Sunday, July 27, 2025

Die Deutsche Wochenschau (German Weekly News) Nr. 557 - 7 May 1941

Die Deutsche Wochenschau is the title of the unified newsreel series released in the cinemas of Nazi Germany from June 1940 until the end of World War II, with the final edition issued on 22 March 1945. The co-ordinated newsreel production was set up as a vital instrument for the mass distribution of Nazi propaganda at war.

In this Die Deutsche Wochenschau video:
00:28 - On May 1, the national holiday of the German people, Deputy Führer Rudolf Hess, in the Messerschmitt factory in Augsburg. He presented golden flags to over one hundred new National Socialist model factories, and presented three Pioneers of Labor with badges given to them by the Führer. In his speech, the Deputy Führer said that the history of this war could not be written without appreciating the quality of German arms, and thus commemorating the women and men who created these arms.
01:52 - The Führer in the Berlin Sportpalast. Nine thousand graduating officer candidates of the Army, Kriegsmarine, Luftwaffe, and Waffen-SS have assembled for roll call.
03:29 - On May 4, the German Reichstag convened in Berlin to receive a declaration from the Reich government. The Führer arrives in front of the Kroll Opera House. In his great speech, the Führer gave the German people a report on the unique achievements of our Wehrmacht in the campaign in the Southeast.
06:07 - After the victorious conclusion of the Serbian Campaign, the Führer traveled to the liberated Lower Styria.
11:50 - The operations in the Balkans took the following course depicted in the diagram.
13:15 - Battle for Thermopylae. Here, on one of the most famous battlefields of classical antiquity. Greeks, New Zealanders, and Australians tried once more to halt the impetuous attack of German troops and cover the retreat of the English.
15:17 - Flight to Athens.
16:49 - Formations of the SS Leibstandarte Adolf Hitler advanced from Ioannina toward Patras in order to cross over to the Peloponnese.
17:15 - SS-Obergruppenführer Sepp Dietrich converses with Italian Army General Carlo Rossi.
21:33 - Tanks of the German Afrika Korps on the march to Tobruk. The ring around the last English positions in Cyrenaica closes ever tighter.
27:43 - The blockade around the British Isles becomes more effective from week to week. Heavy units of the German Kriegsmarine once again advance in closed formation into the Atlantic.



Source :
https://archive.org/details/die-deutsche-wochenschau-berita-mingguan-jerman-no.-557-7-mei-1941-teks-indonesia
https://digitaler-lesesaal.bundesarchiv.de/en/video/5341/659055
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CiBQFrw2lHw&t=828s

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