Newsreel Ostland Woche №23706 (1943)
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Farewell to Latvian volunteers on the Eastern Front.
Volunteers in formation, German officers inspect the formation, a ceremonial march of the battalion.
Soldiers pack their things and head to the train station.
Women pin bouquets of flowers to the soldiers' greatcoats.
Farewell to relatives at the train station.
Soldiers wave from the train windows, the train sets off.
Commissioner General of Latvia Otto Heinrich Drexler visits an exhibition of German art in Riga.
Exhibits: genre paintings, portraits, landscapes, sculptures.
Girls in national costumes next to a painting.
A Latvian boy next to a painting depicting a German boy in a sailor suit.
Visitors to the exhibition.
Visit of the Mufti of Jerusalem Muhammad Amin al-Husseini to Croatia.
In Agram, the Mufti is received by Poglavnik Ante Pavelic at his residence.
A mosque in the city.
The Mufti drives through the city in a car, he is greeted by local Muslims.
A conversation inside the mosque.
The Mufti comes out onto the balcony and is greeted by the people.
A military parade in Madrid in front of Caudillo Franco, he stands on the platform with the generals and the Minister of Foreign Affairs Ramon Serrano Suñer.
Troops march, cavalry gallops.
Residents watch the parade and clap.
Motorcyclists, tanks, mechanized artillery, platforms with searchlights ride by, paramilitary youth units pass by.
Construction work on the Atlantic Wall, a system of long-term fortifications along the European coast to prevent the invasion of the continent by Anglo-American troops.
Road construction, a roller smoothes the asphalt.
Earthworks in the pit.
Work teams stretch camouflage nets.
Bunker construction, concrete work, installation, a crane at work.
Installation of a platform for a heavy weapon, it is transported to the site using armored vehicles.
Installation on site, camouflage.
The weapon is installed in place using cranes.
Artillerymen clean the muzzle of a gun, polish the barrel.
Weapons on a railway platform.
View of a bunker in the woods.
A sentry at a gun on the coast.
View of the bunker system.
Keywords
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Continued.
Panorama of construction, finished bunkers.
The dome of the bunker with the gun rotates along the axis.
The interior of the bunker, a telephone exchange.
Specialists work with devices.
The gunners open the camouflage net, the barrel of the gun rises up, pointing towards the sea.
Discovery of a mass grave of killed Polish soldiers and officers near Smolensk in the Katyn forest, committed by the Chekists in 1940-41. Excavation of the mass grave is underway, a panorama of the corpses.
The international commission inspects the burial site.
Local residents tell the commission members about this event.
A display of bullet holes in the backs of the heads of the dead, a corpse with tied hands.
Documents in Polish, money, shoulder straps and other things found.
The priest conducts a funeral service for the killed Poles.
A German airfield, planes take off.
The silhouette of an airplane on the ground.
A squadron flies, bombing a populated area, Soviet tanks, roads with moving equipment.
Keywords
Germany, 1943 year, World War 2, construction of fortifications, Atlantic Wall, bunkers, artillery, Belarus, 1943 year, World War 2, mass burial, Katyn, CHK, USSR, 1943 year, World War 2, BBC, bombings