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 43528, LI 242.239 - DVD Copied by Nick Stoller.   Series: Motion Picture Films Confiscated From Foreign Countries And Sources, compiled 1940 - 1944.  Reel 1, Part 1, German Gen. Galland deplanes in Romania to inspect Luftwaffe units. Prof. Sauerbruch (the "Medical General ") visits wounded in a Romanian hospital. Part 2, a snowplow is used in the French Alps to clear snow from railroad tracks. Part 3, children frolic in the snow in Moravia. Part 4 shows skiing in Poland. Part 5 shows wrestling in Berlin. Part 6, General Jonic and Ministers Kostic and Ilya attend the swearing in of Serbian anti-guerilla police divs. in Belgrade. Part 7, artillery is fired and snow plows used to dig entrenchments on a snowy Russian front. Tanks fire and a rocket barrage is laid down at night. Reel 2, Part 1 shows demolished U.S. equipment and U.S. POW's on the Nettuno, Italy, beachhead. Antiaircraft crews man their guns. General Kesselring inspects the front. German paratroops, supported by artillery and machine guns, attack U.S. positions. A huge railroad gun is fired. Part 2, German FW-190 and ME-110 planes take off and engage in dogfights with U.SA B-17 and B-24 bombers over Germany. Shows downed U.S. planes and the return of a victorious German pilot.