Title:DIE DEUTSCHE WOCHENSCHAU NR 732 [Main Title]
Film Number:GWY 233
Other titles:DIE DEUTSCHE WOCHENSCHAU NR 1944/39 [Alternative Title]
Summary:
Description: I. Rapeseed is processed for fodder and cooking fat. Following substantial increase in cultivation of rape promoted by Reichs Provisions Office (Reichsnährstand) in association with Landvolk organisation, rapeseed oil is processed at oil mill into cake form for animal fodder and into packaged fat, labelled Magdeburg.
II. Outdoor boxing match in Berlin. Light heavyweight match at Dietrich-Eckart-Bühne between Richard Vogt from Hamburg and Heinz Seidler is won by latter in fifth round. Audience includes Luftwaffe ace with Oak Leaves to Knights Cross.
III. Arthur Kampf at work in his studio. Professor of painting, celebrating his eightieth birthday, is seen in his studio working on a large painting depicting subject from ancient history, triumphant leader standing on chariot drawn by white horses and acclaimed by crowds. Other paintings by the artist are a female nude and self-portrait as well as popular prints of two famous historic subjects from the period of Frederick the Great and the Wars of Liberation, the Leuthen Chorale and Fichte's address to the German Nation.
IV. Hitler Youth at work and volunteering for military service. Contribution of German youth to war effort is recalled by film of boys in Hitler Youth uniforms (with Süd Baden shoulder badge) at work on lathes as apprentices and girls in Bund deutscher Mädel uniforms in factory, and HJ boys harvesting (Ost-Pommern) and also marching bare-torsoed bearing spades on the border of East Prussia. On anniversary of German Struggle for Freedom Chief of Army Staff Generaloberst Guderian delivers an address to Germany's youth during an inspection with Reichsjugendführer Axmann of Hitler Youth drawn up on parade in field. Speaking live from turret of self-propelled gun Guderian tells assembled boys that the present struggle is about "your Germany, your future, your happiness". Boys afterwards surround General, who chats easily with them, and receive certificates and red cords for attaching to shoulder badges (Ost Mark Brandenburg) to indicate that they have volunteered for war service. (End of Reel 1)
Alternative Title:DIE DEUTSCHE WOCHENSCHAU NR 1944/39 [Alternative Title]
Personalities, Units and Organisations: Seidler, Heinz (person)
Vogt, Richard (person)
Fichte, Johann G (person)
Kampf, Arthur (person)
Axmann, Artur (person)
Guderian, Heinz (person)
Reichsnahrstand (regiment/service)
Hitler-jugend (regiment/service)
Bund deutscher Madel (regiment/service)
Keywords: industry, German - food: rapeseed (object name)
recreation, German civilian - sport: boxing (object name)
arts, German - fine arts: Kampf, Arthur (object name)
agriculture, German - arable: harvesting (object name)
Germany (geography)
Germany & Berlin, Berlin <Dietrich-Eckart-Buhne> (geography)
Germany & East Prussia (geography)
ersatz (concept)
(concept)
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
