German Newsweek No. 718- 7 June 1944
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- Опубліковано 27 вер 2024
- The German Newsweek (Die Deutsche Wochenschau) was the unified newsreel of Germany from 1940-1945. The concept of a weekly newsreel was much older, dating back to WWI, and in the 1930s, there were several different weekly newsreels in Germany. With the outbreak of WWII, these were unified and from June 1940 shown under the title of "The German Newsweek". It was one of the most important aspects of German propaganda.
Each week, over 2000 copies were sent to theaters and movie houses throughout Germany and shown to the general public, as private TV ownership was extremly rare during WWII. Over 700 episodes were produced, and many of the historical WWII footage we nowadays have comes from the Wochenschau.
This is issue No. 718 from June 7th, 1944.
Despite the Allied landings in Normandy happening the day before, The German Newsweek, like all newsreels back then, had a delay of at least a few days, so it is not featured in this episode.
Instead, this issue shows footage from German universities and student unions, footage of a German equestrian in Paris and a snake dance in Berlin, a Nazi rally in Czech, and antisemitic propaganda scenes, showing Jews in Moscow and New York, insulting them as thieves and fencers.
It also shows footage of the cathedral of Ruen in France, damaged by an American airraid, awarding of Knights Cross and building of bunkers on the Eastern Front, combat footage from Italy, and footage from German fighter planes engaing Allied bombers.
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Remarks:
00:59 The inscription above the entry reads “To The German Mind”, an inscription commonly found on German universities.
01:03 During the war, many students were drafted, so often the only people who could still attend university were wounded soldiers who were unfit for duty and women.
01:08 I was not able to find out who this man is, the problem is that ”Schmidt” is one of the most common German names, making it hard to search for.
01:14 This sign reads “NSDAP- NSD Student Union - Comradeship Friedrich Friesen”
01:35 Friedrich Friesen (1784-1814) was a German teacher, soldier and one of the founders of the German gymnastic movements, an idea that came about during the wars of liberation against France 1813-1815, of promoting sport among common people to be ready to defend themselves. Friesen died during fighting against France, he was captured by French fighters and beaten to death on March 16th, 1814
01:37 The Burschenschaften are a special type of student fraternities in German speaking countries. They were founded in 1815 in Jena. What sets them apart from “normal” student fraternities is that they were founded on liberal, patriotic ideas which included the fight for freedom. That’s why, even today, fencing, like shown here, is one of their main activities.
01:59 I wasn’t able to find out who this “Rose Moser” is supposed to be. There was a Swiss equestrian by the name of Hans Moser (1901-1874), but he was never in Germany.
02:54 The Scala in Berlin was one of the most famous stages for variety theater in Berlin from 1920 to 1944. Famous artists like the Italian juggler Enrico Rastelli (1896-1931) or the Swiss clown Grock (1880-1959) played here. Additionally, the theater had its own female dancer group called the “Scala-Girls”, which became famous for dancing with very little clothes on. The theater closed down in August 1944 after Goebbels banned any non-war related cultural events in Berlin; the building used by the Scala was already destroyed during a British air raid on the night of November 22/23, 1944.
02:57 I wasn’t able to find out who exactly “Ereda and Dolmo” were.
02:59 Snake Dances are one of the most common themes in Oriental theater, however, usually a real snake is made to dance, not someone dressed up as a snake.
04:19 I wasn’t able to find out who “Hugo Toscani” was.
05:10 These scenes are from New York. New York, being a world-famous city with a vibrant cultural life and people from all over the world living there, was often targeted by Nazi propaganda. Especially the presence of Jewish and Black neighborhoods was seen and described as “degenerate” by Nazi propaganda. Jazz music was also seen as uncultured by the Nazis and often derogatorily called “Negro-Music” or “Jewish Negro-Music”, which is why it was used here.
05:23 The Caftan (also spelled Kaftan) is an Asian/Arabic type of robe/tunic, which is often worn by Hasidic Jews. Similarly, the Payes sidelocks are a type of hairstyle worn by Orthodox Jews, based on an interpretation of the Jewish bible, forbidding men to shave the side of their head.
05:45 Portraying the Jews as greedy gamblers who waste away the money of the diligent workers on the stock market was a common theme in Nazi propaganda.
05:59 Pietro Badoglio (1871-1956) was an Italian General during WWI and WWII. He is most famously known for overturning the fascist regime and making peace with the allies, making him a target for German propaganda after Italy switched sides in Summer of 1943.
06:00 Fiorello La Guardia (1882-1947) was an American attorney and politician who represented New York in the House of Representatives from 1923 to 1933 and served as mayor of New York from January 1934 to January 1946. He is of Italian descent and his mother was a non-practicing Jew, which is why he is derogatorily called “Badoglio-Jew” here.
06:05 La Guardia wasn’t known to be overly anti-German or anything. While he was supportive of the war against Germany, there is no indication he had any personal hatred against Germany.
06:22 Rouen is a French city in Normandy. During a British bombing raid on the night of 18/19th April 1944, 900 people died and seven bombs hit the famous Rouen Cathedral, damaging much of the south aisle. The city was bombed again by the Americans a few days before D-Day, as preparation for the landings, during which the famous tower of the church caught on fire, leading to much damage and the melting of the bells. The cathedral was restored and renewed after the war, re-opening in 1956.
06:41 This is probably a propaganda lie, as the city was occupied without French resistance by German troops on June 9th, 1940, and there is no information about the cathedral being damaged in 1940.
07:21 Edmund Geilenberg (1906-1964) was a German industrialist and official during WWII. Initially a locksmith, he became director of Steel Works Braunschweig in 1939. By increasing ammunitions production under his leadership, he was noted and called as industrial advisor to the Army High Command in Summer 1942, and he also was responsible for the “Ivan-Program”, a program to put the captured Soviet ammunition factories in Ukraine to use. He was also head of the “Main Committee for Ammunition” in Speers ammunition ministry. He is most famous, however, for the so-called “Geilenberg Program”, which was a program to put German fuel production underground to protect it from allied bombing raids. It was largely a failure, but it cost the life of thousands of forced laborers used to build the underground facilities. Geilenberg was never tried for these crimes that happened under his command.
07:23 Arthur Tix (1897-1971) was a German industrialist. He joined the Bochumer Verein, one of Germanys biggest steel company, in 1922, and became chief of the rolling mill in 1934, and in 1939 he headed all the warm production of the Bochumer Verein, in addition, he was CEO of Hanomag in Hannover from 1942 onwards. After the war, he was tried by the Allies in the Nuremberg Trials against Industrialist but acquitted. He continued working in the German steel industry after the war.
07:25 The War Merrit Cross was a decoration of Nazi Germany during WWII. It was intended for soldiers and civilians who contributed to the war effort outside of direct combat. It was often awarded to soldiers and officers who served in units behind the frontlines, civilians, factory workers and managers, bureaucrats etc. The War Merrit Cross was awarded in two classes and as a Knights Cross, with or without swords. The Knights Cross of the War Merrit Cross with swords, which is awarded here, is thus the highest grade, and was only awarded 90 times.
07:43 Richard Reimann (1892-1970) was a German Air Force General of WWII. Joining the Imperial German Army as an artillery officer in 1913, he fought during WWI and continued serving as an artillery officer after the war. In April 1935, he switched to the Air Force, first serving in the Air Force Ministry, before becoming commander of the AA-artillery school from Februaruy 1938 to October 1939. Afterwards, he served as commander of the 8th AA-Regiment, which he led during the Western Campaign of 1940. He then served again in the staff of the artillery training schools, before becoming commander of the 18th AA-Division in April 1942. In October 1943, he became commander of the I. AA-Corps, a position he held until the end of the war. He was released from Soviet captivity in October 1955.
07:50 Ewald Quest (1915-1971) was a German AA-gun officer of WWII. As chief of the 1st Battery of motorized AA-Regiment 33, he stopped a Soviet attack with only his battery for five hours and managed to return back with his men through enemy lines after his battery had fired all of their ammunition. For this, he was awarded the Knights Cross on May 4th, 1944.
07:52 Ernst Pirhofer (1922-1991) was an AA-gunner in the 7th Battery of motorized AA-Regiment 43. His battery of six guns was attacked by multiple Soviet infantry battalions and 60 tanks. Pirhofers gun was the first one to face the Soviet attacks. All of the crew of his gun died, but Pirhofer managed to destroy 15 Soviet tank within 20 minutes. After running out of ammunition, he destroyed the gun by putting a grenade down the barrel, so the Soviet couldn’t use it, and managed to escape back to the German lines, destroying another Soviet tank in close combat with AT-grenades while doing so. He was also awarded the Knights Cross on May 4th, 1944.
09:45 The Germans had a lot of different, more or less standardized designs for bunkers or shelters made out of wood on the Eastern Front.
10:33 This is a Nashorn TD. Build on the chassis of the Hummel SPG (which itself was build on a Panzer IV chassis), it’s a lightly armored, open-top tank destroyer, which was however armed with an 8,8cm PaK43 gun, giving its great firepower. Especially on the open ground of the Eastern Front, the Nashorn was able to knock out Soviet tanks on distances of over 3km, negating its disadvantage of light armor. 494 produced between February 1943 and March 1945.
10:46 The Nashorn was initially called Hornisse, this name was changed in February 1944 by orders of Hitler. I don’t know why it is still referred to by its old name here.
10:48 This gun is a 10.5cm leFH 18, the standard German artillery piece of WWII.11,848 built between 1935 to 1943, and another 10,265 of the modified 10.5 cm leFH 18/40 from 1943 to 1945.
11:11 The writing on the shell on top reads “Afternoon Music”, below that “Kind Regards!”
11:13 This gun is 17cm Kanone 18, a heavy German artillery gun built between 1941 and 1945. 338 pieces produced.
It's actually interesting to me that the play with snake wasn't considered 'degenerated art' and banned
My thoughts exactly
no its pretty good its dance ballet dance, and the theme shows how the snake - she strangulates
It wasn't considered some obvious sexual allegory lol.
I thought they'd have considered it something gypsy to have snake whisperers but an allegory of the blond blue eyed ubermensch against the evils of the world was too good an interpretation to avoid. That said there's no way he didn't get some sort of bulge down there.
@@DB742degenerate was anything modern really to the nazis. Picasso was degenerate for example
the air combat footage ist incredible
18:41 Dauntless as "Enemy fighter" 😂 This must be taken from a captured American film reel and it is just odd to see the US Navy dive bomber in the 1944 German film production.
I spotted that also.
I must add that Dauntless saw action in Norway, attacking German ship convoy under a code name "Operation Leader" in October 1943 so it did leave some impression on Germans, I guess.
June was the month the Third Riech's fate was finally sealed -
D-Day
The destruction of army group center , and
Rome fell
You'd never know it in the footage.
They didn't want to scare the sheeple away.
It was sealed as mr austrian painter wanted to take command of everything
Because this newsreel shows footage from previous weeks. In next episode you will find the “invasion front” coverage.
It was over by 1941. They could never win the economic/attritional war
Remarks, Part II:
11:53 These numbers are slightly exaggerated. In reality, the Western Allies lost around 850 four engine bombers in May 1944. (8th US Air Force: 376, 15th US Air Force: 175, British Bomber Command: 289, plus a few in the Mediterranean). Total losses for the USAAF in May 1944 were 1,148, and for the RAF the aforementioned 189 bombers plus around 120 fighters, giving a total of around 1,560 planes. However, I don’t think the numbers were exaggerated by German propaganda, what I believe is that these numbers given here are the reported kill numbers by the German Air Force and AA-guns, which were often a bit higher than reality.
12:23 Adolf Galland (1912-1996) was a German Fighter ace and Air Force General during WWII. In February 1932, he got his civilian pilot license, and in 1933, received fighter pilot training in Italy. Germany was not allowed to have an air force according to the Versailles treaty, so this was kept a secret. He joined the German Army in February 1934 as an infantry officer. In March 1935, he officially joined the German Air Force. He fought in the Spanish Civil War in the German Legion Condor. During WWII, he took part in the Invasion of France and the Battle of Britain, where he became quite famous. In November 1941, he was made “General of the Fighter Planes”, which wasn’t a rank, but a position in which he was responsible for the training and equipment of all German fighter pilots. He was promoted to Generalmajor (Brigadier General) in November 1942 at age 30, making him the youngest Wehrmacht General. In late January 1945, Galland and Göring had an argument over the course of the war, especially the failed defense against the Allied bombing raids, during which Göring removed him from his position. After that, he was allowed, by direct orders of Hitler, to put together Fighter Squadron 44, the worlds first jet-fighter unit. In total, Galland achieved 104 kills. After the war, Galland went to Argentina and advised the Argentina air force, but returned back to Germany in the 1950s and worked in the civil aviation industry.
11:24 Johannes Trautloft (1912-1995) was a German Air Force officer during WWII. He got a civilian pilot license in February 1932, joined the German Army as an infantry officer in October 1932, and got a secret fighter pilot training in the Soviet Union. He fought during the Spanish Civil War, where he was one of the test pilots of the new Bf-109. During WWII, he fought over France, Britain, the Balkans and the Soviet Union as part of JG 51 and 54. In July 1943, he was appointed “Fighter Plane Inspector East”, subordinated to Galland. In this position, he was in charge of training and equipment of all fighter planes on the Eastern Front. In addition, he was also made “Inspector of Day-Fighters”, in November 1943, making him responsible for all day-fighters. In this position, he is credited with saving around 160 Allied airmen which were held at the Buchenwald concentration camp by personally intervening and saving them from being executed by the SS and having them transported to a normal Air Force POW camp. Following an argument with Göring, he was relieved from his commandos in January 1945. After the war, Trautloft joined the West German Air Force in 1957, rising to the rank of deputy Inspector of the Air Force in 1961. In total, Trautloft shot down 53 enemy planes during WWII and 5 during the Spanish Civil War.
12:26 Werner Streib (1915-1986) was a German night fighter ace of WWII. He joined the German Army in 1934, before switching to the Air Force in October 1935. Initially an air observer, he switched to being a pilot in early 1940, flying a Bf-110 heavy fighter. In June 1940, his squadron became the fist Night Fighter Squadron, and Streib switched to night fighting, where he was one of the first pilot to test the specialized, He-219 Night Fighter in frontline service. In March 1944, he was removed from frontline service and served in Gallands staff, where he was “Inspector of the Night Fighters” due to his night fighting experience, a position he held until the end of the war. He joined the West German Air Force after the war from 1956 to 1966.
12:28 Kurt Tank (1898-1983) was a German aeronautical engineer and test pilot. He designed several important planes, such as the famous Fw-190 fighter, the Fw 200 airliner, or the late-war Ta 152 interceptor.
12:36 This plane is a Fw-190 fighter. Considering the date of this Newsweek, this is probably an A-8 variant, which was introduced around this time.
13:39 Gordon Gollob (1912-1987) was an Austrian-born German fighter ace during WWII. He joined the Austrian army in 1933 and became chief of the flight school in September 1936. After the German annexation of Austria, he switched to the German Air Force, where he was an officer in a destroyer squadron. He flew his Bf-110 heavy fighter over Poland, Norway, Britain and the Soviet Union, where he achieved high kill numbers. After achieving 150 kills in August 1942, the first fighter pilot in history to achieve that number, he was awarded the Knights Cross with Oak Leaves, Swords and Diamonds as the third soldier of the Wehrmacht. Hitler and Göring, fearing prestige loss if he should be shot down, forbade him to flight and he was transferred to a staff position at JG 3 on the channel coast. Here, he constructed, together with engineers, the “Neptune J” radar, which was highly successful and lead to high allied losses over Northern France, but never went into serial production. In late 1942, he was transferred to the “Staff for Modern Fighter Planes”, and tested a lot of new plane models. In September 1944, he was removed from his position by Adolf Galland (see entry above), and after Galland was removed from his position as General of the Fighter Planes in January 1945, Gollob took his place. He was released from American captivity in 1946. After the war, he held far-right positions in Austria. He went back to Germany in 1951 as his wife was German, and worked in German industry.
14:31 This plane is a Bf-109 fighter plane.
14:41 These are Fw-190 fighter planes.
15:03 I am not 100% sure what this is. I would say that this is a Fw-190 D high-altitude fighter, but those were only introduced in September 1944 to frontline service. I believe this is simply footage from a test flight of these planes, as they were designed since October 1942.
15:27 These are Bf-110 heavy fighter planes.
15:42 The American bombers shown in this scene are B-17 heavy bombers, the most commonly used type for American bombing raids against Germany.
17:08 This is the wreckage of a B-24 Liberator heavy bomber. While less durable than the B-17, the B-24 was more modern, quicker and cheaper to produce and had a higher speed than the B-17. 18,188 were produced between 1940 and 1945.
17:14 American crews would often paint artworks like this on the side of their planes.
17:49 The P-38 “Lightining” was an American twin engine fighter plane, which was used for a variety of roles, most notably as escort for long-range bombing raids, and thus was often the opponent of German planes trying to attack American bomber formations. 10,038 produced between 1940-1945.
Thank you so much!
850 4-engined bombers, oof, that is a lot. The scale of the war is often hard to believe.
This is propaganda of our grandpas! What are you talking about???
In Argentina, Kurt Tank was also the one who designed and developed the "Pulqui II" jet fighter. The "Pulqui I" was developed by the French engineer Émile Dewoitine.
Awesome historical stuff thx.
Rare FG 42 at 10:27
2:28 In Nazi Germany, even the horses goose-steeped.
Danke.
Interesting footage 😎
Good Work👍
Excelente
8:07 the soldier doesnt return the salute to the officer.
8:10 the soldiers dont know if to salute or not to salute.
I feel like the corporal wasnt suppose to walk with with the officer and they just decided to go with it lol.
Enlisted men dont return salutes to officers; they stand at attention instead. Also, a Knights Cross holder has the right of receiving a salute first, even from a higher ranking officer. And walking down the formation together with the General was standard procedure during Knights Cross Award ceremonies, hope that clears up a few things!
@@GermanWWIIArchive opps, i thought it was similar to US customs. Still, the formation was split on whether to salute or not.
@@JC-hs5wf Actually, the same applies: Enlisted men (and NCOs, forgot to mention that before) do not return salutes, they stand at attention, only officers return the salute from a General/ other officer. The modern German Army actually has changed that; everyone has the right of a returned salute, from the private to the general, but in the Wehrmacht, salutes were seen as something more fit for officers and above.
Even the horse's were party members 🧐 !
13:25 Oberst Hermann
Wow BF109,FW190 😮
Obergefreiter Pirlhhofer at 8:00 seems as drunk as Thomsen in Das Boot
4:16 "The working Czech refuses to become a slave to foreign rule."
Its peak irony that the nazis, after 5 years of making the czech worker a slave to nazi rule, would say something like that.
13;13 Oberst Falk!
2:52
日本には｢レッドスネーク､カモン！｣って芸人がいたな
Could you translate wochenschau 513
I am not taking any requests😅
really shows you the mind melting of propaganda 4:30 "The working czeck refuses to become a slave to foreign rule" preceding a hitler salute
Hmm I wonder what else was happening at this time that might have been newsworthy..... Oh well, I'm sure it wasn't anything important!
This "news" reel features "Schrödinger's jew": both capitalist and communist and the same time. Lol.
Great that this isn't censored. I don't believe in diluting history or sanitizing it. We learn from history.
People need to see and recognize real hatred for certain groups...and not repeat it!!!
One additional remark:
The "Hornisse/Nashorn" shown belonged to schwere Heeres-Panzerjäger-Abteilung (Heavy GHQ Tankdestroyer Battalion) 525, the only TD formation in Italy equipped with this type of vehicle. In May 1944, it was attached to 1.Fallschirmjäger-Div. and 90.Panzergreandier-Div. in the battle south of Rome, where it lost most of its vehicles. The remaining ones were all united in one company, the battalion staff and the other two companies being withdrawn to northern Italy where they received new vehicles.
As to the author's remark being surprised by the "Nashorn" being still called "Hornisse", four months after the vehicle had been officialy renamed (renaming took place because insect names should from now on only be given to self-propelled artillery vehicles, as "Wespe", "Hummel" , "Grille"):
many years ago, I read the reminiscences of a Hauptmann and company commander of schwere Heeres-Panzerjäger-Abteilung 88 (also equipped with "Hornisse"/"Nashorn") regarding the fighting in early 1945 in Upper Silesia. When a Feldwebel newly transferred to his unit reported to him, that all "Nashorn" of his platoon were ready for action, he flinched and explained to the Feldwebel that they were internally still calling their vehicles "Hornisse" only, as the renaming to "Nashorn" having been extremely unpopular in the battalion. So this was one year after the official renaming. Might be the same with the men of battalion 525 in Italy and so they referred to them still "Hornisse" towards the war correspondent filming them😃
Very interesting, thanks.
改名は「ヒトラーが昆虫の名前を嫌ったから」と何かの本で読んでたのだけど、このコメントのおかげでヴェスペやグリーレがそのままだった理由が分かってすっきりした。
A few words regarding the antisemitic propaganda scenes in this issue: As usual, I have not done any editing to this episode, therefore, these antisemitic propaganda scenes are shown here in full. As always, I explicitly distance myself from any type of antisemitism, Nazism or any other ideology shown in these videos. I'm not only saying this to comply with UA-cam guidelines, I am saying this because I personally find this type of antisemitism disgusting. As usual, any comment will be checked and I will delete any comment denying the holocaust, praising the nazis or other antisemitic garbage. If you are so desperate to let the world know that you are a neo-nazi or antisemitic idiot, please do it someplace else. Thank you.
Perfectly stated! As a History buff, and coming from a family who suffered and endured the war and Nazi occupation, I found myself fascinated by WWII at a very young age. It baffles me to read some nasty and quite disgusting comments promoting this evil ideology in 2024! Thank you, young man, for keeping my passion alive!
It's important to keep it in. So we don't forget the history. No matter how horrible it is.
Unfortunately, those days you can find antisemitic idiots all over the place...
@@runeholmeide ABSOLUTELY! The world is such a mess because people don't care to learn from History anymore. And from anything else, for that matter!
The episode between 4:38 and 5:08 actually shows the Soviet film director Oleksandr Dovzhenko (Ukrainian, not Jew) distributing prizes to actors.
So according to this Newsreel A Jew is both a Communist and a Capitalist ??
What exactly the narrator is trying to explain ??
Vielen Dank.
18:42 Is that a SBD DAUNTLESS ??
Just hardcore history! Thx for your good works!
How can earth ever forgive us for the rivers of blood & mountains of wasted resources!? Especially since all the conflicts & wars & millitary buildup still to this day!!?? I welcome the day creation rewards us for our part in this flawed way of life.
Love&blessings
One thing I learned from an old WW2 film, "One That Got Away", is that English planes needed to hook up to battery trolley carts to start, German planes did not.
Note the hand cranking to start the plane: 14:36
Another awesome upload, thank you.
I never did understand why they chose Goebbles and how others hail him as somewhat of a media talent but the result of the War answers that question. 📚🎚️☘️
I guess he was for over a decade but didn’t realise the sheer numbers ussr had. 3:15