Ostland Woche №23537 (1943)

Estonian volunteers in formation, being walked around by the Estonian Commissioner General Karl Litzmann and the Estonian Director General for Internal Affairs Hjalmar Mäe.

Litzmann and Mäe give speeches.

Volunteers march.

In Riga, young people are collecting recyclable materials from the population.

Girls go from house to house, carrying rags out onto sleds.

Boys ride sleds to the collection point.

Rags at the factory, recyclable materials are loaded into a machine, and processed into yarn.

New fabric is being made on looms.

The fabrics are sent to a studio, where they are used to sew tunics for volunteer soldiers.

Numerous celebrations are taking place throughout the country to mark the sixth anniversary of the assassination (20 October 1936) of the founder of the Spanish Falange, José Antonio Prima de Rivera.

Members of the Falange march under a banner.

Young people carry a huge wreath.

A number of student groups set off on foot to the Escurial, located 50 km from Madrid, to honor the memory of Rivera.

Young men with backpacks on their backs approach the palace, enter the hall with tombstones, raise their hands in a fascist salute.

In the evening, a torchlight procession took place, accompanying the wreath of the Spanish people to the Escurial.

In Madrid, in the presence of the caudillo Franco, the population and representatives of friendly states, a solemn service was held in the church.

A new church was consecrated in the Romanian community of Vicirca.

People at the church, a religious procession.

A prayer service inside the church.

Two years ago, by order of the Fuhrer, the mortal remains of Napoleon I's son, the Duke of Reichstadt, who died in Vienna in 1832, were transported to Paris.

In memory of this day, a solemn service was held in the Palace of Invalids.

Sarcophagus in the hall, wreaths.

Admiral François Darlan salutes at the sarcophagus.

Young men in the guard of honour.

The bakery near Kyiv was completely destroyed by the Bolsheviks.

German troops restored the factory, which supplies bread to both the civilian population and the troops stationed in Kyiv.

Production processes at the factory.

A hockey match between the Berlin Skating Club and the Hungarian National Team took place at the Berlin Sports Palace.

Moments of the game that ended in a draw.

The head of Portugal, President Antonio Oscar de Frangoso Carmona, celebrated the 73rd anniversary of his birth.

Delegations congratulated the president in Lisbon.

Houses are decorated with flags and portraits of Carmona.

In memory of this event, a memorial plaque with the date – November 22, 1942 – was nailed to the house where the president was born.

Map of northern Tunisia – Bizerte, Tebourba, Tunis.

Peasants plowing with oxen.

The announcer reports that the population in areas occupied by German troops can continue their work in peace.

Cavalier of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross with Oak Leaves, Lieutenant General Wolfgang Fischer, commander of the 10th Panzer Division, is sent to the forward positions in an armored car in the Tebourba area.

The armored car is driving along the road.

A position in the Atlas Mountains area, Fischer looks through binoculars from a high point, a view of the mountain spurs.

The general passes by knocked out American tanks that were destroyed during the first attack.

Abandoned broken enemy guns, tanks with the names "Ben Hur", "Tiger", stuck in the mud, the US flag is painted on the tank.

Northern sector, Finland.

Colonel General Eduard Dietl at combat positions in a winter forest, he talks with officers, discusses military issues.

Dietl presents awards to Finnish soldiers.

Soldiers at their positions.

A German soldier paints helmets white and lays them out in a row.

A soldier in camouflage suit approaches on a tracked vehicle, asks to paint his helmet too, then drives on.

Soldiers build a protective wall out of the snow.

An observer with binoculars.

An officer is talking on the phone, a view of the wire lines.

Communication is broken, a group of signalmen goes to look for the break.

They find a broken wire, fix it, and walk in a blizzard through deep snow.

The group comes under enemy fire, fires back, and returns carrying a wounded man.

The Caucasus, map.

Flood in the area.

Slovak units are crossing the Terek in inflatable boats.

A Romanian unit is in a combat position.

Soldiers are crossing the river on footbridges, horses are led across a ford.

An observer looks through binoculars.

Guns are standing under a protective net, they open fire.

A direct hit on a house, it flies into fragments.