UFA NR 598 [Main Title]

I. Opening of Swedish Parliament. Guards march through snow towards Parliament building followed by members of Parliament wearing black top hats. Royal gala coach with King Gustav just visible inside passes.

II. Anniversary of Quisling's government in Norway. Exterior of Norwegian Parliament, partially snow-covered. Inside Minister President Quisling enters room and shakes hands with members of his government including Minister of the Interior Hagelin and Sports and Labour Service Chief Stang (wearing Nasjonal Samling uniform), Quisling then inspects members of Arbeidstjenst (Labour Service) drawn up in snow, accompanied by General Hanssen and Stang (wearing white hat). Members of Hird (Norwegian youth movement) in black uniforms look on.

III. Spanish children celebrate Epiphany. Children look at toys in shop windows before procession with camels and religious floats passes along narrow street at night in Barcelona.

IV. Physical training. Athletes run then train indoors with pole vault. (Unspecified country, although athletes look French.)

V. Swedish girls play ice hockey in the snow. Girls play ice hockey on frozen sea or lake, then emerge from log cabin sauna wearing only swimsuits or a towel to rub themselves in the snow.

VI. Table Tennis competition in Bratislava. Competition organised by Slovak Table Tennis Association and counting towards 1943 Danube Cup has German woman defeating Hungarian opponent and Hungarian couple winning mixed doubles.

VII. Football match between Northern France and Normandy in Lille. Former team wins 4-1.

VIII. Boxing match in Berlin. Elimination rounds for European heavyweight title fight pit Belgian Carl Zeiss against losing Italian Luigi Mousina. Audience of ten thousand plus includes many foreign workers.

IX. German repatriation of foreign prisoners. One hundred soldiers and nine officers, captured during German occupation of Tunisia, arrive at Roanne following personal decision of Führer that they be returned to France. Men depart by coach for Reception Centre where Tricolour is raised during small ceremony.

X. Unloading of German supplies in Tunisia. Animated map of Tunisia. Trucks and tank fuel are unloaded from tied up cargo vessel in Tunisian port (Bizerte ?), part of uninterrupted train of supplies arriving on German and Italian transports. 8.8cm Flak, camouflaged by palm fronds, protecting the port area is traversed and elevated. Messerschmitt Bf 109s take off and intercept "US bombers escorted by British fighters" as bombs fall in the sea and explode. British fighter pilot descends by parachute and is captured and searched by two paratroopers who wrap up the parachute. Wrecked Spitfire VB (EP 980) lies peppered in field.

XI. Night battle and German counterattack on central sector of Eastern Front. Animated map of Eastern Front from Lake Peipus to Kursk. Snow-covered plains, since months the scene of very hard fighting, are crossed by soldiers, well wrapped up against cold, and supply column of sledges. Advance force in snowsuits duck as incoming Russian shells land nearby. 8.8cm Flak fires in ground role. As dusk falls Russians strengthen their forces and gunflashes, flares and tracer pierce the night. Tank bursts into flames in the darkness. Snowsuited grenadiers advance behind snow-white Sturmgeschütz III with two radio aerials, in order to cut off an enemy breakthrough and destroy encircled Soviet forces. Germans move past small wood where shells explode and advance across snow, one soldier laying cable from drum across his back. ("Knocked-out Soviet tank" is actually German Sturmgeschütz III.) StuG III and 5cm Pak 38 open fire, as does group of three StuG IIIs. Soviets are reportedly annihilated.

XII. German planes attack Russians on Eastern Front. During defensive battles on Eastern Front Messerschmitt Bf 109s and Junkers Ju 87s and 88s take off from a snow-covered field. Aerial views show traces of tank battle below, black craters and explosions outlined against snow. Ju 88 (5K+60) of KG3 releases bombs, which camera tracks onto targeted Bolshevik supply columns. Russian petrol depot tank blazes below. 16mm camera gun film records pursuit of Mig 3 (silhouette) and Yakovlev 1 which disintegrates in mid-air.

35mm