German Newsreels no.491 (31/1/40), 492 (7/2/40), 496 (6/3/40).

Newsreel no. 491 (31January, 1940): The hard winter continues - Holland frozen canals spell disaster for shipping; Icebreakers in action; An airlift provisions marooned islanders. German sport - ski instruction for Hitler Jugend from Sudetenland. Hitler Jugend boys from Sudetenland. Herber and Baier, world-champion German pair skaters, perform for troops. Industrial scenes - new coal liquefaction complex promises thousands of new jobs, while making Germany "largely independent of gasoline imports". On frontier separating German and Russian "spheres of influence", Russian oil is loaded for shipment to Germany. Resettlement in the East- "the biggest migration of our era" (map displays); Segment depicts ethnic Germans (Volksdeutsche) from Russia returning to the Fatherland, on horse-drawn wagons through biting cold and snow. Recently into Greater Germany - huge encampments provide stopovers for exhausted repatriates; Reich Minister Goebbles tours Western Air Defense Zone. German engineer