German Newsreel Extracts - Reel 1

German Newsreel Extracts - Reel 1 No.692 ‘Die Deutsche Wochenschau’ title. VS Goering visiting coal mine in Ruhrgebiet - talking to workers - meeting women & children - crowds around car - waving - Himmler present. 08:02:10 Himmler inspecting south-east european Nazi Muslim troops - observes artillery drill - heavy guns - Himmler past camera in open-top car waving. 08:02:46 German soldiers take part in raffle to win a goose at Christmas; CUs geese w/ name tags ‘Hans’ etc. INT Red Cross nurses prepare gift parcels for the front - crates w/ ‘Frohe Weihnachten’. German airmen at tables near beach (Atlantikwall) & in workshop carving toys for children - CUs toys inc. bookends w/ carved rams & whole toy town made of wood. 08:04:50 Allied planes tracked in Berlin air control centre - personnel w/ headsets, expecting allied attack on Berlin. Anti-aircraft fire at night - down enemy planes - shots of wreckage and dead Alllied airmen. 08:05:30 Goebbels confers w/ air-raid council - salutes & out. Berlin adopts civil defence measures - supplies off barges, sidewalk kitchens set up; “Hilfszug Fuchs” delivers emergency food - Nazi officers join civilians in eating soup; Goebbels in crowd; CU goods wagon ‘Gemeinschaftswerk GmbH’ - emergency food unloaded; woman clears broken glass from shop window display - soldiers clear debris helped by civilians - carpenters at work - welders repairing railroad and bridges. 08:07:36 Workers into cars & buses. Defiant montage showing ‘life as normal’ on city streets - shop stocked w/ bread, market traders busy etc. 08:08:29 Bomb victims watching special variety show in theatre, laughing. VS Department for Volkausklaerung und Propaganda and other departments. Evacuees load belongings onto trucks - mother w/ baby in pram onto bus - ‘Quantmeyer’ advertisement seen on side as bus leaves. Train pulls out of station, people running alongside & waving. 08:09:42 CU nursery sign ‘Hilfstelle Mutter u. Kind’ w/ logo; evacuated kids playing inside & eating lunch. Goebbels decorates civil defence workers. Good. WWII. German Home Front. NOTE: In our experience German Nazi 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.