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German Newsreels no. 753 (5/3/45), 754 (16/3/45), 755 (22/3/45).

German Newsreel no. 753 (5 March, 1945): German Ambassador in Stockholm congratulates Swedish explorer Sven Hedin on his 80th birthday. Reich Labor Service Leader Hierl speaks with Labor Service Women and decorates Labor Service officer. Colonel Rudel interviewed in hospital (synchronous sound). In Berlin, Volkssturm and civilians build defensive installations. Submarine with snorkel sinks ship. Western Front: positions on the Rur (Roer); from the ruins of houses, mortars and other artillery fire; near Juelich, infantry and paratroopers counterattack. First pictures of soldiers after breaking out of...

Production Year : 1945

Duration : 37 38

Language : German

German Newsreels no. 750 (25/1/45), 751 (10/2/45), 752 (17/2/45).

German Newsreel no. 750 (25 January, 1945): Public service announcement uses trick drawings to urge people to save electricity by turning off unnecessary lights. Two soldier amputees ski down a mountain. Volkssturm members receive clothing and equipment, and practice with adhesive charges, Panzerfaust, Panzerschreck, and flamethrower. In the Dutch combat area, Navy men blow up bridge by jumping out of speedboats carrying explosive charges to target. In town near Western Front, life continues underground: kitchens, archives, town administration, print shop, power plant, newspaper, barber; miners changing...

Production Year : 1945

Duration : 30 33

Language : German

German Newsreels no. 747 (4/1/45), 748 (11/1/45), 749 (18/1/45).

German Newsreel no. 747 (4 January, 1945): Hitler Youth members celebrate solstice. Mountain infantrymen in training ski down mountain. In Berlin, ice-skaters perform in burnt-out Sports Palace. Southeastern Front: pilots, including Colonel Rudel, fire on Soviet tanks from ground-attack planes; battles between Danube and Lake Balaton. Germans launch Ardennes offensive (Battle of the Bulge): on morning of December 16th, V-1s, rockets, and artillery launch attack; soldiers wait to attack; Allied prisoners taken half an hour after attack begins; tanks, assault guns, and German columns; American dead; tanks...

Production Year : 1944

Duration : 37

Language : German

German Newsreels no. 739 (2/11/44), 741 (16/11/44), 742 (23/11/44).

German Newsreel no. 739 (2 November, 1944): Harvesting and processing rowanberries. Admiral Doenitz visits Navy training school, where demolition boat and one-man torpedo are demonstrated; Admiral Heye is present. Western Front: Belfort, Metz, Trier, and Moselle valley; Allied planes attacking town are opposed by flak; German reserves advance; students from Juelich non-commissioned officer's school take over defense of Geilenkirchen. American tanks opposed by Labor Service flak; Sherman tanks are hit by Panzerfaust: American prisoners at Wallendorf, Southeastern Front: in area of Debrecen and Grosswardein,...

Production Year : 1944

Duration : 37 39

Language : German

German Newsreels no. 735 (5/10/44), 736 (12/10/44), 738 (26/10/44).

German Newsreel no. 735 (5 October, 1944): On Harvest Thanksgiving Day in Berlin, Reich Minister Backe speaks and awards decorations to colleagues; Goebbels speaks. Admiral Doenitz speaks to workers at a shipbuilding plant in the Weser-Ems District. Solo fighters from the Navy visit a reception in Berlin given by the Reich Youth Leader and show a one-man torpedo to Hitler Youth members (synchronous sound); a one-man-torpedo pilot tells the Hitler Youth how he attacked an English destroyer (synchronous sound). On the Eastern Front, assault-gun brigade clears town in eastern Carpathians. On the Central...

Production Year : 1944

Duration : 37 38

Language : German

German Newsreels no. 725 (26/7/44), 726 (3/8/44).

German Newsreel no. 725 (26 July, 1944): July 20 attempt to assassinate Hitler: damage at Hitler's headquarters; Hitler greets Mussolini at train station a few hours after the attempt and confers with him and Himmler. (Graziani, Goering, and Ribbentrop are present.) Albert Speer speaks at a defense-industry conference and awards medals to industrial leaders Kessler, Fischer, Langenohl, and Lueschen (Hitler is shown). Speer visits a new defense plant. A Panther tank is tested side-by-side with American General Lee tank. Panzerfaust and Panzerschreck tested. Eastern Front: retreating to new defensive lines;...

Production Year : 1944

Duration : 35 37

Language : German