GERMAN NEWSREEL EXCERPTS

GERMAN NEWSREEL EXCERPTS - National Archives and Records Administration 1944 - ARC 43529, LI 242.240 - DVD Copied by Nick Stoller. Series: Motion Picture Films Confiscated From Foreign Countries And Sources, compiled 1940 - 1944. Part 1, Dutch Workers, Service recruits receive patriotically, symbolic shovels and parade. Part 2, a Greek Catholic priest celebrates Mass and natives perform a dance during a Serbian festival. Part 3, sailboats race off Malaga Spain. Part 4, Czechoslovakia soldiers ski in the Carpathians. Part 5, German torpedo boats, equipped with twin antiaircraft guns, accompany, a French fishing fleet to sea and drive off an enemy plane. OSS commentary: the Germans may have been preventing the French from escaping. Part 6, newly organized Italian Army units celebrate Mass in Trieste and take an oath to the Italian flag. OSS commentary: Germany maintains that Italy is still an effective ally. Part 7, German troops in Italy, despite an Allied air attack, bring up supplies by mule and truck to reinforce their positions. Part 8, German troops escort Abbot Gregorian Di Mare to Vatican City from the ruins of Monte Cassino. Also shows wreckage in Castel Gandolfo. Part 9, German infantry, trucks, and heavy Panther tanks retreat in Russia; demolition teams use light bombs to destroy bridges and supplies. Part 10, Russian prisoners are taken near Kirovograd as German armor, supported by artillery and rockets, counterattacks.

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