Die Deutsche Wochenschau №677 (1943)

Newsreel №62853, 2 parts, Duration: 0:19:25 B/W
Studio UFA

Reel №1

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Germany.

The German Red Cross collects parcels for German prisoners of war and interned abroad.

The addresses on the parcels: Ottawa, Cairo.

Close-up of the address: Korvettenkapitän Otto Kretschmer in Canada.

Sorting parcels, packing candy, cigarettes, musical instruments, canned goods, books.

Sacks of parcels are loaded into a train car.

Czechoslovakia.

Occupied Prague, celebrating the Day of the Struggle for the SA troops.

An SA unit – the standard of the Feldgerngallee Prague and the RAD (Reich Labour Service) – parade through the streets of the city, with drummers leading the way.

Marching across Charles Bridge.

A tent camp outside the city, where military and sports competitions are held.

Obstacle race, jumping.

Competitions at the stadium, mass physical exercises with poles.

Romania.

Romanian youth playing sports.

Passing the ball down the line, basketball, jumping.

Pool, diving, swimming.

Girls dancing on a wide porch.

Germany. "Hitler Youth" - glider pilots gathering for competitions.

Meeting on the square.

Airfield, young men board gliders and take off.

Major General Adolf Galland watches the competitions.

Spectators on the field, flight recording board.

Luftwaffe General Alfred Keller congratulates the winners.

Galland and the leader of the Hitler youth movement Arthur Axmann talk to the young men.

Germany.

Experiments in the study of malaria at the Research Institute of Tropical Medicine in Germany.

Laboratory, microphotography of microbes.

Experimental canary.

Processing of crops.

Experimental use of the obtained extract in a marshy area in Kuban.

The preparation is sifted and rolled in a barrel.

A light aircraft is processing from the air.

USSR. Occupied Ukraine.

Poland in an orchard.

Harvesting fruits, apples, apricots.

Women collect apricots in baskets, sort them, clean them, and dry them in a special oven.

A stable, horses graze.

Large herds of sheep, pigs with piglets.

A poultry farm, an employee feeds geese.

Keywords

Germany, World War 2, Red Cross, mail, railway, Czechoslovakia, World War 2, troops, SS, sport, Romania, World War 2, youth, sport, Germany, World War 2, Hitler Youth, youth, sport, rally, personalities, military leaders, Germany, World War 2, experiments, scientists, laboratory, USSR, Ukraine, agriculture, garden, animal husbandry

Reel №2

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Norway.

The life of German soldiers in occupied Norway.

Water is poured into a barrel from a hose.

Puppies are washed from a bowl.

Soldiers wash clothes, frolic, splashing water.

A soldier lies with a puppy.

USSR. The northern section of the Eastern Front, south of Lake Ladoga.

German positions, a firefight with the enemy is underway.

Operations of German tanks and infantry.

View through a slit in a tank: soldiers are running in the woods.

Tanks on the offensive.

A wounded man is carried out from the battlefield on a stretcher.

Dressing station, the wounded man is bandaged and a splint is applied to his leg.

The wounded are loaded into special cabins installed on a handcar and taken to the rear.

The southern section of the Eastern Front.

A massive raid by German Heinkel-111 bombers on the city of Belgorod.

Pilots in the cockpit, bombs are flying, explosions on the ground.

Airplanes landing at the base.

The crew of the plane is honored for the 600th flight, a wreath of flowers is put on three of them, a wreath on the horse.

Battles near the city of Orel.

German soldiers are resting, they are playing with a dog, giving it a cigarette.

A young soldier with a bird on his elbow.

A raid by Soviet aircraft.

German infantrymen on a tank, one soldier with a guitar.

The soldiers are playing cards during a break, drinking from flasks brought by a comrade.

German tanks are driving, raising dust, shooting.

Close-up of Captain Mangold, a holder of the Knight's Cross.

Anti-aircraft guns are repelling an attack by Soviet bombers, a Soviet plane is falling.

Wreckage on the ground.

Fragments of a battle between tanks and artillery.

Soldiers are running past a burning house.

After the battle, the soldiers are resting, washing themselves by the river.

Soldiers in formation.

Awarding of Captain Helmut Shpeter with the Knight's Cross.

Destroyed Soviet tanks.

Soldiers unload mines, mortar battery in action.

Keywords

Norway, World War 2, rest, soldiers, USSR, World War 2, troops, tanks, wounded, USSR, World War 2, BBC, awarding, USSR, World War 2, soldiers, rest, animals, birds, BBC, tanks, artillery, awarding

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