Ostland Woche №20802 (1943)

A funeral ceremony for the fallen German and Latvian soldiers is held at the Riga military cemetery.

A monument in the form of the Iron Cross.

Wreaths are laid at the monument.

Lithuanian military commandant Major General Emils Just and General Counsellor Petras Kubiliunas at the farewell ceremony for volunteers in Kaunas.

They walk past the volunteers on the square.

The ceremonial march of the units leaving for the Eastern Front, with an orchestra playing in front.

Residents see off the soldiers.

At the train station, the volunteers receive soup in their pots, which is poured out by women from tanks.

The train with the volunteers sets off.

In Riga, Latvian General Commissioner Otto-Heinrich Drexler delivers a speech about the fight against the Bolsheviks to the workers and soldiers sitting in the hall.

The presentation of property rights to peasants whose lands were taken away by the Bolsheviks.

A rally of landowners on the square in front of the official building, peasants are standing.

Commissioner Brikums delivers a speech, hands out land titles.

Commissioner of the Riga and Madona Regions Joachim Fust arrives in Riga, he passes children holding flags with swastikas, residents greet the distinguished guest.

Fust visits individual peasant farms, talks with the owners.

Distribution of land title deeds to peasants.

In Bucharest, in the presence of King Mihai I, Marshal Antonescu and members of the cabinet, a religious ceremony of blessing the waters in the army takes place.

The priest blesses Mihai and Antonescu, sprinkles them with holy water.

Mihai throws a cross into the river, a man in a long shirt takes it from the bottom, hands it to the king, who kisses the cross.

A parade of troops takes place in front of the king and the marshal.

Dance school in Berlin.

Girls do acrobatics, they do somersaults, twists.

After classes, the girls take a shower, give each other massages.

The girls do the "bicycle" exercise.

Rudolf Diesel's world-famous engines.

Diesel's first engine is in Denmark, engine demonstration.

Yunnan Province.

Operations of Japanese units against Chungking troops.

The Japanese advance through the forest with horses, march along the road, the inhabitants greet them.

A Buddhist lama greets the Japanese.

In Chungking Province, a raid is carried out against Chungking partisans in the jungle.

Japanese soldiers make their way through the rocks.

The Japanese attack, a grenade launcher and a cannon fire.

A detachment with a Japanese flag is walking.

Another area is cleared of bandits.

In Shanji Province, the Japanese make a hike into the mountains to a height of up to 3 thousand meters.

The Chinese, hiding in a gorge, attack the Japanese, a battle is underway.

The Japanese goal is to clear Asia of communists.

Military operations in Tunisia.

A German tank regiment in a reserve position in a cactus field.

The soldiers are resting, shaving, eating, reading letters.

The movement of equipment to Tunisia, German tanks in the Atlas Mountains.

Soldiers clear a path for tanks.

German grenadiers move forward.

The battle at Sidi Bou Zid, a view through a tank slit.

A tank battle with British and American tanks.

Tanks are burning on the side of the road.

American and British soldiers surrender, German tank crews look on.

A group of American rifle vehicles is surrounded.

Field Marshal Rommel walks through a cactus field to the destroyed tanks, looks at the wreckage of an English tank, and broken equipment.

Awarding of the Order of the Iron Cross to 19-year-old SS soldier Gerardus Mooijman from the Walloon Volunteer Legion.

In one day, he knocked out 7 Soviet tanks, and by evening, 6 more.

He is the first Dutch volunteer to be awarded the Knight's Cross.

Caucasus.

Off the coast of Novorossiysk, a Soviet landing attempt is thwarted.

A German coastal battery prepares for battle, the gunners uncover their guns.

A cannon fires at the enemy landing force, ferries, and ships in the area of Tsemesskaya Bay.

Fighting with the Soviet units that have landed on the shore.

Street fighting is underway in the city.

The Germans comb the forest.

The Soviet landing force is routed.

Broken ferries, guns, vehicles, and tanks lie on the shore.