UFA NR 662 [Main Title]

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  • Title: UFA NR 662 [Main Title]
  • Film Number: GWY 174
  • Other titles: UFA AUSLANDSTONWOCHE NR 662 [Alternative Title]
  • Summary:
  • Description: I. Nazi official receives Ukrainian bishops. Procession of Ukrainian bishops crosses courtyard of palatial building, where they are received by Nazi official (Dr Tisero Mirando?) who shakes hands with each. Orthodox bishops deliver interpreted address to Germans, stressing Ukrainian opposition to Bolshevism. II. Third anniversary of Croatian independence. Shop windows are decorated with pictures of Croatian heroes, including Pavelic. Inside neo-classical government building Pavelic addresses assembled group of ministers and officers, including one wearing fez, and awards them decorations. Croatian leader later rides through Zagreb, greeted enthusiastically by a few females, before celebrations conclude with small parade by infantry and motorised artillery. III. Berlin versus Munich football match. Match played in Munich is watched by variety of spectators including group of Hitler Youth and a girl wearing a hat made from a magazine page headlined A travers Paris. IV. Hitler and Mussolini meet at Schloss Klessheim near Salzburg. Hitler and Mussolini walk together through hall of palace during meeting to discuss political and military problems. Also seen in discussion are Chief of the Reichs Chancellory Otto Meissner and Generalfeldmarschall Keitel. Keitel then accompanies Duce and Marshal Graziani on inspection of troops in uniform of Italian Social Republic, who wave as Mussolini departs by car. V. Mass rally of Légion des Volontaires Français in Paris. Crowds queue outside the Vélodrôme d'Hiver before entry down central aisle of Ambassador de Brinon, and Colonel Edgar Puaud and Capitaine Jean Bassompierre of the Légion. Banners inside stadium proclaim "Il faut des actes de soldat" and "Le combat seul conduit à la vie". LVF banner and Nazi flag provide backdrop to speech by LVF veteran and Parti Populaire Français leader Jacques Doriot praising "those first pioneers who faced the rigours of battle in 1941 and the even harder rigours of the terrible winter of 1941/1942" and castigating those young Frenchmen who have not joined up: "to be twenty years old and to be living in the most grandiose epoch of human history and yet to act the zazou (wartime French youth cult) physically and morally. What decrepitude! What a decline!". Loud applause, fascist salutes and a fanfare conclude this rousing speech. VI. German and Hungarian forces in Carpathian foothills. Animated map of Moscow to Nikopol. Horses grazing in thawing fields and German soldiers cleaning their weapons and resting in the spring sun signify the end of winter on the Eastern Front. German troops fraternise with their new Hungarian allies, distinctive in slovenly uniforms and eating from mess tins. Elderly bespectacled Hungarian general confers with Oberst Rolf Lippert, commanding Panzer Regiment 31, then rides in turret of Pzkpfw IV Ausf H (with armour skirts) in field parade. In foothills of Carpathians Germans and Hungarians march along together. German father says farewell to son met in the field. Field wireless in operation, with tall aerial. German SPGs and artillery fire across open plain and truck-mounted 3.7cm Pak passes by. Panzergrenadiers search village with thatched houses and speak to Russian peasant. Stationary StuG IIIs. Camera pans from blazing house to infantry moving across field, through deep sludge. German and Hungarian staff officers confer. Column of German troops move along track past burning truck, which explodes causing horse drawing cart to shy and veer off road. Long column of Hungarian troops do not disguise despondency. Item concludes with Oberst Lippert in front of German and Hungarian tank troops (Pzkpfw IV Ausf H) presenting Iron Crosses to two Hungarians. VII. Von Rundstedt and Rommel inspect Atlantic Wall defences. Extensive array of beach defences and shore batteries, backed up by tank traps and barbed wire in fields behind, protect French Atlantic coast from possible attempted invasion. Dyke gates in Flanders are opened in exercise to demonstrate effectiveness of flooding as means of defence. German troops, "experienced in all theatres", pass along road and beach. On two separate tours of inspection Generalfeldmarschall von Rundstedt visits a Waffen SS brigade equipped with Sdkfz 250 armoured half-tracks and Rommel sees units on the beach itself. Alarm exercise shows troops running to man vast flak tower and bunkers, with barrage balloons overhead, and removing camouflage netting from coastal batteries. Gun barrels are traversed, ammunition transported by rail and concealed tank defences raised. Captured US film of amphibious landing on flat beach contrasts with German film of emergency exercise involving SS unit crossing river in powered dinghy, moving through pine woods, laying anti-tank and barbed wire obstacles and making a huge firescreen with a flamethrower. Demonstration of German defensive strength ends with firing of railway gun.
  • Alternative Title: UFA AUSLANDSTONWOCHE NR 662 [Alternative Title]
  • Colour: B&W
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  • Object_Number: GWY 174
  • Sound: Sound
  • Access Conditions: IWM-GERMAN Attribution: IWM – GWY 174
  • Featured Period: 1939-1945
  • Production Date: 1944-05
  • Production Country: Germany
  • Production Details: UFA (Production company)
  • Personalities, Units and Organisations: Pavelic, Ante (person) Graziani, Rodolfo (person) Hitler, Adolf (person) Keitel, Wilhelm Bodewin Gustav (person) Meissner, Otto (person) Mussolini, Benito Amilcare Andrea (person) Doriot, Jacques (person) Puaud, Edgar (person) Darnand, Joseph M (person) Bassompierre, de (Capitaine) (person) Brinon, Fernand de (person) Lippert, Rolf (person) Rundstedt, Gerd von (person) Rommel, Erwin Johannes Eugen (person) Royal Italian Army [Italian Social Republic] (regiment/service) Legion des Volontaires Francais (regiment/service) German Army, Panzer Regiment 31 (regiment/service) Hungarian Ground Forces (regiment/service) DE.S (regiment/service)
  • Keywords: religion, Christianity - political, Russian (object name) ceremonies, Slovak - event-related: Independence Day (object name) recreation, German civilian - football (object name) delegations, Italian international - political (object name) ceremonies, French - event-related: rally (LVF) (object name) propaganda, French [Vichy] - inspirational (object name) armour, German - SPG: StuG III (object name) armour, German - tank: Pzkpfw Ausf H (object name) ceremonies, German - event-related: investiture (Iron Cross) (object name) communications, German military - wireless: field wireless (object name) operations, German military - preparation (object name) operations, German military - search (object name) operations, German military - sortie (object name) weapons, German - gun: 3.7cm Pak (truck-mounted) (object name) training, US - combat: amphibious (object name) training, German - combat: anti-invasion (object name) defences, German - emplacement (object name) Russia & Ukraine (geography) Yugoslavia & Zagreb, Croatia (geography) Germany & Munich, Bavaria <football ground> (geography) Austria & Salzburg, Salzburg <Schloss Klessheim> (geography) Germany & Salzburg, Salzburg <Schloss Klessheim> (geography) Velodrome d'Hiver, Paris, Département de Ville de Paris, France (geography) Carpathian Mountains (geography) Flanders, Belgium (geography) France (geography)
  • Physical Characteristics: Colour format: B&W Sound format: Sound Soundtrack language: Russian Title language: German Subtitle language: None
  • Technical Details: Format: 35mm Number of items/reels/tapes: 1 Footage: 1414 ft; Running time: 16 mins
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