Ostland Woche №23323 (1943)

The General Commissioner of Latvia Oskars Dankers, together with SS Major General Walter Schroeder, Lieutenant General Karl-Friedrich Count von Pückler-Burghaus, the Commandant of Riga Major General Georg Bamberg, and Inspector General Rudolfs Bangerskis receive members of the Latvian Legion at their residence.

Dankers delivers a speech to them, and one of the legionnaires delivers a response.

The legionnaires at a ceremonial meeting in the hall.

Girls in national costumes present them with flowers.

The legionnaires at a factory, speaking to the workers.

The soldiers are presented with a new radio.

The head of the French state, Marshal Pétain, presents the Minister of Foreign Affairs and Minister of War of Portugal, Salazar Antonio de Oliveira, with France's highest award, the Legion of Honor.

Pétain reads out the text, places the ribbon and order on the minister.

Oliveira delivers a response speech.

In Antwerp, a review of militia units is taking place on the square in front of the town hall.

Dr.

Henrik Elias, the leader of the fascist Flemish National Union, hands over 40 new banners to the commanders of the militia units.

A view of three soldiers at the standard of the "German Militia".

A ceremonial march of units with banners.

In Bilbao, in the presence of the State Secretary of the Ministry of Trade Alberti, an industrial exhibition was opened showing the achievements of the Spanish economy.

Inspection of exhibits, view of machine tools, machinery, tools.

A model of the area along which a car is moving.

A shop window of a factory producing gas masks.

Gas masks of various modifications.

A soldier's dummy in a gas mask.

The apple harvest is underway on the vast fruit plantations of Holland.

Women collect apples in baskets.

Boxes and baskets of fruit are placed on a platform, which is manually transported along rails.

A panorama of the vineyards.

There are 30 thousand greenhouses near Brussels where grapes are grown.

Cutting a bunch of grapes with scissors.

Belgium exports up to 15 million kilograms.

Grapes are harvested in greenhouses and placed in boxes.

Girls eat grapes during their lunch break.

The boxes are transported in wheelbarrows, weighed and sent off by truck.

The farmers of Steyermark celebrate the end of agricultural work.

A brass band marches along the street, and carts with dressed-up peasants drive by.

The carts contain the harvest: pumpkins, cabbage, potatoes, tomatoes and other vegetables.

A cart pulled by oxen drives by.

A view of the festive procession.

People eat apples and grapes.

There are festivities in the square.

A national dance is performed around a pole with ribbons.

Corsica, view of the port.

Loading of vehicles, guns and the wounded onto a ship.

A half-submerged ship lies by the shore.