# GERMAN NEWSREEL EXCERPTS

National Archives and Records Administration - ARC 43529, LI 242.240 - GERMAN NEWSREEL EXCERPTS - DVD Copied by Nick Stoller. Series: Motion Picture Films Confiscated From Foreign Countries And Sources, compiled 1940 - 1944. Part 1, Dutch Workers, Service recruits receive patriotically, symbolic shovels and parade. Part 2, a Greek Catholic priest celebrates Mass and natives perform a dance during a Serbian festival. Part 3, sailboats race off Malaga Spain. Part 4, Czechoslovakia soldiers ski in the Carpathians. Part 5, German torpedo boats, equipped with twin antiaircraft guns, accompany, a French fishing fleet to sea and drive off an enemy plane. OSS commentary: the Germans may have been preventing the French from escaping. Part 6, newly organized Italian Army units celebrate Mass in Trieste and take an oath to the Italian flag. OSS commentary: Germany maintains that Italy is still an effective ally. Part 7, German troops in Italy, despite an Allied air attack, bring up supplies by mule and truck to reinforce their positions. Part 8, German troops escort Abbot Gregorian Di Mare to Vatican City from the ruins of Monte Cassino. Also shows wreckage in Castel Gandolfo. Part 9, German infantry, trucks, and heavy Panther tanks retreat in Russia; demolition teams use light bombs to destroy bridges and supplies. Part 10, Russian prisoners are taken near Kirovograd as German armor, supported by artillery and rockets, counterattacks.

- Kind: Newsreel
- Year: 1944
- By: National Archives and Records Administration
- Genres: Education, News
- Archive: [Internet Archive](https://archive.org/details/gov.archives.arc.43529)
- Licence or status: [CC0 1.0](http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) (as the archive states it)
- Who can watch: Teens profiles and older (the archive gives no rating; placed by Invisible Network from its collection and subjects)

Not offered: its uploader marks it public domain, and the US Copyright Office's records do not settle that it is (a record that may be another film's, a film first published abroad, a year when renewal was automatic, or a country they do not name). Unclear is not offered.