Title:DIE DEUTSCHE WOCHENSCHAU NR 720 [Main Title]
Film Number:GWY 222
Other titles:DIE DEUTSCHE WOCHENSCHAU NR 1944/27 [Alternative Title]
Summary:
Description: I. German football Championship. Dresden Sportclub defeats Luftwaffe Sportverein Hamburg 4-0 in fifth wartime national championship, played before crowd of ten thousand soldiers and munition workers. Schön of Dresden shoots at goal.
II. Henriot addresses French workers in Berlin. French Minister of Information enters hall and delivers speech (live) to audience of thousands, which climaxes in call for collaboration between France and Germany: "you will understand as I do how moving, pathetic and improbable it is [pointing to tricolour and swastika linked on backdrop]. In 1940 would you have thought this possible?" Henriot reportedly told French prisoners that they would have been home long ago had the treacherous generals kept their word. He thanks (live) "the head of the German nation, Adolf Hitler, who heads the European crusade against Bolshevism"; some members of audience clap, others look impassive.
III. Knights Cross hero recounts his brave exploits beyond the Dnieper. Daily proof that German soldier is best and bravest individual fighter gains substance from first person account by Obergefreiter Apitz, over supporting animation, of his experience beyond River Dnieper in being cut of by Soviet armour and calling down his own fire (Artillerie Regiment 81) and tanks to repel nearby Russian forces.
IV. German soldiers take recreation leave on Eastern Front. Animated map of Eastern Front from Narva to Jassy. Present lull allows two soldiers to leave trench for few days at Relaxation Camp behind lines. Facilities at log-cabin camp include sauna (sign), showers (End of Reel 1), barber, meals served by girls (Russian?) to Division General sitting eating with his men, extra rations and an open-air Variété performance with trapeze artiste, dancers (scanned by one soldier through his artillery periscope) and trick cyclists.
V. German forces hold up Allied advance north of Rome.
Alternative Title:DIE DEUTSCHE WOCHENSCHAU NR 1944/27 [Alternative Title]
Personalities, Units and Organisations: Schon (Dresden footballer) (person)
Henriot, Philippe (person)
Apitz, Willy (person)
German Air Force, Sportverein Hamburg (regiment/service)
German Army, Artillerie Regiment 81 (regiment/service)
Keywords: recreation, German military - sport: football (object name)
economics, German national - employment: foreign workers, French (object name)
recreation, German military - theatre: variete (object name)
recreation, German military - leave (object name)
training, German - combat: infantry (object name)
Germany & Berlin, Berlin <Olympic Stadium> (geography)
Germany & Berlin, Berlin (geography)
Russia & Dnieper (River) (geography)
Germany & Eastern Front (geography)
Physical Characteristics: Colour format: B&W
Sound format: Sound
Soundtrack language: German
Title language: German
Subtitle language: None
Technical Details: Format: 35mm
Number of items/reels/tapes: 2
Footage: 1735 ft; Running time: 19 mins
