Die Deutsche Wochenschau №716 (1944)

Austria.

Organist Professor Bachler performs an organ mass in memory of fallen soldiers in a hospital for the wounded.

Residents in national dress listen.

View of the city and park, Kuckstein Castle.

Landscapes.

Austria.

Farmers of Steyermark working in the fields.

Unloading fertilizer with a rope to the top.

Plowing the land on steep mountain slopes with a primitive plow.

Germany.

Youth athletics competitions in Berlin.

Gymnasts on the horizontal bar.

Jumping over a horse.

Mass physical exercises.

A humorous boxing match.

Relay race.

Germany.

Performance at the Busch Circus in Berlin.

A performance by a lion trainer.

A lion walks on a tightrope.

Two bears.

Floor acrobats.

Soldiers on leave among the spectators.

Germany.

Excursion of German infantry soldiers from the Feldherrnhalle division to a submarine.

Soldiers jumping onto a boat.

A sailor gives the helm to a guest.

They are drinking tea in the cockpit.

The boat moors to the pier.

Captain 3rd rank Wolfgang Luth approaches the soldiers and gives them explanations.

Germany.

Excursion of soldiers of the assault group to a military plant.

Visiting the workshops.

In the hot workshop.

Soldiers watch the work of a large press.

Workers having lunch in the workshop.

Soldiers inspect the workshop, talk to the workers.

A soldier treats the workers to cigarettes.

Germany.

Minister of Armaments and Ammunition Albert Speer speaks to the workers at one of the military plants.

Close-ups of old and young workers.

North Sea.

Defusing enemy mines laid by the British in the North Sea.

Sailors leave a small pile of enemy mines that could be useful to Germany.

A special team hooks a mine, drags it and detonates it on the shore.

A lieutenant commander and a corporal, who together defused 2,600 mines, wear the German Cross in gold.

Germany.

Visit of the President of Slovakia Jozef Tiso and the Slovak Prime Minister Vojtech Tuka to Germany.

The brotherhood in arms between Germany and Slovakia gives significance to the visit.

Hitler greets them at the station.

Hitler and Tiso walk to the car and get in.

Burma.

American paratroopers on board a transport plane, landing in Burma.

Americans walk in the jungle.

Fragments of battles with the Japanese.

Planes drop food and ammunition.

American soldiers in heavy fighting.

Wounded Americans are carried out of the jungle on stretchers.

A wounded man is led. /Fragments from an American chronicle/.

Romania, Iasi-Kishinev area.

German and Hungarian soldiers build fortifications in the Carpathians.

Hungarian soldiers dig trenches and install barbed wire.

Anti-tank artillery is positioned in the valley.

The sudden sun gives German soldiers the opportunity to bask in the sun and swim in the river.

Half-track amphibious vehicles drive through shallow water and cross the river.

Hungarian and German units go to the front.

Fragments of a battle with Soviet troops, a firefight.

Tanks with infantry.

The infantry goes on the offensive.

Tank guns fire.

Fighting in a Bessarabian village.

Germans among the ruins.

Italy.

Fighting in the Cassino area.

Repelling the Anglo-American offensive on May 11, 1944. German artillery fires, turning Cassino into ruins.

Flashes from shells and tracer bullets are visible in the night.

At dawn, the shelling with mortars, rocket launchers and heavy artillery continues.

British and American prisoners, 250 of whom are captured by a small group of Saxon infantry.

The smoke of battle hangs over the Cassino Valley, the ruins of the Abbey of Monte Cassino are visible.

German paratroopers of the 1st Parachute Division rest among the ruins.

Repulsing an attack by American aircraft with anti-aircraft artillery.

German soldiers in cover.

A downed American bomber falls.

Mortar fire on the ruins of a castle captured by the Americans.

Paratroopers prepare to attack, driving the enemy out of the ruins.

A tattered Nazi flag rises above the ruins.