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German Newsreels no. 482 (29/11/39), 483 (6/12/39), 488 (10/1/39).

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Newsreel no. 482 (29 November, 1939): Public Service Announcement on trusting the government. Japanese military maneuvers; Combat training in the shadows of mount Fuji; German home front scenes - drills and target practice for the Hitler Jugend (synchronous sound); Government nurseries provide day care for working mothers; State modernization of hog-raising; Young women volunteer for new farm labor camps opened in the east; Military scenes - the role played by horses, even in a highly mechanized Wehrmacht; The importance of the army press to soldiers on the front; Inspector-General Dr. Todt reviews newly-installed military fortifications in the west; At sea, the continued war against English shipping - searching a Finnish ship for contraband (one several hundred such searches during the fall of 39); Kiel Harbor scenes - impounded foreign ships; Segment documenting Baltic German resettlement - abroad ship en route to Germany, a jubilant welcome in Gotenhafen, naturalization procedures,