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GERMAN WARTIME NEWSREELS 36 - 40 * with switchable English subtitles *

 

5 DVD SET corresponds to Numbers 36 through 40 of our translations of Die Deutsche Wochenschau newsreels (in addition to any supplments listed in the description below), mainly in Europe, from June 1944 to March 1945, with first hand film reports.  Each part has variable film quality based on the original films it shows.  Overall, we would say the quality would correspond to a range of well worn VHS to excellent VHS quality.  There is some sound and picture quality issues on some of the selections, but that corresponds to only a small percentage of the total.
 
  
SOME OF THE TOPICS COVERED :
 
  • The actor Werner Krauss‘ birthday
  • War widows attend special classes at Marburg University
  • The German hospital ship “Erlangen” is attacked by Anglo-American bombers on 15 June
  • Wounded French civilians after Anglo-American bomber raids
  • Fighting in the St. Lo region
  • Pictures from the Adriatic and Italian Alps
  • A Norwegian village burns after a Soviet air attack
  • Net laying units of the Kriegsmarine at work
  • Memorial service for Generaloberst Dietl
  • Leon Degrelle makes a speech in Berlin
  • Defensive fighting against Anglo-American ships at Cherbourg
  • The Battle of Bayeux
  • Nebelwerfer in action
  • Funeral services for Generaloberst Dietl
  • LLeon Degrelle, head of the Belgian Rexists, speaks in Berlin
  • Infantry training
  • Repulsing Anglo-American naval units at Cherbourg
  • Battle at Bayeux
  • National book fair in Spain
  • Exhibition of masks from around the world
  • Leisure wear fashion show in Paris
  • Berlin firemen at a large practice drill
  • Fighting on the Finnish front
  • Women work at sawmills and riding schools
  • Opening of the RAD art exhibit in Prague
  • Goebbels addresses a rally in Breslau
  • Goebbels confirms first use of the V-1
  • Supplies for Wehrmacht units in Finland
  • Review of the battle situation on the Normandy front
  • In a paramilitary camp of the Hitler Youth
  • The training of dogpacks
  • A German convoy in the North Sea
  • The “One Man Torpedo”
  • The use of fighters against heavy American bomber attacks in Central Germany
  • Fighting on the Invasion Front
  • Assassination attempt against Adolf Hitler
  • The Fuhrer receives the Duce
  • The Day of German Armaments
  • New tanks are tested in the field
  • Elastic battle tactics on the Eastern Front
  • American air attacks against Caen
  • The Panzerfaust and Panzerschreck in action
  • A Goliath takes out an American tank
  • Use of the V-1 against England 

 

  • State funeral for Generaloberst Kortner
  • Hitler visits officers wounded in the July 20 assassination attempt
  • Oberst Remer speaks to the Berlin Guard Regiment
  • Call-up of men in the cities of the South Hannover and Braunschweig Gaue
  • The 85-year old Norwegian poet, Knut Hamsun, visits a U-Boat crew
  • Withdrawal of German troops on the Eastern Front
  • Destruction of all militarily important buildings and installations in the East
  • Battles in the Normandy region
  • American prisoners are paraded through the streets of Paris and attacked by the populace
  • German fighters attack the supply roads at the bridgeheads of the enemy
  • Defensive fighting outside of Caen
  • Construction of anti-tank trenches in the Baltic East
  • Defensive fighting between the Baltic and the Carpathians
  • Defensive measures against American bombers in northern Italy
  • French militia hunts down partisans
  • A German U-Boat on a mission against the enemy in the North Sea
  • Medical treatment in wartime Hungary
  • Gymnastics exhibition in Dresden
  • SA men demonstrate their athletic and military prowess in the Protektorat Bohmen and Mahren
  • Horse racing in Copenhagen
  • German women at a health spa
  • Japanese and foreign officers inspect Wehrmacht units
  • Battles in the Ravenna – Florence region
  • Women are fully engaged in armaments’ production, the police and fire battalions
  • Use of decoys for anti-aircraft defense in the Normandy
  • Suppression of the revolt in Warsaw
  • Counterattacks on the Eastern Front
  • New regiments of fighters and materiel take off for the Eastern Front
  • Orthodox field services in Serbia
  • The transport of commercial goods by horse and wagon and the S-Bahn
  • Celebratory begin of the harvest in the Balkans
  • Medical research and practices in Turkey
  • The civilian population in the Balkans are given weapons for anti-partisan combat
  • Croatian volunteers on the Eastern Front are decorated for bravery
  • Russian volunteers in the Wehrmacht are trained in Germany
  • The civilian population of East Prussia digs trenches on the border
  • V-1 in action in France
  • Restrictions on cultural life in the Reich
  • Women doing war production in munitions plants
  • Stabilizing of the front lines in the East
  • Battle reports from Courland
  • Use of the V-1 against London and southern England
  • Anglo-American air attacks on the invasion front
  • HJ youth help out in the countryside
  • In the “Castle Village” Strobeck in the Harz Mountains
  • Morning exercises at the gymnastics school Medau
  • Norwegian volunteer units leave for service on the frontlines
  • State funeral for the Spanish foreign minister, Francisco Gomez
  • Islamic dignitaries are received in Croatia
  • Market day in an Albanian city
  • Hay and corn harvest time in Germany
  • Interned Italian soldiers are set free
  • Wood is culled from the mountains of Norway
  • Military decorations go to German marines
  • The Warsaw Uprising comes to an end
  • Mountain farming families at work
  • RAD men and women help with the harvest
  • Women in the armaments industry
  • Experienced naval troops are awarded high decorations
  • Organized withdrawals on the Invasion Front
  • Oberleutnant Erich Hartmann is awarded the Ritterkreuz with Diamonds for his 301st air kill
  • Construction of trenches and bunkers on the Narva Front
  • Collapse of the uprising in Warsaw
  • German youth show themselves ready to defend the Fatherland
  • The Rumanians change sides
  • The Golden Close Quarter Fighting Pin is awarded to those who survived close quarter fighting 50 times
  • The use of one-man torpedoes
  • A German youth choir performs at church
  • Hitler Youth doing farm labor
  • Japanese youth at a mass-gymnastics demonstration
  • Training of Luftwaffe helpers
  • Rowing championship in Spain
  • Swimming competition in Denmark
  • German ladies show their gymnastic skills
  • Recovering German soldiers wounded in battle learn how to carve wood
  • Work in a tire re-treading plant
  • Tenth anniversary of the Land Service
  • Older citizens at work in the munitions factories
  • Women work as barbers
  • Practical use of raw materials, such as corn husks, for making consumer products
  • Volunteers stream into the barracks for military training
  • Organized withdrawal on the Western Front
  • German divisions pull back from Kandalashka after the collapse of the Finnish government
  • Refugees flee towards Sweden
  • Heavy Nebelwerfer batteries stop an attack on the Eastern Front
  • T-34s are repulsed by Panzerfaust and Panzerschreck
  • The Rhine wine harvest of 1944
  • Taking the cattle down from the Bavarian Alps
  • The last German troops leave Finland
  • A German flak battery in Norway beats off a Soviet air attack
  • The German Red Cross cares for the wounded
  • German pilots train on gliders
  • The 1944 harvest in Croatia
  • Hitler Youth help out with the harvest in Germany
  • Canoe racing in Geneva
  • International Sports Competition in Germany
  • Grand Admiral Donitz gives a speech in Weser-Ems
  • Arthur Axmann visits the 12th SS Tank Division “Hitler Jugend”
  • Kriegsmarine heroes visit Berlin
  • An eastern Carpathian village is cleared by a Sturmgeschutze battalion
  • Artillery duels on the Adriatic Front
  • Reichsjugendfuhrer Axmann visits the 12th SS Hitler Jugend tank division
  • The Allies are smashed at Arnheim
  • Professor Martin Moebius oversees the breeding of cacti
  • Tobacco growing in Denmark
  • Women from the Ostmark working at home
  • Fishing on the high seas off Norway
  • The manufacture and printing of sheet music
  • A concert in a munitions plant
  • Battles near Luneville
  • Estonians flee the Bolsheviks on German steamships
  • Young Latvians volunteer as flak helpers
  • The FW 190 on the Eastern Front
  • Attack against a Soviet bridgehead in Courland
  • The final mopping up of the Warsaw Uprising
  • Dr. Goebbels visits Field Marshal Model at his headquarters
  • The King Tiger makes its appearanceState funeral for Oberstleutnant Helmut Lent
  • Use of a special x-ray machine in an operation
  • Harvesting wine grapes in Croatia
  • Market day in an Albanian city
  • Ceramics school in Germany
  • A Hitler Youth communications corps in action
  • Bicycle and field and track competitions in Berlin
  • General de Gaulle arrives in Paris
  • Warsaw surrenders
  • The populace and military on the Eastern Front withdraw
  • Chaos in Paris
  • Fortifications building in the West
  • The V-1 continues to pound London
  • The battle for Aachen
  • The Soviet fall offensive
  • Warsaw surrenders
  • Fighting around Oradea
  • The death of Marshal Rommel
  • The Hitler Youth Class of 1928 volunteers to fight at the front
  • Creation of the Volkssturm
  • Professor Bergius, inventor of synthetic fuel, celebrates his 60th birthday
  • Juice from the fruit of mountain ash
  • A new infants’ home in Salamanca
  • Learning how to rollerskate
  • Bicycle race in Vienna
  • Mountain sports festival in the Salzburg Gau
  • Circus Knee in Zurich
  • Female workers at exercise
  • Health care in Croatia
  • German Alpine Rescue Corps in action
  • Fighting around Debrecen and Oradea
  • German troops take back a village in Siebenburgen (Transylvania)
  • Grossadmiral Doenitz visits the training sites for the new Kriegsmarine weaponry
  • Explosive boats and one-man torpedoes in action
  • Belfort, Metz and Trier become frontline cities
  • Defense of Geilenkirchen and the taking of American prisoners
  • Fighting around Goldap and Gumbinnen
  • Soviet atrocities in Nemmersdorf
  • Tobacco harvest in Denmark
  • Wine harvest in Bohmen und Mahren
  • Carp farming in Lake Moritzburg near Dresden
  • National swimming championships in Madrid
  • Frontline fighter school in Telemark, Norway
  • Cossack bands in the Wehrmacht
  • Training of women RAD units as flak helpers
  • Training of Volkssturm
  • German youth work in the mines
  • Concert for Czechs working in the Reich
  • Swimming competition in Barcelona’s harbor
  • Soccer game in Oslo between a German and Norwegian team
  • Plowing competition in central Sweden
  • Construction of defensive installations in the Po Valley
  • Wehrmacht units crush the Slovakian uprising
  • Battles outside of Budapest
  • Memorial at the Feldherrnhalle in Munich
  • Swearing in of the Volkssturm in East Prussia, Danzig and Berlin
  • Dr. Goebbels addresses the Volkssturm men in Berlin
  • Battles on the Vosges Front
  • Battles outside of Budapest
  • Liberation of Goldap 
  • State funeral for Major Walter Nowotny in Vienna
  • All Saints’ Day in Zagreb
  • Chess championships in Prague
  • The Wine Harvest in Spain
  • The making of horse feed in Germany
  • A Cossack stud farm in Germany
  • Railway helpers make winter clothing
  • German soldiers in the surrounded Atlantic base at Lorient
  • General Vlasov arrives in Prague for the founding of the Committee of Liberation of Russia’s Peoples
  • Mopping up of the Slovakian Uprising
  • Marine Battle Swimmers blow up a bridge near Nijmegen
  • Major offensive in the West by the Anglo-Americans
  • Defensive fighting in East Prussia
  • Construction of a dam in Spain
  • Circus Busch performs
  • Members of the “Magic Circle” meet at a convention
  • Conversion of trucks to book gas from charcoal
  • A wounded NCO works in a munitions plant
  • RAD men undergo military training
  • Fighting on the Danube
  • Supplying German units on the Courland Front by sea
  • Morning exercises at the Spanish Riders’ School in Vienna
  • Mowing hay in the German Alps
  • Market day in Albania
  • Training replacements for the Navy
  • Excerpts from the film “Grosse Freiheit Nr. 7”
  • German soldiers run an obstacle course behind the front lines
  • Evacuation of a pass in the Carpathians
  • Enemy low-level fighter attacks on the Western and Italian fronts
  • A convoy in the North Sea
  • Stukas at work on the Eastern Front
  • The painter, Professor Franz Eichenhorst at work
  • Generalfeldmarschall Freiherr von Weichs is received in Zagreb
  • Sportsmen train indoors for the winter
  • Drying potatoes
  • Apprentices learn to handle locomotives
  • Treaded motorcycles are tested out in mountainous terrain
  • German troops pull back from the Sworbe Peninsula in Estonia
  • Girls in the Protektorat make puppets for the children of laborers in the Reich
  • Bavarian folk dancing
  • A Kindergarten in Zagreb
  • Spanish youth take part in a model plane competition
  • Cross country run in the Protektorat Bohmen und Mahren
  • Day of the German Railroad Men
  • Generalfeldmarschall von Mackensen’s 95th birthday
  • The Fuhrer receives the Hungarian head-of-state Szalasy
  • The Danube Flotilla of the Kriegsmarine in action in Budapest
  • Defense against Bolshevik attacks in Courland and East Prussia
  • The Waal Dam near Arnheim is blown up
  • The sculptor Professor Tuerke’s 60th birthday
  • An excerpt from the film “Solistin Anna Alt”
  • Hitler Youth and BDM make toys for children of men fallen in war
  • Christmas presents for Norwegian volunteers at the front
  • Housewives receive technical training
  • Circus Sarrasani
  • Street race in Barcelona
  • Dr. Weber at work on cardiac research
  • The making of prosthetics for war amputees
  • Muslim volunteer units are set up for combat at the front
  • Dr. Goebbels addresses workers in a western German city destroyed in bombing raids
  • Formation of Women’s Auxiliary Corps of the Wehrmacht
  • Awarding of the Close Combat Pin in Gold to 81 soldiers by Himmler
  • Use of the MG-42 machine gun
  • Withdrawal from the Balkans
  • A ski patrol on the French-Italian border
  • Anglo-American offensive near Roermund
  • Children ice skating
  • Ice skating championships in Berlin
  • Gymanstics tournament
  • Girls help open a children’s home
  • New leather goods are produced
  • Children receive Christmas gifts
  • A soldier’s choir performs
  • New anti-tank weapons in action
  • Hitler Youth celebrate the Winter Solstice
  • Gebirgsjager training
  • Oberst Rudel in action against Soviet tanks
  • Heavy fighting between Lake Balaton and the Danube in Hungary
  • The Ardennes Offensive opens up with V-1s, Nebelwerfer and artillery
  • German paratroopers and tanks take villages held by the Americans
  • American prisoners and the German advance through the Ardennes
  • Swearing in ceremony of young People’s Grenadiers
  • Weapons are handed out to munitions plants’ workers
  • Defense against another large offensive by the Soviets against Courland
  • Exchange of American and German prisoners of war
  • Efforts of soldiers in bases cut off on the Atlantic coast
  • Large numbers of American and British planes are wiped out on New Year’s Day in Holland and Belgium
  • Karl Benz’s 100th birthday
  • New personal and express cars for the Reichsbahn
  • The German people donate goods for the newly formed Volksgrenadier divisions
  • Flooding on the Waal in Holland
  • First pictures of the V-2 in flight towards England
  • Swearing in of Volkssturm units in the Protektorat Bohmen und Mahren
  • Wounded soldiers learning to ski
  • The use of women in the airplane industry
  • Processing of sugar beets
  • Training of Norwegian labor battalions
  • New workers’ apartments in Spain
  • Russian Orthodox service for Vlasov’s soldiers in Oslo
  • Training from Volkssturm soldiers
  • The life of the German people underground
  • Soviet Grand Offensive on 13 January 1945
  • Heavily wounded soldiers return to Germany on a prisoner exchange
  • Nebelwerfer and artillery are used in the Ardennes
  • German refugees flee their homes in the East
  • Defending East Prussia against a Soviet offensive
  • Snowstorms on Courland’s coast
  • Defense of Budapest
  • German tanks break the lines between Lake Balaton and Budapest
  • German tanks re-take Szekesfehervar
  • Textile factories make blankets and uniforms for the Volkssturm and Wehrmacht
  • Defensive fighting between the lower Rhine and the Maas
  • Naval assault on Soviet positions on the Curonian Spit
  • Fortress Breslau
  • Gauleiter Hanke inspects Breslau’s defensive preparations
  • Frontline at Frankfurt an der Oder and Kustrin
    • Volkssturm units receive Sturmgewehr 44s and Goliath tanks
    • Fighting on the Oder River
    • Sven Hedin’s 80th birthday
    • RAD leader Konstantin Hierl receives the highest German order
    • Oberst Rudel in a field hospital
    • Berlin’s Volkssturm build barricades in the streets of the capital
    • The snorkel allows U-Boats to stay submerged longer and have more success
    • Battles on the Roer and at Julich
    • The fighters of Budapest return to German lines
    • Battles in Silesia
    • Atrocities committed by Soviet soldiers in Silesian villages
    • Dr. Goebbels visits the battlefront at Frankfurt an der Oder
    • Strikes and unrest in England and the USA
    • General Vlasov reviews Russian volunteer units
    • Fifth attempt of the Soviets to take Courland
    • Wounded are transported on sleds with sails
    • The populace of the East flee over the ice to safety in the Reich
    • Defense of the Marienburg (Malbork)
    • Obersturmbannfuhrer Skorzeny decorates soldiers with the Tank Destroyer Badge
    • Liberation of Guben
    • Liberation of Lauban (Luban)
    • Fighting around Gorlitz
    • The 16 year old Wilhelm Hubner receives the Iron Cross
    • The Fuhrer visits a division headquarters in the East
    • Hauptmann Aghta has defused 1016 bombs and is awarded with the Oak Leaves to the Iron Cross
    • Civilians are trained in the use of the Panzerfaust
    • The Fuhrer receives Reichsjugendfuhrer Axmann and twenty Hitler Youth at his headquarters
    • Exemplary service by the Kriegsmarine in evacuating civilians from West and East Prussia
    • Battlefront Stettin
    • Red Cross video of children looking for their parents lost while fleeing the Soviets
    REGION FREE.  APPROXIMATELY 679 MINUTES  ( 11+ hours) LONG.

    IN GERMAN WITH OPTIONAL ENGLISH SUBTITLES.

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