Title:MONATS- BILDBERICHT No 2 DER DEUTSCHEN WOCHENSCHAU ? [Main Title]
Film Number:GWY 1286
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Summary: Monthly version of Die Deutsche Wochenschau specially compiled for screening to military audiences (this copy screened in Guernsey, Channel Islands).
Description: I. Generaloberst Freiherr von Weichs opens temporary bridge named in his honour, and built by sappers of Pionier Regiment 677 across the Danube near Belgrade (Yugoslavia) between 27 April and 3 May 1941. (DW 558 - Item I)
II. Serbian soldiers surrender to German motorised infantry after capitulation of Greek and "Serbian" (Yugoslav) forces. Two dead soldiers visible by wall.
III. Stuka Ju 87s bomb retreating British in Greece; effect of bombs on shipping in piraeus harbour. German soldiers visit and photograph Acropolis before Victory Parade in Athens by German and Italian units, including Waffen SS Leibstandarte Adolf Hitler, past Generalfeldmarschall List. Cut-in shots of Greek girls wearing white blouses waving, apparently welcoming occupation by Axis forces. (DW 558 - Item VI)
IV. German soldiers, and Italian naval forces (LU, LR), occupy the Aegean Islands. Greek Army officers surrender. (DW 558 - Item VII)
V. Generalfeldmarschall Sperrle arrives at Headquarters (deer antler over entrance door) of Goering, followed by the Reichsmarschall, for briefing with Kesselring and Stumpf about Luftwaffe operations against Great Britain. Switchboard and ticker tape represent communications centre. "Big attack on Liverpool docks" represented by Heinkel He 111s being bombed up, crews leaving mess for planes at night, and searchlights and flak, to accompaniment of Luftwaffe campaign song "Bomben auf Engeland" (DW 558 - Item XI)
VI. Inside Berghof at Obersalzberg, Hitler awards Ritterkreuz to SS Hauptsturmführer Fritz Klingenberg of Waffen SS motorcycle battalion for bold capture of Belgrade. (DW 559 - Item IV)
VII. German railway guns situated on the French coast are loaded, elevated and fired against Dover and shipping in the English Channel. (DW 559 - Item XIV)
VIII. Naval action stations on board a German Vorpostenboot (off the French coast) attacked by British bombers. Cut-in of Wellington bomber; plane down in flames; rescued crew member looks dazed on board.
IX. Messerschmitt Me 109s take off to engage British fighters over the Channel. Camera-gun film, reportedly confirming Oberleutnant Münzelberg's fortieth kill, records shooting down of Hurricane.
