Die Deutsche Wochenschau 1940-07-13 Unternehmen Weserübung

Die Deutsche Wochenschau 1940-07-13 Operation 'Weserübung' - German invasion of Denmark and Norway (Narvik, Trondheim, Bergen und Stavanger, Kristiansand, Egersund, Arendal, Oslo). The voiceover proclaims "England now stands alone." The song til the end is "Wir fahren gegen England".

Category:

News & Politics

Tags:

• Kriegsmarine
• Luftwaffe
• Wehrmacht
• Heer
• Erich
• Raeder
• Zweiten
• Weltkrieg

[notaire2]

A very nice footage. But the sound level is too low.

[ijolite]

Is this Trondheim? If so, the attacks may be the costly and unsuccessful RAF/FAA raids on 11 and 13 June, on the force that sank HMS Glorious on 8 June. That looks like the undamaged Gneisenau at 1:15.The torpedoed Scharnhorst is presumably nearby. We can probably see enough of Gneisenau's bow to say the film is before 20 June when a torpedo from the submarine HMS Clyde blew a large hole through it, nearly breaking it off. (photo etc in Garzke and Dulin:"Battleships: Axis...",1986).

[oct054]

I enjoy watching the old German newsreels. Goebbels had good producers and directors working for him.

[NewUser47851]

Are there any lyrics for that, please.

Or any other source of Kriegsmarine Lyrics?

[Jigaboo123456]

Interesting. I clicked on this because "Wir fahren gegen England" was/is the marching song of my former (British) para unit. we always finished teh song with three rousing Sieg Heils!" ( They still do, nd to hell with political correctness) When I wa sat a re-union last year, there was a serving French Foriegn Legion officer who had been an exchange officer with the British Para regt who sang and "sieg heil -ed" as loud as anyone! We sing a slightly different translation. Thanks for posting

[jradetzky]

Lovely

[VonReichel]

I think somebody needs to study their history a little better... At the time this film was made (the invasion of Norway) England was truly alone (the US had not entered the war)... and they came within a hairs breadth of losing to Germany!

If you don't like the Germans, that's OK... but do yourself a favor and don't make stupid historically incorrect statements.

Langes lebendes Deutschland!

[grazyarnie]

boah what for a grappy propaganda speech...I translate: England stands alone, England has no more allies....Jesus and some folks in Germany even believed such stupid talkings

[wernervonzep]

cool video, i am especially interested in torpedo boat informatio. My German Grandfather was on the wolf. It sank from a mine in jan 1941

[haavar1808]

I had no idea material like this was available online. As a Norwegian interested in (and teaching) history, I must say this is pretty awesome!