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FEW CIVILIANS IN CITY STREET DESTROYED BY BOMBING. WOMAN RUNS HURRIEDLY PAST RUBBLE. VARIOUS BURNING CITY BUILDINGS. FIREMEN HOSE DOWN OLD CITY STRUCTURE AND OTHER FIERCELY BURNING FIRES.

CU GOOD SHOT FRONT OF LOCOMOTIVE AS IT SLOWLY ROLLS TOWARDS CAMERA. PAN PEOPLE, CHILDREN AT STATION WAVING AS TRAIN PASSES SLOWLY, POV TRAIN. GERMAN SOLDIERS INSIDE TRAIN PEER OUT WINDOW AT PEOPLE WAVING. TRAIN TOWARDS
CAMERA.

LS BIG CANNON AND ARTILLERY CREW ARE SILHOUETTED BY MOONLIGHT AS THEY FIRE AT NIGHT. MS SAME. VARIOUS SHOTS GERMAN ARTILLERY POSITION WITH MANY GUNS FIRING BARRAGES. GERMAN OFFICER, BACK TO CAMERA PUMPS HIS ARM, SINGLING PANZER UNITS TO ADVANCE DOWN ROAD. VARIOUS SHOTS TANK UNITS ADVANCING ACROSS FIELDS PASSING FARM HOUSES IN RUSSIA. TANKS STOP IN FIELD, TANK COMMANDERS PEER ACROSS FIELDS WITH BINOCULARS. INFANTRY UNITS ADVANCING ACROSS FIELDS ON THE RUN. MS TWO SURRENDERING RUSSIAN OFFICERS (?) BEING BROUGHT IN, QUESTIONED BY GERMAN OFFICER. CU FACE SHOT RUSSIAN SOLDIERS. OTHER RUSSIAN SOLDIERS WITH HANDS UP. GERMAN SOLDIERS AND RUSSIAN CIVILIANS HELP PLACE LOGS ACROSS RAVINE FOR GERMAN STAFF CAR TO CROSS.

GERMAN SOLDIERS SETTING UP ARTILLERY PIECE, THEN HOLD THEIR EARS AS THEY FIRE, MORE OF SAME. MORTAR AND MACHINEGUN UNITS FIRING. PAN BUSY GERMAN POSITION.
GERMAN SOLDIERS ADVANCING IN TOWN ON BICYCLES. PAN RUSSIAN VILLAGE IN FLAMES.
FIERCE FIRES, BILLOWING SMOKE.

MLS PAN SQUADS OF GERMAN TROOPS WITH BICYCLES WAIT TO CLIMB ONTO LARGE FERRYBOAT. QUAINT VILLAGE BUILDINGS IN B/G SOLDIERS ARE GREETED BY NURSES WHO HAND THEM FLOWERS AND GIFTS AS THEY EXIT FERRY BOAT. PAN OLD VILLAGE, BRIDGE TO GERMAN SOLDIERS BIKING DOWN TOWN STREET. WAVING TO HAND FULL OF VILLAGERS AS THEY SPEED BY.

INFANTRY UNIT CROSSES STREAM OVER NARROW WOOD BRIDGE. SHIRTLESS SOLDIERS HELP ROLL BIKES, MEN, OFF NARROW BRIDGE. MEN, WOMEN PEASNATS WAVE TO SOLDIERS AS THEY MARCH ON COUNTRY ROAD. WOMEN THROW FLOWERS INTO PASSING GERMAN STAFF CARS.

VARIOUS SHOTS GERMAN CAVALRY UNITS WALKING THEIR HORSES ON ROADS. MONTAGE DESTROYED SOVIET TANKS, DEAD SOLDIERS LYING NEXT TO THEM (GRAPHIC).

VARIOUS SHOTS GERMAN ARTILLERY UNIT, BACKS TO CAMERA, WATCHING THE EFFECTS OF THEIR BOMBARDMENTS ON BURNING VILLAGE IN B/G. GROUP SOVIET SOLDIERS SURRENDERING WITH HAND UP.

SOVIET PRISONERS RUN DOUBLE-TIME ACROSS BRIDGE. ENDLESS COLUMNS POWS MARCHING TO THE REAR, PASS COLUMNS GERMAN SOLDIERS ADVANCING IN OPPOSITE DIRECTION. SOLDIERS MARCH PAST BURNING VILLAGE IN B/G. CHIMNEY COLLAPSES AS FARM HOUSE BURNS VIOLENTLY, WALLS FOLLOW. PAN MILES ADVANCING GERMAN SOLDIERS.

MS GERMAN SOLDIER CRAWLING SLOWLY ON HIS STOMACH IN HIGH GRASS TOWARDS FARM HOUSE. SOLDIER HOLDS EARS AS CANNON FIRES. ABOVE PAN GERMAN TROOPS ADVANCING ON OPEN BATTLEFIELD. MS VARIOUS SHOTS GERMAN TROOPS ADVANCING ON THE RUN, THROUGH SMOKE SCREEN. MS TWO GERMAN SOLDIERS, BACK TO CAMERA, PEER FROM BEHIND RUINS OF BUILDING, ONE WITH HAND GRENADE READY, THEN CAUTIOUSLY MOVING TOWARD BUNKER. GERMAN TROOPS ON TOP OF AND ALL AROUND BUNKER WATCH AS SOVIET SOLDIERS EXIT WITH HANDS UP. CU POW BEING SEARCHED.

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TITLE: "DIE DEUTSCHE WOCHENSCHAU" (GERMAN WEEKLY SHOW). WAS THE SOLE SERIES OF GERMAN NEWSREELS FROM 1940 TO END OF WWII. FILM SHOWS NAZI ATTACK ON SOVIET UNION, ENTERING SOVIET REPUBLIC OF BELARUS AND SE POLAND. EFFECTS OF "BLITZKRIEG" DURING LIGHTNING ADVANCE. HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS SOVIET PRISONERS. GRAPHIC

CU GERMAN SOLDIERS GRAVE MARKED BY HELMET AND FLOWERS ON A WOOD CROSS.
MCU GROUP GERMAN SOLDIERS STAND AT ATTENTION WITH HELMETS HELD TO CHEST AS THEY MOURN FALLEN COMRADE. CU SULLEN FACE SHOTS. SQUAD OF GERMAN SOLDIERS GIVE NAZI SALUTE TO FALLEN COMRADE.

LS VIEW OF DESTROYED BRIDGE AS SEEN FROM TANK CROSSING ADJACENT BRIDGE.
ABOVE VIEW GERMAN TROOPS VEHICLES CROSSING BRIDGE LEADING TO CITY, PAN OLD CITY BUILDINGS ON OTHER SIDE OF BRIDGE. TANKS AND TROOPS CROSSING OVER.
GERMAN INFANTRY PASSING FIERCELY BURNING CITY BUILDINGS. VARIOUS VIEWS SAME.
MECHANIZED UNITS, MOTORCYCLE, HORSE AND WAGON UNITS RIDING THROUGH RUBBLE STREWN CITY. MAP SHOPS GERMAN ADVANCE INTO CITY OF BARONWITSCHI IN BELARUS.
VARIOUS VIEWS TANK BATTALION ON THE MOVE KICKING UP CLOUDS DUST. GERMAN INFANTRY ALONG ROAD WAVE ON THE TANKS.

GOOD SHOTS GERMAN ARTILLERY UNIT IN ACTION, WATCHING RESULTS OF BOMBARDMENT.
MS GERMAN INFANTRYMAN (SNIPER) AIMS RIFLE AND FIRES FROM POSITION IN FOXHOLE.
CANON FIRING FROM BRUSH COVERED CAMOUFLAGED POSITION. CU CANNON BARREL RECOILING AFTER FIRING. GERMAN SOLDIERS FIRING ON CITY FROM FOXHOLE. CU GERMAN OFFICER CHECKING SOVIET POSITIONS THROUGH BINOCULARS. VARIOUS SHOTS SOVIET SOLDIERS SURRENDERING. SOVIET POWS COWER BEHIND DAMAGED TANK TO AVOID STILL RAGING BATTLE.

GERMAN SOLDIERS WATCH AS COMRADE CLIMBS DOWN ROPE INTO WATER, FROM BRIDGE DESTROYED BY ENEMY. SOLDIER ALREADY IN WATER UP TO WAIST HOLDS ROPE FOR BUDDY. PAN ACROSS WATER TO OTHER REMAINING END OF BRIDGE. ABOVE PAN RUSSIAN PRISONERS SLEEPING UNDER BLANKETS, AS OTHERS SIT AROUND AWAITING THEIR FATE.
CU POW LIGHTING HIS ROLL-UP CIGARETTE. MONTAGE BURNING, DESTROYED BUILDINGS.

GRAPHIC SCENES, SOVIET SOLDIER LIES DEAD AT WHEEL OF TRUCK (LOOK LIKE HE'S ASLEEP; ANOTHER LYING ON HIS BACK NEAR VEHICLE. VARIOUS SHOTS LONG COLUMNS SOVIET PRISONERS MOVING OUT OF CITY AND ON COUNTRY ROAD, TOWARDS CAMERA.
ABOVE VIEW MORE. 01 07 44 GERMAN SOLDIER GUARDING ENTRANCE TO GOVERNMENT BUILDING AS THINGS GET BACK TO "NORMAL". PEDESTRIANS WALK THE STREETS, WOMEN CARRYING BELONGS LOOK LIKE SHOPPERS.

MS CARAVAN GERMAN TRUCKS TOWARDS CAMERA AND PAST, NEGOTIATING BUMPY ROAD. TANKS RAISE CLOUD OF DUST ON COUNTRY DIRT ROAD. PAN DESTROYED SOVIET TANK. CU SOVIET SOLDIER'S HELMET WITH UGLY BULLET HOLE IN IT. DEAD RUSSIAN IN FRONT OF DAMAGED TANK. (GRAPHIC). GERMAN CAVALRYMAN RIDES BY BURNED OUT BUS ON SIDE OF ROAD. PAN TO DEAD BODIES IN DITCH. PAN ABANDONED CANNONS.

PEASANT MEN, WOMEN AND CHILDREN WATCH GERMAN SOLDIERS FILL THEIR CANTEEN WASH FACES, AT LOCAL WATER WELL. TWO PEASANT GIRLS TRY TO WRESTLE HOG BY ITS TAIL, GERMAN SOLDIERS HELP. PEASANTS LINE UP TO WATCH GERMAN SOLDIERS LEAVE ON BIKES. SOLDIERS AS WELL AS PEASANT GIRLS AND MEN DIG TRENCHES.

MLS GERMAN BOMBERS TAKING OF. SQUADRON GERMAN BOMBERS IN FLIGHT. AERIAL VIEWS GROUND, POV BOMBARDIER. AERIAL BOMBS EXPLODING ON GROUND. MUZZLE MACHINE GUN FIRING AT SOVIET ATTACK PLANES POV BOMBER. AERIAL VIEW BOMBS FALLING.

HUGE CANNON ON RAILROAD TRACKS FIRES ENORMOUS BARRAGE. GERMAN SOLDIERS, HAND GRENADES IN HAND LAY ON BATTLEFIELD AS SHELLS EXPLODE AROUND THEM. LS STUKA DIVE BOMBER DIVING, DROPPING BOMBS. GERMAN TROOPS, TANKS ADVANCING UNDER FIRE. DIVE BOMBERS DIVE TOWARDS CAMERA.