German Newsreel #3. June 6, 1944...
German Newsreel #3. June 6, 1944...
German Newsreel footage #3 from sometime in 1944 that depicts some aspects of June 6, 1944 (D-Day) & fighting in the Baltic area from the German perspective, propaganda. Some scenes w/Adolph Hitler (Adolf Hitler) meeting w/German Army officers & Minister of Propaganda Joseph Goebbels meeting Army & giving speeches.
German Newsreel #3. June 6, 1944...
Title company, "Alfa Schmallfilm Magazine, UFA." CU date , June 6 1944 & newspapers. MCU German people reading or buying newspapers. CU European map, England, France, etc.). LS Airplanes in night sky. (German Luftwaffe) MCU German Army air ground men. CU serious looking German soldier. MCU communicating via radio. MS German grabbing equipment, responding to battle cry, war, bombings (in full gear, KAR 98K rifle) & quickly heading out, down halls, up stairs & ladders. MCU artillery shells & gun. TLS firing & explosions in the sky. MCU German private firing rifle. MCU communicating over radio.
German Newsreel #3. June 6, 1944...
MCU German seamen looking through scope. LS daytime, horizon, Allied ships approaching. MS German artillery firing on ships in the English Channel. TLS smoke rising from some ships. MCU German Army soldier moving artillery shells for use. MS more artillery fired. TLS explosions in distances. MCU/MS loading artillery & firing. MCU German soldier looking through binoculars. TLS ships approaching shore in the distance. MS much more German artillery fire. MS soldiers firing from bunker area, fire & smoke in distance. CU German w/helmet on. TLS German's approaching ships at shore, empty, no allied soldiers in sight. CU German soldier. MS Panzerkampgwagentank (Panzer) passing w/tree limbs attached for camouflage. MS tanks passing. CU tank tracks, wheels. TLS explosion in distance. MS panzer tanks firing. MS German soldiers firing a light Machine gun. TLS explosions in distance. MS German Army soldiers running ahead. TLS smoke. MS tank & soldiers moving ahead w/tree limbs as camouflage. MS parachute caught in a tree & downed airplane & wreckage.
German Newsreel #3. June 6, 1944...
MS Allied POWs walking down toward camera, hand above heads. MS Allied soldiers marching down street by German Army, some Allied soldiers are injured. MS/MCU captured Allied troops lined up, seated. MS German Army soldier looking at map. (captured from allied soldier) TLS/MS downed planes. MS German Army soldiers drive a jeep out of a hull of one of the downed planes? CU Prisoners of War, POW. CU uniforms of POWs, "North Nova Scotia Highlanders," (Canadian Army) "Canadian Parachute Battalion." CU POW w/wound wearing eye patch. MS German Army officer looking at POW taking their pay books from them. CU POW sleeve, "North Nova Scotia Highlanders." CU German Army soldier looking at pile of pay books. CU sleeve of POW, "Green Howards." MS POWs depressed looking, one lighting a cigarette. MCU German Army (member of an Anti-Aircraft unit or Luftwaffe, w/Spanish Cross on lower left chest?) looking through binoculars. MS Anti-Aircraft operators working artillery. CU barrel. LS Allied Airplanes in the sky. MS/MCU artillery units firing. LS airplanes. LS explosion in distance. LS planes dropping bombs. (B-52 bombers?) TLS more ground explosions. MS artillery units working, men watching sky. CU man looking through artillery eyepiece. LS planes in formation. MS more ground explosions. TLS German Luftwaffe airplanes flying low after the allied planes. Great air fighting footage, planes going down, streams of white smoke trace lines across the sky. MS firing from & explosions on ground, plane wreckage
German Newsreel #3. June 6, 1944...
TLS/MS POW, bombed out city buildings, devastation, destruction, crumbling buildings, a monument spire still stands. MS German civilians moving through the rubble carrying belongings, now refugees, German Army also moving on panzer tanks. TLS tanks crossing a field. MCU German Army officer in a speaking w/private. MS German Army Artillery unit in cover preparing to fire, firing. TLS German Army in field of high grass, popping their heads up. MS above artillery cannon. TLS artillery firing. LS distance. MS German Army soldiers moving ahead through tall grass. (Panzergrenadier division?) MS captured Allied Soldiers, Prisoners of War, POW, hands above their heads approaching oncoming German Army. MS German Army looking at captured equipment. CU briefly German Army officer. MS German Army looking at captured Allied tanks & destruction. CU shirt w/Canadian crest that reads, "Canadian Armoured Corps."
German Newsreel #3. June 6, 1944...
MS destroyed, devastated, destruction of building interiors. MS German Chancellor ADOLPH HITLER (Adolf Hitler, Der Fuhrer) greeting officials at train depot. (Many high ranking German Army members, Heinrich Himmler mentioned on audio, possibly standing beside Hitler when walking?) MS Hitler & military personnel walking, at doorway. MS/MCU Hitler talking to (Marshall Grasian) through train window, then it leaves.
German Newsreel #3. June 6, 1944...
MS Hitler greeting wounded soldiers in hospital. MS Hitler stepping outside of hospital. MS large crowd of German civilians saluting him. MS Hitler flanked by high ranking German Army officers, meets & shakes hands w/German minister of economics WALTER FUNK, Reich Minster for Armaments & war production, ALBERT SPEER & two others, unidentifiable. MS Reich minister HEINRICH HIMMLER (Reichsfuhrer SS) meeting w/ someone. MS JOSEPH GOEBBELS (Reich minister of propaganda) MS Reich ministers & Generals speaking w/each other.
German Newsreel #3. June 6, 1944...
MS Nazi training camps, German Army soldiers running in shorts. MCU young blonde haired boys, Aryan, Hitler Youth. MS carrying shovels. (pretending they are rifles) MS marching. MS riding on bicycles. MS/MCU running into ditch w/shovels, shoveling shirtless. MS German civilians approaching, marching begin working on ditch. MCU working in ditch, women & men, man w/cigar while shoveling, lady w/cup. MS/HA working in ditch. Aerial view of Germans working in ditch. (good shot of elaborate trenches)
German Newsreel #3. June 6, 1944...
CU map (Baltic). MS/MCU German Army transports & Panzer tanks traveling along road w/camouflage. MS/MCU firing & loading artillery. MCU communicating over radio. LS explosion in the distance. CU German Army soldier watching. MS Prisoners of war, POWs, brought in. MS German Army officers discussion. MCU German Army soldier in tall grass. MCU German soldiers firing guns. (KAR 98K, Maschinenpistole MP40 submachine gun) MS/MCU German soldiers firing a Mauser MG 42 over one's shoulder. CU German soldier's face. MS German Army walking through rubble, burning buildings, moving forward. (Grenadier divisions & Panzergrenadier) MCU Colonel General FRANZ HALDER meeting w/subordinates. MS German Army moving ahead in transports & walking across high grass. MCU German Army officer looking though binoculars, see something. MS artillery firing, stationary & panzer tanks. MS/MCU German Army soldiers firing rifles & machine guns from crouched position. LS smoke in distance. MS German Army soldiers looking in distance w/binoculars, one wears the Knight's Cross, explosion, Grenadier soldiers moving towards town, destroyed tank on fire. MS moving slowly into area. MS/MCU carefully approach tank to check for survivors. MS burning allied wreckage, tanks. MS German soldiers moving ahead, observing wreckage, resting & drinking water near burning tank. MCU moving ahead in transport.
German Newsreel #3. June 6, 1944...
MCU German Army soldier putting cap w/breathing apparatus on & getting into small submarine, top placed on, it is pulled by a torpedo slowly. CU German Naval officer addressing camera w/Iron Cross. (Goebbels?) MCU German naval officer being given the Nazis award medal, Knight's Cross. (man who tested torpedo contraption) MCU another officer receives Cross in Gold. MCU German medal receivers. MS march past other officers & picked up onto other's shoulders, smiles abound. Production symbol.
German Newsreel #3. June 6, 1944...
Production, "Die Deutsche wochenschau, " (Ditches Fighters Kurland Action Warsaw West Front FTG Kap Goebbel's speech Tigers) superimposed over eagle grasping Nazi Swastika & credits w/names. MS/MCU coal miners going to work in a line, working, digging ditch, building trenches. TLS train in BG merry go round in FG. MS unloading train cars, wood. MS building garrets. CU door w/"paymaster closed" sign. MS office interior. TLS coal miners, civilians, crowd, picking up shovels. MS/MCU German Army officers help, try to break ground, remove uniforms, rings. TLS large group working in trench & above.
German Newsreel #3. June 6, 1944...
TLS Luftwaffe Airplanes flying low. TLS of planes in air, Swastikas on tail, (nice) bombing. TLS flying low over trees. CU interior steering w/stick. LS firing at something on ground. MS trees, German Army officers looking at map. TLS German Army moving through smoke or fog. (snow?) MS truck pulling felled tree over artillery, camouflage. CU soldier smoking. TLS sun low on horizon. TLS transports & tanks moving through trees. MS/MCU German army walking, tank tracks. MS stopped tank on edge of wood. MS German soldiers on ground. (one is aiming a rifle, possibly a machine gun, the other a missile launcher) MS tanks firing. TLS fire in distance. MS German soldiers crouched on ground. TLS fire in distance. MS tank firing. TLS enemy, allied tank on fire. MS/MCU German soldiers watching intently from tree line cover. TLS speeding enemy, allied tank. MCU German soldiers watching, laying low. TLS tank exploding. MS German soldiers crawling towards tank. MS destroyed enemy, allied tanks, Germans look at wreckage.
German Newsreel #3. June 6, 1944...
LS airplanes in the air. MCU soldier firing on them w/machine gun. LS explosion in the distance, a building. CU airplane diving. LS building being bombarded. LS explosion. CU Belgium, map of France. MS/MCU Germans Army on tanks & on foot passing camera. (most appear Panzergrenadier divisions, some Lieutenants) MS stop, some soldiers sit to rest. MCU German high ranking Army personnel discuss. (one has a Iron Cross) MS tanks moving forward. LS German soldiers moving forward across field. MS firing at allied transport. MS building & wounded allied soldier being helped forward. MS captured prisoners of war, POWs, being moved forward, standing around MS artillery firing. LS explosion in distance. TLS empty bridge. MS two German soldiers crossing bridge. TLS town, building reads, "Monce Les Luneville." MS German Army enters town, debris everywhere, crumbling buildings, fire, Germans running. TLS fire in BG & dripping faucet in FG. MS tanks & other Germans moving ahead. LS explosion in distance.
German Newsreel #3. June 6, 1944...
MS cars traveling down the road. MS/MCU Joseph Goebbels meeting w/a high ranking military figure, shaking hands, salutes, gets back into car & leaves. German officials, propaganda & slogans. CU sign, "Front & Heimal kennen nur ein ziel kampf bis zum sieg," (..."fight until victor") "unerschutterlich kampfentschlossen siegesgewiss," "Mit dem Fuhrer zum Sieg," (with the fuhrer to the victory) MS large group of German civilians inside saluting. CU gold eagle grasping swastika, "Koln" underneath. (city Koln, Cologne, members of different regions, cities of the country, representatives?) MS Joseph Goebbels giving speech, point finger, Nazi arm band on left arm. TLS crowd clapping, Goebbels back in FG. CU crowd members. MCU crowd clapping. TLS crowd, anthem playing. CU members of the crowd, eagle grasping swastika. MS panzer tanks lined up. MCU officer standing out of entrance to tank. TLS panzer tanks lined up & moving out in formation. (nice shot) CU eagle w/light rays behind wing outstretched.
German Newsreel #3. June 6, 1944...
CU eagle w/light rays behind grasping wings outstretched. Title, "Die Deutsche wochenschau." Credits. TLS large group gathered in protest, United States, Americans, carrying picket signs, "Republic Steel is the People," picket slogans (possibly footage from the massacre at Republic Steel strikes, 1937) surrounded by police officers in black, chaos breaks out, tear gas, picketers rushing away, police officers close behind some swinging billy clubs, picketers throwing things at the police officers. MS picketers being placed in paddy wagon. MS tending to some who are not getting up. MS/MCU German Army soldiers walking on path, resting. MS firing artillery. LS building in distance, bridge. TLS river, building bridge. MS high ranking German figure shaking hands. MS German soldiers in tow putting helmets on, loading up on weapons & ammunition, one has a dog in his pocket. MS German soldiers marching out in full gear w/weaponry. MS German soldier crouched in trench firing gun. LS distance. MS firing artillery. LS explosions in the distance.
German Newsreel #3. June 6, 1944...
MS/MCU German soldiers, troops being inspected in snow, salute. MS German generals approaching. MS saluting. TLS/MS German soldiers marching. MS panzer tanks passing, saluting. CU German map, sign, "Achtung Klopse stahlhelm auf 50m Abstand," skull & cross bones, "feindeinsicht." (enemy observation) MCU German soldiers looking out of trench, some have rifle. LS explosion in the distance. MS soldier w/pipe, covered in mud, crouching down as explosions get closer. MS German artillery unit firing. LS explosion. CU German soldier firing rifle, ducks as explosion nearby. CU German w/pipe watching intently. MS refugees boarding ice sail boats . TLS ice sail boats by, some kind of bus sunk in the ice. TLS camp near the ice, fire burning, wagons, supplies. MS refugees moving in wagons, bicycles, men women & children.
German Newsreel #3. June 6, 1944...
MS dairy cows being moved by German Army soldiers, some are calves. MS destruction, wreckage, a German soldier hurries past an opening in a building. CU German officer. TLS/MS destruction, fire, devastation of city. MS German soldier firing out of hole in wall. MS German officer speaking to soldiers. MS destroyed tank, wreckage. CU tank destruction badge in hand. MS/MCU Army officer giving tank destruction badge to soldier & shaking his hand. CU German officer speaking. (Lieutenant) MCU German soldier w/missile launcher in ditch. MS destroyed enemy tank. CU German officer speaking again. MS burning tank. MS German panzer tanks & soldiers moving down a urban, residential street. TLS burning buildings. TLS destroyed tank stalled in street. MCU young girl giving German soldier cup of water. MS German soldiers firing, explosions, running. (They seem very pleased)
German Newsreel #3. June 6, 1944...
TLS country road smoke in BG. MS destroyed tank. MS German soldiers moving along & woman & Soviet prisoner of war (POW). MS/TLS tank firing & explosion, smoke in distance. MS/MCU men working in a weapons factory, building or repairing tanks. MS/TLS more artillery firing & explosions. CU German soldier in helmet. CU holding rifle. (machine gun, 7.9mm MG42?) MS German soldiers & tanks moving into devastated city cautiously. MS marching through city, destruction in BG, surveying devastation, Reich minister Dr. Joseph Goebbels & high ranking military officers. MS Goebbels & officers watching artillery firing. MS Goebbels shaking hands w/military officer. CU soldiers looking on. MS Goebbels shaking hands w/private. CU private. MS Goebbels saluting German soldiers. MCU Goebbels congratulating a young boy, German soldier who has received an iron cross. TLS/HA Goebbels & soldiers through broken window. MSCU Goebbels speaking, soldiers listening. MS/MCU dead bodies, corpses.
German Newsreel #3. June 6, 1944...
TLS crowd, assembly, Nazi party. MS Goebbels walking down aisle w/German Army officers. MS/MCU Goebbels speaking to crowd w/arm stretched & fist, crowd members. (one has a iron cross, some seem to be civilian) MS crowd clapping. CU crowd members listening intently. MS saluting, "Zieg heil." MS Adolph Hitler (Adolf Hitler) in black coat & cap walking w/military figures. CU smiling military officer w/iron cross. MS interior Hitler greeting soldiers who are saluting him, sitting at table, map placed before him, taking w/generals. MS Hitler walking out of building into car past saluting soldiers.