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Die Deutsche Wochenschau (German Weekly News) Collection

1940

  1. Die Deutsche Wochenschau Nr. 511 - 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.
  2. Die Deutsche Wochenschau Nr. 512 - 26 June 1940 :  Kriegsmarine fleet operations in the North Sea led by Admiral Wilhelm Marschall; Assault on the Maginot Line; Battle for Alsace-Lorraine; Battle for Fortress Verdun; Surrender of French forces defending the Maginot Line; Pursuit of French forces on the Loire; Strategic discussions between Hitler and Brauchitsch, Jodl, Keitel, and Raeder; Meeting between Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini in Munich; Ceremony of honor and medal awarding by General Kurt von Briesen in Paris; Victory parade of the 30th Infantry Division in front of the Arc de Triomphe; Surrender of France at Compiegne.
  3. Die Deutsche Wochenschau Nr. 515 - 18 July 1940 : Three-nation meeting (Germany, Italy, Hungary) in Berlin; British troop training in Egypt and the continuation of British-French relations; War spoils from the victory in the Battle of France; German troops return to their bases in their homeland after victory in France; Stand-up comedy to entertain Waffen-SS soldiers; 3rd Mountain Division returns to Germany from Narvik using Kriegsmarine ships; Knight's Cross recipients Walter Schlee, Hans Rohr, Eduard Dietl, and Erich Bey; Return of wounded soldiers to their homeland aboard the hospital ship Wilhelm Gustloff; Hitler visits his wounded soldiers; Ceremony awarding medals to the 5th Panzer Division by Lieutenant General Joachim Lemelsen; Recipient of the Knight's Cross Colonel Paul-Hermann Werner (Commander of the 31st Panzer Regiment); Parade of German troops in the newly occupied French territory; Submarine hero Günther Prien returns to base after a successful patrol; German submarine operations at sea.
  4. Die Deutsche Wochenschau Nr. 523 - 12 September 1940 : Opening of a trade fair in Vienna; Hitler speaks at the opening of the second Winterhilfswerk event; The role of German women in the war; The German pharmaceutical industry and the Bayer aspirin factory; Production of shatterproof and bulletproof glass; Relocation of German border residents in the West to their homes after being evacuated; Recovery home for wounded Wehrmacht soldiers; Inspection of the SA Battalion at the Feldherrnhalle by Viktor Lutze and Franz Freiherr von Dalwigk; Three Ritterkreuzträger from SA: Joachim Meißner, Otto Zierach and Horst von Petersdorff; Presentation of a new flag to the Leibstandarte SS Adolf Hitler; The first RAD Grand Assembly in Warsaw; Cleaning of vehicles and clearing of war-time mines in France; Italian Air Force bombing mission in Libya; Luftwaffe blockade of England; Dornier Do 17 bombing mission to England.
  5. Die Deutsche Wochenschau Nr. 531 - 6 November 1940 : Harvest of potato and other vegetables; Granite quarry for highway construction; Workers' camp equipped with cleaning services, entertainment, and sports equipment; Newly opened aviation school in Spitzerberg; Visit by SA-Stabschef Viktor Lutze to the occupied Polish territory; One-year anniversary of the Generalgouvernement at Krakow Castle, led by Dr. Hans Frank; Women employed as helpers in the occupied territory; French clothing and military vehicle depot now owned by Germany; Nachrichtentruppe (Signal Corps) training in the occupied territories; RAD-Musikkorps concert led by Herms Niel in the city of Rome; Construction of a highway in the North African desert by Italian troops; Japanese bombing mission on the Burma Road; Submarines of Joachim Schepke, Günther Prien, and Otto Kretschmer return to their base; Hermann Göring and Hugo Sperrle visit the headquarters of JG 2 “Richthofen”; Flying ace Major Helmut Wick (Geschwaderkommodore JG 2); Hermann Göring visits the headquarters of ZG 26 “Horst Wessel” led by Joachim-Friedrich Huth; Commemoration of the 24th anniversary of the death of ace pilot Oswald Boelcke by KG 27 “Boelcke”; Hauptmann Reinhard Günzel and II.Gruppe / Kampfgeschwader 27 “Boelcke”.

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1941

  1. Die Deutsche Wochenschau Nr. 546 - 19 February 1941 : Visit of Dragiša Cvetković, Prime Minister of Yugoslavia, to Berghof; Adolf-Hitler-Schule in Ordensburg; Speech by Dr. Joseph Goebbels in front of Berlin workers; Visit of the Danish Police Chief to Berlin; “Tag der Deutschen Volkspolizei” (German Police Day) and Winterhilfswerk; Welcome home for U-boat hero Hans-Gerrit von Stockhausen; Largest hydroelectric generator manufactured by Siemens; Luftwaffe pilots ice skating; World Ski Championships in Italy; Medical training for Gebirgsjäger in the mountains; Long-range mission of the Focke-Wulf Fw 200 “Condor” aircraft targeting British ships.
  2. Die Deutsche Wochenschau Nr. 549 - 12 Maret 1941 : Japanese troops clear the Yangtze River of mines in central China; A massive fire in the northern Spanish city of Santander, Spain; German troops plant explosives to blast the ice on the Vistula and Danube rivers; Awarding of the Kriegsverdienstkreuz to the NSKK Transport Unit Speer by NSKK-Korpsführer Adolf Hühnlein; The sixth "Hitler Youth Winter Games" in Garmisch-Partenkirchen; Reichsführer-SS Heinrich Himmler granted citizenship to 5,000 "Germans of Bukovina"; Reichsminister Joseph Goebbels opened the Leipzig Trade Fair; Hermann Göring meeting with Romanian head of state Ion Antonescu in Vienna; Hitler during inspection of the "Nibelungen Bridge" in Linz; Submarine school of the Kriegsmarine; A new u-boat is being launched from the slipway; Relocation of the Luftwaffe units to Bulgaria; German troops on the way to Africa; Hans Jeschonnek with KG 40; FW-200 during attack on a British convoy.
  3. Die Deutsche Wochenschau Nr. 555 - 23 April 1941 : Hitler's 52nd birthday celebration; Daily life of Afrikakorps soldiers in the North African desert; The Battle of Sollum; Proclamation of the establishment of the Croatian state; Panzergruppe Kleist's actions during the invasion of Yugoslavia; Cavalry General Georg Stumme (Commander-in-Chief of the XXXX Army Corps); Major General Ludwig Crüwell (Commander of the 11th Panzer Division); German troops arrive in Belgrade; Günther Angern; Refueling and inflating tank tires; German victory parade in Belgrade; Yugoslavia surrenders to Germany; German forces advance into Greece; Lieutenant d.R. Erich Bärenfänger (the latter Knight's Cross holder); Lieutenant General Rudolf Veiel (Commander of the 2nd Panzer Division).
  4. 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.
  5. Die Deutsche Wochenschau Nr. 564 - 25 June 1941 : Final of the German Football Championship between Rapid Wien and Schalke Westfalen; German-Japanese Friendship Day attended by Ambassador Hiroshi Oshima; Conferring honorary German citizenship on Japanese Ambassador Oshima; Croatia joining the Tripartite Pact (Germany-Japan-Italy); Visit of Italian Minister Alessandro Pavolini to Germany; Rommel awarded the Iron Cross to Italian General Italo Gariboldi; Actions of the Afrikakorps during the siege of Tobruk; Feldgendarmerie of the Afrikakorps capturing the crew of a British ship that landed on the beach; Alfred-Ingemar Berndt, Rommel's propaganda officer; Hermann Göring briefs Luftwaffe generals; Germany's declaration of war against the Soviet Union is proclaimed; The start of Operation Barbarossa; First combat mission in Russia for German bombers.
  6. Die Deutsche Wochenschau Nr. 569 - 30 July 1941 : Reichsmarschall Hermann Göring receives the Luftwaffe's Crete warriors awarded the Ritterkreuz and Croatian Deputy Leader Marshal Kvaternik at his headquarters on the Eastern Front; The 1st Battalion of the Danish Volunteer Corps "Danmark" is deployed to Germany; Volunteers from the "Blue Division", including Spanish Civil War veterans, departs from Madrid station; Crown Prince Umberto of Italy bids farewell to further troops of the Italian unit; German destroyers advance from a Norwegian fjord into the Barents Sea; German and Finnish troops advance in the far north of the Finnish-Soviet border region; German troops advance in Bessarabia; Volunteers to "Ukrainian National Movement"; Hungarian and Slovak troops advance on Eastern Front; Waffen SS units reached the Dnieper in a bold assault and they're crossing the river on raft bags; Advance on Polotsk and Vitebsk; Crossing the Daugava River in the Soviet Union; Rest break for advancing German troops; German troops advance on Vitebsk and Smolensk; Luftwaffe operations in the area of Lake Peipus; Destruction of the city of Dorpat; First air raid on Moscow.
  7. Die Deutsche Wochenschau Nr. 575 - 10 September 1941 : The Siege of Tobruk; Tank battle at Sollum; Rommel inspects British tanks at the site of the battle; Afrikakorps panzer crew fry eggs on their tank hulls; Entertainment for Afrikakorps soldiers in the desert; Battle between Gebirgsjäger and Finnish soldiers against the Soviets in the Arctic; General of the Mountain Troops Eduard Dietl; Finnish Prime Minister Johan Wilhelm Rangell inspects Soviet war booty; The Battle of Viipuri; Capture of Soviet coastal defenses on the Black Sea; Cannons with victory rings; The Battle of Odessa; Romanian Marshal Ion Antonescu inspects Odessa; Krivoy Rog iron ore mine; Ukrainian Volunteer Corps under Germans; Artillery observation balloon; Resting Wehrmacht cavalry troops on the Eastern Front; Repair of the bridge over the Dnieper River in Dnipropetrovsk; Award ceremony for Günther Lützow, Freiherr von Maltzahn, and Josef Priller; General Agustin Muñoz Grandes at the Führer's Headquarters; Spanish volunteer Blue Division; Liberation of the city of Reval in the Baltic; Capture of the Soviet Navy base in Paldiski, Estonia; Bombing mission and battle around Leningrad / St. Petersburg.
  8. Die Deutsche Wochenschau Nr. 581 - 22 October 1941 : German convoy in the English Channel protected by Vorpostenboote (patrol boats); Action by the giant artillery batteries of the Atlantic Wall; Action by Finnish troops in the battle around Lake Ladoga; The siege of Leningrad; Paul Laux and Agustin Muñoz Grandes, commanders of the Spanish “Blue Division”; Construction of winter barracks and candle making behind the Eastern Front lines; Supply of clothing and shoes and production of fur jackets at the Eastern Front depot; Supply convoy in the southern sector of the Eastern Front; Distribution of food rations to panzer troops in the field kitchen; Siege of Panzerarmee Von Kleist against Soviet forces in the Sea of Azov and Melitopol; Waffen-SS troops in the Battle of Mariupol; The Double Battle of Vyazma and Bryansk near Moscow; Knight's Cross recipient Major General Gustav Höhne (Commander of the 8th Infantry Division).
  9. 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. 592 - 7 January 1942 : The old town of Fugger in Augsburg; Work training for disabled veterans who are former Wehrmacht soldiers; Collection of winter clothing for soldiers on the Eastern Front; Christl Cranz, German women's skiing champion; Luftwaffe reconnaissance unit at their base in Eastern Karelia, Finland; Luftwaffe soldiers spend their free time making miniature airplanes; Analysis of aerial map photos; Finnish troops clear a village occupied by the Soviets; German soldiers adapt to the snow and winter around Leningrad; German and Romanian forces advance before Sebastopol; Making straw shoes; Sturmpioniere attack fortifications around Sebastopol.
  2. 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.
  3. Die Deutsche Wochenschau Nr. 608 - 29 April 1942 :  The congress of the "Union of National Journalists' Associations" in Venice Italy; Opening of the European Students and Frontline Soldiers Meeting in Dresden and Berlin; Adolf Hitler gives a speech at the Reichstag; Eichenlaub award ceremony for Hermann Breith, Walter Wessel, Heinrich Eberbach, Karl-Wilhelm Specht and Otto Hitzfeld; Grossadmiral Erich Raeder inspects submarine bunkers build by the "Organisation Todt" in France; Finnish Army on the Svir Front; Volunteers of the Norwegian Legion are being sworn in; Battle in the Valday Region, south of Lake Ilmen, Soviet Union; Railway service in the Eastern Front; Marshal Ion Antonescu inspects Romanian units in the Crimea; Air raid on Malta.
  4. Die Deutsche Wochenschau Nr. 613 - 3 June 1942 : State funeral ceremony of Gauleiter Carl Röver; Return of the German diplomats from America; Generalmajor Theodor Scherer reports to the Führer's quarters and receives the Eichenlaub to the Ritterkreuz from Hitler; Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor; The Battle for Hong Kong; German mountain troops on the Murmansk Front; The Battle of the Kerch Peninsula.
  5. Die Deutsche Wochenschau Nr. 614 - 10 June 1942 : Reichsführer-SS Heinrich Himmler arrives in The Hague, Netherlands; Swearing-in ceremony of the Dutch Waffen SS; Visit of the Reichsminister Alfred Rosenberg in Riga, Latvia; Adolf Hitler leaves the headquarters of Generalfeldmarschall Fedor von Bock, and then visits Field Marshal Carl-Gustaf von Mannerheim on his 75th birthday in Finland; The Second Battle of Kharkov; Battle of Izyum.
  6. Die Deutsche Wochenschau Nr. 615 - 17 June 1942 : Visit of Moroccan Sultan Muhammad V to Spain; Erhard Milch, Sepp Dietrich, and Himmler at Wilhelm Ohnesorge's birthday party; Ceremony honoring Reinhard Heydrich's coffin in Prague, followed by the state funeral ceremony in Berlin; Visit of Hungarian Prime Minister Miklós Kállay to the Führerhauptquartier; U-boat ace Peter Erich Cremer and U-333 return to base from a successful mission; Visit of Adolf Galland to the headquarters of JG 27 North Africa, accompanied by Eduard Neumann; Ace pilot Hans-Joachim Marseille; Italian Savoy Military Order medal ceremony for Erwin Rommel by Ettore Bastico; Rommel with Walther Nehring and Friedrich-Wilhelm von Mellenthin in Marmarica; Afrikakorps and the Battle of Bir Hacheim; Ion Antonescu's visit to Sevastopol, received by Fedor von Bock and Erich von Manstein; The Battle of Sevastopol.
  7. Die Deutsche Wochenschau Nr. 617 - 1 July 1942 : The Battle of the Gazala-Bir Hacheim and Acroma defensive lines in North Africa; The Battle of Tobruk and the fall of the fortress to the Germans; Major General Georg von Bismarck (Commander of the 21st Panzer Division); The Battle of Sevastopol; The super-heavy 60 cm caliber “Thor” Karl-Gerät mortar; The 80 cm caliber Schwerer Gustav railway gun.
  8. Die Deutsche Wochenschau Nr. 618 - 8 July 1942 : Award ceremony for Theodor Eicke and Hans-Joachim Marseille at the Führer's Headquarters; Visit of Finnish leader Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim to the Führer's Headquarters; Battle of Volkhov; Knight's Cross recipient Harry Hoppe; Dutch SS volunteers attack a Soviet village in Volkhov; Start of Operation Fall Blau in the southern sector of the Eastern Front; Fall of Sevastopol to German forces; Knight's Cross recipient Gordon Gollob; Field Marshal Erich von Manstein; Erwin Rommel inspects the city of Tobruk, which has just fallen to the Germans; Major General Alfred Gause; Field Marshal Albert Kesselring.
  9. Die Deutsche Wochenschau Nr. 619 - 15 July 1942 : Celebration of the 70th birthday of Emil Hácha, President of the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia; Opening of the “German Art Students' Day” by Gustav Adolf Scheel; Opening of the “Great German Art Exhibition” by Dr. Joseph Goebbels; Erich von Manstein meets with Hitler at the Führer Headquarters; Return of Johann Mohr and U-124 to their base in Lorient; Medal ceremony for U-boat crews by Karl Dönitz; Destruction of Allied convoy (PQ 17) by German submarines and aircraft in the Arctic; Karl Dönitz & Günther Hessler; 100th combat mission of Junkers Ju 88 and Ju 87 Stuka pilots; Generaloberst Hans-Jürgen Stumpff inspects JG 5 on the Murmansk Front; Ritterkreuz award ceremony for Luftwaffe ace Rudolf “Rudi” Müller; Eduard Dietl and Ferdinand Schörner inspect RAD units near the North Pole; Kriegsmarine minesweeper operation in the Gulf of Finland; Wehrmacht offensive west of the Don River (Fall Blau); Road construction behind the front lines by RAD members; Replenishment of Sturmgeschütz ammunition; Crossing of the Oskol River; Voronezh is captured by German forces.
  10. Die Deutsche Wochenschau Nr. 620 - 22 July 1942 : Arrival of new Afrikakorps troops in North Africa to reinforce El Alamein; German air defense action in the English Channel against Allied aircraft; Arrival of German U-boats at their base in occupied France; Departure of German U-boats led by Erich Topp to conduct patrols in America; Current situation in the city of Voronezh, which has just been occupied by German troops; Current situation in the Don region, which has just been occupied by German troops; Construction of a new bridge by the Pioneer unit across the Donetsk River; Battle against the Red Army in the Donetsk region; Battle in the industrial area of Voroshilovgrad, which was ultimately won by Germany.
  11. Die Deutsche Wochenschau Nr. 623 - 12 August 1942 : Albert Kesselring inspects Luftwaffe units in Southern Italy that will attack Malta; Condition of the Atlantic Wall fortifications along the northern European and French coasts; Reichsmarschall Hermann Göring's private train en route to the East; award ceremony at the Führer's Headquarters for air heroes Viktor Bauer and Erwin Clausen; Inspection trip by General Hiroshi Oshima, Japanese Ambassador to Germany, to the Eastern Front; Current battle situation in Volkhov, northern sector of the Eastern Front; Georg von Küchler meets with Walter Graf von Brockdorff-Ahlefeldt in Volkhov; Current combat situation in the central sector of the Eastern Front; Awarding of medals to the anti-tank crew that destroyed 11 Soviet tanks; Current battle situation in the southern sector of the Eastern Front during Operation Fall Blau; Actions of the Grossdeutschland Division in the advance between the Don and Kuban rivers; Advance towards Manyish, the border between Europe and Asia.
  12. Die Deutsche Wochenschau Nr. 625 - 26 August 1942 :  The failed Allied landing at Dieppe (Dieppe Raid or Operation Jubilee); General der Panzertruppe Adolf-Friedrich Kuntzen inspects Dieppe; RAD inspection on the Eastern Front by their commander, Konstantin Hierl; Award ceremony for RAD members by Generalmajor Paul Danhauser; German forces advances on the Don River, southern sector of the Eastern Front (Operation Blau); German and Romanian forces enter the cities of Yeysk and Tikhoretsk in the Caucasus; German forces attack the Kuban steppe; SS Division Wiking and Felix Steiner in the Kuban steppe.
  13. 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.
  14. Die Deutsche Wochenschau Nr. 630 - 30 September 1942 :  Supply transport for German troops in Africa (Afrikakorps); First train operation on the North African battlefield; Erwin Rommel, Albert Kesselring, and Hans-Joachim Marseille at El Alamein; Junkers Ju 88 aircraft take off at night on a bombing mission to Alexandria; Arrival of Japanese submarine at the German Navy base in France; German submarines “U-130” and “U-108” arrive at the Lorient base from a successful mission; Air raid on the Soviet port of Murmansk, northern sector of the Eastern Front; Focke-Wulf Fw-189 reconnaissance aircraft take off for Stalingrad; German infantry and panzer forces advance on the outskirts of Stalingrad; Gebirgsjäger (Mountain Troops) in action in the Elbrus Mountains, Caucasus.
  15. 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.
  16. 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.
  17. Die Deutsche Wochenschau Nr. 634 - 28 October 1942 : 20th anniversary of the “March to Rome” at the Italian Embassy in Berlin; General Alfred Keller awards the Knight's Cross to Captain Peter-Paul Breu; NSKK Corps Commander Erwin Kraus inspects the Speer Transport Corps; Air supply delivery to German troops on the front lines at Lake Ilmen; Theodor Eicke, Ernst Busch, Max Seela, and Hermann Priess; Miniature railway transport route through the swamp forest in the Lake Ilmen region; Delivery of hot meals to SS troops fighting on the front lines; Infantry and panzer attacks in the Lake Ilmen region; Battle of Stalingrad before the Barrikady factory; Gebirgsjäger in the Battle of Tuapse in the Caucasus; He 111 bombing mission to the Kufra Oasis and El Tag Fortress in Libya.
  18. Die Deutsche Wochenschau Nr. 635 - 4 November 1942 : The 20th anniversary of the “March on Rome” in Italy; Japanese Navy ships sailing towards the South Pacific; Fierce battle for ‘Krasny Barrikady’ in Stalingrad; Luftwaffe reconnaissance aircraft in action during Operation “Fall Blau” in the Terek region, Caucasus; Germanic Waffen-SS volunteers storm Soviet defensive positions; Gebirgsjäger (Mountain Troops) in action at the Garabashi camp, Caucasus Mountains; Afrikakorps soldiers on guard in the Qattara Depression, Egypt; Erwin Rommel and Hermann-Bernhard Ramcke in El Alamein; German and Italian forces in action during the Battle of El Alamein.
  19. Die Deutsche Wochenschau Nr. 637 - 18 November 1942 : Adolf Hitler gives a speech in the Löwenbräukeller on the anniversary of the 1923 "Munich Putsch"; Wreath-laying ceremony at Fehrbelliner Platz during Commemoration of the NSDAP movement's fallen soldiers in Berlin; Wreath-laying ceremony at the memorial at the Feldherrnhalle initiated the November 9th celebrations; German coastal fortifications on the Norwegian coast; Finnish soldiers transporting logs to build a wooden houses for the families of fallen comrades in need; The island fortress of Kronstadt in the Bay of Leningrad is under heavy artillery fire; Italian infantry repulses a Soviet attack on the Don; The Battle of Stalingrad; German troops march into Vichy France in the Mediterranean coast.
  20. Die Deutsche Wochenschau Nr. 641 - 16 December 1942 : World record for longest glider flight by NSFK-Sturmbannführer Erich Vergens; Three-country boxing match (Germany, Italy, Hungary) in Berlin; Oath-taking ceremony for SS-Regiment “Prague” in Prague, Czechoslovakia; Construction of submarine bunkers by Organisation Todt; Franz Ritter von Epp and Karl Dönitz welcome the arrival of U-boat hero Herbert Schneider; Afrika Korps supply convoy heading to Bizerte, Tunisia; Luftwaffe bombing mission in Tebourba, Tunisia; Current situation on the Terek River, Caucasus Front; Kettenkrad transporting Gebirgsjäger supplies; Distribution of food, ammunition, and mail to soldiers in the middle of a snowstorm; Installation of barbed wire at a snow-covered defense post.

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1943

  1. Die Deutsche Wochenschau Nr. 645 - 13 January 1943 : Public service announcement about the importance of blackout (darkness) at nite; Wehrmacht soldiers' tour of the historic city of Ulm; Construction of a new submarine bunker; U-boat ace Karl-Friedrich Merten returns to base; Italian submarine returns to base; Occupation of Corsica by Italian forces; The city of Tunis in Tunisia; General Wolfgang Fischer and Hans-Jürgen von Arnim; Interaction of Afrikakorps soldiers with Arab civilians; Sturmpioniere in action clearing Soviet fortifications in the Caucasus; Rzhev Front; Colonel-General Walter Model inspects his troops.
  2. Die Deutsche Wochenschau Nr. 657 - 7 April 1943 : Hermann Göring Division; State funeral for diplomat Hans-Adolf von Moltke and Hans von Tschammer und Osten; German U-boat activity; Knight's Cross recipient Lieutenant Commander (Ing.) Gerhard Bielig; Knight's Cross award ceremony by Hitler for Italian General Italo Gariboldi; Visit of King Boris of Bulgaria to Berghof Obersalzberg; Current situation in the northern sector of the Eastern Front, between Lake Ladoga and Lake Ilmen; Knight's Cross recipient Lieutenant General Johann Sinnhuber on an inspection visit. 
  3. 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.
  4. Die Deutsche Wochenschau Nr. 670 - 7 July 1943 : The condition of Cologne Cathedral shortly after being hit by British bombs; Hitler Youth sports festival held at the Berlin Olympic Stadium; Visit by Generaloberst Heinz Guderian to the NSKK Tank Driving School; Various competitions to celebrate the Solstice Festival on the Eastern Front; Craftsmen putting available materials to good use; Attack on Soviet defenses in Murmansk at midnight; Visit by Japanese military officers to the Leningrad battle zone; Visit by a Turkish military mission to the southern sector of the Eastern Front; Operation to clear out groups of saboteurs and enemy agents in Minsk; Operation of trams to transport German soldiers in Orel; Commemoration of two years since the outbreak of war between Germany and the Soviet Union on the Eastern Front; Luftwaffe reconnaissance and night bomber aircraft in action on the Eastern Front; Operation of German lighthouses in the English Channel; Kriegsmarine submarine hunter fleet in the Atlantic Ocean.
  5. Die Deutsche Wochenschau Nr. 677 - 25 August 1943 : Military training of SA members in Prague; Games and sports training for Romanian youth; Glider competition participated in by members of the Flieger-Hitlerjugend; Delivery of packages from the German Red Cross to prisoners of war and internees; Efforts to combat the spread of malaria-carrying mosquitoes and methods of treatment; Farms and livestock in Ukraine supporting the Wehrmacht's war efforts; Soldiers' leisure activities on the Norwegian front: bathing dogs and washing clothes; The current battle situation around Lake Ladoga, Leningrad Front; Wounded soldiers receiving treatment at a field hospital (Feldlazarett); German air raid on Soviet positions in Belgorod; Celebration of the 600th flight mission for the Luftwaffe bomber crew; Current battle situation in the Orel region; Award ceremony for the Knight's Cross for Rittmeister Helmuth Spaeter from Grossdeutschland.
  6. 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. 703 - 23 February 1944 : Professor Adolf Butenandt, Germany's leading hormone researcher; Inauguration of the new president of the German Academy, Arthur Seyß-Inquart, in Munich; Wine production for Wehrmacht soldiers; Boxing match between Karel Sys and Pierre van Deuren in Brussels, Belgium; Recreation center for Luftwaffe fighter pilots in Tegernsee; German destroyers protect French fishing boats from enemy attacks; Logistical conditions in the southern sector of the Italian Front; Withdrawal of German troops in the northern sector of the Eastern Front; German counterattack in Kirovograd; German and Romanian troops fighting against the Red Army on the Crimean Peninsula.
  2. 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.
  3. Die Deutsche Wochenschau Nr. 710 - 12 April 1944 : The 65th birthday of poet August Hinrichs; Wounded German soldiers watch a performance at the Schliersee Farmers' Theater; Croatian ballet performance in Vienna, Austria; Cross-country running competition in Kolberg; Wood carving school for children in Pirna, Elbe; Propaganda urging people not to speak carelessly in the midst of war; Damaged farmland that has been repaired is returned to farmers in Lorraine, France; Satire directed at enemies who claim that money can replace damaged works of art; Colonel Heinz Trettner awards medals to his soldiers in Nettuno, Italy; Activities of the Flak 88 crew in Italy while relaxing and off duty; Cooperation between Junkers Ju 88 reconnaissance aircraft and heavy artillery guns in Anzio, Italian Front; German forces attack across the frozen Lake Pleipus in Narva; Kriegsmarine ships engage in artillery combat with Soviet gun emplacements off the coast of Narva; Interview with Lieutenant General Kurt Dittmar and Major Hans-Ulrich Rudel; Henschel Hs-129 ground attack aircraft in action destroying Soviet tanks.
  4. Die Deutsche Wochenschau Nr. 714 - 10 May 1944 : Presentation of certificates of the National War Skills Competition in Dresden; "War Model Companies" award ceremony, for outstanding production performance and exemplary social conduct; Clothing show in an armaments factory; Berlin's cyclists opened the outdoor season with a road race that attracted large crowds; Pre-military training of "Reich Labor Service" (Reichsarbeitsdienst); Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini on a meeting; The merchant ships sets sail, protected by naval escort vessels; Schlachtgeschwader 2 (SG 2) "Immelmann" gathered to celebrate its 100,000th combat mission; Latvian Waffen-SS in the Narva sector.
  5. 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.
  6. Die Deutsche Wochenschau Nr. 728 - 17 August 1944 :  Hitler Youth boys help harvest crops; The role of German fishermen in supporting the war effort through their work; The awarding ceremony of the Knight's Cross of the War Merit Cross to two distinguished fishermen; A humorous pantomime performance for wounded soldiers; The current battle situation in northern Italy; The current battle situation in the northern sector of the Eastern Front; Luftwaffe ground attack aircraft move to attack Soviet tanks; General Hans Seidemann discusses with Stuka ace Hans-Ulrich Rudel; Action by German Grenadier troops against the enemy; Current battle situation in Normandy; Ritterkreuz ceremony for Wilhelm Mohnke and Karl-Heinz Prinz from the SS Hitlerjugend Division; Ambush of a British convoy by German forces; Targeting and destruction of enemy targets by German heavy artillery.
  7. 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.
  8. Die Deutsche Wochenschau Nr. 736 - 11 October 1944 : Preparations for Total War, building defenses in the homeland; Estonian civilians evacuate to Germany on Kriegsmarine ships; New recruits to the Flakhelfer, volunteers from Latvia; Focke-Wulf Fw 190 air raid on ground targets on the Eastern Front; Battles on the Kurland Front; Luftwaffe aircraft in action during the suppression of the Warsaw Uprising; The Battle of Luneville on the Western Front; Hasso von Manteuffel and Heinrich Bronsart von Schellendorff; Reich Minister Goebbels visits General Walter Model's headquarters; Joseph Goebbels' speech in Cologne; Königstiger tanks from Heavy Tank Battalion 503.
  9. 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. 747 - 4 January 1945 : The Hitler Youth celebrate the Winter Solstice; Gebirgsjäger (Mountain Troops) during skiing; Fighting on the Southeastern Front, Hungary; Hans-Ulrich Rudel in the combat mission against Soviet tanks; Operation "Wacht am Rhein"/Ardennes Offensive; Sepp Dietrich and Walter Model during the advance among his men.
  2. 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.
  3. Die Deutsche Wochenschau Nr. 753 - 5 March 1945 : 80th birthday of Swedish explorer Sven Hedin; "The German newsreel" reporter visits fighter pilot Colonel Hans Ulrich Rudel in a Luftwaffe hospital; German U-Boot with a snorkel; Report about fighting on the Western Front against a new major offensive conducted by the British, Canadians and Americans; German troops encircled in Budapest break through to the German lines; In the Silesian battle zone; Frankfurt Battle Area/Oder Front.
  4. 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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