Ostland Woche №22466 (1944)

Arrival of the Reich Minister for the Occupied Eastern Territories Alfred Rosenberg in Lithuania.

At the station, the train is met by the military and local administration.

The motorcade of cars travels through the countryside.

Between tasks, Rosenberg inspects the estate of a German farmer who has had his land in Lithuania returned to him; he is accompanied by the local commandant.

At the commandant's office with a fascist flag at the entrance.

Printing house at work on German printing machines.

A girl types a text on a special machine that immediately makes letter cliches from lead, typesets a line from the cliches.

The typesetter assembles a newspaper page from the cliches.

Production moments of newspaper printing.

Newspaper sheets come out of the rotary machine, a teenager stacks newspapers.

Close-up of a newspaper called "The Future".

In Madrid, Caudillo Franco received representatives of the diplomatic corps at the Palacio de Oriente.

The diplomats walk up the grand staircase with their wives.

Reception at the palace, Franco greets the guests.

Norwegian Prime Minister Vidkun Quisling, accompanied by Reich Commissioner of Norway Josef Terboven, arrives at the Führer's headquarters for negotiations.

Hitler meets him at the porch, they go into the headquarters.

After that, Hitler receives the Norwegian ministers.

German children from the areas of aerial bombardment are distributed among exemplary organized children's homes.

Children in cribs, they get up, wash, dress.

Children in the dining room.

Children's leisure: they play with toys, look at books, listen to fairy tales read by the teacher.

In France, the traditional Versailles - Paris bicycle race took place.

Cyclists ride along rain-slicked streets, overcome obstacles.

They climb a hill, carrying bicycles in their hands, run across a field, go down the stairs.

The athletes are in Paris, with Robert Houbrot in the lead, finishing at the winter velodrome for the second time in a row.

The choir of the 1st Kuban Cossack Division gives a concert in Vienna for workers from the east.

The folk song "Stenka Razin" is played.

The dance "Lezginka", a dance with a sabre.

The workers applaud.

In a tank repair shop on the eastern front.

Tanks in the snow, technicians inspect them, repair them, weld parts.

Soldiers slide down a hill to the river on canisters like on sleds, collect water from an ice hole.

Tanks are supplied with gasoline and ammunition.

The tank is ready to go into battle again.

The tank crew, especially distinguished in battle.

The commander and gunner wear the Knight's Iron Cross, they destroyed 89 Soviet tanks with their "Tiger".

The tank crew thanks the mechanics and says goodbye to them.

The commander of a submarine destroyer, Oberleutnant Otto Pollmann, sank 10 enemy submarines in the Mediterranean.

Returning to his home port, the captain goes ashore and is met by the commandant.

Together they walk around the formation of sailors and present awards.

Fighter ships in a storm in the Mediterranean, the deck is flooded with waves.

An anti-aircraft gunner at his gun, a Nazi flag flutters from the mast.

An observer with binoculars.

Enemy aircraft appear.

Alarm on board.

Anti-aircraft guns fire at the aircraft, repelling the attack.

The ship's engine room.

A sailor at the sounder, an enemy submarine has been detected.

Depth charges are dropped.

A signal is given to other fighters.

Explosions on the water.

In the southern sector, German sappers are laying minefields in the mountains.

Sappers are looking at a map.

Paratroopers on combat reconnaissance.

A skirmish with the enemy, artillery fire is heard.

Soldiers run, throw grenades, fire mortars, covering the retreat of the paratroopers.