Die Deutsche Wochenschau №684 (1943)

Holland.

Swearing-in ceremony of the newly formed SS division in Holland.

The Supreme Leader of the SS and Police of the Netherlands, SS-Obergruppenführer Hans Albin Reuter, inspects the formation of soldiers.

USSR. Estonia.

Sports parade and fascist street processions in Reval (Tallinn), organized by the German occupation forces on the occasion of the 2nd anniversary of the fascist regime in Estonia.

The bell rings.

Columns in national dress march across the square.

Gymnasts perform in the stadium, reactions of the spectators.

Germany.

German pilots Hartmann Grasser, Heinrich Sayn-Wittgenstein, Günther Rall and Walter Nowotny at a reception with the Fuhrer.

They proved their courage in numerous battles.

Hitler presents them with Oak Leaves to the Knight's Cross of Major Grasser and Captain Sayn-Wittgenstein.

Captains Nowotny and Rall receive the Swords to the Knight's Cross with Oak Leaves.

Germany.

On the Baltic coast, German pilot Ernst Jachtmann is preparing for a flight.

He sets a world record in gliding for the duration of the flight.

Two years ago, he crashed his glider and seriously injured his leg, but this does not stop him from taking to the air again.

Waffen SS Lieutenant Jachtmann was promoted to major by order of the commander of the National Socialist Air Corps, General Keller, for his flying skills.

He must remain in the sky for almost 56 hours: three days and two nights.

Synchronizing watches.

The glider soars above the coast.

In the sand they write: "Wind is increasing" in large letters.

The sky is in thunderclouds, flashlight signals.

On the landed glider they write: "We congratulate Jachtmann", and the pilot is presented with flowers.

USSR. Southern sector of the Eastern Front.

Retreat of German troops.

Germans transport ammunition and food depots to new areas.

Troops crossing the Dnieper /by bridge and on ferries/.

Cattle theft: flocks of sheep, a herd of pigs, horses on a ferry.

Civilians with carts and wagons.

Explosions of buildings, railways, bridges across the Dnieper by German sappers during the retreat.

Retreat of a rearguard company against the backdrop of a burning village.

Continued.

Southern section of the Eastern Front.

German troops abandon the Northern Caucasus.

Germans prepare for defensive battles: digging trenches in a sunflower field, installing guns.

Soviet aircraft bomb German trenches.

A signal flare in the night sky.

The operation begins on September 12 and ends on October 19. The Novorossiysk port was abandoned after the destruction of important military facilities.

German guns fire at the enemy.

The territory of Kuban occupied by the Germans.

An assault group receives an assignment in one of the Kuban lagoons.

German motor boats leave their shelter and race along the river.

Landing of troops under artillery fire.

German machine gunners.

The assault group completes its assignment and returns.

Southern section of the Eastern Front.

Retreat of German and Romanian troops from Crimea.

Sappers plant mines on the roads.

A caravan of trucks with soldiers.

Refugees with carts are walking.

The Germans blow up the railway tracks.

Loading military equipment and the wounded onto ships in the Taman harbor.

Transfer of military materials by suspension railway.

Air raid alarm.

A Soviet plane appears.

German anti-aircraft guns fire at it.

Guns fire.

A Soviet plane is shot down, the pilot parachutes into the sea.

After the air raid, unloading at the port continues.

The port pier sustained no damage.

The Germans cross the Kerch Strait by ferry.

German sea transports leave the coast of Crimea.

The Atlantic.

German patrol destroyers in the Atlantic Ocean.

Transmission of the order by flags - line up in a single file column.

The squadron commander orders to inspect the approaching ship.

One of the destroyers stops moving, a boat swims to the ship.

Checking the ship's documents, everything is in order.

The crew of a military vessel detains a French fishing schooner and checks its documents.

Both sides are satisfied with the small exchange, and the sailors take the fish.

The ships are on the march.

The German vessel opens fire on the enemy.

Torpedoes are launched.

Explosions.

The German squadron continues on its way.