Updated and improved as of February 2017, 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, in August 1944 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:

• 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

REGION FREE.  98 MINUTES LONG

IN GERMAN WITH SWITCHABLE ENGLISH SUBTITLES.