Updated and improved as of December 2016, this revised disc includes subtitling which does not extend three lines without being split; tighter and cleaner translating; and some video improvements.

Our translations of Die Deutsche Wochenschau newsreels covering the events, mainly in Europe, from February to March 1942 (with a supplementary film from 1937 ... see description) 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 very good DVD quality.  There may be some sound or picture issues on parts of the film.

SOME OF THE TOPICS COVERED:  

• King Boris of Bulgaria visits the Fuhrerhauptquartier
• Gebirgspioniere on military exercises in the Bavarian Alps
• In a U-Boat manufacturing plant
• With Finnish troops near Lake Ladoga
• Unloading of supplies and munitions for the Leningrad Front
• Rumanians and Germans continue the advance on Sevastopol
• Panzers advance to the front from Tripoli
• Locals greet the Afrika Korps in Benghazi
• German U-Boats sink a large number of ships off New York
• Gneisenau, Scharnhorst and Prinz Eugen slip unmolested past the British in the Channel
• Finnish troops move up to the Stalin Canal
• NSKK transport ammunition to the front lines in the north
• German films contradict Molotov’s claims that the Germans plundered Tolstoy’s estate
• Germans attempt to dig trenches in the stone-hard, frozen ground southwest of Moscow
• Italian troops battle the Soviets in the Donets basin
• In North Africa, Axis troops retreat from the British and move to new positions
• Vikdun Quisling visits the Fuhrer
• The Germans advance near Lake Ilmen
• Croatian sailors secure the harbor of Yalta
• Fighting in the Yalta region
• Rumanian officers are awarded the Iron Cross
• Stukas attack coastal defences near Kerch
• German and Italian troops retake Derna, Libya
• A review of the war in the Pacific
• The Japanese attack Midway, Wake, Guam, the Philippines, Hong Kong and Singapore
• Japanese attack Myanmar and the Burma Road
• Thailand allies itself with the Japanese Empire
• Attack and landing on Borneo, Celebes and New Guinea
• Invasion of the Solomon Islands
• Conquest of Singapore
• Promotion of General Model and General Freiherr von Richthofen
• Attack on Malta
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A LOOK BACK:

1937 – DIE KAMERA FAHRT MIT

                Fascinating, short film about how the weekly Wochenschau broadcasts are made,

                Covering the actual filming, the mixing of sound and film, editing, cutting, pasting

                and copying.   For anyone interested in how filming was actually done back in those

                days --- and it was very much different than it’s done today --- this short film will

                not disappoint.

REGION FREE.  128 MINUTES LONG.

IN GERMAN WITH SWITCHABLE ENGLISH SUBTITLES.