Ostland Woche №23450 (1943)

The General Commissioner of Latvia, Dr.

Drexler, delivers a speech in a theatre at a meeting on the fight against Bolshevism.

After finishing his speech, he sits down in the front row, and the concert begins.

Riga.

Female workers unload boxes.

A symphony orchestra concert was held for the factory workers.

The audience applauds, and the conductor is presented with flowers.

Youth sports activities in the fresh air.

Young men sit on a sandy beach, perform exercises with a ball.

Playing volleyball, jumping over a goat, somersaulting, diving from a platform in a pool, and women's swimming.

Rhythmic dancing by girls on the wide porch of the building.

Performance by a dancing couple, accompanied by a jazz orchestra, performing a tango.

Performance by a variety ensemble of five men.

Visitors sit at long tables in the hall, clapping and banging on bottles.

Equestrian competitions at the Vichy hippodrome.

Marshal Petain and his retinue enter the stands.

The races begin.

Close-up of the Nuncio on the stands.

The Madrid-Valencia Grand Prix cycling race of 1943. Moments of the races across the countryside, through the aqueduct, along the mountain road in the rain.

Rodriguez arrives first.

A frontline rest home for German soldiers.

Spanish soldiers emerge from the building and stage a mock bullfight for their comrades, pretending to be a bull and a bullfighter.

Northern sector, south of Lake Ladoga.

German positions, exchange of fire with the enemy.

German tank and infantry operations.

Tanks move through the forest.

View through a slit in a tank: soldiers running in the woods, tanks advancing.

Carrying a wounded man out of the battlefield on a stretcher.

Dressing station in a bunker, the wounded man is bandaged and his leg is put in a cast.

The wounded are loaded into special cabins installed on a handcar and taken to the rear.

Southern sector, fighting near the city of Orel.

German soldiers resting.

A soldier feeding a puppy.

A jackdaw sits on a young soldier's arm, then jumps onto his shoulder.

Soviet planes appear in the foggy sky.

German infantrymen sit on a tank, one of them with a guitar.

The tankers play cards, drink from flasks brought by a comrade.

German tanks drive by, raising dust.

A soldier looks at the sky through binoculars.

Anti-aircraft guns repel an attack by Soviet bombers, a shot down Soviet plane falls to the ground, its wreckage.

German tanks prepare for battle, shoot.

Awarding a soldier with the Iron Cross.

Moments of the battle, soldiers roll a cannon, shoot from a machine gun.

After the battle, the soldiers rest, wash themselves by the river, walk past the ruins of houses.

Broken Soviet tanks in a field, by the river.

Soldiers unload mines, load a six-barrel mortar.

A sapper blows up a strip.

On the signal, the German artillery fires.