The German Newsweek (Die Deutsche Wochenschau) was the unified newsreel of Germany from 1940-1945. The concept of a weekly newsreel was much older, dating back to WWI, and in the 1930s, there were several different weekly newsreels in Germany.
With the outbreak of WWII, these were unified and from June 1940 shown under the title of “The German Newsweek“.
It was one of the most important aspects of German propaganda. Each week, over 2000 copies were sent to theaters and movie houses throughout Germany and shown to the general public, as private TV ownership was extremly rare during WWII.
Over 700 episodes were produced, and many of the historical WWII footage we nowadays have comes from the Wochenschau.
This is issue No. 593 from January 14th, 1942.
It shows wounded soldiers being re-trained for civilian jobs, footage and explanation about German tobacco production, the state funeral of Walter Borbet, the production of MG-34 machine guns and collection and donation of textiles and winter clothing from the German population.
It further shows combat footage from the Eastern Front, of Finnish, Italian and German troops, aswell as building of field positions and supply convoys.
The last part shows combat footage from North Africa from German and Italian troops, aswell as air combat footage against British planes.
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