Title:AXIS NAVAL PREPARATIONS AGAINST USSR [Allocated Title]
Film Number:GWY 785
Other titles:
Summary: Unedited film of German explosive motorboats, Italian submarines at Constanza, armed German merchant ships and the Hook of Holland, German minelayers en route for Lake Ladoga and Siebel-ferries.
Description: 1. Generaladmiral Rolf Carls watches experimental explosive motor-boats in a harbour, then visits quayside buildings. 2. Three CB class pocket submarines on the quayside at Constanza in May 1942, part of Italy's new Black sea flotilla. Submarines are lowered into water. Their captains stand talking with a German officer. German Bv 138 flying-boat and Rumanian destroyer Regina Maria visible in port. 3. Floatplane taking off. Armed merchant ship at sea, in canal and escorted by S-Boats. Ack-ack alarm at sea. Warships at Hook of Holland. 4. Half-flotilla of 16 ton minelayers sails from Gulf of Finland to Lake Ladoga in late July 1942. Boats tie up at Vyborg in the northern twilight, then pass through Saimaan Canal to Punkasalmi, thence by train to Lahdenpohja. Signalling between boats at speed and view of Korvettenkapitän commanding the German force. 5. Siebel-ferries on Lake Ladoga in late Summer 1942. Ack-ack alarm. (Lake Ladoga film shows German Naval build-up for intended attack on Karelian Isthmus.)
Production Details: Marine-Propaganda-Abteilung Nord (Production sponsor)
Marine-Propaganda-Abteilung Suedost (Production sponsor)
OKW (Production company)
Schlaf (Production individual)
Bernsee, K (Production individual)
Personalities, Units and Organisations: Carls, Rolf (person)
Romanian Navy, Regina Maria (regiment/service)
Italian Royal Navy, Black Sea flotilla (regiment/service)
German Navy (regiment/service)
Keywords: aircraft, German - seaplane: Blohm und Voss Bv 138 (object name)
delegations, German international - military: Admiral Carls visits Black Sea flotilla (object name)
operations, German naval - escort (object name)
operations, German naval - sortie (object name)
ships, German naval - smallcraft: S-Boat (object name)
ships, German naval - smallcraft: explosive motorboat & [R and D] (object name)
ships, Italian naval - submarine: CB class (object name)
ships, naval - minelayer: 16-ton (object name)
ships, Rumanian naval - destroyer: Regina Maria (object name)
ships Siebel-ferries (object name)
Finland & Gulf of Finland (geography)
Finland & Lahdenpohja (geography)
Finland & Punkasalmi (geography)
Finland & Saimaan Canal (geography)
Rumania & Constanza (geography)
Netherlands & Hook of Holland, ZH (geography)
Russia & Lake Ladoga (geography)
Russia & Vyborg (geography)
