Ostland Woche №23454 (1942)

Riga, production processes at a glass factory, glassblowers at work.

Women work alongside men in the workshop.

A symphony orchestra performs for workers during their lunch break.

Rossini's music is played.

The workers applaud and present flowers to the conductor.

Testing a flammable liquid on a special platform in a field.

The soldiers taking part in the experiment are dressed in special suits and equipped with gas masks.

A group of German officers observe the progress of the tests.

The liquid is set on fire from a distance.

After the test, the suits are treated with a special solution.

The funeral in Budapest of the regent's son, Admiral Horthy, Istvan Horthy, who died on the Soviet-German front.

A funeral procession through the streets of the city.

The coffin is placed in the domed hall of the parliament building.

A plaque with the inscription: Istvan Horthy 1904-1942. German Foreign Minister Ribbentrop lays a wreath on behalf of the Fuhrer, Keitel stands with a marshal's baton.

Italian Foreign Minister Count Ciano lays a wreath on behalf of the Italian government.

Funeral cortege on the streets of Budapest.

Admiral Horthy and his wife walk behind the coffin.

Mass religious procession heading to St.

Mary's Church.

Worship service at the cemetery.

Prayer service at the crucifix in the church.

Women praying.

Aquatics competitions at the Herzinger Stadium in Copenhagen.

Swimming competitions, diving from a diving platform.

The winner is Thomas Christiansen.

An exhibition of battle painting in Vienna, held under the slogan "War and Art".

The exhibition presents works by artists from Japan, Croatia, Slovakia, Bulgaria, Romania, Spain, Hungary, and Finland.

Among the exhibits from Japan is a bronze sculpture of a horseman and a mannequin depicting a samurai.

The demonstration of exhibits ends with a portrait of Rommel.

Review of the French Tricolor Legion before sending it to the Eastern Front.

A representative of the Vichy government walks around the line of soldiers and talks to them.

Military action in the Caucasus.

German soldiers cross the Kuban River in inflatable boats.

Soviet artillery fires at them.

Landing of troops on the opposite bank.

Advancement of Romanian troops in the thickets of the Kuban River floodplain.

Soviet snipers - "cuckoos" - are spotted in a tree, the sniper is destroyed, he falls from the tree.

Romanian and German troops conduct joint military operations.

Crossing a river in motorboats.

German motorcades moving along dusty roads leading to Pyatigorsk.

Tanks moving.

German soldiers marching through the city.

Motorcades on the march.

Tanks stopping en route.

Infantry on the march in the steppe.

Movement of supply trains.

Motorized troops and infantry fording a river.

View of the city of Maikop.

Soldiers leading captured commissars, carrying the red challenge banner of trade organizations.

Artillery firing on Maikop.

Night battle, shell explosions, fires in the night, a burning car.

German motorized units passing by a burning hut.

Movement of German infantry, supply trains, cavalry, tanks along country roads.