Ostland Woche №22212 (1942)

Lithuanian Commissioner General Theodor Adrian von Renteln attends a memorial service for Lithuanians killed by the Bolsheviks.

He lays a wreath at the graves.

Girls in national costumes carry a wreath and flowers, priests pass by.

Church service for the dead at the cemetery.

Women with children at the graves.

Photo at the grave.

Renteln walks past the soldiers, delivers a speech from the balcony.

Parade in front of Renteln, military orchestra and soldiers marching.

Flags with swastikas hang.

Residents watch the parade.

Visit of Reich Minister for the Occupied Eastern Territories Alfred Rosenberg to Riga.

Meeting at the train station.

General Commissioner of the Reichskommissariat Ostland Gauleiter Heinrich Lohse greets Rosenberg.

Latvian girls bring flowers to Rosenberg.

Laying a wreath at the graves of fallen German soldiers at the military cemetery.

Rosenberg meeting with the population at the ruins of a medieval German knight's castle.

Residents greet the Reich Minister, waving flags with swastikas.

Three women in national costumes approach Rosenberg with trays on which there are jugs of wine, bread and salt.

The crowd raises their hands in a fascist salute.

Rosenberg walks through the crowd.

Views of Helsinki.

Posters about an art exhibition on war themes.

The exhibition building with national flags at the entrance.

President Risto Ryti arrives at the exhibition, he is greeted in the hall.

Visiting the exhibition, paintings and drawings hang on the walls.

Landscapes, battle scenes, portraits of soldiers.

Visitors in the pavilion.

An old man fires an old mortar, giving the signal for the beginning of a traditional Catholic religious procession.

The procession goes along a path through a field.

A group of girls in white dresses.

The girls carry a statue of the Madonna, the priests carry banners.

A view of a beautiful area with mountains, forests and fields.

Latvian Commissioner General Otto-Heinrich Drexler arrives on a visit to a Latvian village.

He inspects the guard of honour.

Children in national costumes present Drexler with flowers.

The villagers greet him.

Drexler delivers a speech to the crowd.

Ivan Kupala Day in the village.

The villagers wear flower crowns and follow the accordionist.

Dancing around a bonfire at dusk.

Young people jump over the bonfire.

A sports festival of fascist youth is taking place at the Mussolini Forum stadium.

Mussolini is in the stands.

On the field, girls perform mass gymnastics.

Spectators in the stands, including soldiers.

Young men perform mass exercises, holding flags.

Mussolini applauds.

Sports demonstrations on the field.

Athletes perform in the centre of the field, while young people with flags frame the centre of the stadium.

In Brussels, workers lay paving stones at a road construction site in the city.

A young man takes out an accordion and plays for his comrades.

The workers begin to pound their hammers to the rhythm of the music, keeping up the melody.

Diggers with shovels and picks stop to listen to them.

The impromptu concert attracts the attention of passers-by.

Production processes at a weaving factory in Sarajevo.

Male weavers at work.

A woman at a spinning wheel, another at a loom.

Carpets being made by hand at the factory.

Finished carpets.

An exhibition of Jordanian culture has opened in one of the castles in Copenhagen.

Queen Alexandrina and her husband, King Christian X, arrive for the opening of the exhibition.

Residents greet the royal couple and their retinue.

Trumpeters in old waistcoats play, children wave flags and bring flowers.

The monarchs examine the exhibits.

An aviation festival is taking place at the Aviator Monument in Stockholm.

The monument is a large eagle with outstretched wings.

The pedestal on which it stands is decorated with sculptural reliefs depicting Icarus, the first aeronauts, and combat aircraft.

A military orchestra and air force units march across the square.

City residents and widows of the fallen pilots stand.

A wreath is laid at the monument.

Inside the sculptural composition is an urn containing the medals of all fallen Swedish pilots.

An officer places more medals and a plaque with the names of volunteer pilots who died fighting the Bolsheviks in the urn.

Relatives of the dead lay flowers.

A farewell ceremony is being held in Prague for SS General, Reich Protector of Bohemia and Moravia Reinhardt Heydrich, who was killed in Prague on 4 June 1942. A rally is being held in the city square, the Moravian Minister of Propaganda is speaking.

Faces of people in the crowd, a line of German officers.

Laying of wreaths from all the provinces of the Protectorate.

People walk with their hands raised in a fascist salute.

A bowl of fire.

Drummers play.

The funeral procession with a hearse heads from Prague Castle to the central station along the streets of Prague, across the bridge.

From Prague, the cortege is seen off by Deputy Reich Protector Daluege.

The funeral train departs for Berlin.

Heydrich's funeral in Berlin.

A funeral meeting in the Mosaic Hall of the Reich Chancellery.

Hitler, Goering, and Himmler walk through the hall and sit in the front row.

Himmler approaches the coffin and salutes.

Hitler approaches Heydrich's sons, who are sitting next to Ribbentrop, and shakes their hands.

Southern sector, Crimea.

Marshal Antonescu, who has arrived to inspect the Romanian units, meets with General von Bock.

General Manstein accompanies Bock and Antonescu during their inspection of the combat positions.

A panorama of a wooded area from a peak.

Romanian and German soldiers march along a mountain road.

Machine gunners at a crevice.

Tanks drive along a mountain road.

A German artillery battery prepares for battle, shelling begins in the Sevastopol area.

The gunners carry a shell with the inscription: "To Sevastopol." German guns fire, the city is visible in the distance.

A cameraman films the shootout.

The radio operator receives a message at the device, the liaison officer goes to the neighboring battery.

Headquarters in the open air.

The artillery opens fire.

The infantry goes on the attack, follows the tanks.

German planes take off.

View of Sevastopol from an airplane.

A German pilot in the cockpit.

Bombing of Sevastopol.