Die Deutsche Wochenschau №694 (1943)

Winter defensive battles on the Eastern Front along the Zhitomir-Krivoy Rog line.

German soldiers run along zigzagging trenches.

A messenger runs with a message.

A German Junkers-52 transport plane is in the air, dropping mail and food.

Soldiers carry bales, open boxes.

A field kitchen, a pig carcass is being butchered.

German reserve troops on the march, including infantry and horse-drawn transport, walk through snow and mud.

Horse artillery rides through a village.

A young soldier strokes a horse's muzzle.

A tank moves, splashing mud.

Infantry marches, smiling at the camera.

Horses with cargo are led.

Romania.

Siebengbürgen.

Seeing off German and Romanian volunteers to the Waffen SS troops of the German army.

Residents see off the young men, girls give flowers.

Young soldiers in formation.

Raising the flag.

SS-Obergruppenführer Werner Lorenz inspects the formation of volunteers.

A train with volunteers leaves the station.

Germany.

Reichsmarschall Hermann Goering inspects the aviation industry.

He inspects new machines at the airfield and talks to the pilot.

Goering in the assembly shop, the workers greet him.

Goering among female workers.

He inspects the shop and leaves in a car.

Germany.

A boarding house for workers' children in the Alpine mountains.

The children play snowballs and make a snow woman.

Their mothers come to visit them.

The women are on vacation in a mountain boarding house.

They sew soft toys for the Christmas holidays.

A child at the door of a room.

The children enter the room with a Christmas tree and presents on the tables and examine them.

Christmas in the rear and at the front.

A military train passes by, a Christmas tree is thrown out of it, a railroad worker picks it up.

German workers and soldiers at a common festive table.

Women from a voluntary organization in a hospital, they distribute gifts to the wounded.

Women celebrate at the table.

Christmas on the English Channel.

Saint Nicholas with a sack enters the dugout to the soldiers, he is treated to mulled wine.

Soldiers read letters.

One of them examines a model of a cruiser in a bottle.

The navy at sea.

Saint Nicholas goes to the sailors' quarters, distributes gifts.

The Western Front, an airplane lands, Saint Nicholas comes out, gives gifts, bottles of schnapps.

A Christmas tree in a dugout, candles are burning.

A bunker, a gun and a sentry are visible through the window.

Denmark.

Barbed wire on the shore, trenches.

Field Marshal Rommel inspects German positions in Jutland.

Shells for heavy guns are transported along the track on a platform.

Rommel and General Hermann von Hannecken, commander of German forces in Denmark, inspect a bunker.

Soldiers maneuver on the shore, tanks move.

Continuation.

Motorized artillery and armored vehicles are moving.

Soldiers are moving along the trenches.

Soldiers of the Narvik Division, a patch on a soldier's sleeve.

Portraits of soldiers: a soldier playing with a dog; a soldier awarded the Iron Cross.

An observer in a tree transmits messages to a signalman at the radio.

Soviet planes appear.

A German battery is firing.

Rocket artillery and howitzers are firing.

Tanks are moving forward, followed by infantry.

Soldiers in a cornfield.

Destroyed Soviet tanks.

A front-line hospital, providing assistance to the wounded.

Destroyed Soviet positions, broken tanks, guns, corpses of Soviet soldiers in the snow.

The North Sea.

Seaplanes are standing on the water, snow and ice are being cleared from them.

Loading shells, takeoff.

Seaplanes escort a convoy in a stormy sea.

The ships are drenched by waves.

Sailors clear the deck of snow.

An enemy plane appears, anti-aircraft guns fire from the ships.

German ships continue their journey.

Italy.

A plane flies over the mountains, a view of the area from above.

An observation post in the mountains, an anti-aircraft gun is standing.

Soldiers look at the sky.

American planes appear.

German guns fire.

A downed plane burns on the ground.

Officers discuss the situation near a map.

A German battery fortifies itself in the mountains, in a cave.

Mountain paths are reinforced with stones.

Transportation of goods by donkeys.

Mail arrives.

Artillery fires at Anglo-American positions.

Sappers blow up a bridge in the mountains.

Soldiers march along the road, enter the city.

Norway.

German seaplanes fly, they escort a German convoy.

The Germans wave their hands.

The long-range reconnaissance seaplane "Blohm and Voss" BV-138 lands on the water.

Comrades congratulate the crew on their 1500th flight from 1939 to 1943. Presentation of a wreath and gift to the hero pilot.