German Newsweek No. 706- 15 March 1944 [Full HD] (Memorial Day, Combat Footage Soviet Union/Italy)

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 onwards shown under the title of "The German Newsweek".

It was one of the most important aspects of German wartime propaganda. These Newsreels were made to show the war in a favorable way for the Germans, even when the tide of the was clearly turned against German after 1943. Even in 1945, they still tried to generate a feeling of resistance and told the people that Germany is able to continue its defense.

They also often contain other elements of Nazi propaganda, such a antisemitic footage, or footage describing the alleged misery or bad conditions among the Allied nations or the Soviet Union, and the superiority of Germany in fields of arts, social programs and living conditions.
Each week, over 2000 copies were sent to theaters and movie houses throughout Germany and shown to the general public, as well as frontline soldiers, RAD-workers etc.

The showing was mandatory before films, and later, a regulation was added that people were not allowed to enter the cinema after the Wochenschau started, forcing people to sit through it if they wanted to watch a film.

This is issue No. 706 from mid-March 1944.
It shows footage from the Remembrance Day in Berlin on March 12th, footage from an NSDAP Party School, civilians creating their own air raid shelter, RAD ski training, a swimming festival and footage from training of new air industry workers.

The second part shows combat footage from various Air Force units, combat footage from the Eastern Front and from Italy, including footage from the Anzio bridgehead.
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Subtitles made by me.