This 1941 newsreel looks at progress on both fronts. On the Western Front it shows failing English air raids on German positions and French legion troops being sworn in. On the Eastern Front it shows Finnish troops making progress against the Soviets and German troops uncovering the corpses of the Kuressaare Massacre after their landing on Saaremaa Island (now in Estonia).

0:08 43/1941, 0:11 “Die Deutsche Wochenschau” (The German Weekly Review), 0:20 list of war reporters, 0:58 German flak crew rushing to their weapons and firing at aircraft in the sky, 2:18 footage from German fighter aircraft shooting down enemy planes, 2:30 the burning wreckage of an English plane, 2:35 cockpit footage of enemy fighters being shot down, 4:08 burning aircraft on the ground, 4:26 German fighter aircraft landing and the pilot stepping out, 4:50 French legion troops being sworn in in Nazi uniforms, 5:43 map of Finland, 5:50 Finnish troops marching down a newly built road, 6:31 Finnish soldiers eating, 6:50 Finnish artillery troops firing on Soviet positions, 7:36 infantry troops storming a position, 8:49 map of Saaremaa Island, 8:53 footage of destruction on the island, 9:20 Kuressaare Castle (Schloss Arensburg), 9:29 mass grave and corpses of soldiers found in the castle, some of the 90 victims of a massacre perpetrated by Soviet troops on civilians in Kuressaare in September 1941 10:11 different prisoners of war taken on the island

Die Deutsche Wochenschau was the title of the unified newsreel series released in the cinemas of Nazi Germany from June 1940 until the end of World War II. The coordinated newsreel production was set up as a vital instrument for the mass distribution of Nazi propaganda at war. The announcer of program was Harry Giese.