Die Deutsche Wochenschau №663 (1943)

Germany.

Funeral ceremony in the Berlin Arsenal on the occasion of the funeral of General of the Infantry Count Walter von Brockdorff-Ahlefeld, who died in a military hospital in Berlin.

The corps under his command fought heavy battles in encirclement from February to April 1942 near Demyansk.

The coffin with the body of the deceased, an honor guard.

Funeral speech by Field Marshal Ernst von Busch.

Laying of a wreath by the Fuhrer.

Austria, Carinthia.

Young people walking with suitcases.

A paramilitary camp on Lake Constance for fascist youth of the German countries: Norway, Denmark, the Netherlands, Flanders, Wallonia.

Young people on a line.

Morning, young people run out of the tent, line up.

Sports: running, physical exercise.

The guys throw a comrade in their arms, passing him along a chain.

Germany.

Pack animals for German mountain riflemen.

Mules and Haflinger horses at a stud farm, training them for military service.

Breaking in a wild stallion, it rears up, everyone runs away.

Trying to saddle a tamed horse, it is loaded with baggage.

Breaking in a horse with a load.

Training in the mountains, lifting a caravan of mules with baggage up the mountains, walking across a bridge.

Exercises in mountain rifle units.

The Atlantic.

Map of Europe.

Coastal batteries, German fortification work on the Atlantic coast.

The huge barrel of a heavy gun.

Soldiers of the Reich Labor Service (RAD) and workers of the Todt organization at work.

They are digging a ditch, installing fortifications.

View of the fortifications.

A heavy gun on a railway platform.

Inspection visit by General Xaver Franz Dorsch, Knight's Cross with Oak Leaves and Swords, head of the West Wall construction work.

Waves crash against the coastal fortifications.

A soldier on guard duty.

A German reconnaissance plane patrols the area above the French Riviera.

Soldiers stretch barbed wire on the shore.

Construction work is underway, RAD soldiers drill, dig, carry sandbags, install reinforcement.

View of a bunker.

Head of the Reich Labor Service Konstantin Gierl inspects the site.

Guns point out to sea, waves crash against the shore.

Greece.

Africa.

German naval operations in the Mediterranean.

Loading military equipment and ammunition onto German ships.

German transports at sea, passing through the Corinth Canal.

An observer with binoculars on a tower.

A battle with British bombers.

Bombs and torpedoes fall close to the target.

Wounded soldiers move to a minesweeper.

The arrival of transports to the African coast.

Unloading food, equipment, and guns.

A parade of landed German and Italian troops.

The central sector of the Eastern Front.

Equipping a punitive expedition for battle, they set off.

Actions against partisans.

Police detachments in a village, questioning a peasant, who shows the way.

Infantrymen comb the forest, find partisan dugouts in the forest.

Germans in an abandoned dugout.

A radio captured from the partisans.

Infantrymen shell a village occupied by the enemy.

Germans in a burning village, blazing huts.

Captured partisans.

The southern sector of the Eastern Front.

Arrival of mail and parcels at the front.

Distribution of parcels to soldiers.

Vlasovites, Cossack units in the service of the Germans.

A banner with the inscription: "In the name of Orthodox Christianity, the faithful sons of the Don are going into a decisive battle against the Jews." Parade of Cossack units, trick riding.

German soldiers resting in a Ukrainian village.

Sunday dances of local residents, musicians.

German soldiers watch a village couple dance.

Knight's Cross recipient General Walter Nehring attends soldier exercises.

Aerial battles in Kuban.

German planes take off.

Bombs fly towards their target.

Knight's Cross recipient, Major General Werner Friebe watches the progress of an air battle through a telescope.

Actions of the German artillery, numerous explosions.