Ostland Woche №23580 (1943)

A camp for labour detachments in Latvia, with the flag of the Reich Labour Service (RAD) on the mast, featuring ears of corn and a spade.

Arrival of the Minister of the Reich Labour Service Konstantin Girlz (Hierlya) at the camp during his tour of the eastern occupied countries.

He inspects the line of soldiers with spades in their hands together with the Arbeitsführer, Major General of the SA Eisenbeck.

Girlz with Eisenbeck and Gebietskommissar Medem climb the stairs, are greeted by Inspector General Bangerskis, and inspect the line of soldiers.

The former soldiers of the Latvian Labour Service are now soldiers of the Latvian SS Legion.

Demonstration exercises of artillerymen, Girlz, Bangerskis and the commander of the 15th SS Grenadier Division Pückler-Burghaus are present at the exercises.

The artillerymen turn the gun and fire.

Barracks of Latvian volunteers of the Labor Front in Riga, they run out of the barracks, line up.

Eisenbek goes around the line, delivers a speech to the soldiers.

Soldiers sit on benches.

Soldiers of the Labor Front march with shovels in their hands.

Close-up of Girl.

Regatta of the National Socialist Sports Organization near Riga.

The flag has an anchor on a swastika.

Yachts on the water, judges.

Residents and soldiers cheer for the athletes.

A tourist steamer sails by.

An exhibition of foreign art opened in the Zurich Art Gallery, which presented 700 works of painting and sculpture, which gave a clear idea of the development of European art from the late Middle Ages to the present day.

Visitors in the halls looked at paintings by European artists, etchings, engravings, impressionist paintings, and sculpture.

Under the sign of cultural community and joint work of European nations, a summer university has opened in the city of Derbecen in Hungary.

Flags of different countries hang on the facade. 200 foreign and 600 Hungarian listeners attended lectures on various subjects.

The mayor of the city greeted the students, opening the work of the university.

Summer women's camp for girls from Spanish youth organizations.

A girl rings the bell, boarders run along the gallery.

Raising the flag at the assembly.

The motto of the camp: discipline and creativity.

The girls march on command.

Lunch in the canteen.

Leisure activities: the girls read and embroider at the tables.

Sports activities are held in the camp - volleyball, walking tours of the area.

A group of girls approaches a large cross on the seashore, pray near it.

There are numerous monasteries on the holy Mount Athos.

In their free time, German units located in the vicinity visit the monks.

A boat with German soldiers rushes to the shore.

View of the mountain and the monastery.

Soldiers walk around the monastery, talk to the monks, then return to the boat.

Marshal Antonescu and his wife visit a German hospital in Romania, greet the medical staff.

The wounded stand on the balconies, greeting the marshal.

Antonescu at the opening of a pool where the wounded competed in swimming.

Nurses swim.

A parade of self-defense units of the French People's Party is taking place in Paris.

Units with banners march near the Arc de Triomphe, lay flowers at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier.

A ceremonial procession along the Champs Elysees in front of the party leader Jacques Doriot, who is standing in an open car.

A meeting of fascists in one of the halls of Paris.

Members of the French Legion wounded in Russia sit in the front row.

Doriot delivers a speech about defending Europe together with the German army.

The Dutch, who voluntarily joined the ranks of the European fighters against Bolshevism, take a solemn oath.

German generals and officers walk around the line of Dutch volunteers, watch the oath-taking.

The faces of soldiers in formation.

An officer's speech.

Orphanages in Holland, where exemplary care for family members and, in particular, for the children of the Dutch fighting in the east reigns.

Entertainment for the children, they swing on the swings.

Children are given sandwiches and bottles of soda.

Distribution of porridge in plates, children sit at long tables outdoors, eating.

Performance of a puppet theater for children with the hero Petrushka.

Restoration and commissioning of coal mines in Donbass.

Workers at the construction site.

Resumption of work in the mine, lifting the cage with miners.

Miners at work.

Miners leaving the mine.

Soldiers in a special frontline rest home near Riga.

Diving from the bridge, a soldier bathes with a dog.

Swimming in boats, on a yacht.

Soldiers sunbathe, play cards, throw the ball around in a circle with a nurse, play table tennis.

Those who wish can make toys, carve from wood.

Soldiers drink coffee at the tables, girls serve them.

Spanish soldiers act out a humorous bullfight.

Soldiers perform humorous commands to the music: clap, raise their hands, stand up one by one.

Military operations south of Lake Ladoga.

Tanks in a swampy area.

Ammunition being delivered to the front line in parts by armored vehicles.

Boxes are thrown from an armored vehicle, soldiers drag them into a trench.

A soldier crawls with a mine from under a tank, climbs into a trench, another throws a grenade.

German soldiers digging anti-tank ditches and building roadblocks.

Mines prepared for mining a road.

Trucks drive through a specially left "gate".

A German ammunition depot in the forest, ammunition is being loaded onto trucks.

Actions of a German artillery battery, a view of the large-caliber guns.

A collection point for spent cartridges.

German long-range guns on railway platforms in action on the Eastern Front.

Armored train, a train with shells.

Supply of shells and loading of the gun on the platform.

Name on the gun: "Thor".

The platform with the gun moves on rails.