Die Deutsche Wochenschau №736 (1944)

Germany.

Miners mobilized for defense work after the end of the working day in the mine.

They dig trenches and foxholes.

At the railway station, workers unload cars with military materials: fuel reserves, wire coils, beams.

Construction of bunkers for two people.

In the general province, mobilized military logistics personnel at defense work.

Staff officers build field fortifications.

An elderly officer examines the calluses on his hands.

Men and women digging anti-tank ditches.

Eastern Front.

Baltic countries.

Estonian volunteers serving in the German army.

Evacuation from Estonia as Soviet troops approach.

Refugees from areas occupied by the Bolsheviks board a steamer in Reval (Tallinn), soldiers help residents to enter the gangway, carry children in their arms.

A steamer at sea.

A woman feeds a child on the deck.

An elderly woman thanks the captain for saving her.

Young Latvian soldiers take the oath to the Nazi Reich.

They will serve in auxiliary units of the Luftwaffe.

Ceremonial march of soldiers.

They are greeted by a German officer.

Eastern Front.

German counterattack on the Eastern Front.

New combat aircraft Focke-Wulf 190 in flight.

The squadron flies at low altitude, attacks vehicles and troops on the roads.

Fragments of an air battle.

Northern sector of the Eastern Front, Courland.

Infantry marches through a foggy forest, self-propelled guns drive by.

German infantrymen in battle.

Burning Soviet T-34 tanks.

A German sergeant fires a Faustpatrone at a tank that has broken through.

German soldiers approach a disabled Soviet tank and inspect it.

Poland.

Warsaw.

The final suppression of the uprising.

German planes bombard the rebels from the air.

The explosion of a building where one of the largest centers of resistance is hidden.

A huge house explodes in several parts at once and practically crumbles to dust.

France.

Western Front in the area of Luneville, Nancy.

German tanks head to the front line.

Infantrymen begin an operation to clear the forest of the enemy.

General of Panzer Troops Hasso-Eckart von Manteuffel during a discussion of the upcoming tank counterattack.

Tanks and infantry move forward.

Fragments of the battle with the Americans.

Captured Americans.

The battle for Luneville.

German tanks.

Smoke from fires.

During a trip to the western regions threatened by the enemy, Reich Minister of Propaganda Joseph Goebbels visits the headquarters of Field Marshal Walter Model, where he gets acquainted with the situation at the front.

After the meeting, Goebbels says goodbye to the field marshal and gets into the car.

Germany.

After a visit to the front, Reich Minister of Propaganda Joseph Goebbels speaks at a workers' meeting in Cologne on 4 October 1944. View of the poster: "The front and the homeland have one goal - to fight until victory." Goebbels gives a speech about the need to fight to the end.

Goebbels' polemics with the assertions that the arrival of Anglo-American troops is not as terrible as the arrival of the "Bolsheviks".

A patriotic song is played.

A huge number of German Tiger tanks are lined up on a field, the commander is driving around the columns.