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German Newsreels no. 661(5/5/43), 663 (19/5/43), 666 (9/6/43).

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German Newsreels no. 661 (5 May, 1943): At the conference of the Reich Labor Chamber in the Reich Chancellery, Director of Organization, Robert Ley, stresses the role of the workplace in national victory. Awards are given to firms, managers, and workers. On the western front: Reich Labor Service men at work and at leisure; a bicycle unit; after a British bomber formation is sighted, German flack and fighters are employed and one British plane is downed. At the front to the southeast of Leningrad: A thaw has turned land in the Volkhov area into lakes and rivers, supplies transported on rubber boats, posts and positions surrounded by water. In the middle sector of the eastern front: Soviet movement spotted, message relayed to rear, firing coordinates calculated, firing commences; village ablaze after deluge of Soviet incendiary bombs. A defensive battle in Tunisia: German-Italian tanks units retreat to new positions at the foot of the Atlas Mountains; their defenses and weapons ar