PRIVATE 29th (mot.) ID footage - 2nd COLOR German Newsreel 1944

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Episode 216

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1:40 - Glass blowing workshop
2:49 - Circus acts
4:49 - Mountain troops on in the Italian Alps
6:21 - Die Wehrmacht periodical from 1944, Nr 3 article
9:01 - Soviet bombing raid on a Luftwaffe base in Norway
9:28 - With a Kriegsmarine unit setting up anti-submarine nets
11:40 - 29th (mot.) Infantry Division (Falcon Division)

The content of the Die Wehrmacht periodicals included military life, stories from all branches of the German military, the Luftwaffe, Kriegsmarine, Heer and Waffen-SS. Articles covered current political events, battlefield results in all the theaters of war including the French Campaign, Belgium and the Netherlands, Battle of Britain, invasion of Norway, Balkan campaign, and the war against the Soviet Union. Although heavily laden with German propaganda, much information about important historical events can be found. Over the years this collection has been widely collected and collections have become quite valuable.

The 29th Infantry Division was a unit of the German army created in the fall of 1936. It was based on the old Reichswehr 15th Infantry Regiment and drew its initial recruits from Thuringia. It was upgraded to 29th Motorized Infantry Division in the fall of 1937. The division was also known as the Falke-Division (Falcon Division).

Taking part in Operation Barbarossa it was attached to the German 4th Army and took part in a number of actions against isolated Soviet formations at Minsk, Smolensk and Bryansk. It was then sent to support Guderian's 2nd Panzer Army near Tula. The division lost most of its vehicles and many killed and captured during the retreat from Moscow at Mordves, south of Kashira in the Moscow oblast. In 1942 it spent the first 6 months in action near Orel and then in July 1942 was assigned to the German 6th Army as part of Army Group South. It took part in the fighting on the approaches to Stalingrad, and in the city itself. It was redeployed to serve as the 4th Panzer Army's mobile reserve at the end of September, and relocated behind the IV Corps guarding the southern flank of the 6th Army forces in Stalingrad.

When the Red Army's second pincer attack was launched from the south, the division was pushed into the south-west corner of the pocketed German forces. Having been held in reserve for most of the Stalingrad campaign, the division was at 90% combat strength according to its situation reports. On 21 January 1943 it was attacked by the Soviet 21st Army, and was destroyed.

It was then reconstituted in France in the early spring from the recently formed 345th Infantry Division. It was transferred to the Sicilian Campaign as the 29th Panzergrenadier Division for sometime in the defence of the Northern Route to Messina. Thereafter it fought in Italy at Salerno, Anzio, and San Pietro and was destroyed by the British in northern Italy just before the end of the war.

In the final days of the war, on 29 April 1945, the division was involved in the San Martino di Lupari massacre, where it used Italian civilians as human shields against partisan attacks and eventually executed 125 hostages.