Ostland Woche №20821 (1944)

Training teenagers at a vocational school in Riga.

Chemistry classes in the lab.

Practical classes in the workshop, teenagers using metalworking tools.

A teacher checks a part made by a student.

A teenager processes a wrench in a vice.

Working on a lathe.

Samples of finished products are on the table: wrenches, spools, brackets, fasteners, etc.

A service in memory of those killed by the Bolsheviks is taking place in the Riga Cathedral.

The Metropolitan conducts the ceremony.

His speech in Russian: "Orthodox people, we call on you not to succumb to Bolshevik instigations and not to believe Bolshevik promises.

Bolshevism is godlessness and inhumanity, violence and lies.

Such is its inescapable essence, its unchanging nature, such was it a quarter of a century ago, such is it now.

Can one think that after 25 years of brutal persecution of the church, the Bolsheviks suddenly became its champions?

After 25 years of terrorist trampling on freedom, they suddenly became its defenders?

After 25 years of slave-owning mockery of Russia, they suddenly became filled with love for it?

It would be madness to believe this.

People listen to the Metropolitan's speech.

The Latvian "Labor Front" in action.

A youth labor detachment marches with shovels in their hands along the seashore.

Young men at work strengthening roads.

They dig up pieces of turf, lay it on the side of the road.

Political classes in the classroom.

Free time, the children write letters to their families at the table, read, play cards.

A teenager glues together a model of a military boat.

Another boy reads the newspaper "Tevija".

The detachment has military exercises.

They run in the field, throw grenades, run through a ravine, through the dunes on the seashore.

The detachment marches along the coast with shovels in their hands.

Celebration of the 2nd anniversary of Quisling's rule in Norway.

Groups of nationalist organizations prepare for a parade on the Palace Square in Oslo.

Norwegian SS volunteers march with a standard-bearer in front.

Residents watch the procession.

Quisling receives reports from units, the leader of the women's detachment gives a report.

Quisling walks past the line of sailors and soldiers.

People raise their hands in a fascist salute.

Troops parade in front of the Prime Minister.

RAD soldiers with shovels walk.

Romanian Marshal Antonescu arrives in Berlin by plane, German Foreign Minister Ribbentrop meets him at the airport, and they get into a car.

Antonescu at a meeting with Hitler.

Ribbentrop, Keitel, and generals are present.

Discussion of the military situation at a map.

Conversation of the military.

Visit of Croatian Prime Minister Nikola Mandic and Foreign Minister Mile Budak to Hitler.

Hitler and Reich Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop enter the hall and greet the ministers.

Issues concerning mutual interests are discussed in a friendly conversation.

A labor detachment marches with shovels in their hands.

Training teenagers in various professions in the training workshop of the German air industry, the boys at the machines.

The boys learn to solder, sharpen, and weld.

Parts are measured with calipers.

Experienced workers introduce future mechanics to all the intricacies of production.

On the Zhitomir-Kirovograd-Nikopol line.

In one of the Luftwaffe squadrons.

The planes are stuck in the mud.

A tractor is leveling the field.

Technicians are turning the plane around.

The plane is pulled out with the help of a tractor.

The technicians are barely walking through the mud in their boots, cleaning the chassis with shovels.

A German reconnaissance plane takes off.

The squadron commander watches the takeoff through binoculars.

While waiting for a report, all the planes are put on combat alert.

Aerial bombs are loaded onto the planes.

Major Hesar, a Knight of the Iron Cross, supervises the takeoff of his squadron.

The German squadron is in the air, bombing Soviet positions.

German attack aircraft are repelling an attack by Soviet fighters, an air battle is underway.

Combat operations in the Nettuno area.

German soldiers are walking along muddy roads.

Bad weather and difficult local conditions make it difficult for the troops to operate.

Soldiers load ammunition onto horses, lead them through the mud.

Unloading at a firing point in the mountains.

Soldiers in wet clothes are resting, eating and smoking.

An observer looks through binoculars.

Enemy shelling from a grenade launcher, shell explosions are visible in the distance near a populated area.

Soldiers run through the ruins of houses.

German tanks advancing near the city.

Fragments of the battle with the Anglo-American troops at Anzio.

Commanders at the map.

German guns and mortars are firing.

Soldiers lie down near the cacti.

The battle continues until dark, fires are visible in the distance.