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🔥SUPPORT THE CHANNEL and get access to exclusive film footage www.Patreon.com/Military1945 Episode 204 Descheg-Monatsschau (07 / 1942) Descheg-Monatsschau was a monthly German news series that compiled reports of the most important events. In the second half of episode 7 from 1942 the content covered was the operation of German U-boots off the Eastern Coast of the United States, the Deutsche Afrikakorps, and on the Eastern Front the Wolchow bridgehead and operations in the Caucasus. 1:05 - German submarine on patrol against the USA 3:00 - North Africa Font 4:48 - Eastern Front 7:04 - Caucasian Front 10:24 - Elbrus CONTENT 8) German submarine on patrol against the USA. Dolphins accompany the boat on its journey in the Atlantic; crew members playing skat; Pancake making in the galley; Navigation work on the map: the commander at the periscope; the bank at the mouth of the St. Lawrence River through the periscope; Torpedo is moored; burning tanker. II) 9) North Africa Font. Watch post on the coast of Tobruk; German-Italian coastal defense units take up positions; Coastal batteries fire on English prisoners on land: transported away on trucks; captured English speedboat; Unloading barrels in the port of Tobruk; Supply columns on the move. 10) Eastern Front. Volkhov Bridgehead area. Scout troop advances through completely devastated terrain and ruins; Remote camera shots of the Soviet positions; anti-tank and artillery fire; Assault guns advance; destroyed battle area. 11) Caucasian Front. Attack on a town outside Novorossisk; Flak in ground combat operations; Me 110 on enemy mission, bombing the port facilities of Novorossisk; Air combat with a Soviet attack aircraft and a rata, shot down; Bursts of fire from on-board weapons on a village. 12) Caucasus Front. Shot up Soviet tanks on the side of the road; Caucasian fascist militia at the police station in Pyatigorsk; Mountain soldiers on the march into the Elbrus area, a flock of sheep blocking the way; Capture of the meteorological station on Elbrus by a company of the Swabian-Bavarian Mountain Division; Captain Groth's group climbs to the summit, climbing over glaciers; Flight over Elbrus. #DeutscheWochenschau #worldwar2 #GermanNewsreels #Goebbels #GermanPropaganda #Monatsschau #Blitz #EasternFront @Military1945

🔥SUPPORT THE CHANNEL and get access to exclusive film footage www.Patreon.com/Military1945 Episode 206 Descheg-Monatsschau (08 / 1942) Descheg-Monatsschau was a monthly German news series that compiled reports of the most important events. In the second half of episode 8 from 1942 the content covered was: 1:20 - Arrival of the Donmark Freikorps (Waffen SS) on leave in Copenhagen by train after deployment on the Eastern Front; March through the city; 2:12 - Battle for Stalingrad. Artillery shelling industrial facilities; shell impacts; Infantry advances across devastated terrain; infantry battles in industrial areas; Soviet prisoner train; Stuka attack on Stalingrad 4:47 - Caucasus Front a. Rail trucks bring supplies forward; destroyed Bakonskaya train station near Novorossisk; Advance towards Tuappe; Antiaircraft artillery shelling Nalchik; Capture of Nalchik by Romanian mountain troops; Shooting targets in houses. 6:32 - b. Flight of a fighter unit over the Caucasus; bomb drops and impacts at depth; Aircraft strafe ground targets. 7:23 - Battle Group of the Navy leaves Norwegian waters. 7:42 - a. The Italian submarine "Barbarigo" under the commanding officer Captain Enzio Grossi on patrol; alarm diving; Grossi on the periscope; Torpedo attack on a convoy. 8:25 - b. return of the submarine to its home port; Grossi is congratulated and receives the RK from Admiral Karl Dönitz. 8:52 - Japanese Navy on patrol to the South Pacific; combat alert; Artillery fire on enemy ships. The Frikorps Danmark or Danish Free Corps was a Danish volunteer corps that was created by the Danish National Socialist Workers Party (DNSAP) in cooperation with Nazi Germany, to fight against the Soviet Union during World War II. On June 29, 1941, days after the German invasion of the Soviet Union, the DNSAP newspaper Fædrelandet proclaimed the creation of the body. Its formation was later sanctioned by the democratically elected Danish government and authorized Danish Army officers to join the unit.1 The corps was disbanded in 1943. During the course of the war, approximately 6,000 Danes joined the corps, including 77 officers of the Royal Danish Army. At the end of July 1941, with approximately 1,000 recruits, the corps was sent to the Langenhorn barracks in Hamburg. She was deemed ready for action on 15 September and was shipped to Owińska in Poland. C.P. Kryssing was dismissed in February 1942 for insufficient ideological support for Nazism. He was transferred to the artillery where he actually finished his career as a general. Christian Frederik von Schalburg, a Danish-Russian aristocrat, anti-communist and member of the DNSAP who had grown up in Russia and had seen the consequences of the Russian revolution in 1917, replaced Kryssing as leader of the Frikorps Danmark. On May 8, 1942, the corps was brought to the front line. They fought near Demiansk, south of Lake Ilmen and Novgorod. During the night of June 2, Schalburg was murdered. Hans Albert von Lettow-Vorbeck, his German replacement, was assassinated a few days later. On 11 July 1942, Knud Børge Martinsen took command of the Corps. From August to October, they returned to Denmark and were met with much hostility from the civilian population. On 13 November 1942, the Corps was deployed to Jelgava, Latvia. Originally, it was intended for anti-partisan activities, but was later moved to the front line. In December, the corps met at the Battle of Velikiye Luki in intense fighting, together with the 1st SS Infantry Brigade. Members of the Frikorps Danmark taking the oath in 1941. In March, the body was moved to Grafenwöhr, near Nuremberg, Germany. Then, on June 6, 1943, the Corps was disbanded. Most of the soldiers were transferred to the "24th Dänemark Regiment" of the 11th SS Grenadier Division "Nordland". Others joined groups such as the HIPO Corps or the Schalburg Corps. #DeutscheWochenschau #worldwar2 #GermanNewsreels #Goebbels #GermanPropaganda #Monatsschau #Blitz #EasternFront #WaffenSS @Military1945

🔥SUPPORT THE CHANNEL and get access to exclusive film footage www.Patreon.com/Military1945 Episode 207 1:29 - The Japanese ambassador in Berlin, General Hirosho Oshima; visits a unit of German night fighters; a major (RK) explains to him an Me 109 1:57 - Croatian air-force soldiers return home after their deployment on the Eastern Front; Prime Minister Dr. Ante Pavelic greets the pilots upon their arrival; March past Pevelic. 2:57 - Army Group Center on the Eastern Front Helmets are painted with white camouflage paint; Walls of snow are built. 3:45 - b) deployment of a communications line repair team; line test; the line is being repaired in the snowy forest; Soviet snipers fire on the team, a light MG returns fire ; a wounded man is brought back in the snowstorm. 5:37 - c) artillery spotting; night artillery fire on Soviet positions; Prisoners are brought back by military police, captured military equipment. 6:45 - Caucasus Front floodplain in the Caucasus; Slovaks cross a flooded area in a dinghy; Romanian mountain troops on the Terek; high water crossings; German infantry gun fires at a house, it's blown up. 8:29 - Cultivating the fields in Tunisia, farmers plowing. 8:52 - General Wolfgang Fischer goes to the front positions in the Tebaorda area in an armored reconnaissance vehicle; Observation of enemy positions in the foothills of the Atlas Mountains; Viewing of downed American tanks and aircraft; American prisoners. 10:31 - German submarines in the South Atlantic. The crew of the sunk German auxiliary cruiser "Atlantis" is picked up by "U 126"; Boats are towed; Entrance to the base on the Atlantic coast; Farewell to the Italian sailors. The commander, Captain Bernhard Rogge, reports the return of the crew of the "Atlantis" to Grand Admiral Erich Raeder; Raeder awards crew members with the Hilfskreuzer badge. (End of December 1941) Small film footage of the "Atlantis"; alarm on the ship; an English tanker is set on fire by on-board artillery and sunk. The German auxiliary cruiser Atlantis (HSK 2), known to the Kriegsmarine as Schiff 16 and to the Royal Navy as Raider-C, was a converted German Hilfskreuzer (auxiliary cruiser), or merchant or commerce raider of the Kriegsmarine, which, in World War II, travelled more than 161,000 km (100,000 mi) in 602 days, and sank or captured 22 ships with a combined tonnage of 144,384. Atlantis was commanded by Kapitän zur See Bernhard Rogge, who received the Oak Leaves to the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross. She was sunk on 22 November 1941 by the British cruiser HMS Devonshire. Commerce raiders do not seek to engage warships, but rather attack enemy merchant shipping; the measures of success are tonnage destroyed (or captured) and time spent at large. Atlantis was second only to Pinguin in tonnage destroyed, and had the longest raiding career of any German commerce raider in either world war. She captured highly secret documents from Automedon. A version of the story of Atlantis is told in the film Under Ten Flags with Van Heflin appearing as Captain Rogge. Journey to the South Atlantic In 1939, she became the command of Kapitän Bernhard Rogge. Commissioned in mid-December, she was the first of nine or ten merchant ships armed by Nazi Germany for the purposes of seeking out and engaging enemy cargo vessels. Atlantis was delayed by ice until 31 March 1940,[9] when the former battleship Hessen was sent to act as an icebreaker, clearing the way for Atlantis, Orion, and Widder.[citation needed]. Weather information was supplied to Atlantis by the weather ships WBS 3 Fritz Homann, WBS 4 Hinrich Freese and WBS 5 Adolf Vinnen.[10] Atlantis headed past the North Sea minefields, between Norway and Britain, across the Arctic Circle, between Iceland and Greenland, and headed south. By this time, Atlantis was pretending to be a Soviet vessel named Kim by flying the Soviet naval ensign, displaying a hammer and sickle on the bridge, and having Russian and English warnings on the stern, "Keep clear of propellers". The Soviet Union was neutral at the time.[citation needed] After crossing the equator, on 24–25 April, she took the guise of the Japanese vessel Kasii Maru. The ship now displayed a large K upon a red-topped funnel, identification of the K Line transportation company. She also had rising sun symbols on the gun flaps and Japanese characters (copied from a magazine) on the aft hull. #DeutscheWochenschau #worldwar2 #GermanNewsreels #Goebbels #GermanPropaganda #Monatsschau #Blitz #EasternFront #WaffenSS @Military1945

🔥SUPPORT THE CHANNEL and get access to exclusive film footage www.Patreon.com/Military1945 Episode 208 1:33 - Japanese landing on the Aleutian Islands and Kiska in June of 1942. A Japanese convoy in rough waters travels to the north; Troops land in landing craft; Seaplanes in a bay; Attack of an American bomber on Japanese ships; Japanese flak firing, the bombers bombs explode in the water, the bomber is shot down; Japanese soldiers celebrate their successful landing. Animated map showing the Japanese successes over the first 12 months of war. 3:37 - Italian Battalion "M" prepare to leave for the Eastern Front. They bid fairwell and march through the streets of an Italian city. 4:15 - Attack of German Stukas south of Lake Ilmen. Bombs explode; Infantry fight Soviet tanks; Captured Soviet soldiers march to the back. 6:38 - German-French border. German troops cross on 11. November; Trucks pass through and tracked vehicles follow down the Toulouse-Carcassone road; Tanks drive through the city of Narbonne; They take a break, Soldiers read newspapers; A train carrying fuel for the Luftwaffe goes past; At the port of Marseilles, Flak batteries secure the airspace of the port; Greeted by Spanish border guards at the French-Spanish border in the Pyrenees. German troops occupy Toulon; the coast is secured. 9:29 - Private footage taken by Luftwaffe soldiers in 1943 #DeutscheWochenschau #worldwar2 #GermanNewsreels #Goebbels #GermanPropaganda #Monatsschau #Blitz #EasternFront #WaffenSS @Military1945

🔥ACCESS TO EXCLUSIVE FOOTAGE www.Patreon.com/Military1945 Episode 210 MONATSSCHAU Nr. 11, 1943 German submarines in the South Atlantic Tunesian Front, impressions of Tunis and of several front posts Logistics in the north of the Eastern Front The Spanish "Blue Division" near Leningrad Area around elikije Luki Middle sector of the Eastern Front. The 250th Infantry Division (German: 250. Infanterie-Division), better known as the Blue Division (Spanish: División Azul, German: Blaue Division), was a unit of volunteers from Francoist Spain operating from 1941 to 1944 within the German Army (Wehrmacht) on the Eastern Front during World War II. It was officially designated the Spanish Volunteer Division (Spanish: División Española de Voluntarios) by the Spanish Army. Francisco Franco had secured power in Spain after the Nationalist victory in the Spanish Civil War (1936–1939), during which the Nationalists received support from Nazi Germany. Franco's authoritarian regime remained officially non-belligerent in World War II but sympathised with the Axis powers. After lobbying by the Spanish Foreign Minister Ramón Serrano Suñer and by senior figures within the Spanish Army following the 22 June 1941 launch of Operation Barbarossa, Franco agreed that Spanish people would be permitted to enlist privately in the German Army and undertook to provide tacit support. An infantry division was raised from Falangist and Spanish Army cadres and was sent for training in Germany. The unit fought on the Eastern Front and notably participated in the 1941–1944 siege of Leningrad, but was withdrawn from the Front after Allied pressure in October 1944 and returned to Spain soon afterwards. Several thousand non-returners were incorporated into the 121st Infantry Division, the short-lived Blue Legion, and eventually into the Waffen-SS. On 31 July, after taking the Hitler Oath, the Blue Division was formally incorporated into the German Wehrmacht as the 250th Division. It was initially assigned to Army Group Center, the force advancing towards Moscow. The division was transported by train to Suwałki, Poland (August 28), from where it had to continue by foot on a 900-kilometre (560 mi) march. It was scheduled to travel through Grodno, and Lida in Belarus, Vilnius (Lithuania), and Maladzyechna, Minsk, and Orsha in Belarus to Smolensk, and from there to the Moscow front. While marching towards the Smolensk front on September 26, the Spanish volunteers were rerouted from Vitebsk and reassigned to Army Group North (the force closing on Leningrad), becoming part of the German 16th Army. The Blue Division was first deployed on the Volkhov River front, with its headquarters in Grigorovo, on the outskirts of Novgorod. It was in charge of a 50-kilometre (31 mi) section of the front north and south of Novgorod, along the banks of the Volkhov River and Lake Ilmen. The division's soldiers used the iconostasis of the Church of Saint Theodore Stratelates on the Brook for firewood. The iconostases of the Cathedral of St. Sophia, Sts. Peter and Paul Church in Kozhevniki, and the Cathedral of the Nativity of the Mother of God in the Antoniev Monastery were taken to Germany at the end of 1943. According to the museum curator in the Church of the Transfiguration on Ilyina Street, the division used the high cupola as a machine-gun nest. As a result, much of the building was seriously damaged, including many of the medieval icons by Theophanes the Greek. Vladimir Kovalevskii, one of the division's White Russian emigre interpreters, left a particularly acerbic memoir account describing the low discipline and the crimes committed by the Spanish volunteers. In August 1942, the Blue Division was transferred north to the southeastern flank of the siege of Leningrad, just south of the Neva River near Pushkin, Kolpino and Krasny Bor in the Izhora River area. After the collapse of the German southern front following the Battle of Stalingrad, more German troops were deployed southwards. By this time, General Emilio Esteban Infantes had taken command. The Blue Division faced a major Soviet attempt to break the siege of Leningrad in February 1943, when the Soviet 55th Army, reinvigorated after the victory at Stalingrad, attacked the Spanish positions at the Battle of Krasny Bor, near the main Moscow-Leningrad road. Despite very heavy casualties, the Spaniards were able to hold their ground against a Soviet force seven times larger and supported by tanks. The assault was contained and the siege of Leningrad was maintained for a further year. The division remained on the Leningrad front where it continued to suffer heavy casualties due to weather and to enemy action.

🔥ACCESS TO EXCLUSIVE FOOTAGE www.Patreon.com/Military1945 Episode 211 MONATSSCHAU Nr. 12, 1943 1:32 Loading of a Honved formation for use on the Eastern Front; a chimney sweep is attacked as a good luck charm; Farewell at the train station, the train leaves. 2:13 Swearing-in of new Dutch volunteers to a Waffen-SS battalion in Amsterdam; March past SS Obergruppenführer Hanns Rauter. 2:49 Tunisian Front. Panzer advance in central Germany; drive through a cactus field; Tank battle with American tanks, burning tanks; Medical tank drives up. The wounded are bandaged and brought back; shot up American tanks, captured English and Americans. 5:17 Counter attack of the LSAAH on the Eastern Front 8:40 Stukas Ju 86 take off for an enemy flight; Me 109 flying escort; Deep attacks by fighters on ground targets, air battles with Soviet fighters.

🔥PREVIEW ALL YOUTUBE VIDEOS www.Patreon.com/Military1945 Episode 212 MONATSSCHAU Nr. 13, April 1943 Greece 2:16 - Heavy weapons and newly arrived German soldiers marching through the streets of Athens; loading of tanks, trucks in Athen's port and then transport to the island of Crete; destroyer secures the convoy. 5:17 - Crete's coastline; construction of tank obstacles on the southern coast; barbed wire is set up, camouflaged gun emplacements; German fighters take off from Crete's airbase. 4:39 - Japanese troops in operations in the province of Junnan; advancing through the jungle; Budhist priest; advance in Tshkiang Provence; fighting in mountainous areas against enemy partisan groups. 6:41 - Awarding of the Knights Cross to the 19 year old Dutch volunteer Mooyman by General Sinhuber south of Lake Ladoga (20.02.1943), Battle for Charkow. 7:16 - Armored and motorized units of the Waffen-SS advancing on Charkow; motorcycle troops; Flak batteries against land targets; German troops enter Charkow; tanks and infantry support guns in street fighting; the city is retaken on 14.03.1943. SIGNAL Nr. 5, March 1943 11:46 - The photographs and this article were produced by a propaganda company reporter embedded with a unit on the Easter Front. It’s titled "Motorcycle Troops behind Stuka". It describes how the fast moving elements of a division including armor, PzGr, and motorcycle troops race forwards hot on the heels of a retreating enemy while the majority of the division moves up slowly with little more to do than collect POWs and break up what’s left of local pockets of enemy resistance. Fuel for the quick advance of the mobile units is taken from stocks that had been flown in the evening before. During the night the Bolsheviks had broken contact and retreated out of the area abandoning their injured and those who couldn’t keep up to their fate. German night reconnaissance planes flew in low and reported that the Soviets had set up defensive positions about 30 km ahead in a rail hub. In the early morning a squadron of Stukas flys over head and bombards the new enemy positions effectively. In the meantime artillery has been brought up, and in cooperation with well positioned spotters, also begin firing on the enemy positions. The motorcycle troops, approaching the town, come under heavy enemy fire. They leave their motorcycles outside of the range of the enemy MGs and move forwards in groups, some directly and others on the flanks. They concentrate their fire on the industrial rail area that the enemy is holed up in and after a short but intense exchange of fire the enemy positions are taken. 3rd Battle of Kharkov The Third Battle of Kharkov was a series of battles on the Eastern Front of World War II, undertaken by German Army Group South against the Soviet Red Army, around the city of Kharkov between 19 February and 15 March 1943. Known to the German side as the Donets Campaign, and in the Soviet Union as the Donbas and Kharkov operations, the German counterstrike led to the recapture of the cities of Kharkov and Belgorod. As the German 6th Army was encircled in the Battle of Stalingrad, the Red Army undertook a series of wider attacks against the rest of Army Group South. These culminated on 2 January 1943 when the Red Army launched Operation Star and Operation Gallop, which between January and early February broke German defenses and led to the Soviet recapture of Kharkov, Belgorod, Kursk, as well as Voroshilovgrad and Izium. These victories caused participating Soviet units to over-extend themselves. Freed on 2 February by the surrender of the German 6th Army, the Red Army's Central Front turned its attention west and on 25 February expanded its offensive against both Army Group South and Army Group Center. Months of continuous operations had taken a heavy toll on the Soviet forces and some divisions were reduced to 1,000–2,000 combat-effective soldiers. On 19 February, Field Marshal Erich von Manstein launched his Kharkov counterstrike, using the fresh II SS Panzer Corps and two panzer armies. Manstein benefited greatly from the massive air support of Field Marshal Wolfram von Richthofen's Luftflotte 4, whose 1,214 aircraft flew over 1,000 sorties per day from 20 February to 15 March to support the German ground troops, a level of airpower equal to that during the Case Blue strategic offensive a year earlier.[5] The Wehrmacht flanked, encircled, and defeated the Red Army's armored spearheads south of Kharkov. This enabled Manstein to renew his offensive against the city of Kharkov proper on 7 March. Despite orders to encircle Kharkov from the north, the SS Panzer Corps instead decided to directly engage Kharkov on 11 March. This led to four days of house-to-house fighting before Kharkov was recaptured by the SS Division Leibstandarte on 15 March.

🔥PREVIEW ALL YOUTUBE VIDEOS www.Patreon.com/Military1945 Episode 215 SIGNAL 1944 & 1945 for sale... https://www.militaria1945.com/signal-1944-complete-p-38350.html MONATSSCHAU Nr. 14, May 1943 1:40 Big parade in front of General Francisco Franco on April 1, 1943 in Madrid on the occasion of the 4th anniversary of the end of the civil war; Infantry, cavalry, motorcycles, tanks, anti-aircraft guns, artillery and the fascist organization Falango. 2:58 Community camp of the Dutch, Norwegian, Danish, Flemish and Walloon fascist youth organizations at Lake Milchstätter See in Austria; young people arriving, greeting by a Hitler Youth leader; Morning exercise (gymnastics and games). 4:21 Battle of the Japanese in the South Pacific. Japanese Navy units advancing on New Guinea; Repelling an American bombing attack with anti-aircraft guns; Japanese infantry advancing in the jungles of New Guinea; the destroyed British Salomao airfield; Launch of Japanese fighter squadron to attack Port Darwin (Northern Australia); on enemy flight, crew members eat canned food; Bombing of Port Darwin. 6:35 Construction of the Atlantic Wall in France; Installation of the guns and a gun platform; Transport and installation of a huge gun barrel; Building a gun for the heaviest artillery, cleaning the gun barrel; Bunkers and gun emplacements. (Operation Overlord) 12:27 Complete 1944 & 45 original SIGNAL periodical collection intro 12:59 Takeoff of German He 111 fighter aircraft from a field airfield on the Eastern Front; Bombing of a Soviet city; Bombs hit a large train station. ATLANTIC WALL The Atlantic Wall (German: Atlantikwall) was an extensive system of coastal defences and fortifications built by Nazi Germany between 1942 and 1944 along the coast of continental Europe and Scandinavia as a defence against an anticipated Allied invasion of Nazi-occupied Europe from the United Kingdom, during World War II. The manning and operation of the Atlantic Wall was administratively overseen by the German Army, with some support from Luftwaffe ground forces. The Kriegsmarine (German Navy) maintained a separate coastal defence network, organised into a number of sea defence zones. Hitler ordered the construction of the fortifications in 1942 through his Führer Directive No. 40. More than half a million French workers were drafted to build it. The wall was frequently mentioned in Nazi propaganda, where its size and strength were usually exaggerated. The fortifications included colossal coastal guns, batteries, mortars, and artillery, and thousands of German troops were stationed in its defences. Today, ruins of the wall exist in all of the nations where it was built, although many structures have fallen into the ocean or have been demolished over the years. Prior to the Atlantic Wall decision, following a number of commando raids, on 2 June 1941 Adolf Hitler asked for maps of the Channel Islands. These were provided the next day and by 13 June 1941 Hitler had made a decision. Ordering additional men to the Islands and having decided the defences were inadequate, lacking tanks and coastal artillery, the Organisation Todt (OT) was instructed to undertake the building of 200–250 strong points in each of the larger islands. The plan was finalised by the OT and submitted to Hitler. The original defence order was reinforced with a second dated 20 October 1941, following a Fuhrer conference on 18 October to discuss the engineers' assessment of requirements. :197  The permanent fortification of the Channel Islands was to make them into an impregnable fortress to be completed within 14 months.: 448  Festungspionierkommandeur XIV was created to command the project of fortifying the Channel Islands. It was six months later on 23 March 1942 that Hitler issued Führer Directive No. 40, which called for the creation of an "Atlantic Wall". He ordered naval and submarine bases to be heavily defended. Fortifications remained concentrated around ports until late in 1943, when defences were increased in other areas. This decision required the army engineers and the OT to organise quickly. Massive supplies of cement, steel reinforcing and armour plate would be required and everything would need to be transported. Nazi propaganda claimed that the wall stretched from the cape of Norway down to the Spanish border.

🔥PREVIEW ALL YOUTUBE VIDEOS www.Patreon.com/Military1945 Episode 219 SIGNAL 1944 & 1945 for sale... https://www.militaria1945.com/signal-1944-complete-p-38350.html MONATSSCHAU Nr. 15 Spring, 1943 1:49 - Flemish volunteer for the Waffen-SS and for the Legion "Flanders" for use on the Eastern Front; March through the streets of Brussels, to the train station; Farewell scenes and train exit as they leave for the east. 2:51 - Conscription of young recruits into the Wehrmacht; Styrians say goodbye to their relatives; March in civilian clothes through Graz to the train station, departure of the train. Footage & Article 4:07 - Training of young officers for light and heavy artillery at the artillery school in Jüterborg; theoretical lessons from a Knight's Cross holder; lessons at the sandpit; training in light measurement service; observation point in the classroom; Practice shooting with small-caliber rifles at a miniature village; firing live ammunition at the shooting range; aerial footage of the battery and impacts 9:00 - U-Boote auf Feindfahrt im Atlantik; Übersetzen im Schlauchboot zu einem Versorgungs-U-Boot; Legung einer Ölleitung und Ölübernahme; Verpflegung wird herübergezurrt; Eierkuchenbacken in der Kombüse; Alarm; U-Boot geht auf Tauschstation; der Kommandant am Sehrohr; auftauchendes U-Boot, brennender Frachter. Maschinenraum des U-Bootes. Signal Article In the school of the Artilleryman. Where are the enemy artillery batteries positioned? The electric lights, which turn on and off, represent enemy canons firing in this miniature landscape and must be honed in on by the gunners using their optical instruments. Performance is then calculated using the angle measuring method. Target: Enemy Battery on Hill 115. Using a miniature canon, the same firing calculations are made as would take place on a full sized canon. Everything that a future battery chief will need can be trained here including the Creeping Barrage and Corrected Fire, for both direct and indirect fire. 50 meters too short. The students observe carefully where the small shells land and thereby, as a group, learn the art of the artilleryman. Straight ahead, in the town, an enemy tank. With the small practice canons the trainees learn to shoot. What is the purpose of this exercise? The long distances that the canons can shoot was a real problem in the training process basically because they were unable to physically see where the shells were landing. This problem was resolved in the Wehrmacht’s artillery school by reducing the scale of all sizes and distances equally. After going over the lessons learned the tank and the target town are brought back to the workshop to be repaired.

🔥PREVIEW ALL YOUTUBE VIDEOS www.Patreon.com/Military1945 Episode 220 SIGNAL 1944 & 1945 for sale... https://www.militaria1945.com/signal-1944-complete-p-38350.html MONATSSCHAU Nr 16 July, 1943 1:50 - Ukrainian farmers are granted private land by German authorities 2:44 - Amateur boxing between different nationalities of foreign workers in Germany 4:10 - Day of the Italian navy in Rome 5:19 - German naval operations along the Atlantic coast 7:18 - German anti-submarine operations off the Dutch coast 8:21 - Combat operations around Leningrad 10:32 - Man vs. Tank training using periodical Nr 12 from the Signal series which was published in late June, 1943 Siege of Leningrad GERMAN PLANS Army Group North under Field Marshal Wilhelm Ritter von Leeb advanced to Leningrad, its primary objective. By early August, Army Group North was seriously over-extended, having advanced on a widening front and dispersed its forces on several axes of advance. Leeb estimated he needed 35 divisions for all of his tasks, while he only had 26. The attack resumed on 10 August but immediately encountered strong opposition around Luga. Elsewhere, Leeb's forces were able to take Kingisepp and Narva on 17 August. The army group reached Chudovo on 20 August, severing the rail link between Leningrad and Moscow. Tallinn was captured on 28 August. Finnish military forces were north of Leningrad, while German forces occupied territories to the south. Both German and Finnish forces had the goal of encircling Leningrad and maintaining the blockade perimeter, thus cutting off all communication with the city and preventing the defenders from receiving any supplies – although Finnish participation in the blockade mainly consisted of a recapture of lands lost in the Winter War. The Germans planned on lack of food being their chief weapon against the citizens; German scientists had calculated the city would reach starvation after only a few weeks. LENINGRAD FORTIFIED REGION On Friday, 27 June 1941, the Council of Deputies of the Leningrad administration organised "First response groups" of civilians. In the next days, Leningrad's civilian population was informed of the danger and over a million citizens were mobilised for the construction of fortifications. Several lines of defences were built along the city's perimeter to repel hostile forces approaching from north and south by means of civilian resistance. In the south, the fortified line ran from the mouth of the Luga River to Chudovo, Gatchina, Uritsk, Pulkovo and then through the Neva River. Another line of defence passed through Peterhof to Gatchina, Pulkovo, Kolpino and Koltushy. In the north the defensive line against the Finns, the Karelian Fortified Region, had been maintained in Leningrad's northern suburbs since the 1930s, and was now returned to service. A total of 306 km (190 mi) of timber barricades, 635 km (395 mi) of wire entanglements, 700 km (430 mi) of anti-tank ditches, 5,000 earth-and-timber emplacements and reinforced concrete weapon emplacements and 25,000 km (16,000 mi) of open trenches were constructed or excavated by civilians. Even the guns from the cruiser Aurora were removed from the ship to be used to defend Leningrad. ENCIRCLEMENT OF LENINGRAD Map showing the Axis encirclement of Leningrad Finnish intelligence had broken some of the Soviet military codes and read their low-level communications. This was particularly helpful for Hitler, who constantly requested intelligence information about Leningrad. Finland's role in Operation Barbarossa was laid out in Hitler's Directive 21, "The mass of the Finnish army will have the task, in accordance with the advance made by the northern wing of the German armies, of tying up maximum Russian (sic – Soviet) strength by attacking to the west, or on both sides, of Lake Ladoga". The last rail connection to Leningrad was severed on 30 August 1941, when the Germans reached the Neva River. On 8 September, the road to the besieged city was severed when the Germans reached Lake Ladoga at Shlisselburg, leaving just a corridor of land between Lake Ladoga and Leningrad which remained unoccupied by Axis forces. Bombing on 8 September caused 178 fires. On 21 September 1941, German High Command considered how to destroy Leningrad. Occupying the city was ruled out "because it would make us responsible for food supply". The resolution was to lay the city under siege and bombardment, starving its population. "Early next year, we [will] enter the city (if the Finns do it first we do not object), lead those still alive into inner Russia or into captivity, wipe Leningrad from the face of the earth through demolitions, and hand the area north of the Neva to the Finns." On 7 October, Hitler sent a further directive signed by Alfred Jodl reminding Army Group North not to accept capitulation.