GERMAN NEWSREEL EXCERPTS (Reel 1 of 2)
Channel: PublicResourceOrg
Date: 2011-04-02

GERMAN NEWSREEL EXCERPTS (Reel 1 of 2) - National Archives and Records Administration 1944 - ARC 43530, LI 242.241 - DVD Copied by Nick Stoller.  Series: Motion Picture Films Confiscated From Foreign Countries And Sources, compiled 1940 - 1944.  Reel 1, Part 1, President Laurel, other Filipino leaders, and Japanese officials review an independence parade of Filipino students in Manila on Oct. 14, 1943. Part 2, Estonian youths receive physical examinations and close-order drill instruction; peasants surrender their horses to the German Army. Part 3, Hitler Youth units, soon to be enrolled in the Great Germany Div., are reviewed by SS officers. Part 4, skiers compete in the Slovakian championships in Czechoslovakia's Tatra Mountains. Part 5 shows boxing in Berlin. Part 6, German locomotives, built for Croatia, are inspected by officials at Zagreb (Agram), Yugo. Part 7, Admiral Horthy decorates collaborationist General Kornel Oszlanyi (Jan. 1944) in Budapest. Part 8, Hitler congratulates SS Generals Lieb and Gille and decorates Belgium Fascist Leon Degrelle for escaping Russian encirclement at Cherkassy. Reel 2, Part 1, Russian dummy tanks confuse German infantry, but the true Russian positions are located, infantry advanced and POW's are taken. Part 2, German units shell the Allied beachhead at Nettuno (Anzio), Italy, destroy enemy planes' with flak, clear mine fields: and seize the road to Aprilia, over which they send tanks, troops, motorized elements, and Anglo-American POW's.