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German newsreel excerpts (R1 of 2)
Third Reich
Summary
Reel 1, Part 1 shows German amphibious training in Northern Europe. Part 2, Gen. Rommel inspects Atlantic Wall defenses and travels in a scout car in North Africa. Tearful civilians observe Rommel's funeral cortege passing. Gen. Runstedt places Hitler's wreath on the bier. Part 3, on the German retreat from Finland: refugees and military supply trains move along the Arctic Highway. Crates of civilian and military equipment are piled on a railway platform and loaded into freight cars. Part 4, antitank guns are fired and German tanks advance in Romania's Grosswardein sector; Romanian POW's are searched; German infantry creep through a grain field. Part 5 shows tanks and artillery firing and panzerfaust units in action in the Siegfried Line, demolished U.S. equipment, and German infantry and armor moving along a road Wochenschau
Details
- Reference
- 242.316 r1
- Source
- NARA
- Collection
- Military Intelligence Division
- Genre
- Newsreel
- Year
- 1944
- Decade
- 1940 - 1949
- Original format
- 35mm DNC
- Duration
- 9:23
- File format
- Prores 4:2:2 HQ / 1080p
- Colour
- Black & white
- Sound
- Yes