Ostland Woche №22905 (1943)

Manufacturing enamel milk cans at a factory.

Women at work, they cut a metal sheet on a machine.

Manufacturing a can body, parts.

Processing the product with a special solution from a sprayer.

Finished cans are placed in an oven.

Checking the quality of the cans.

A worker demonstrates the strength of a can, hits it with a hammer, the body bends, but does not break.

Demonstration of agricultural machinery.

An engineer explains the principle of operation of the machine.

The work of a plow, a harrow in a horse harness.

Field work.

One of the military units of the Russian Liberation Army was visited by General Heinz Helmich, who is the chief of all the liberation troops, consisting of Russians, Ukrainians, Caucasians, Turkestanis and other peoples of the Soviet Union.

The general in front of soldiers sitting on benches in the open air.

He calls for obtaining military knowledge and hardening the body.

The faces of the soldiers.

The soldiers wear medals of 3 degrees for bravery instituted by the Fuhrer, awards on the soldier's chest.

Soldiers are talking to the general, laughing.

The general is walking the line.

The birthday of the head of the French state, Marshal Petain, is being celebrated in Vichy.

He is leaving the hotel building, girls with flowers are running up to him.

Cameramen are filming the marshal.

Petain is walking down the street among children.

Petain's office is covered in flowers, there are postcards and telegrams with congratulations.

The visitors' book, entries from April 24, 1943 with congratulations.

Serbia.

The first group of Serbian youth leaves Belgrade for a six-month agricultural course in Germany.

A line of young people stands before a priest at a church, he blesses them.

A detachment of youth marches down the street, passers-by look at them.

In Antwerp, a farewell party was held for the new recruits of the Flanders Volunteer Legion, who are leaving for the Eastern Front.

A march through the city, residents see the legion off with fascist salutes, women give flowers.

Farewell at the train station, the train sets off.

The Italian hospital ship Sicily, shot down by American planes, lies listing at the pier.

A large red cross is on board.

Firefighters from a boat extinguish the fire on the ship with hoses.

The remaining soldiers and ambulances are on board.

The Eastern Cemetery in Munich, destroyed by American bombers.

A panorama of broken tombstones, crosses, sculptures.

Map, Leningrad region.

Spring thaw, soldiers sail in boats across flooded terrain.

Transport boats deliver provisions to units' locations.

Broken vehicles can be seen on the shore.

Hay is carried in double boats and unloaded onto the shore.

The soldiers have lunch en route, right in the boats.

Strongholds that have turned into islands.

A horse pulls a boat through shallow water.

The road has turned into a river, soldiers are sailing in inflatable boats.

A flooded firing point.

A boat floats up to a platform.

A German soldier pours water out of his boots and enters a hut.

A system of fortified pillboxes.

Patrolling between combat points along footbridges and in boats.

An observation post on a tower.

A view of the area from the post.

The central section.

Local battles are taking place here.

An observer with binoculars.

A signalman is hiding under a Soviet tank that has been knocked out right above the trench; he is communicating with headquarters.

Officers at headquarters at the map, having received the message, they make adjustments.

German artillery firing.

Night footage.

Night attack by Soviet bombers.

German anti-aircraft guns firing.

A village has been hit with incendiary bombs, houses are burning.

The Germans are helping residents put out the fires and save property.

Soldiers against the backdrop of fires.

A German submarine is searching for the enemy.

The battle with the convoy ships is over.

Lyudka needs to be refuelled.

Communication with the underwater floating base.

The engineer and the non-commissioned officer go into the boat and are transported to the base.

They open the valve at the fuel tank, the supply hoses connect the two vessels, the fuel is supplied to the submarine.

Receiving other necessary materials: distilled water for electric batteries in bottles.

The cook receives fresh food, bakes pancakes for the crew.

The sailors eat in the cockpit.

Continuing the journey, diving.

On the horizon is an English merchant ship.

The captain looks through the periscope.

A torpedo has been launched at the ship.

The ship is burning in the darkness.