Die Deutsche Wochenschau №554 (1941)

Newsreel №59279, 4 parts, Duration: 0:31:03
Studio UFA

Reel №1

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Italy.

Loaded vessel departing to North Africa.

Loading anti-aircraft batteries.

On Board of the ship.

Destroyer accompanying the ship.

On arrival in Libya.

German troops on the March.

Camels.

The German patrol at the signpost /to Berlin 3553 km/.

A German armoured personnel carrier, tanks.

A German plane over the desert.

Anti-aircraft battery position.

The guns fired on the British positions.

General Rommel was in charge of military operations.

German tanks in the attack on El-Ageila.

Destroyed and damaged British engineering.

German flag over al-Aheloy.

Rommel to inspect the area.

British prisoners.

Distribution of their food.

The pow camp.

Officers.

Prisoners on a transport plane was sent to the rear.

A pointer to Benghazi.

German tanks on the March.

The German Afrika Korps led by Rommel enters Benghazi.

Italian population of the city cordially welcomes German soldiers.

A crowd of local residents.

Rommel shakes hands with members of the local community.

Shooting locations

Italy [110] Libya [126]

Chronicle Topics

World War IIHistory

Reel №2

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Yugoslavia.

Map Of The Balkans.

Croatia.

German troops enter in a Croatian village.

The Germans on the highway.

They cross the river.

German communications at work.

They move to the other side of the river on the broken bridge.

Crossing on rafts, and boats.

The construction of the new bridge.

Colonel-General von weichs and his staff at the bridge.

The city of Marburg /Maribor/ the view across the river.

German troops on the streets.

The population welcomed the "liberators".

The national banner.

She regales the soldiers with wine, drinks along with them.

Women are pies.

Local police.

A German convoy on the streets.

The local population welcomed the soldiers.

Shooting locations

Yugoslavia [247]

Chronicle Topics

World War IIHistory

Reel №3

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Yugoslavia.

Volksdeutsche help of German engineers.

Sappers restore the road, put the deck, drink wine.

On the deck of a riding car.

German soldiers.

Serbian prisoners.

A German plane takes off into the air.

The shelling of the enemy positions.

Infantry in ambush.

They go on the offensive.

They shoot with machine guns. "Junkers" in flight.

Plane over Serbian city.

The bombing of the city.

Cloud breaks.

German tanks and armored personnel carriers going forward.

The Germans shelled Serbian positions.

Sappers prepare the crossing, restore the blown-up bridge.

Shoots a German machine gunner.

Tanks.

Serbian deserters.

They are searched by German soldiers.

Shooting locations

Yugoslavia [247]

Chronicle Topics

World War IIHistory

Reel №4

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Yugoslavia.

German troops are coming forward.

Motorcycles driving on a bad road.

Engineers restore the bridge.

German military vehicles.

A column of Serbian prisoners.

German soldiers.

Serbian deserters.

Burning town.

Prisoners.

German troops captured the city of Niš.

German columns were moving forward.

German horse-drawn wagon.

The Germans are in Belgrade.

The British Consulate, an elderly man, apparently the caretaker, helplessly throws up his hands.

The English campaign materials in the premises of the Consulate.

Serbian regiment is to surrender.

The ruins of the bridge.

The broken bridge move by German soldiers.

The entry of German troops into the city.

Greece.

Metaxas Line - Thessaloniki.

Artillery shelled the enemy.

Shoot German guns.

German troops on the highway.

The elimination of the blockage on the road.

German battery firing at the enemy.

The 2nd tank division goes to the rear of the Greek army on the 9th of April has gripped the city of Thessaloniki.

Tanks enter the city.

On the same day the Greek army surrenders.

Shooting locations

Yugoslavia [247] Greece [87]

Chronicle Topics

World War IIHistory

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