Die Deutsche Wochenschau (German Weekly News) Collection

1940

1. Die Deutsche Wochenschau Nr. 551 - 20 June 1940 : Luftwaffe bombing operations in France; German soldiers milking cows; The Battle of the Somme; French prisoners of war; The Battle of Fécamp; General Erwin Rommel accepts the surrender of French and British generals at Saint-Valéry; General Günther von Kluge in the Battle of Rouen; German troops provide food to the French people; Adolf Hitler with members of the Organisation Todt; General Georg Stumme captures French soldiers in Noyon; The occupation of Compiegne, the site of Germany's surrender in World War I; General Walther von Brauchitsch inspects the crossing of German troops across the Aisne River; The Battle of Reims; The capture of the Palace of Versailles; German troops enter the city of Paris and climb the Eiffel Tower; The German victory parade at the Arc de Triomphe and the Champs-Élysées.

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1941

1. Die Deutsche Wochenschau Nr. 557 - 7 May 1941 : Visit of the Deputy Führer Rudolf Hess to the Messerschmitt factory in Augsburg; Hitler made a speech in the Berlin Sportpalast to Nine thousand graduating officer candidates of the Army, Kriegsmarine, Luftwaffe, and Waffen-SS; Hitler gave the German people a report on the achievements of the Wehrmacht in the campaign in the Southeast; After the victorious conclusion of the Serbian Campaign, Hitler traveled to the liberated Lower Styria; The operations in the Balkans depicted in the diagram; Battle for Thermopylae when Greeks, New Zealanders, and Australians tried once more to halt the impetuous attack of German troops and cover the retreat of the English; Recent view of the occupied Athens; SS Leibstandarte Adolf Hitler during the campaign in Greece; Tanks of the German Afrika Korps on the march to Tobruk; The blockade around the British Isles is guarded by heavy units of the German Kriegsmarine.
2. Die Deutsche Wochenschau Nr. 582 - 29 October 1941 : Around 750 artists from all discricts of the Reich are exhibiting in the House of the German Art; Mountain farmers cultivating the fields in Tyrol; Hop harvest in the Hallertau region; Lignite mining in West Germany; Heavyweight boxing match between Heinz Lazek and Walter Neusel; Visit of the Slovak statesmen to the Führer's headquarters; Battle of Petroskoi/Finnish Front; Battle of Dagö Island; German soldiers prepare to build winter quarters in Leningrad; Operation Typhoon/Battle of Moscow; German and Romanian troops during attack on Odessa in the Black Sea; Motorized units of the Waffen SS advance on Taganrog.

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1942

1. Die Deutsche Wochenschau Nr. 595 - 28 January 1942 : Signing of a military convention in Berlin between Germany, Italy and Japan; state funeral ceremony of Dr. hc. August Diehn; Archival footage of Field Marshal Walther von Reichenau; state funeral ceremony of Field Marshal von Reichenau; Northern sector of the Eastern Front/Leningrad area; Street fighting in Yevpatoria, Crimea; Combat operations in North Africa/Afrikakorps; German commerce raider operating in the South Atlantic.
2. Die Deutsche Wochenschau Nr. 629 - 23 September 1942 : Convalescence of wounded soldiers in Carinthia; Report about failed British attempt to land near Tobruk; Units of Kriegsmarine secure the crossing of German and Romanian regiments from Crimea to the Taman Peninsula; Gebirgsjäger (Mountain Troops) advance on the Caucasus Front; Brillantenträger and Luftwaffe fighter ace Hermann Graf returning from a combat mission to an airfield between the Don and Volga Rivers; Stuka formations from Luftflotte 4 take off to attack Stalingrad; German Panzers move forward to attack Stalingrad while Panzergrenadiers follow closely behind the tanks; Luftwaffe bomber squadrons support the advance of infantry and pioneers in Stalingrad with nonstop attacks.
3. Die Deutsche Wochenschau Nr. 631 - 7 October 1942 : The second anniversary of the signing of the Tripartite Pact in Berlin; Generalfeldmarschall Erwin Rommel receives the Marshal's baton; Reichsminister Dr. Joseph Goebbels presents the report on the completed War Winter Relief Fund; Northern and Central sector of the Eastern Front; Battle in the Rzhev area; Counterattack of a German infantry in the Eastern Front; Harvest on the occupied eastern territories; Ju-88 fighter planes are taking off to attack Soviet troop concentrations and field positions; General Friedrich Paulus and the Battle of Stalingrad.
4. Die Deutsche Wochenschau Nr. 632 - 14 October 1942 :  NSDAP rally on Harvest Day in Berlin Sportpalast attended by Hermann Göring and Joseph Goebbels; Food shipment from occupied Eastern territories; German mountain troops advancing through the valleys in the Caucasus Front during "Fall Blau"; Fighting position on Elbrus Mountains; The Battle of Stalingrad; Northern sector of the Eastern Front in the Leningrad area; Army and Waffen SS forces attack the Soviets in the Lake Ilmen area; A squadron of Heinkel He-111 fighter aircraft taking off to attack Bolshevik supply lines and reserves far behind the enemy front.

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1943

1. Die Deutsche Wochenschau Nr. 665 - 2 June 1943 : Luftwaffe pilot training school; Croatian volunteers incorporate into Waffen SS division "Handschar"; Estonian SS Volunteer Battalion "Narva"; Stuka dive bombers (Junkers Ju 87) are used as icebreakers to unclog the river, and relive the pressure of ice floes that threatens to destroy the bridges; Waffen-SS dog squadron of Division "Nord"; a reconnaissance unit of the Waffen SS in their Schwimmwagen; Generalfeldmarschall Erich von Manstein during an inspection tour of his sector of the front; patrol boats and mine layers operation on the Atlantic coast.
2. Die Deutsche Wochenschau Nr. 680 - 15 September 1943 : Commemoration of King Boris of Bulgaria; State funeral ceremony of King Boris in Sofia; Day of Military Training of Hitlerjugend; The German auxiliary cruiser "Thor" arrives in a Japanese port; The "NSKK Brigade Speer" (National Socialist Motor Corps) transporting infantry units in the Eastern Front; German AA-gun (Flak 8.8cm) in defence fight against Soviet airplanes; Combat scenes taken by German war correspondent Sengewitz, who was killed in action by the enemy; Generalleutnant Gerhard Graf von Schwerin presents the Ritterkreuz to the wounded Feldwebel Franz Bredemeyer; SS-Unterscharführer Thaler recives a Ritterkreuz as the first tank driver; Operation Achse ("Fall Achse"), German intervention in Italy; Generalfeldmarschall Albert Kesselring inspects Southern defences. 

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1944

1. Die Deutsche Wochenschau Nr. 709 - 5 April 1944 : German sculptor Professor Richard Scheibe; Cycling festival in Singen on Lake Constance; A visit to a German circus; evacuation of children from cities during World War II; Transfer from the Hitler Youth to the Reich Labor Service; High Mountain School of the Waffen-SS in the Alps; New recruits for fighter aviation with Ritterkreuzträger Hannes Trautloft; German troops during major withdrawals in the Southern sector of the Eastern Front; German vehicles transport war material across Bug river estuary; Fallschirmjäger during the Battle of Monte Cassino.
2. Die Deutsche Wochenschau Nr. 720 - 21 June 1944 : German Footbal Championship final; Vichy Minister Henriot speech in Berlin; Ritterkreuzträger Willy Apitz tells about his battle experience; German soldiers take a rest on the rear positions; Defence battle against advancing Allied troops in the north of Rome, Operation Overlord in the Normandy Front; German anti-aircraft batteries in fight with attacking Allied fighter-bombers formations; Ritterkreuz award ceremony for Heinrich Hoffmann and Victor Rall from Kriegsmarine; Ritterkreuzträger Georg Scholze and Joachim Barth from Panzer-Lehr-Division during counter-attack; award ceremony for young SS Hitlerjugend soldiers by Wilhelm Mohnke; Nebelwerfer in action.
3. Die Deutsche Wochenschau Nr. 733 - 21 September 1944 : AA-soldiers, women, air force auxiliaries and others working for the war effort in their spare time; footage of exchanged German POWs returning to Germany; a Judo demonstration to German soldiers; and footage from explosive speedboats of the navy; Additionally, combat footage from the Western front in the Dutch/Belgian area is shown; footage from fight against partisans in Italy; and from the Eastern front.
4. Die Deutsche Wochenschau Nr. 738 - 26 October 1944 :  State funeral ceremony of Generalfeldmarschall Erwin Rommel; Retreat of German troops in Finland; The battle of Oradea in Hungary; Romanian troops surrendering to German soldiers; Fighting on the Western Front in France; The German Volkssturm marching in Breslau/Leipzig; Reichsführer-SS Heinrich Himmler announced the Führer's decree regarding the formation of the German Volkssturm with Generaloberst Heinz Guderian among the audience; Volkssturm ceremony on Annaberg in Upper Silesia; The Volkssturm battalions march through the city under the leadership of the Gauleiters.

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1945 

1. Die Deutsche Wochenschau Nr. 752 - 24 February 1945 :  Weaving mill production as a part of "Volksopfer" (People's Sacrifice); Fighting on the Western Front and the Netherlands; The winter battle in Silesia; Kriegsmarine ships in action on the Baltics; Volkssturm units in the Festung Breslau; Frankfurt-Küstrin combat area; SS paratroopers in defensive positions in an Oder bridgehead.
2. Die Deutsche Wochenschau Nr. 755 - 22 March 1945 : German bomb disposal specialist Egon Aghta; Panzerfaust training for civilian; the last known video footage of Hitler shown during the award ceremony for Hitlerjugend fighters; Ernst Tiburzy, the first Volkssturm soldier to be awarded with the Ritterkreuz; Festung Breslau; Festung Königsberg; War crimes of Soviet soldiers to the German civilian; Kriegsmarine ships during rescue mission in the Baltics.
   
   

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