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In this DDW:
00:00-01:47 - Military sports, Prague, Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia, Czechoslovakia, 1943.
A division of the Reich Labor Service marches through the streets of the city playing music. Military sports exercises: uniformed men studying a map, obstacle course on a combat track, relay race over obstacles in the stadium, (Speaker) 'tree trunk gymnastics', scantily clad men carry tree trunks that have just been stripped of bark vertically into the stadium like flagpoles and demonstrate group exercises.
01:48-03:03 - Sport, Romania, 1943.
Romanian youths playing ball. Box gymnastics. Push-ups. Swimming and rhythmic dance gymnastics by young women.
03:04-05:11 - Hitler Youth, German Reich, 1943.
Second Reich Competition of the Hitler Youth Airmen. Hitler Youth on a flag-decorated square. Reich Youth Leader Arthur Axmann speaks (not the original sound). Individual gliders take off and fly. Major General Adolf Galland among the spectators. The gliders land at their intended destination. Colonel General Alfred Keller congratulates a pilot. The overall winner is a 17-year-old boy, Karl Seitz from Kurhessen (speaker). Axmann congratulates the winner.
05:12-07:07 - Prisoner of war care, German Reich, 1943.
Parcels are sent by German Red Cross helpers to German prisoners of war and civilian internees abroad, including to Corvette Captain Otto Kretschmer in Canada. The shipping procedure is explained by the speaker. The parcel bags are loaded.
07:08-08:19 - Medicine, Berlin, German Reich, Kuban, Soviet Union, 1943.
Medicines against the Anopheles mosquito, which causes malaria, are being tested at the tropical medicine institute of the military medical academy. Breeding the malaria pathogens. Spraying agents against the larvae in a body of water. The agents are being tested in the Kuban swamp. The agents are being spread over a large area by plane. Clouds of the agent over the landscape and a settlement.
08:20-10:54 - Agriculture, SSR Ukraine, Soviet Union, 1943.
Agriculture in the Ukraine. View over fruit trees. Harvesting work in the orchards. Picking and loading apricots. A stud farm on a farm. Sheep in the pasture. Piglets and poultry are driven out and fed.
10:55-11:59 - Leisure time, Norway, 1943.
Leisure activities of German soldiers in Norway. Dogs are washed in tubs. Soldiers wash clothes and splash themselves with washing water. Hanging up laundry.
12:00-14:20 - Siege of Leningrad, Soviet Union, 1943.
In the area south of Lake Ladoga. Soldiers in their trenches with a destroyed tank. Shot-up forest area with charred trees. A Tiger tank drives up. Combat operations. A wounded man is rescued under fire and transported away. Treatment of a wounded man at the main dressing station. Transport of wounded men with a motorized trolley.
14:21-15:49 - Air war, Belgorod, Soviet Union, 1943.
Twin-engine bombers of the German Air Force (Heinkel-111) in the air. The bombs were dropped. The engine of an airplane stopped. Honoring the crew of a plane that had completed its 600th enemy flight.
15:50-20:45 - Combat operations, Orel, Soviet Union, 1943.
German soldiers in (speaker) lull in combat at dawn. Drinking coffee. A soldier with a bird. SS soldiers. Tanks drive along a dusty runway. German heavy and light anti-aircraft artillery is deployed. 8.8 cm Flak and Flakvierling fire. A Soviet plane is shot down. German tanks and assault guns in combat. Knight's Cross recipient Captain Mangold in the picture (speaker). German anti-tank guns fire at targets. Decoration of soldiers, Captain Later is awarded the Knight's Cross (Speaker). Destroyed Soviet tanks. German mortar battery is being loaded.
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