Ostland Woche №20805 (1944)

Kaunas Theatre.

A variety concert for soldiers in the frontline area, hosted by actor Hans Richter.

He introduces a singer who performs a number from the classical repertoire.

The faces of the audience - soldiers, nurses, residents.

A plane with Major General Galland, who has arrived to inspect the German Air Force located in Romania, lands at the airport in Bucharest.

He is met by German and Romanian officers.

The famous German surgeon Sauerbruck, who recently operated on King Michael I in Bucharest, inspects a number of hospitals.

He goes around the wards with the doctors, looks at X-rays, visits the department with baths for patients, and the prosthetic workshop.

Snowdrifts in the French Alps blocked the railway tracks.

The tracks are cleared with the help of a special compound.

Winter sports are in full swing in Moravia.

Children and young people are skiing and sledding.

Girls playing with a puppy.

Mass sledding down a mountain.

Children making a snowman, organizing a mock snowball fight.

Skiing competitions for the national championship in 1944. 110 participants demonstrate great skill in cross-country skiing and slalom.

A wrestling match took place in Berlin.

Germany, Slovakia, and Norway are participating in the international tournament.

Athletes performing.

There are many soldiers among the spectators.

The oath of office of the new reinforcements of the Serbian police, which is accepted by the commander of the Serbian police, General Borivoj Jonic.

Columns of police officers on a square in Belgrade.

A close-up of a patch on a sleeve.

The general inspects the formation.

A representative of Prime Minister Milan Nedic arrives for the ceremony.

After taking the oath, a mullah addresses the soldiers.

Map of the northern section of the front: Leningrad, Narva, Luga.

German artillery firing in a populated area.

The Germans building new positions using a trench plow.

Soldiers with shovels dig trenches.

Soldiers in camouflage suits near a train.

Lunch from a field kitchen, soldiers get soup in pots, the cook hands out dry rations, pours cookies out of a box.

Tanks are driving along the road, scouts in camouflage suits are walking.

Attack of German tanks.

View from a moving tank, it breaks bushes and trees.

Tanks and mortars are shooting.

The battle continues until night, the enemy retreats.

Captured Soviet trenches, dead Soviet soldiers lie in them, broken tanks and guns stand.

A tank torn to pieces by an explosion.

Military operations in southern Italy.

The Anglo-American bridgehead at Nettuno has been taken by the German army.

There is wrecked American equipment and tanks.

Prisoners are sitting on the ground, smoking.

A German doctor is bandaging wounded prisoners.

An air battle is taking place at the edge of the bridgehead.

Prisoners and soldiers are looking at the sky.

The zigzags of smoke stripes show that the enemy unit has been scattered by German fighters.

German anti-aircraft guns are firing at allied aircraft.

German paratroopers are preparing for battle, collecting parachutes, and walking across the terrain.

Knight's Cross recipient Major Walter Guericke, commander of the landing group, and his soldiers are preparing for a combat mission.

A machine gunner provides security for the detachment.

The bridgehead is being shelled by German artillery.

The Commander-in-Chief of the Italian Front, Field Marshal Albert Kesselring, is looking through a telescope.

Anzio is being shelled.

Heavy railway artillery is firing.

An explosion filmed through a periscope.

The gunners throw aside huge shell casings.

Alarm at a German airfield.

German fighters are standing, ready for battle.

Close-up of a spinning propeller.

A message is received about approaching enemy aircraft.

The pilots run out of the barracks and get into their cars.

The announcer reports that over 600 Anglo-American aircraft, mainly four-engine bombers, were destroyed during terrorist raids on Germany over the past week.

An air battle with allied aircraft.

An English bomber is shot down and is on fire.

A German squadron rushes at the enemy.

A young pilot lands, having won his first aerial victory, the plane flaps its wings.

The pilot is met by his comrades, who carry him in their arms.

The pilots share their impressions of the battle.

The wreckage of the English plane in the forest is extinguished with a hose.

Scattered parts of a bomber.

Forced landing of a British plane.

The onset of a snowstorm does not prevent German fighters from continuing the battle.

Attack aircraft take to the sky.

Air battle, the bomber is burning.