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GERMAN WARTIME NEWSREELS 09 * with switchable English subtitles * (improved)

Updated and improved as of November 2016, this revised disc includes subtitling which does not extend three lines without being split; tighter and cleaner translating; and some video improvements.

Our translations of Die Deutsche Wochenschau newsreels covering the events, mainly in Europe, from March to June 1941 (but also including a 1942 film about the Battle for Crete -- see description), with first hand film reports.  Each part has variable film quality based on the original films it shows.  Overall, we would say the quality would correspond to a range of well worn VHS to excellent VHS quality.  There are some sound and picture quality issues on some of the selections.

 
SOME OF THE TOPICS COVERED:
  • The Yugoslavian Minister President and Foreign Minister arrive at the Berghof
  • Chief of the Danish Order Police arrives in Berlin
  • Day of the German Police in Berlin
  • Wehrmacht parade on  the 2nd anniversary of the founding of Protektorat Bohmen und Mahren
  • Slovakian soldiers on parade in Bratislava on the 2nd anniversary of the Slovakian state
  • Drilling for oil in the Generalgouvernement
  • Volksdeutsche from Bessarabia are settled onto farms
  • Volksdeutsche feel from Yugoslavia
  • The Afrika Korps is supplied in North Africa
  • German troops invade Yugoslavia and Greece
  • Advance on El Agheila
  • The Afrika Korps takes Bengazi
  • German troops take Maribor and Nis
  • German troops advance on Belgrade
  • Air attack on the Metaxas Line
  • Salonika falls into German hands
  • General Geisler decorates soldiers on the African front
  • Hitler receives King Boris and Admiral Horthy at his southeastern HQ
  • German pioneers take the Iron Gates on the Danube
  • March into a Bosnian city
  • Removal of a memorial plaque to Gavrilo Princip in Sarajevo
  • Capitulation of the Greek Epirus and Macedonian armies
  • Advance into Thessaly
  • German troops take Athens
  • The Afrika Korps advances on Tobruk
  • The battle for Thermopyle
  • German troops in Athens
  • German troops meet their Italian comrades in western Greece
  • The British are pushed off the continent
  • General Rommel arrives at the front near Tobruk
  • German paratroopers and Gebirgsjager land on Crete

 

1942 Film – Kreta – Ein Heldenlied unserer Zeit:  Made at the highpoint of German victories in Europe, the film presents a biased, but 

nonetheless, fairly accurate account of the battle for Crete the year before.  One sided, but interesting and informative.


REGION FREE.  APPROXIMATELY 168 MINUTES LONG.

IN GERMAN WITH SWITCHABLE ENGLISH SUBTITLES 


 

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