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WWII - 1942 , German Newsreel: Eastern Front Winter Fighting; North Africa Fighting

Reel Number: H1558-03

Color: Black and White

Sound: SIL

Year / Date: 1942

Country: England,Germany,Russia,United Kingdom,USSR

Location: Leningrad,Moscow,North Africa

TC Begins: 10:19:05

TC Ends: 10:38:58

Duration: 00:19:53

NOTE: FOR ORDERING See: www.footagefarm.co.uk or contact us at: Info@Footagefarm.co.uk WWII - 1942 , German Newsreel: Eastern Front Winter Fighting; North Africa Fighting Column of German army trucks loaded w/ skis & winter supplies donated by German civilians along snow covered road to Russian front; German soldiers cheering them, unload skis, winter clothing and shoes into piles in snow. Inspect hides & fur vest / coats. Shoes passed out to troops; coats & shoes put on. 10:20:30 Animated map of Finland & Leningrad. German troops in winter camouflage push & pull light artillery w/ ropes; march on maneuver near Stalin Canal & across frozen lake. Russian air attack countered by light antiaircraft fire. Watching raging water flooding from canal. Finnish troops fight near Leningrad. Pan across dead in snow; fighting in village streets w/ machine guns, tanks & tommy guns. Pan Russian prisoners of war / POWs. CUs. 10:22:56 Map w/ Leningrad. German soldiers repair jeeps & other vehicles in snowy village, welding, fitting bearings, etc. Load trucks w/ supplies & leave in snow thru forest. Soldiers march behind horse drawn sled of wood & tree branches; troops drag trees to create barrier / fence. Pack animals pull wagons up mountain road. 10:26:03 Arctic camouflaged soldiers move explosives into trenches in woods; other German troops dig trenches & construct barbed wire entanglements near Leningrad. 10:27:16 Soldiers fire mortars & light artillery in snow, explosions. 10:28:20 Map w/ Smolensk, Wjasma Moskau, etc. Spring view across river, large Russian / Soviet mansion. 10:28:49 Pan snowscape, German army troops fights on Moscow front. Digging foxholes in frozen ground, creating trenches w/ plank sides & roof & covering w/ straw. Place small artillery. Panzer / tanks moving up on forest road, anti-tank vehicles, light artillery & larger artillery. Firing & explosions. Smoking village; burning buildings & Germans move across snowy fields. Burning city buildings. Burning tanks, body on ground. 10:32;40 Russian POWs marched thru town; MCU German officers throw cigarette butts on ground, POWs dive for them. 10:33;06 Map w/ Kiew / Kiev Charkow; Stalino & Taganrog; Dniepr River. German troops fight in snow in the Donets Basin in southern Russia; destroyed buildings. Artillery firing. 10:34:03 Title: Afrika (Africa). German & Italian troops on tanks in sand storm; move forward in Libyan fight, MCU resting eating & drinking from canteen. Iron Cross medals awarded in village street by Rommel. 10:35:37 Pan German planes on desert. Pilots run & into planes, take off. Aerial over village. Dogfight & British planes downed. Rommel & others officers watching w/ binoculars. 10:37:14 Germans setting up very large artillery; dig for smaller . Troops & vehicles moving across & firing on desert. MCU radiomen; artillery units firing, fuzing shell; firing. Wochenschau Eagle logo. WW2; Battles; Fighting; Weather; North Africa; NOTE: Any continuous ten minutes sold at per reel rate. NOTE: FOR ORDERING See: www.footagefarm.co.uk or contact us at: Info@Footagefarm.co.uk NOTE: In our experience German Nazi era material is considered in the public domain throughout the world. If users feel any further clearances are necessary they are to be their own responsibility.

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