers drink beer.

Soldiers stage an impromptu horse race in a village.

The winner of the race.

USSR. A German airfield near Novorossiysk.

Planes take off.

A squadron in the air.

A massive raid on concentrations of Soviet tanks.

Air battle.

Explosions.

USSR. Southern sector of the Eastern Front, Kharkov region.

Reichsfuehrer SS and Police Heinrich Himmler visits the front.

He gets off the plane.

The SS soldiers' formation is reviewed.

Himmler talks to the officers, inspects the equipment, tanks, talks to the tank crews.

Presentation of the Iron Crosses to the SS men of the "Reich" division.

German soldiers constructing trenches and dugouts, installing barbed wire, preparing ammunition.

A German observer in a tree.

German artillery in action, a huge howitzer is firing.

German infantrymen are moving forward, a battle in the forest.

A column of Soviet prisoners of war.