WW2GermanNewsreels; Combat footage. German Wartime Newsreel (Die Deutsche Wochenschau).
Wikipedia; Operation Edelweiss, named after one of the best-known European mountain flowers, was a German plan to gain control over the Caucasus and capture the oil fields of Baku during the Soviet-German War.
When Rostov-on-Don, nicknamed “The Gates of Caucasus,” fell on July 23, 1942 the tank units of Ewald von Kleist moved across the Caucasian Mountain Range.
The “Edelweiss” division commander, Hubert Lanz, decided to advance through the gorges of rivers of the Kuban River basin and by crossing the Marukhskiy Pass (Maly Zelenchuk River), Teberda, Uchkulan reach the Klukhorskiy Pass, and simultaneously through the Khotyu-tau Pass block the upper reaches of the Baksan River and the Donguz-Orun and Becho passes.
The starting point of the operation on the Krasnodar-Pyatigorsk-Maikop line was reached on August 10, 1942. On August 21 a Nazi flag was installed on Mount Elbrus, the highest point of the Caucasus.
The film describes the Axis advances on Caucasus in August 1942.
