Ostland Woche №22534 (1943)

Kaunas occupied by the Germans.

June 22 is celebrated for the second time as "Lithuanian Liberation Day".

The laying of wreaths at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier by the Lithuanian General Commissioner Theodor Adrian von Renteln.

Renteln at the Military Museum near the monument to those who died for the independence of Lithuania, he goes around the line of soldiers of the workers' battalions standing with shovels, speaks at a rally from the rostrum.

War invalids and widows are sitting.

A village near Kaunas.

The Lithuanian General Commissioner Theodor Adrian von Renteln ceremoniously presents Lithuanian peasants with documents of ownership of the land taken away by the Bolsheviks.

Peasants are sitting on benches.

SA Oberführer, Commissioner of the Kaunas District Arnold Lentzen presents land use certificates.

A ceremonial celebration of the 20th anniversary of the annexation of Bessarabia to Romania in Chisinau, attended by the Romanian leader Antonescu.

The meeting arranged for him at the railway station, the inspection of the guard of honour.

Antonescu attends the service in the church, then watches the parade of troops.

Street processions of the population in national costumes.

Pressburg (Bratislava).

Honoring at the University of Bratislava of Prime Minister Vojtech Tuka in connection with the awarding of the title of Doctor of Law at the University of Berlin.

The decree is read out, Tuka in a robe thanks his colleagues.

Physical education festival at the stadium.

On the field, mass gymnastics exercises of girls with balls are held, young men conduct an exhibition fight with rapiers.

Columns of Francoist youth disperse across the stadium field in the form of various figures.

Acrobatic troupe of the Berlin Variety Theatre at a rehearsal.

Girls on a longe perform somersaults, work at the gymnastic wall near the mirror.

Gymnasts do the splits, somersaults, cartwheels.

Filming in rapid motion.

"Despite the conditions, bridge construction continues in Denmark." The ceremonial opening of a new bridge in the presence of Queen Alexandrina and the heir to the throne.

A motorcade of cars drives across the bridge.

A meeting of villagers organized by the occupation authorities.

The General Commissioner presents peasants with land ownership documents.

The Commissioner is presented with bread and salt and flowers.

A festive lunch at tables in the open air.

The northern sector, the Murmansk region, Salla.

Forward positions of the Germans.

An observer at the post looks at the sea through binoculars.

He reports the appearance of Soviet aircraft to headquarters by telephone.

An alarm sounds at a German anti-aircraft battery.

German artillery covers the navigation route of German ships.

The guns open fire.

Soviet bombers attack a German convoy of ships.

The ships release a smoke screen.

The southern sector, Kuban.

German military equipment is loaded onto ships.

Horses are transported on ferries.

Artillerymen drag guns.

A German military echelon on the way, a freight train.

Arrival of field mail, soldiers dropping off parcels, unpacking them.

A soldier eating pies sent, others reading letters.

Life at the front: an army barber cutting soldiers' hair, a soldier bathing in a tub.

Soldiers cultivating the land, planting garden plants, washing clothes.

A command meeting over a map.

A fight in the reed thickets.

German grenade launchers in action.

Soviet soldiers surrendering, a prisoner being delivered to the command post and interrogated.

Continuation of the battle.

Germans firing at Soviet positions from machine guns and cannons.

A wounded man is carried off the battlefield.

Residential buildings fly into the air under fire from German artillery.