Die Deutsche Wochenschau №674 (1943)

Germany.

Harvesting rapeseed and other agricultural work in the fields of Germany.

Young people at the harvest.

German girls at agricultural work in the Warthegau (part of Poland, incorporated into the Reich after 1939).

They water piglets from a nipple, feed chickens and geese.

Gathering sheaves, stacking them in haystacks.

Germany.

Under the youth organization program "Sending Children to the Countryside," children spend weeks of rest on the Baltic Sea coast.

The children play games, play sports, and also have classes outdoors.

The image of an old castle is created in the sand.

At lunch.

Weighing.

Providing first aid.

Evening activities: gymnasts perform, they line up in a pyramid.

Swimming in the sea.

Germany.

Soldiers of the storm troop "Briesen" arriving for a rest from the Eastern Front are met at the train station in the old Hanseatic city of Lübeck.

The soldiers are greeted by local authorities.

Children surround the soldiers.

Announcement of a meeting of soldiers with young people on the evening of July 22, 1943. Girls perform folk dances.

Soldiers sit at long tables in the open air, watching a performance.

Soldiers attend a training camp for national-political education.

Young people undergoing military training.

Sports games and competitions.

East Prussia, Rastenburg.

The Fuehrer's headquarters.

Hitler talks with Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop.

Hitler plays with a dog.

Field Marshal Wilhelm Keitel and Field Marshal Maximilian von Weichs, and the Japanese ambassador Oshima walk by.

Hermann Goering arrives, with Albert Speer, head of the German Labor Front, next to him.

SS General Sepp Dietrich, General of the Artillery Alfred Jodl, Field Marshal Erhard Milch, Admiral Karl Doenitz arrive.

Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels greets Hitler.

Military matters are discussed.

Germany.

Loading various materials onto an underwater tanker, a supply base for the German submarine fleet.

The submarine goes out to sea and needs to enter the submarine's location square unnoticed.

Alarm, an enemy reconnaissance aircraft appears.

The submarine goes underwater at a right angle.

The tanker breaks away from the reconnaissance aircraft and continues on its way above.

In tropical waters.

The crew is on deck, a barber is shaving a sailor.

A captured shark is on deck.

The galley.

The cook is baking bread, 250 loaves.

Arrival at destination.

The ship's doctor goes to the submarines, examines the sick.

Cargo is being transferred from the base boat to the submarines.

Torpedoes are being transferred.

The reloading operation is complete.

The repair party is patching up the hole in the submarine's above-water section.

The mother tanker is heading back.

USSR. Eastern Front.

At the front near Leningrad.

At German positions.

Soldiers in the trenches.

Unloading shells.

A German large-caliber gun is firing, its target is military factories and arsenals.

Explosions.

A heavy gun is rolled out on a railway mount.

An artillery observer looks out from cover.

Artillery fire on a Soviet observation post located in the ruins of a building.

USSR. Fighting at Orel.

In one of the Luftwaffe squadrons.

A Heinkel 109 aircraft takes off.

Bombing of Soviet positions.

View of Soviet positions from an airplane.

Delivery of weapons and food to the front by train, then by a column of trucks.

Vehicles on broken roads, they are forced to stop, because they need to overcome an impassable quagmire.

One after another, the trucks drive into it.

Junkers 52 transport aircraft also deliver cargo.

Vehicles on the highway are carrying equipment.

A column of trucks on the highway was fired upon from an ambush, a soldier examines bullet holes on the paneling.

Units of German infantry, who were tasked with ensuring the safety of the cargo, comb the forest.

A raid in one of the villages, the gang's headquarters is located here.

Captured "bandits".

The village is completely burned down.

In another area.

Carrying a wounded man to a shelter.

Killed Soviet soldiers.

Interrogation of a prisoner.

Captured weapons and ammunition.

German soldiers on holiday.

They wash cars, mend shoes, get haircuts, wash themselves, read newspapers.

German Tiger tanks heading to the front lines, tanks on the move, tank crews.

Soviet air force attack, bombs exploding far from German positions.

Soviet tanks attack, German anti-aircraft guns fire at them.

Heavy fighting.

Tanks move forward, firing.

Enemy tank on fire.

Gun crew, artillery supporting German tank and infantry attack.

German rocket battery firing.

Damaged Soviet tanks, Soviet echelon with heavy guns and tanks destroyed by German bombers.

At Soviet positions.

Burning objects.

Over seven thousand tanks were destroyed and captured during the six-week battles.