Sunday, December 28, 2025

Die Deutsche Wochenschau (German Weekly News) Nr. 581 - 22 October 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:

00:58 - German convoy in the English Channel, France, 1941.
Units of the Navy and Air Force protect the transports on their journey to the German bases on the Atlantic coast. Messerschmitt Bf 110 aircraft fly in formation over the sea. Commander Rudolf Porat, commander of an outpost boat was awarded the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross. British convoys, which occasionally still attempt to reach Dover from the Atlantic are targeted and dispersed by long-range batteries of the Kriegsmarine and Army.

03:28 - Finnish Army on the northern sector of the Eastern Front, Soviet Union, 1941.
Report about fighting between Lake Ladoga and Lake Onega. Scene show Aki Järvinen - Finnish athlete. Finnish tanks (Soviet-made BT-5 and T-26)advancing further south. Assault troops are clearing the surrounding terrain and drive the Bolsheviks out from their positions. 

05:40 - Siege of Leningrad, Soviet Union, 1941.
Finnish artillery on the front near Leningrad. Shipyard facilities and ammunition depots are ablaze in the naval port of Kronstadt. German batteries have hit Oranienbaum, the port city west of Leningrad. German infantry has dug in outside Leningrad. The Soviets attempted a landing from Kronstadt to relieve Leningrad. Commander of the 126th Infantry Division Lieutenant General Paul Laux in conversation with the commander of the Spanish "Blue Division" (División Azul), General Muñoz Grande. Scenes show the construction of winter quarters on the rear positions. Transports of winter clothing and warm underwear for German troops. 

10:19 - Southern sector of the Eastern Front/Advance on Melitopol and Mariupol, Ukraine/Soviet Union, 1941.
Units of the Italian division are marching southeast, advancing towards the Sea of ​​Azov to block the retreat of the Soviets defeated at Melitopol. The tank crews are baking the cakes. Units of Kleist's Panzer Army are closing the ring around the Budionny armies encircled at the Sea of ​​Azov from the north. In cooperation with General Colonel von Kleist's Panzer Army units of the German Army and the Waffen-SS complete the encirclement of the Soviets on the coast of the Sea of ​​Azov. Beyond Melitopol, SS units advance toward Mariupol. German troops unexpectedly enter the port city of Mariupol from various directions. 

17:53 - Battle of Moscow/Operation Typhoon, Soviet Union, 1941.
Timoshenko's armies are encircled. German troops are advancing into the Vyazma and Bryansk cauldrons from all sides. Autumn rains have completely turned Soviet roads into mud. German troops on the road to Orel. Advance of the Panzer division and capture of Orel by German troops. In a daring assault, the first German units secured the bridges to Orel. Advance on the Uga, a river between Orel and Vyazma. From the Vyazma area, German units advanced north and south of Moscow to Kalinin and Kaluga, which were captured after days of fierce fighting. The Soviets have lost two more strategically vital points in the Moscow defensive perimeter. German troops in the attack on Yukhnov, northwest of Kaluga. Under the command of Field Marshal von Bock, troops of the German Army in close cooperation with the air force of Field Marshal Kesselring annihilated the Soviet Army Group of Marshal Timoshenko with the strength of eight armies. Soviet prisoners of war marching to the rear. 


Source :
https://archive.org/details/die-deutsche-wochenschau-berita-mingguan-jerman-no.-581-22-oktober-1941-teks-indonesia
https://digitaler-lesesaal.bundesarchiv.de/en/video/5363
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dp1A0r3mMsM

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