German Newsreel 1943 MONATSSCHAU Nr. 14 - SIGNAL 1944/45 Complete

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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.