Other titles:UFA AUSLANDSTONWOCHE NR 678 [Alternative Title]
Summary: Pro-German newsreel combines items of Dutch national and local interest with Deutsche Wochenschau war reports from the Eastern Front, Normandy Front and Italian Front.
Description: I. Under the auspices of the Nederlandse Volksdienst (Dutch National Welfare Organisation), Dutch boys "more than ever in need of relaxation and open air" (ie away from Allied air raids on their cities) are accommodated in a large castle in the country where they relax by enjoying outdoor activities, climbing in a cavernous district and wading through fast flowing stream in South Limburg.
II. Dutch students with German students (male and female) seated in a lecture theatre at the Dresden Technical High School watch Professor Binde demonstrate a process during a science lecture.
III. Young men of the Dutch Labour Service help bring in the harvest of potatoes in the Netherlands.
IV. Dutch barges transport cabbages along a canal to an auction centre in North Holland in the Netherlands.
V. In a mechanised bakery in the Netherlands, dough for large amounts of bread and rolls is kneaded mechanically (in machine marked "Dutchess") before being shaped into loaves by male bakery assistants. Loaves are baked in oven marked Werner & Pfleiderer (German company for specialist bakery equipment).
VI. Sports Day of SA is held in Mährisch Ostrau (Ostrava), attended by SA Stabchef Lutze, who awards medals to participants at end of various displays.
VII. Soldiers of the SS Sturmbrigade Langemarck assemble (30 July 1944) in old courtyard of the Plantijn Moretus Museum in Antwerp before parading through streets of the city, and getting on a bus prior to departure for the Eastern Front.
VIII. Residential buildings in Maastricht lie in ruins after bombing by British and American planes. Commentary states "Especially working-class neighbourhoods have again been severely ravaged". Large funeral procession moves through the town to a field where large number of coffins, including small coffins of children, are placed.
IX. Animated map of Western Front from Le Havre to St Nazaire.
X. Animated map of Eastern Front from Narva to Warsaw. (Identical to Item X of Belga Actualités Nr 78 - GWY 277)
XI. Animated map of Italian front from Ravenna to Livorno.
Alternative Title:UFA AUSLANDSTONWOCHE NR 678 [Alternative Title]
