German Newsweek No. 567 - 17 July 1941

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. 567 from 17th July 1941, only a few weeks after the start of Operation Barbarossa, the invasion of the Soviet Union. It shows enlistment of volunteers for the fight against the Soviet Union in Denmark, Norway, the Netherlands and Spain, and units from Axis countries taking part in the invasion, such as Italy, Romania and Slovakia. It then shows extensive combat footages from all parts of the Eastern Front, from the Finnish-German advance in the North to the Romanian-German advance in the south, aswell as various air combat, artillery action, breakthrough of German forces in the battle of Bialystok Minsk, destroyed soviet tanks, trains, trucks, planes etc. - Subtitles made by me.