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Afrika Korps
- Title
- Afrika Korps [videorecording] / Kolonial film.
- Publication
- Chicago : International Historic Films, 1942.
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Not available - Please for assistance. | Moving image | By appointment only | VTH 2245 | Offsite |
Details
- Description
- 1 videocassette (81 min.) : sd., b&w.; 1/2 in.
- Summary
- In none of the campaigns of World War II were natural environment and methods of fighting more unique than in North Africa. The savagery of combat and the inhospitable conditions of the Lybian desert placed unparalleled hardships in the path of the German Afrika Korps and their Allied antagonists. This program is composed exclusively of original German World War II footage and features the exploits of the German commander Erwin Rommel, the legendary "Desert Fox." The film opens with "German soldiers in Africa," an army film produced for troops ordered to duty on the African continent. Reserves are filmed being examined by medical personnel, fitted with uniforms, and traveling via train to Naples where they encamp. Supplies are loaded onto steamers, and the unit crosses in convoy to Tripoli whose scenic sights are also documented. German newsreel, February 1942: German and Italian naval officers participate in a ceremony honoring successful U-boat commanders in the Mediterranean. An Italian battleship protecting a German convoy to Tripoli engages attacking British destroyers in an artillery duel. General Rommel oversees Axis field guns bombard advancing enemy tanks. Italian armor counter attacks; British prisoners are shown. German newsreel, June 20 - 26, 1942: Colonel Adolf Galland visits an air base in the desert; Lieutenant Marseilles lands in his Me-109 fighter. General Rommel is decorated by Italian General Bastico. German vehicles advance on Bir Hacheim. A British armor attack is repulsed by anti-aircraft guns. A captured battle post which had been disguised by the British as a field hospital is shown. An Allied garrison surrenders. General Rommel photographs a downed English fighter plane. German newsreel, June 27 - July 3, 1942: German mechanized troops cut off British garrisons at Acroma and El Gazala. Engineers clear a path through a minefield. Italian flak engages attacking British aircraft. Stuka dive bombers raid Tobruk. German engineers bridge an anti-tank ditch as German armor advances. British soldiers from the Tobruk garrison surrender. German newsreel, July 4 - 7, 1942: German 88-millimeter guns take up positions on the Mediterranean coast and bombard British ships evacuating Tobruk harbor. Field Marshal Kesselring flies over the captured city. German troops enter Tobruk as thousands of British soldiers are sent to POW assembly areas. Rommel orders a further advance from his field headquarters. German newsreel, August 8 - 14, 1942: Mussolini visits Axis troops in North Africa. A German convoy arrives in Tobruk and Marshal Rommel is filmed at the front. Italian Bersaglieri troops are seen. German newsreel, August 1942: German soldiers at a coastal position swim in the Mediterranean. A new well is dug to replace one poisoned by retreating British troops. German reinforcements for the Alamein front pass a caravan enroute to their new positions. Marshals Rommel and Bastico observe a British armored thrust which is repulsed by heavy artillery. Damaged British tanks litter the battlefield. Rommel decorates anti-tank gunner Günther Halm on August 7, 1942. German newsreel, October 31 - November 6, 1942: A bomber squadron holds a situation conference. Heinkel III bombers are prepared for a long-range mission. Aircraft bomb the British-held Kufra oasis and strafe British flak positions. German newsreel, October 10 - 16, 1942: Marshal Rommel with Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels, holds a press conference in Berlin. Hitler presents Rommel with a field marshal's baton. Rommel attends the annual "Winter Help" rally in Berlin with Hitler, Goebbels, Himmler and Keitel.
- Subject
- Note
- In German with English subtitles.
- Title
- Afrika Korps [videorecording] / Kolonial film.
- Imprint
- Chicago : International Historic Films, 1942.
- Connect to:
- Branch Call Number
- VTH 2245 A