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THE GERMAN NEWSREEL
A Luftwaffe Channel fighter base.
Major Öesau returns from a sortie.
He wiggles.
The hunt was successful.
Major Öesau's 100th victory.
"The 'Tommy' took it on the chin.
"Down he went into the pond.
The planes are readied for new missions.
The signal pistol; no time to celebrate.
Major Öseau's aces take off for more dogfights.
3 Spitfires!
The first is hobbled!.
The second is finished!.
The third is done for!.
The pilot bailed out with his parachute.
The Führer receives at his Headquarters
the Royal Italian Foreign Minister Count Ciano, came for talks
in the fighting spirit of tried
-and-true friends and allies.
Dino Alfieri, the Italian Ambassador in Berlin.
On the right, the German Ambassador in Rome, Von Mackensen.
Count Ciano was in Germany for several days.
He also visited Reich-Minister for Foreign Affairs, Von Ribbentrop.
Turkish generals Ali Puat Erden and Hussein Emil Erkile arrive
to visit the Führer's Headquarters in civilian dress after touring the Eastern front.
At his Headquarters they meet top Wehrmacht leaders.
The Führer is personally concerned about the winter clothes
during his visit to the equipment and gear
of our soldiers on the Eastern front.
Preparations for the issuing have gone on for weeks.
The clothing is in ample supply.
Every soldier will be dressed warmly this winter.
It will take a Herculean effort.
Great effort is required to bring the material
to the front lines.
But we must and will manage it.
On the Finnish front.
The brave Finnish divisions advance
between Ladoga and Onega Lakes farther and farther to the South.
Field Marshal Mannerheim in the combat zone.
Petroskoi county, a zone of bitter fighting for days.
The entrenched Soviet are ejected.
By now their fate in East Karelia is sealed.
The numerically superior foe yields to finnish bravery and ruggedness.
Finnish spiritedness towers over low Soviet morale.
The Finnish tannks display allegiance to the Swastika.
Bolshevik arsonists rampaged murderously in Petroskoi.
After the capture of Petroskoi.
General Heinrichs watches his victorious troops pass in review.
Leningrad-area operations.
Run-down Soviet roads are mucky after snows and rains.
But supplies must go through.
The aggravation our troops endure is indescribable.
In the knee-deep mud, it only goes forward step by step.
Everything is caked in gooey dirt.
But the distance is covered right on time.
Our soldiers accomplish incredible achievements here.
Campfires are in season.
Fresh ice water.
The trenches around Leningrad.
The impact of the Soviet artillery.
Every day the Soviets try to break out
but fail under German fire.
Portuguese officers tour the Eastern Front.
General Lindemann, Cavalryman with the Knight's Cross.
In the middle portion of the Front.
On the road to Kaluga.
The south-west pilar of Moscow's defense system.
The point has met resistance each step forward is contested.
Small Soviet squads leave emplacements.
We camp before a burning village.
The Soviets have it set it on fire, lighting up the front.
Next morning our Infantry takes the village.
This hostage will get a warm welcome.
A few more miles to Kaluga.
A radio scout.
He calls for artillery to open the road.
The infantry attacks Kaluga and penetrates into the city.
In Kaluga.
Houses are searched for hidden Soviets.
Through the streets of Kaluga German forces advance inexorable.
Supplies are right behind.
Here our Stukas did a great job.
Kaluga's rail yards are clogged with wreacked supply trains.
Endless columns of prisoners after the pitched battles.
From Moscow's gates to holding camps.
German tanks at Moscow's outer defense ring.
The Smolensk-Moscow highway
where panzers assemble to attack 14 Km.
deep lines on the Borodino battlefield.
Row on row of defenses;
one of Russia's heaviest barriers.
In three days of heaviest fighting units of Waffen SS and the armor Group
of General Hoepner were able to break through the fortification.
The war correspondent who made these footgate
was located in one of the first tanks
to open the charge on Borodino.
Here is the report the field with his film:
"We brought heavy armor to bear against stubborn defenses.
"I sit on a radioman's seat in a heavy tank
and film the mighty attack.
We face new Soviet reserves shielding Moscow
with the best gear and heaviest guns available.
Mass firepower awaits us.
Heavy artillery, a murderous flak, mortars and machine guns, coming from three sides.
''We are stymied for hours.
''Tanks and artillery match their grit and strength with ours.
''Our tanks shake from the impact of shells around us.
"Round after round is hurled from our hot gun barrels
"As night falls, however, we have gained several kilometers.
"Snow fell overnight.
"The Infantry has dug in betwee our tanks.
"The strungle continues.
"The Infantry deals the enemy another blow.
"Again we charge the wall of fire.
It is flung at us by 1.000 hostile barrels.
"Our tanks advance a yard at a time.
"Our comrades from the Luftwaffe attack the enemy artillery at low altitude.
"Whenever one bettery is knocked out, another blazes away at once.
"Again evening falls.
"We stand directly in front a forest
which constitutes the main defense line of the Soviets.
"A tracer trajectory covers it constantly.
"Camouflage made of wood and straw,
on Soviet bunkers is on fire.
"The third day is decisive.
Flak artillery supports us.
We pierce a wide sector of the line.
We slice the flank.
We hit the middle of the Soviet line
and roll them up in bloody single combat.
Over there Bolsheviks leave their trenches.
We have broken through the enemy position.
Here's the makeup of the broken line
on both sides of the highway to Moscow.
Built-in automatic flamethrowers are the first line.
Behind them initial anti-tank ditches in zigzag
Then a natural barrier, a river; it is spiked with barbed-wire traps.
Next, a large tank ditch.
Here the Soviets wanted to stop our tanks and destroy them with artillery.
Any tanks through were supposed to be halted by rows of "hedgehogs".
Devices made of railroad track welded to form crosses.
Net hard concrete bunkers.
Fortified field positions in between;
and finally guns of various calibers.
This is the defense position a few days after the conquest.
Here the line of flamethrowers.
The automated triggering.
The zigzag of the forward tank ditches.
Our soldiers call them asparagus patches.
The river spiked with barbed wire.
The main tank ditches.
The "hedgehog" of welded, crossed rails.
Behind come heavy bunkers which widely dominate the terrain.
The field positions.
And here finally flak batteries.
All to no avail.
The German soldier has hunted the Soviets from their position here, too.
Victory is won.
Close behind the front immediate medical attention is bestowed
to those men who gained it with their blood.
Hospital trains bring wounded soldiers
from the battlefield into the protection of the Homeland.