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Die Deutsche Wochenschau (r1 of 2)
Third Reich
Summary
Reel 1 (1) Interior view of bomber headquarters where attempt was made on Adolf Hitler's life on July 20. (2) Hitler meets Benito Mussolini's train in Germany, converses with him and S.S. Vice-Minister Heinrich Himmler outside headquarters, and with Hermann Goring bids Mussolini farewell at train station. (3) Vice-Minister Albert Speer decorates German engineers and escorts Hitler and German officers through steel plant. German's compare German "Panther" and U.S. "General Lee" tank's performance, and antiaircraft weapons "Panzerfaust" and "Panzer-schredk." (4) Animated map of Eastern front along Estonian-Lithuanian border. German artillery retreats to new defense lines; German soldiers dynamite railroad tracks and retreat from burning village with civilian evacuees. German small arms and artillery fire damage Soviet tanks and equipment. (5) German planes bomb Soviet positions.
Details
- Reference
- 242-MID-6141 r1
- Source
- NARA
- Collection
- Military Intelligence Division
- Genre
- Newsreel
- Year
- 1944
- Decade
- 1940 - 1949
- Original format
- 35mm FGMC
- Duration
- 7:30
- Frame rate
- 25 fps
- File format
- Prores 4:2:2 HQ / 1080p
- Colour
- Black & white
- Sound
- Yes