German Newsweek No. 585- 20 November 1941 [Full HD] (Winter Combat, Romanian Parade, Channel Raids)

Описание: The German Newsweek (Die Deutsche Wochenschau) was the unified newsreel of Germany from 1940-1945. The concept of a weekly newsreel was much older, dating back to WWI, and in the 1930s, there were several different weekly newsreels in Germany.

With the outbreak of WWII, these were unified and from June 1940 shown under the title of "The German Newsweek".

It was one of the most important aspects of German propaganda. Each week, over 2000 copies were sent to theaters and movie houses throughout Germany and shown to the general public, as private TV ownership was extremly rare during WWII.

Over 700 episodes were produced, and many of the historical WWII footage we nowadays have comes from the Wochenschau.

This is issue No. 585 from late November 1941.

It starts with the pre-film "Pictures from the Homeland", showing a variety of footage from within Germany, such as an award ceremony for German composer Paul Lincke, fruit harvest in Swabia, cigarette production, or evacuation of childrens from cities endangered by air raids.
It then shows scenes of Hermann Göring awarding Knights Cross to pilots, combat footage from Finnland, including awarding of Iron Cross to Finnish soldiers, winter preparations in the front area around Leningrad, and combat footage in front of Moscow.
It then shows footage about German supply under difficult weather conditions, footage from Kharkov and the fight on Crimea.
The next scene show a Romanian victory parade in Bucharest to celebrate the capture of Odessa.
The last two scenes show footage from the German Africa Corps, including awarding of soldiers by General Rommel, advance of German tanks and combat footage, and footage from German bombers attacking British ships.
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Subtitles made by me.