German Newsweek No. 585 20 November 1941 Full HD

The German Newsweek (Die Deutsche Wochenschau) was the unified newsreel of Germany from 19401945. The concept of a weekly newsreel was much older, dating back to WWI, and in the 1930s, there were several different weekly newsreels in Germany. With the outbreak of WWII, these were unified and from June 1940 shown under the title of The German Newsweek. It was one of the most important aspects of German propaganda. Each week, over 2000 copies were sent to theaters and movie houses throughout Germany and shown to the general public, as private TV ownership was extremly rare during WWII. Over 700 episodes were produced, and many of the historical WWII footage we nowadays have comes from the Wochenschau. This is issue No. 567 from 17th July 1941, only a few weeks after the start of Operation Barbarossa, the invasion of the Soviet Union. It starts with the prefilm Pictures from the Homeland, showing a variety of footage from within Germany, such as an aw