Descheg Monthly Newsreel No. 26- April 1944 [Full HD]

The Descheg Monthly Newsreel was a propaganda newsreel produced in Germany during WWII, from January 1942 to April 1944.
Like all German wartime newsreels, it was not a neutral news source, but a tool of Nazi propaganda, intended to show Nazi Germany in a good light, not mentioning war crimes done by German forces and painting a positive image of the war.
Descheg is an acronym, standing for “Deutsche Schmalfilm-Vertrieb GmbH" (German Cine Film Distribution Company), a subsidiary of the Ufa company.
There is little information available about these newsreels, it is unknown why they were produced and to whom they were broadcasted.
From the fact that many cultural and sport events all throughout Europe are shown, and little actual footage from the war, it seems likely that these newsreels were intended for a foreign audience in Europe, possibly even in neutral countries.
This is issue No. 26 from April 1944, the last issue ever produced.
It shows, as previously said, a lot of non-combat related events, such as a memorial service in Sweden to mark the 100th anniversary of the death of King Charles the 14th, footage from a Belgian gymnastics school, a children’s opera in Prague, or the final of the 1944 French Rugby Championship, among other scenes.
A small section at the end shows some combat footage from Monte Cassino in Italy and the Siege of Kovel on the Eastern Front.
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Subtitles made by me.

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If you like my content, consider subscribing to my Patreon: patreon.com/GermanWWIIArchive Remarks: 00:33 This is refering to the victory of the Nationalists in the Spanish Civil War (1937-1939). On April 1st ,1939, the Spanish Dictator Francisco Franco proclaimed victory in a radio speech, and this day was subsequently celebrated in the following years. 00:38 The “Avenida del Generalisimo” was the name given to the northern part of the Paseo de la Castellana, a major thoroughfare in Madrid, during the years of Francos rule. 00:39 Caudillo is a Spanish title which roughly translate to “Captain” or “Army leader”, and was the title used by Franco during his rule as dictator. 00:43 The Falange Militia, also known as Blueshirts, was the militia of the Falange Party, the ruling party of Spain during Francos rule. 01:44 Charles XIV Johan (1763-1844) was King of Sweden and Norway from 1818 until his death, and the founder of the House of Bernadotte, which is still the royal family in Sweden. 02:13 Gustav V (1858-1950) was King of Sweden from December 1907 until his death in October 1950. 02:32 Poglavnik was the official title used by Ante Pavelic (1889-1959), the leader of the Independent State of Croatia, a puppet state of Nazi Germany and Italy founded in April 1941. 03:43 This is referring to the Cherkassy pocket, a Soviet encirclement of German units in the Cherkasy area in central Ukraine from 24th January to 16th February 1944. Soviet troops of the First and Second Ukrainian front attacked across the Dnieper River and encircled around six German divisions of XI. and XXXXII. Army Corps from the 8th Army, roughly 55,000 men. Von Manstein, the commander of Army Group South, wanted to use the III. and XLVII. Tank Corps to relief the encircled German troops, but Hitler forbade that, and instead ordered him to counter-encircle the Soviet troops. This failed however due to strong Soviet resistance. But the Soviets were also not able to crush the strong German forces inside the pocket, which were supported by Air Force supply drops. On February 16th, von Manstein, without approval of Hitler, ordered a breakout of the encirclement to link up with forces of the III. Tank Corps, which was around 7km away from the pocket at that time. Out of 55,000 men in the pocket, around 36,000 reached German lines, but they had to leave behind almost all heavy equipment. All in all, the Germans lost around 40,000 men and 150 tanks, although most of them during the relief attempt, as the Germans only had around 50 tanks in the pocket itself. The Soviet loss were around 80,000 men, including 24,200 dead and missing and 56,000 wounded, plus 728 tanks. While the battle was a success for the Soviets, they failed firstly to encircle the majority of the 8th Army, and later failed to prevent the German forces from escaping the pocket 03:51 Léon Degrelle (1906-1993) was a Belgian politician and Waffen-SS officer. Born into a French-speaking family in Wallonia, he was unhappy with the Belgian government, and founded the Rexist party in 1935, a right-wing catholic party arguing for the secession of Wallonia from Belgium. After the German invasion, he volunteered to fight against the USSR, in the Wallonia Legion, initially a Wehrmacht unit, in June 1941. With him, many of his fellow Rexists also joined the Legion. After this unit was reformed into the SS-Brigade Wallonia in June 1943, he switched to the Waffen-SS, and in October 1944, the Brigade was upped into the 28th SS-Volunteer Grenadier Division “Wallonia”, and Degrelle became its commander. He was awarded the Knights Cross of the Iron Cross with Oak Leaves in late October 1944, making him the highest decorated foreigner in the Wehrmacht. On May 7th, 1945, Degrelle managed to flee to Spain via plane. He was sentenced to death in absence by the Belgian government, but Spain refused to hand him over, and he lived a comfortable live as a wealthy businessman until his death in Spain in March 1994. During his time in Spain, he continued glorifying the Nazi regime and denying the Holocaust. 04:19 These vehicles are Sd. Kfz. 251, the standard APC of Germany during WWII. 15,252 built between 1940 and 1945. 11:15 The final game for the 1943/44 French Rugby Union Championship was held on March 26th, 1944, in the Parc des Princes-stadium in Paris. 11:21 The “USA” in USA Perpignan has nothing to do with the United States, it stands for “Union Sportive Arlequins” 12:06 The Tour of Flanders, in Dutch “Ronde van Vlaanderen” is an annual road cycling race with 324km length, held in Flanders in Belgium. During the German occupation of Belgium, it was still held under German management. 12:39 Karel Kaers (1914-1972) was a Belgian professional cyclist, who became the youngest cycle world champion of all time in 1934 with only 20 years. He won the Tour of Flanders in 1939. 12:49 Rik Van Steenbergen (1924-2003) was a Belgian racing cyclist, widley regarded as one of the best Belgian cyclist. He won the Tour of Flanders in 1944, as described here, and again in 1946. 12:59 The Battle of Monte Cassino refers to a series of four assaults by Allied troops on Monte Cassino, a rocky hill (and the Abbey on top if it) around 130km south of Rome. The battle lasted from 17th January to 18th May 1944, and was one of the bloodiest and heaviest battles in the Italian campaign. Allied troops, the British 5th and American 8th Army, around 240,000 men in total, faced the German 10th Army with around 140.000 men. The battle was famous because on the allied side, a lot of units from different nations fought, including Polish, Indian, South African, New Zealand etc., and on the German side, the famous Hermann Göring Tank Paratroop Division. The Allied attacks on the easy to defend hill were bloody, and the Allies suffered 55,000 casulties, compared to only 20,000 Germans. 13:02 Between the second and third Allied attack, American bombers destroyed the Abbey on top of Monte Cassino. On 15th February 1944, 225 American bombers dropped 435 or 567 (sources vary) tons of bombs on the Abbey, which was built in the 5th century. This massive bombing completely destroyed and burned out the Abbey, as can be seen in this footage. The Allied claimed that German troops used the Abbey as a vantage point for artillery, however, the Germans denied that and the Vatican, who owned the Abbey, publicly declared that there were no German positions or soldiers in the Abbey prior to the bombing. This caused tension between the Holy Sea and the Allies and was used by German propaganda. In addition, after the destruction of the Abbey, German soldiers actually moved into the ruins of the Abbey and set up positions in the now easy to defend rubbles, causing enormous losses among the Allied troops attacking Monte Casino over the next few weeks. 13:58 The guns in this scene are 8,8 cm AA/AT-Guns FlaK 36. 14:17 The tanks in this scene are M4 Shermans. This is a good example of genuine combat footage. While I of course cannot 100% confirm this, it does look like this is a real Allied tank moving in combat, and not a staged scene. 16:23 This is referring to the Soviet Polesskoe offensive in Southeast Poland from 15th March to 5th April 1944, part of the Dnieper-Carpathian offensive from December 1943 to May 1944. The Soviet 2nd Belorussian front attacked in the Polesie region around Kovel in Southeastern Poland, and initially succeeded in penetrating deep into German lines, pushing them back to the city of Kovel, which was encircled by the Soviets on March 18th. However, bad Soviet organization and leadership combined with fierce German resistance led to Soviet attacks on the city being repelled, and in early April 1944, German relief troops managed to lift the siege and push the Soviet backs to the outskirts of the city. In the greater strategic picture, especially considering the huge German territorial losses in Ukraine in late 1943/early 1944, this battle was rather insignificant, but German propaganda portrayed it as a great victory, probably because it was one of the very few German wins during the Soviet Dnieper-Carpathian offensive. 16:40 These planes are He-111 medium bombers. 17:30 Since Kovel was built as a large railway hub for German troops to the Eastern front after 1941, during the Battle of Kovel, around 500 railway workers fought with the German troops. 18:04 This is most likely a Soviet armored train which was probably captured in 1941 and then left there and was reactivated when the Soviets came closer in 1944. 18:08 This is a Panther medium tank. 18:32 In order to relief Kovel and save the city, the Germans put together a relief force with five infantry divisions, two tank divisions (4th and 5th) and the 5th SS-Tank Division “Wiking”. 18:49 In addition to the relief, the Air Force provided strong units which helped the Germans gain air superiority in the area round Kovel.

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Remarks, Part II: 19:19 Ernst-Wilhelm Hoffmann (1904-1994) was a German officer during WWII. Joining the German Army as an officer in 1922, he became commander of the 1st Company in Infantry Regiment 12 in November 1938, taking part in the invasion of Poland and France and was awarded the Knights Cross in September 1940. He then took part in the invasion of the Soviet Union, where he was awarded the German Cross in Gold in Februaruy 1942. He beame commander of Infantry Regiment 12 in April 1942, and the Regiment was made a Panzergrenadier regiment in July 1942. As commander of this regiment, he led the main assault group with 17 Panther tanks and infantry units during the breakthrough of the Soviet defense lines around Kovel, and headed the first troops who entered the city and made contact with the German defenders on April 5th. For that, he was awarded the Oak Leaves to the Knights Cross in June 1944. He was actually promoted to Colonel on April 1st, 1944, so the rank given here is slightly wrong. In April 1945, he was made commander of the 4th Tank Division, and became a Soviet POW at the end of the war but was released in May 1946. 19:23 This tank is a Panzer IV. Ausf. H. 19:31 This gun is a destroyed Soviet ZiS-3 regimental gun. 19:37 The writing on the side of the turret here says “Bear Leader”. This tank most likely belongs to the 3rd Tank Division. As this division was raised in Berlin, it used the Bear (which is the animal that appears on the City of Berlin coat of arms) as an unofficial logo, hence the name “Bear Leader”. 19:43 This tank is again a Panther medium tank. 20:40 The destroyed tanks in this scene are American M4 Shermans, which were given to the Soviet-Union through the Lend&Lease program. 21:17 Herbert Gille (1897-1966) was a German Waffen-SS General. Joining the German Army in 1914, he fought as an artillery officer in WWI, where he was awarded the Iron Cross 1st and 2nd Class. He joined the Nazi Party in May 1931 and the SS in December 1931. He joined the SS-VT, the first combat unit of the SS, in December 1934. In June 1939, he raised the first artillery unit of the SS-VT, and took part as the commander of the 1st Unit of the Artillery-Regiment of the SS-VT during the invasions of Poland and France, and was made commander of the artillery regiment of the SS-Wiking Division in January 1941. He commanded the Wiking Division from October 1942 to Febraury 1943 and again from May 1943 to August 1944. Form Augusut 1944 to the end of the war, he commanded the IV. SS-Tank Corps. On March 16th, 1944, Gille went into the already besieged Kovel to personally take over the command of the besieged city.

[@zieten9983]

An Addition to 19:19 : Hoffmann did not belong to Infanterie-Rgt 12 of 31.Infanterie-Division but to Schützen-Rgt. 12 of 4.Panzer-Div. "Schützen" (Riflemen) was the designation für the motorized infantry units of the Panzer-Divisons. The Schützen-Rgts were renamed Panzergrenadier-Rgts on July 5th 1942. Next to Hoffmann (with fur-lined cap and jacket, also wearing the Knights Cross) stands one of the most interesting officers of 4.Panzer-Division, Stabsarzt Dr.Hans-Joachim Schulz-Merkel. He was the medical officer of I.Abteilung (Battalion)/Panzer-Regiment 35. At three times (July and October 1943 and here at Kowel in April 1944) he took command of the Battalion in critical situations after it's respective commanders had been killed or wounded. On December 23rd 1943, he was awarde the Knights Cross for his actions. At the moment shown in the newsreel, he commanded the few available tanks attached to Kampfgruppe Hoffmann (5 Panzer IV of Panzer-Rgt.35 and 6 Panther of SS-Panzer-Rgt 5) to take part in the breakthrough action towards Kowel. From June 1942 to June 1944, Panzer-Rgt 35 had only one tank battalion and from June 1943 to June 1944 also had no regimental staff. 19:37 : The 1st Bn Panzer-Rgt 35 had the nickname "Bear Batallion", having a bear as it's unofficial insignia (probably -but that is just my guess- because at it's peacetime garrison of Bamberg there was a bear kennel in the Altenburg castle above the town up until the 1980's). Therefore, the tank of the Bn commander was named "Bärenführer". You can see the official divisonal insignia of 4.Panzer-Division to the left of the word "Bärenführer" - a rune-symbol in a circle with two crossed swords beneath it. This is a Panzer III command tank which carried no gun, because of the extended radio equipment necessary. The gun barrels of these type of tanks were only dummies. You can see the same tank at 21:54 standing to the left. Behind the turret, you can see the additional antenna as a frame around the rear of the tank. 19:43 : All Panthers shown during the fighting arounds Kowel are belonging to II.Abteilung/ SS-Panzer-Rgt 5 of 5.SS-Panzer-Div "Wiking". The other tank formations in the area, 4. and 5. Panzer-Division of the Army, had no Panthers at all but only one Bn of Panzer IV each. 21:17 The whole sequence of Gille and Hoffmann greeting each other is most certainly staged after the real event.

[@mychannel-su1bx]

Did he commit war crimes in poland?

[@L1V2P9]

11:10 Just in case anyone is wondering, the rugby team playing in German Occupied Paris in 1944 called USA Perpignan is actually from Perpignan France. USA stands for Union Sportive Arlequins. I did double-take when I first saw it!

[@joelj1355]

😜

[@suspiciousminds1750]

Still must have been a shock at the end with a large "USA" sign showing the victor, that was a year off.

[@groovymckraut7179]

Idk why but I found the part about the civilian stuff so fascinating. Reading a lot about the war, I find myself getting totally focused on battles, troop movements, industrial production, the high level strategy. You kind of forget that while this horrific conflict was goin on, millions of people were still attending sports events, going to concerts, living their life as much as they could under the circumstances. Very interesting video

[@suspiciousminds1750]

In April '44 Germany was retreating on all fronts but they were still able to portray a sense of normalcy in the civilian population as the dams had not yet broke. That would happen in June.

[@merong1234]

The video that appears on your channel is very interesting and the quality of the video is excellent. I will continue to look forward to good videos introduced on your channel. I hope you maintain and manage this great channel well.

[@GermanWWIIArchive]

In case anyone is not interested in the "civilian" news and is just here for the combat part, this starts at 13:20 for the Battle of Monte Cassino and at 16:14 for the Siege of Kovel.

[@JGCR59]

I must admit I find the civilian parts far more interesting

[@helmandtigers]

The German paratroopers put up a spectacular defence at monte casino then disappeared in the night unseen when they decided to

[@user-db6pt7vr3l]

I'm learning a lot about the war from these newsreels. Keep them coming.

[@danepatterson8107]

I thought I'd seen every newsreel ever, but I never saw this. Fantastic catch!

[@grantsmythe8625]

So, that's what people do when they're only a short time away from plunging into the Abyss of total darkness.

[@redtobertshateshandles]

No. This is the propaganda. People were looking for something to eat and a place to live. And hoping to avoid bombs.

[@bungee7503]

Try to pretend it’s all normal?

[@kornofulgur]

@@bungee7503To be blinded, before plunging into the Abyss.

[@cgrant1960]

The quality is top notch. Have you more Descheg newsreels to show us ?

[@JustinDesrochers]

Wundervolle Arbeit. Well done as always 👌🏻

[@europa1916]

Amazing footage. Would be great to see some newsreels from the battle of Moscow Winter 1941-42

[@danielgreen3715]

The Report from the Relief of Kovel was very interesting Cheers

[@janporinchak5867]

Wow! I havn't seen any of this footage before, really interesting!

[@telramud]

According to some historian comments about the SS Sturmbrigade Wallonie parade in Charleroi, the vehicles belongs to 12.SS-Pz.Div."Hitlerjugend", deployed near, at Beverloo area.

[@user-ls7ui9el8w]

Vielen Dank.

[@egorglushkov9024]

Strange. At 4:45 the tactical number on half track suddenly changes from light to dark.

[@GermanWWIIArchive]

I believe this is due to the lighting, camera setting and probably because the paint used to paint these numbers on tanks and vehicles is a special, non-reflective paint.

[@RemyCT63]

It's the paint they used to paint the tactical numbers. In this case the black paint was somewhat glossy and the light reflected giving the appearance it was light at first. But when the angle changed as it drove past the cameraman it turned dark.

[@entropy553]

These SPW belonged to the 12.SS and were borrowed for the parade.

[@Rudeljaeger]

Leon Degrelle wore his old SS uniform to his daughters wedding in the 1960s.

[@ImperiumGallery]

Our museum is now in possession of this very tunic and hope to have it catalogued on our website shortly.

[@skelligandude1559]

Thank you so much 👍🏻

[@Kanovskiy]

very good quality footage. excellent.

[@DeutschesMilitarliedchan-cx9sy]

request : Die Deutsche Wochenschau No.728

[@swerrr8893]

Обратите внимание на общее состояние немцев, хотя ситуация на восточном фронте уже к маю 1944 года стала критической для Вермахта, особенно на южных участках фронта, пораженческих настроений еще нет, а на лицах солдат читается высокий боевой дух. Буквально через несколько месяцев после этой кинохроники, Германия из большой империи превратится в локальную державу, которая будет зажата с запада и востока. Поразительно, как судьба целой империи, завоевавшей всю Европу, может так быстро измениться. Мне хотелось бы оказаться там в Германии в качестве наблюдателя в тот период времени, интересно что думали простые немцы, потеряв заветную Францию летом 1944 года, а падание Италии - ближайшего союзника ? Какие были надежды на победу или заключение мирного соглашения с США?

[@semyongelfenbein902]

Это же пропаганда того времени. Ты думаешь, они стали бы показывать в ней упаднические настроения?

[@fomaakvinskij9124]

"Мобилизованная нация. Германия 1939-1945" вполне дает ответы на ваши вопросы

[@allanfifield8256]

"Pay attention to the general condition of the Germans, although the situation on the Eastern Front had already become critical for the Wehrmacht by May 1944, especially in the southern sectors of the front, there was still no defeatist mood, and high morale could be read on the faces of the soldiers. Just a few months after this newsreel, Germany will turn from a large empire into a local power, which will be squeezed from the west and the east. It is astonishing how the fate of an entire empire that has conquered all of Europe can change so quickly. I wish I could have been there in Germany as an observer at that time, I wonder what ordinary Germans thought when they lost their cherished France in the summer of 1944 and the fall of Italy their closest ally. What were the hopes for victory or a peace agreement with the United States? . . ."

[@dankwartdenkhardt5714]

Eine gute Frage, spätestens nach Operation Bagration war den allermeisten klar, dass mit kriegerischen Mitteln nichts mehr zu retten war. In Deutschland regierte mehr und mehr der nackte Terror. Ein falsches Wort im falschen Augenblick konnte tödlich sein. Wie war es eigentlich in der Sowjetunion? Gab es da auch so ein Gesetz gegen "Wehrkraftzersetzung"?

[@FrazzP]

The place where Leon Degrelle gave out awards in the town square at 3:55 is Charleroi in southern Belgium. I understand how a German pronouncing a French endonym would be hard to comprehend 😂

[@GermanWWIIArchive]

Thanks for that, have added that to the subtitles! Well, to be honest, even if his pronounciation would have been perfect, my French sucks so much I wouldn't have understood it anyways^^

[@yetizero5563]

спасибо

[@Mfields4517]

17:24 they couldnt get that guy a bigger shovel?

[@wessew6185]

It would be interesting to learn if any of the kids shown survived the war and wrote a biography.

[@GermanWWIIArchive]

The Belgian ones? Most likely. Belgium was quickly overran by the Allies in the latter part of 1944, and there was little fighting and thus little civilian casualties.

[@yasumitsunaka6094]

@@GermanWWIIArchive Really? Didn't something called the Ardennes Offensive take place on December 1944 in a part of Belgium? Sure, compared to other civilian death tolls (especially in strategic bombing) three thousand dead in six weeks may not be significant but I still recommend "The Unknown Dead: Civilians in the Battle of the Bulge" by Peter Schrijvers.

[@flitsertheo]

@@yasumitsunaka6094 The Germans didn't get far into Belgium and certainly didn't reach any densely populated areas of Belgium. If I remember correctly only 1 "Kübelwagen" reached the River Meuse and was promptly shot to pieces by the Resistance.

[@user-js4zx1lr2u]

My uncle was a coal miner (engineer) and he got me and my wife into Sonnenshein, the mine he was in charge of. 1100 meters down, it was 95 degrees and just about raining. Spent a couple hours in there watching the process. Scary to have the ceiling caving in a couple of meters behind the moving mining machine. And talk about black as coal. White eyes and teeth. everything else was jet black.

[@entropy553]

More relaxing without Herr Giese narrating.

[@user-id6bn5bm9e]

Völlig richtig.

[@vincentkosik403]

Franco was smart

[@akosbogar1885]

unbelievable, who would have thought then that there was only one year left of the thousand-year empire, and even Operation Bagration came only after that.

[@bertbert594]

5:50 is that jazz?

[@pawelpap9]

Jazz was forbidden in Nazi Germany as degenerate art. The music indeed and surprisingly has some jazz inflections, but it is standard European dance music played in restaurants and dance halls.

[@user-xj2el9dy1b]

Die Bildqualitaet und Aussprache des Sprechers vorzueglich ! Reiner Genuss fuer mein Ohr ! Erinnere mich an meine Phonetiklehrer in Moskau...

[@christophercelly4734]

like to this video but what 'descheg' mean is a question until yet!

[@ericsonhazeltine5064]

Old Franco must have been doing an elaborate dance to get through WWII

[@yetizero5563]

German WWII Archive спасибо

[@pawelpap9]

It is interesting how much German newsreel was trying to create feeling of normalcy. Europe is German, we see scenes from various allied or what their citizens would call occupied countries, children singing (surprisingly Czech untermensch was elevated to the almost Aryana status capable of enjoying real culture), then some sports events. This for any thinking German equipped with pre-war map must have been contradicted by the second part. Monte Casino is half-way up Italian peninsula and should it fall Rome will change hands. Kovel is in pre-war Poland, so viewer must conclude that Soviet Union is all but cleared off German forces. After leaving the cinema viewer could likely appreciate sights of city quarters destroyed by Anglo-American airplanes. All in all it adds up to a surreal experience.

[@sandtoy11510]

@pawelpap9 If someone only watched the first 12 minutes of the Newsreel, it would appear that life in the occupied countries was indeed quite normal, almost as if the war had little to no effect on people’s lives

[@dirkhardy3489]

Aha schon damals in Brüssel der Kampf um Europa 😂

[@seltaeb9691]

Germans playing rugby was a surprise. Germany now has zero rugby either clubs or a national side. Football was the culprit.

[@Lovecars1218]

That were actually french Teams playing against each other for the french Rugby Championship of 1944

[@scottgalloway345]

Rugby is widely played throughout Europe now. It will never be as big as football,but it is a great game to watch. I've watched some European pool play for the Rugby World Cup & watched Germany-Romania, from memory. We have seen Georgia & Romania at world cup tournaments in the past,& why not? Spain is another team I liked after watching them....anyway,if there was a Kiwi involved,they were up to 'mischief'😂😂🇳🇿

[@belleriffraff]

In earlier newsreels from 1941, the troops filmed were all smiles.grinning, backslapping, but 3 years later those grins are few and far, must have realised this war wasn't going to be a foregone conclusion.

[@Ittou-Ogami]

Война то артилерия и авиация к тому времени ..они все сносили на своем пути .

[@edwardspencer3906]

It must have been dawning on these civilians that the ringing they are hearing is The Bell Tolling....or not... anyway, Their Reckoning is Coming from the East..

[@vyacheslavtomilchik5277]

Всего через полгода вермахт будет разгромлен на всем протяжении от Мурманска до Севастополя😊

[@Ittou-Ogami]

только люди убивают себе подобных непонятно почему

[@christophercelly4734]

or my english is not good enough...😅

[@ZloveGro]

Очень жду Die Deutsche Wochenschau Nr. 654 в FHD качестве!

[@Mike-fx1eu]

Russians with Sherman’s….thats a mistake for the folks at home…

[@fistsup5700]

20:40 shows knocked out Shermans. Lend Lease stuff? In 44?

[@dougsscalemodels]

Yes, lend lease started in 1941 and lasted until September 20 1945. The Russians received a lot of lend lease material.

[@danih487]

Yeah, the Soviets received: 12,000 armored vehicles (including 7,000 Tanks, about 1,386 of which were M3 Lees and 4,102 M4 Shermans) Over 400,000 jeeps and trucks 11,400 Aircraft (of which 4,719 were Bell P-39 Airacobras, 3,414 were Douglas A-20 Havocs and 2,397 were Bell P-63 Kingcobras) 1.75 million tons of food In total, the U.S. deliveries to the USSR through Lend-Lease amounted to $11 billion in materials (equivalent to $148 billion in 2023). Roughly 17.5 million tons of military equipment, vehicles, industrial supplies, and food were shipped from the Western Hemisphere to the USSR, 94% coming from the US. For comparison, a total of 22 million tons landed in Europe to supply American forces from January 1942 to May 1945. It has been estimated that American deliveries to the USSR through the Persian Corridor alone were sufficient, by US Army standards, to maintain sixty combat divisions in the line. And don't forget the British: Significant numbers of British Churchill, Matilda and Valentine tanks were shipped to the USSR. Between June 1941 and May 1945, Britain delivered to the USSR: 7,411 aircraft (>3,000 Hurricanes and >4,000 other aircraft) 27 naval vessels 5,218 tanks (including 1,380 Valentines from Canada) >5,000 anti-tank guns 4,020 ambulances and trucks 323 machinery trucks (mobile vehicle workshops equipped with generators and all the welding and power tools required to perform heavy servicing) 1,212 Universal Carriers and Loyd Carriers (with another 1,348 from Canada) 1,721 motorcycles £1.15bn ($1.55bn) worth of aircraft engines 1,474 radar sets 4,338 radio sets 600 naval radar and sonar sets Hundreds of naval guns 15 million pairs of boots In total 4 million tonnes of war material including food and medical supplies were delivered. The munitions totaled £308m (not including naval munitions supplied), the food and raw materials totaled £120m in 1946 index. In accordance with the Anglo-Soviet Military Supplies Agreement of June 27, 1942, military aid sent from Britain to the Soviet Union during the war was entirely free of charge.

[@hoodoo2001]

The Battle of Kovel was a minor tactical German victory in the midst of the German overall massive defeat in the Russian Dnieper-Carpathian offensive that cleared Ukraine and ended Manstein's career. The Russian strategic victory, Kovel being the only objective not taken out of 20 assigned objectives, set the stage for Operation Bagration, which would support indirectly the Anglo-American invasion of France.

[@Ittou-Ogami]

Год ..пролетел и рейха не стало.

[@swerrr8893]

Ну, фактически в апреле 1945 Рейх ещё существовал в кое-каком виде))

[@andyc3088]

Russians using American Sherman tanks

[@maxasaurus3008]

All those kids at school…wasting their time unless they’re studying Russian. Wow they don’t even mention the war they are losing till 13 min in!🤯

[@johnwright291]

These people must have been extremely ignorant to not know that the end was near with no hope for a solution.

[@raigarmullerson4838]

You can hear the bullshit in his voice lol

[@klawlor3659]

The good news stories sell in Nazi Germany! Sadly for them, there ain't much in the way of good news...

[@mychannel-su1bx]

Did these silly bastards not realize they was losing the war.

[@dougsscalemodels]

It's propaganda, the majority of news of occupied Europe was propaganda. Sure the German citizens knew the war wasn't going great but they had no idea of just how bad. Soldiers often didn't want their loved ones to worry so they didn't say in letters home just how bad things were, plus there was censorship. And they mostly didn't inform their loved ones in person while on leave. Quite a number of German war diaries allude to both cases. Even those who knew how bad the war was going for Germany often held the belief that the allies would surely join them in fighting bolshevism. Most scenes in this are staged, or upstaged, for the camera. War time censorship and propaganda are powerful, the Spanish Flu is only named that because due to not being involved in WW1, Spanish media was free to write about it while all nations involved in the war allowed nothing to very little to be written about it.

[@Ittou-Ogami]

да все верили в чудо оружие которое у них пояаится ,возможно велись разработки ядерного оружия и ракет

[@marijnvanbeers-ev7sc]

They were not that stupid, they knew from 1943 on that they would loose the war, but saying it loud could cost you your life!

[@dankwartdenkhardt5714]

@@marijnvanbeers-ev7sc exactly

[@PanKsiadzPedofilita-mv1eq]

Ja, ja alles ist wunderbaum, ein jahr und alles kaput.