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In this DDW:
00:00-01:38 - Cattle drive, German Reich, 1943.
Cows are festively decorated by farmers and farmers' wives. Cowbells are put on. A man symbolically closes the shutters of a mountain hut to make it winter-proof.
01:39-03:05 - Reich Labor Service camp, Carinthia, annexed Austria, 1943.
Young men in shorts doing cross-country running and gymnastics. Clothes are cleaned, shoes are polished. Dress roll call. Drilling with spades. Columns of the Reich Labor Service march past.
03:06-05:18 - Soccer match, Stuttgart, German Reich, 1943.
Soccer match between the Hamburg Air Force Sports Club and Vienna Wien for the Tschammer Cup in Stuttgart. Soldiers and wounded as spectators. Scenes from the match, audience reactions. All goals are shown (final score 2:3 for Vienna). The spectators storm onto the lawn.
05:19-05:35 - Armaments industry, Berlin, German Reich, 1943.
Albert Speer speaks to the Hitler Youth and the League of German Girls in an armaments factory.
05:36-06:03 - Opera, Berlin, German Reich, 1943.
Reich Youth Leader Axmann speaks at the opening of the first 'German Youth War Skills Competition' (speaker) in the Kroll Opera in Berlin.
06:04-06:56 - Occupation, Posen, Poland, German Reich, 1943.
Celebration of the fourth anniversary of the occupation of Posen by German troops in 1939. Reichsführer of the SS Heinrich Himmler arrives and reviews the parade of the units in the presence of Gauleiter Greiser and Lieutenant Commander Wolfang Lüth.
06:57-07:58 - Reception, Neustadt/Holstein, German Reich, 1943.
Reception of Lieutenant Commander Wolfgang Lüth in his home town of Neustadt/Holstein (speaker). Lüth drives through a street in an open car and accepts flowers.
07:59-09:09 - Repairs, Soviet Union, 1943.
Tanks are hoisted from wagons in a large hall. Workers from the Todt Organisation repair engines, tracks, etc. of tanks (speaker). A tank (Panzer IV ausf.H) without side skirts is towed in the field. The gun turret is removed in an improvised open-air workshop. Welding work. A tank with side skirts drives off.
09:10-09:48 - Occupation, Tirana, Albania, 1943.
Meeting of the Albanian National Assembly. In the capital Tirana, the Albanian National Assembly meets under German occupation in the former royal palace. Some members of the new government and spectators in typical national costume.
09:49-12:19 - Partisans, Bosnia, Yugoslavia, 1943.
German bomber, on the ground Explosions in a settlement. Bombardment of a burning village (shots from the aircraft). Artillery and infantry fire at positions on the Sava River. Cavalry rides across meadows. German infantry in a burning settlement. Breaking into houses and taking people away. A man who was allegedly found with brass knuckles is questioned.
12:19-12:48 - Retreat, Italy, 1943.
Field Marshal Albert Kesselring inspects the German units deployed in Sardinia and Corsica. Walks through the formation and hands out medals.
12:49-13:26 - Social Republic, Italy, 1943.
First cabinet meeting of the fascist republican government in Salo, Italy. Mussolini, Marshal Graziani as Minister of War. Cabinet meeting around Mussolini.
13:27-14:44 - Occupation, Italy, 1943.
The Italian Minister of War Graziani with Erwin Rommel. Rommel inspects workers building a concrete wall.
14:45-16:00 - Retreat, Italy, 1943.
Construction of wire barriers. Artillery fires. Fires on the horizon.
16:01-19:37 - Retreat, Soviet Union, 1943.
German positions on the Dnepr. Soldiers taking care of their bodies and eating. Small radio troop advances. Message is passed on. Soldiers run to the weapons. Fire with machine guns, grenade launchers and artillery. Infantry, tanks and assault guns advances in the Krivoy Rok area. . Airplanes attack targets in low-level flight with on-board weapons (from the aircraft's perspective). Tank battle. Destroyed material, captured Soviet soldiers.
19:37-21:46 - Air war, Gomel, Soviet Union, 1943.
German fighter planes (He 111) in action in the Gomel area. A squadron of aircraft in the depths below the aircraft. Bombs being dropped. Anti-aircraft defense. Explosions in the depths. Fog covering the targets. Bombs being dropped again and again. Explosions around a bridge (all shots from an aircraft perspective). The camera on the underside of an aircraft cockpit.
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