Die Deutsche Wochenschau №700 (1944)

Germany.

Ruins of a city as a result of Anglo-American bombing.

A poster asking the population not to let children play in the ruins.

An orphanage for children evacuated from areas subject to bombing.

Children in their beds.

Children getting dressed and brushing their teeth.

Nannies washing the children.

Breakfast in the dining room.

Girls playing with dolls, a teacher reading fairy tales to the children.

Older children writing letters home.

Germany.

The Breslau-Berlin weightlifting competition.

Spectators, many of them soldiers.

Weightlifters lifting the barbell in the clean and jerk and snatch.

German athletes Alberin and Schaffner.

Close-up of a soldier, who is very actively experiencing Austria.

Vienna.

Performances by Swedish and German figure skating masters on an outdoor rink.

The pair Magda Muselek and Horst Haber perform, then the Austrian pair - brother and sister Herta and Emil Ratzenhofer.

Germany.

View of the Great Knight's Cross and a poster welcoming volunteers to the Grossdeutschland Division.

Hitler Youth recruited into the SS Grossdeutschland Division in civilian clothes.

Girls from the youth organization present flowers as the division marches through the streets of the city, with a military orchestra in front.

Ceremonial formation on the square, drummers and buglers of the Hitler Youth playing.

The commander addresses the volunteers.

Volunteers and soldiers stand interspersed.

Close-up of a patch on a sleeve.

Germany.

Signal Officers' School, view of the school in Halle, Saxony.

Theoretical classes.

Classes in radio reception and radio communications.

Cadets at teletype machines, receiving and sending messages.

Tactical classes with a map, classes with headphones.

Cadets learn to work on an oscillating surface.

The instructor transmits a message for them in Morse code.

A Finnish officer among the cadets.

Eastern Front.

In a tank repair shop on the Eastern Front.

Tanks in the snow, technicians inspect them, repair them, weld parts.

Soldiers slide down a hill to the river on canisters, like on sleds, collect water from an ice hole.

Tanks are supplied with gasoline and ammunition.

The tank is ready to go into battle again.

A tank crew that particularly distinguished itself in battle.

The commander and gunner wear Knight's Crosses, they destroyed 89 Soviet tanks with their Tiger, as evidenced by the stripes painted on the gun barrel.

The tank crew thanks the mechanics and says goodbye to them.

Leningrad Front.

German soldiers in a snow-covered trench, an observer looks through binoculars.

The Germans are shelling Soviet positions.

German infantrymen in camouflage suits run along the trenches, stand at the breastwork with hand weapons.

They are shelling the enemy.

Soldiers are carrying a wounded man on a drag.

A signalman at the radio receives an order, passes it on to the gunners.

A gun fires at a Soviet bunker.

Explosions.

An officer looks through a stereoscopic telescope.

The crew at the gun.

German mortars fire.

Italy.

Italian Front.

German reconnaissance aircraft over the Apennines.

Pilots in the cockpit.

View of the terrain covered in snow.

German soldiers clearing snow from the road.

A snowplow passes along the highway.

A special machine for destroying railroad tracks rips up the track, explosions on the railroad branch.

Sappers lay mines on the terrain.

Parachute landing on reconnaissance.

The commander looks at the map of the area.

The paratroopers disassemble weapons and ammunition, walk in the mountains.

Clash of scouts with the enemy, battle.

German artillery shells a populated area.

Mortars fire.

Germany.

Returning from a campaign in the Mediterranean Sea of an anti-submarine ship to a German port, which sank 10 enemy submarines.

The crew lined up on the deck.

Captain - Reserve Oberleutnant Otto Pollman reports to the port commandant.

They walk around the line of sailors.

Ceremony of awarding the crew with Iron Crosses.

Mediterranean Sea.

German patrol boats sail in a storm.

An observer with binoculars against the background of an anti-aircraft gun.

The appearance of enemy aircraft.

Alarm on board the boat.

A German anti-aircraft gun fires at aircraft.

In the engine room of the boat, the engines are running.

The navigator is at the wheel.

The boat stops, the radio operator studies the sonor data and determines the location of the enemy submarine.

Alarm on the boat, sailors on deck.

Dropping depth charges.