Title:AUSLANDSTONWOCHE AND DIE DEUTSCHE WOCHENSCHAU ITEMS [Allocated Title]
Film Number:GWY 759
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Summary: First half of reel is German newsreel account with a Swedish soundtrack of the crushing of the Warsaw Uprising of August 1944; second half is German newsreel sound coverage of speech by Minister of Propaganda Josef Goebbels late in the war urging Germans assembled in hall in his native Rhineland never to surrender.
Description: I. German troops quell the Warsaw Uprising; includes Karl Gerat 040 railway-mounted mortar in action and shots of Stuka aircraft dive-bombing buildings. Prisoners are rounded up and hand in their weapons. (cf Die DW 731/38/1944 of 6/9/1944)
II. Goebbels gives a speech to armaments workers in Cologne, telling his indoor audience that they should harbour no illusions that they would live better under "the Anglo-Americans" than under the Bolshevik Russians (whose forces have now taken Bucharest). (Die DW 736/43/1944 of 11/10/1944)
