Ostland Woche №23243 (1944)

An anti-Bolshevik rally was held in a hall in Riga.

A symphony orchestra was playing on the stage.

Women in national costumes, soldiers and officers were sitting among the audience.

Speeches by the Director General of the Interior of Latvia Oskars Dankers and General Commissioner Drexler.

The soldiers raised their hands in a fascist salute.

Lieutenant General Bangerskis visited the Latvian Legion at the front.

The general and his soldiers rode horses along a country road and arrived at their combat positions.

The general inspected a bunker.

The Latvian flag and the letters SS were laid out of pebbles at the entrance.

Bangerskis was familiarizing himself with the situation at the headquarters by the map.

The general observed the actions of the artillerymen, inspected the cannon and tasted the soldiers' food.

The general gave a speech to the soldiers, a young soldier with a bandaged cheek approached him, Bangerskis shook his hand.

The general left in a car.

The President of France, Marshal Pétain, visited the main city of Normandy, Rouen.

The Anglo-American air raids caused great destruction in the city, the world-famous cathedral was damaged.

A motorcade of cars drives through the city, residents greet Petain.

The marshal gets off at the San Quentin Cathedral, children bring him flowers.

Petain attends a memorial service for the victims of the bombings.

After the memorial service, Petain comes out to the people, at the church he shakes hands with the priests.

The place where Joan of Arc was burned by the English five centuries ago, a slab at the place of burning, a sculpture.

Petain lays flowers at the statue.

The people of Slovakia celebrate the 25th anniversary of the death of Milan Stefanek, a fighter for Slovak independence.

A solemn ceremony at the people's monument to Stefanek, speakers speak.

A line of soldiers at the monument, statesmen, women in national costumes.

Airplanes fly over the monument.

Portrait of Milan Stefanek.

On May 14, 1944, the 5th German wartime gymnastics competitions on apparatus among men were held in the city of Krems.

Competition poster.

Athletes on the parallel bars, horizontal bar.

Rapid shooting.

The overall winner was Ernst Braun from Dortmund, he is performing gymnastics exercises.

In those areas of Germany that were particularly frequently subjected to enemy air raids, the population receives special food supplements.

Headlines of German newspapers, which, along with news from the front, print food rations.

In wartime, Germany is able to supply the population with food without delay.

Table of rations.

Customers in stores, sausage department, hanging out butter.

Residents give cards to the seller.

Food is loaded from warehouses onto trucks, loaders roll barrels, carry sacks.

Reich Minister of Food Backe, who is the person responsible for organizing the people's nutrition, constantly monitors the implementation of his measures.

Backe in the warehouse, checking peas in a sack, inspecting the warehouse of meat carcasses.

In Tirana, in the presence of the Albanian Prime Minister, the oath-taking ceremony of the newly formed Albanian Gendarmerie took place.

The gendarmes line up in the courtyard of the barracks, walking around the line.

The gendarmes take the oath.

Young volunteers march.