Die Deutsche Wochenschau (German Weekly News) Collection

1940

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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.

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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. 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.

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1943

1. 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.

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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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