Die Deutsche Wochenschau №697 (1944)

Germany.

Fragments of a boxing match between Hoese (Germany) and Gerard (Flanders) in a large German city.

Matches are held on a regular basis for German workers and their foreign assistants. .

France.

Anti-communist rally in Paris at the Velodrome de l'Hiver on December 30, 1943. Speech by the new head of the French police, Aimé Joseph Darnand, then leader of the pro-fascist party "National Popular Rally" Marcel Déat.

Listeners, including soldiers of the French Volunteer Legion.

Germany.

A Serbian volunteer detachment on exercises under the leadership of the German command.

Soldiers march through a village.

Volunteers conduct exercises in theory and practice for the future fight against the Bolshevik bandits.

Soldiers dig in.

A defection.

Soldiers in the forest.

Yugoslavia.

Bosnia.

Punitive operation against Bosnian partisans.

Waffen SS officers, Knight's Cross holders, hold a meeting at headquarters on the systematic elimination of bandits in mountain shelters.

German forces move to the site of the operation.

Mountain units, specially designed for such operations, go up the mountain with horses.

River police on a boat under the fascist flag patrol until nightfall.

Waffen SS motorcyclists prepare for a major operation, load weapons onto motorcycles.

Tanks drive.

German infantry crosses a swamp.

Soldiers eat at a halt.

Using a canister stove for warmth.

German units continue moving.

An armored car follows the road and opens fire on bandits.

Fragments of a battle with partisans.

Tanks and artillery fire.

A shootout, Cossacks in battle.

A close-up of the Cossack commander with a moustache in a sheepskin hat.

The wounded are carried out.

The captured bandits are sitting on the ground, their faces, Semitic types are noted.

A captured leaflet distributed by Moscow, with an appeal to German soldiers.

A collection camp of captured partisans.

Northern sector of the Eastern Front.

Murmansk area.

German transport columns on the road on a snowy road.

A sign warning to keep a distance of 100 meters.

Use of a cable car with cradles to deliver supplies to the front.

Horse-drawn sleds are the most reliable means of transportation in this area.

Aspects of military life: soldiers saw logs on an electric sawmill, stack logs in a pile, heat a stove in a dugout.

Soldiers in a Finnish house at leisure: reading, resting.

Nurses of the German Red Cross mending camouflage overalls on machines.

Soldiers in formation, clapping their hands from the cold, drinking fish oil, wincing.

Colonel General Eduard Dietl visits soldiers at their positions, he walks along the trench, talks to the soldiers, hands out, as always, packs of cigarettes.

The central section of the Eastern Front.

Fresh forces are arriving in the Nevel area.

German equipment is moving.

Tractors, which were made specifically for the Eastern Front, are on tracks, pulling guns.

The heaviest Panther tanks are moving to their positions.

The tanker bends down from the tank's armor to the camera and smiles.

Night footage.

German searchlight operators are "probing" the sky over enemy territory.

This is the kind of weather the enemy prefers for an offensive, so you need to be on your guard.

Sign: "Sebezh-65 km, Nevel-49 km".

A panorama of the road with equipment moving along it.

German Ju-52 transport planes in the air, they are delivering fresh forces and ammunition to remote areas.

Tanks, trucks, and infantry are moving along the road.

They defended the front line near Nevel in protracted battles.

A German heavy gun is firing.

A warehouse of spent cartridges.

This stockpile of empty Katyusha shells provides an indication of the enemy's ammunition consumption.

Kirovograd area.

Fierce fighting is underway for a settlement near Kirovograd.

Snow-covered field.

German infantry moving behind tanks.

View from a slit in a tank.

Defectors on the Soviet side, interrogation of a defector.

Counterattack by tanks and infantry.

One of the German snipers with a telescopic rifle shoots at Bolsheviks hiding in craters.

An infantryman leads two prisoners.

Destroyed Soviet tanks.

Soldiers of a tank battalion line up on the field of a recent battle.

Colonel General Georg Hans Reinhardt awards soldiers with orders, presents the Knight's Cross to Senior Corporal Rudolf Aubust.

On the front line near Leningrad, awarding Senior Sergeant Karl-Heinz Rossbach.

However, in the series of military events, the solemn events are only a short pause.

Germans in a trench, an observer at his post.

Alarm, a German gun, a mortar, fires.

Explosions.

Indian Ocean.

German submarine U-177, Captain 3rd Rank Robert Giese looks through the periscope eyepiece.

After a long voyage in the ocean (April-October 1943), it is necessary to carry out repairs to the above-water and underwater parts of the submarine.

The officer of the watch puts on lead weights, lead-soled sandals and scuba gear to check the underwater steering gear.

He inspects the damage site and welds underwater.

The submarine continues its voyage, they are about to dock with a cargo submarine.

Meeting with a German submarine that has delivered food and fuel.

Fuel hoses are retracted.

Provisions are carried in the boat.

A sick sailor is transferred to the cargo ship.

At dusk, the boats disperse.

The crew is resting, the sailors are taking a shower, eating.

Bread is baked in the oven.

The torpedo room is in full swing, a torpedo is being loaded into the torpedo tube.

The ship is heading for the east coast of Africa, the enemy will certainly be detected in the coastal waters.

Alarm, everyone rushes to their places.

An Egyptian cargo ship appears.

The German ship launches a torpedo, there is an explosion.

The enemy ship sinks.

German sailors go out on deck, watching the sinking ship, the name "Radames" on board.