Tuesday, October 28, 2025

Die Deutsche Wochenschau (German Weekly News) Nr. 753 - 5 March 1945


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:

00:00 - Intro

00:22 - 80th birthday of Swedish explorer Sven Hedin, Stockholm, Sweden, 1945.
A great friend of the German people the Swedish explorer Sven Hedin, turned 80 years old. The German ambassador in Stockholm extend the congratulations of the German nation on behalf of the Führer and Reich Foreign Minister von Ribbentrop.

00:52 - "The German Newsreel" visits wounded Colonel Hans Ulrich Rudel in an air force hospital, German Reich, 1945.
"The German newsreel" reporter visits fighter pilot Colonel Hans Ulrich Rudel in a Luftwaffe hospital. A newsreel reporter conducts an interview with a wounded fighter pilot.

02:37 - German U-Boot with a snorkel/Naval war, 1945.
With the help of the snorkel, German submarine torpedoes have devastatingly hit over half a million tons of enemy supply ships in the last three months. Scenes show a view of a distant convoy from the periscope perspective. 

03:44 - Fighting on the Western Front, German Reich, 1945.
Report about fighting on the Western Front against a new major offensive conducted by the British, Canadians and Americans. German reserves are being thrown into battle on armored vehicles to seal off any possible breakthrough point. Scenes show the German positions on the Röhr River, which are at the center of the fighting. Mortars and gun emplacements have been set up behind the rubble of the houses. German intervention reserves are launching a counterattack at Jülich.

05:32 - German troops encircled in Budapest break through to the German lines, Eastern Front, 1945.
A first photographs of the Budapest warriors who fought their way through to the German lines in the west of the city. The exhausted soldiers are greeted by their comrades. Wounded soldiers are taken to the aid station. 

06:25 - In the Silesian battle zone, Eastern Front, German Reich, 1945.
Grenadiers equipped with a Panzerfausts are marching past the sign: "To Ratibor 6 km." The commander of the fortress of Breslau Karl Hanke with an anti-aircraft combat unit of the Reich Labor Service (RAD). In these towns recaptured by German troops every house bears the mark of the cruelties of the Soviet bands of soldiers. Scenes show the stolen clothing of German residents on Soviet vehicles. Corpses of killed civilians are covered with sheets. The destroyed bridge at Fürstenberg, which the pioneer Justus Jürgensen destroyed at the risk of his life. Scenes show the signal-communication woman auxiliary Erna Hirsekorn who receives the Iron Cross for saving an already abandoned German town.

08:45 - Frankfurt Battle Area/Oder Front, Eastern Front, German Reich, 1945.
Scene show the German positions on the Oder River. The Gauleiter of Berlin, Reich Minister Dr. Goebbels, gains a personal impression of the preparations for the defensive struggle.Goebbels in a conversation with a Knight's Cross recipient, General of the Infantry Busse. German soldiers firing from a machine gun emplacement. Trains carrying supplies, weapons, and men are rolling along the railway lines and roads leading to the front, day and night. German tanks and infantry units are deployed to counter a localized Soviet incursion which was carried out with strong tank support. Tanks and grenadiers advancing into battle. Heavy house-to-house and street fighting are raging around the towns in this area. Scenes show destroyed Soviet T-34 tanks. Waffen-SS soldiers smoking cigarettes after the battle.

11:20 - Outro


Source :
https://archive.org/details/die-deutsche-wochenschau-berita-mingguan-jerman-no.-753-5-maret-1945-teks-indonesia
https://digitaler-lesesaal.bundesarchiv.de/en/video/5153
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_GioJGXWpMs

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