Updated and improved as of December 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 October to November 1942 (with a supplementary film from 1938 ... 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 very good DVD quality.  There may be some sound or picture issues on parts of the film.

SOME OF THE TOPICS COVERED:

• Celebration of the 2nd anniversary of the signing of the Three Power Pact in Berlin
• Marshall Rommel explains the situation in North Africa to the domestic and foreign press corps
• Results of the 1941/42 Winterhilfswerk collections
• Battles around Lake Ladoga
• On a German collective farm in Russia
• The southern part of Stalingrad is firmly in German hands
• Arrival of trains filled with food from the occupied East
• Gebirgsjager duel with the Soviets on Elbrus
• Heavy tank battles around Stalingrad
• Infantry and Waffen SS take on the Soviets south of Lake Ilmen
• Battles in the Leningrad region and south of Lake Ladoga
• Air attack on the oil fields of Grozny
• The Japanese delegation lays a wreath at the tomb of the unknown soldier in Bucharest
• European Postal Congress in Vienna
• Harvest of sunflowers in the occupied East
• Female Auxiliaries in the Wehrmacht visit the Acropolis
• Leave for the Freikorps Danmark
• A Japanese naval unit underway in the south pacific
• 20th anniversary of the March on Rome
• The NSKK transports supplies on the Eastern Front
• Attack on Fort Etak in North Africa
• The Germans go over to the defensive at El Alamein

A LOOK BACK:

1938 – Schiff Ohne Klassen – This film is about the maiden Atlantic voyage of the Wilhelm Gustloff, a KdF ship where passengers and crew alike shared the same style cabins.  KdF was the Party section which handled vacations and tours for Germany’s workers at great subsidy – and thus, at very low cost for the vacationer.

REGION FREE.  137 MINUTES LONG

IN GERMAN WITH SWITCHABLE ENGLISH SUBTITLES.