Die Deutsche Wochenschau №676 (1943)

Austria.

Vienna.

German Weightlifting Championships.

Performance of heavyweights of different categories.

Athletes press the barbell.

There are many soldiers among the spectators.

The winner is Olympic champion Rudi Ismayr.

Germany.

Canoe competitions in Brunau.

Fragments of the competitions in different categories.

The final of the competition: women's four-man canoe.

The Hitler Youth canoe team.

Germany.

Stralsund.

Grand Admiral Karl Doenitz and the leader of the Hitler Youth Artur Axmann visit the training sailing ship "Horst Wessel".

They walk around the line of cadets, talk to them.

The cadets demonstrate their skills in tying sea knots on barrels and bars.

Sports competitions.

The guys are rowing kayaks, girls and boys from youth organizations are cheering for them on the shore.

France, Bordeaux.

The arrival of the German submarine U-181 at the base.

Corvette captain and holder of the Knight's Cross with Oak Leaves, Swords and Diamonds Wolfgang Lüth stands with his crew on the deck.

He reports to the port commandant.

Lüth and the crew are presented with awards and flowers.

Occupied Ukraine.

A German river police boat controls the traffic on the Dnieper.

The crew of one of the barges is checking their documents.

A policeman wakes up a tramp sleeping on a barge on the bank.

Ships on the river.

A police boat pulls a string of detained small vessels.

Landscape with windmills and a field of ripening wheat.

Harvesting with horses.

A combine harvester at work in the field.

Machines that arrived from Germany are working to process the crop.

Peasants gather hay into a stack and transport it on a cart.

Austria.

Arrival of young Volksdeutsche - volunteers joining the Waffen SS, from Siebenbürgen (Transylvania) in Vienna.

On the train carriage there are inscriptions: "Kronstadt", "Hermannstadt", the SS sign.

SS-Obergruppenführer and General of the Waffen-SS Gottlob Berger greets those arriving at the station, walks around the formation.

Faces of soldiers.

The SS banner.

The youth of the city watches the ceremony.

Greece.

Rest and entertainment of German soldiers in Greece.

Donkey riding competitions.

Residents watch the soldiers, local children run after the donkeys.

Not everyone obeys the obstinate animals.

An amateur boxing match in a roped-off ring on the seashore, soldiers watch the fight.

The match turns into a fight, and the winner throws the loser into the sea.

Soldiers bathing.

One drags a huge turtle out of the water.

Swimming in an amphibious vehicle, soldiers frolic in the water around the vehicle.

The Eastern Front, Lake Ladoga area.

An open-air soldier's camp for troops withdrawn to the reserve.

Domestic self-service: soldiers bathing in a "shower" on a watermill.

Two soldiers sail on a lake in a boat, using homemade levers to operate water wheels.

Continued.

The Lake Ladoga area.

Soldiers doing everyday activities: darning socks, writing letters, eating.

One soldier cuts his comrades' hair with an electric razor, another with just scissors.

A soldier feeds birds with a spoon.

Soldiers lie on the sand in the sun, they take care of their feet, cut off calluses.

Cleaning weapons, washing cars.

Soldiers leave for the front lines.

Equipment and supply trains move along a washed-out road in the rain.

South of Lake Ladoga.

German artillery fires.

Infantry in a wooded area.

Soldiers prepare to attack, disassemble grenades, weapons, and a firefight begins.

The fight for a bunker.

A Tiger tank drives forward and fires at the bunker.

A Soviet soldier climbs out of a destroyed bunker, raising his hands.

Russian prisoners.

German soldiers carry away a wounded man.

Battles near Orel.

Exodus of civilians from areas abandoned by the Germans.

Refugees with carts, belongings, and cattle.

German sappers lay mines, blow up a bridge, communication lines, and a railroad track.

Disposition of German troops in new positions.

Soldiers in a trench.

Preparing for defense, soldiers lay grenades, set up a machine gun.

A firefight with the enemy begins.

Removing the wounded, providing first aid.

German soldiers during a pause between battles.

The battalion commander presents Iron Crosses to distinguished soldiers.

Southern sector of the Eastern Front, Stalino (Donetsk) area.

The battlefield after heavy fighting: killed Soviet soldiers, damaged equipment, tanks.

German soldiers during lunch in the trenches.

Junkers take off on a combat mission, bombing Soviet positions.

German tanks on the offensive.

Captured Soviet multi-barrel gun (Katyusha).

German flamethrower battery in action.

German tanks in a sunflower field.

Fragments of a tank battle near Mius.

A general commands a combat operation.

A six-barreled mortar fires.

Guns fire at the enemy, night footage.