German Newsreel 1942 MONATSSCHAU Nr. 10 - ATLANTIS auxiliary cruiser

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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.

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