Ostland Woche №23712 (1942)

Newsreel №63236, 2 parts, Duration: 0:14:43 B/W
Studio UFA

Reel №1

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Medical examination of Latvian migrant workers leaving for Germany.

Riga train station, people in work clothes walking along the platform.

A queue for a girl pouring coffee from a can into mugs.

Soldiers handing out bread.

Smiling girls eating.

People in train carriages.

Work in the fields, women harvesting wheat, setting up stacks.

Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris, where a funeral service is taking place for soldiers of the French Legion who died on the Eastern Front.

Soldiers walking through the cathedral.

Residents have gathered near the cathedral.

The Legion in formation on the square, an officer reading out a text.

Raising the flag.

Mothers and widows in dark clothes are crying.

A view of a half-ruined church, people are walking towards it.

Church ceremonies being held inside the church.

People are praying, kneeling.

A priest is baptizing infants for several families.

A woman is holding a child in her arms, the priest is rubbing oil on the forehead.

A German technical exhibition is taking place in Riga.

A fascist eagle hangs on the wall.

German and Latvian soldiers are present at the opening of the exhibition.

Exhibition stands, propaganda posters.

Poster: a soldier and a worker against the background of military equipment.

The guide shows examples of various equipment and tools for industry.

Products of the Buna company - tires, rubber.

Bearings.

Chemical devices and reagents.

Device diagrams.

Scheme of the production of artificial fabrics.

A football match in Riga.

A girl in a national costume goes around the team on the field, brings flowers.

Moments of the game.

There are many soldiers among the spectators.

The scoreboard shows: Königsberg-Riga 2:2. Berlin Park.

Close-ups of flowers, a bee sits on a daisy.

Girls in short skirts and capes are going down the stadium stairs.

Mass exercises on the field, girls dancing in pairs.

Keywords

Latvia, 1942, World War 2, migrant workers, rail transport, agricultural work, medicine, France, 1942, World War 2, cathedrals, funeral ceremony, soldiers, Ukraine, 1942, World War 2, religion, religious ceremonies, Latvia, 1942, World War 2, exhibitions, technique, propaganda, Latvia, 1942, sport, football, Germany, 1942, Flora, sport, women

Reel №2

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Map of North Africa, points Tobruk, Sallum, Sidi Barani, Marsa Matruk, Siwa oasis and others.

Italian troops are heading to Siwa.

An Italian tanker looks through binoculars from the hatch of a tank.

The outskirts of Siwa, a city.

Equipment and armored vehicles are driving through the desert, they are heading from Siwa to Marsa Matruk.

A local resident watches the movement of Italian troops.

Arabs salute soldiers on the street of the city.

An Italian general watches the movement of troops, standing in a car.

German artillerymen are setting up a gun in the desert near the city, digging a shelter, on the barrel of the gun there are lines indicating shot down targets.

A soldier secures shells in a clip.

An anti-aircraft gun looks at the sky.

In Siwa, local residents treat Italian soldiers, sit together at a long table in the open air.

The soldiers eat grapes, pour coffee.

Soldiers undress and jump naked into Cleopatra's pool, splash in it.

Military operations near Stalingrad.

Soldiers' boots raise dust.

Cavalry and supply trains drive along a dusty road.

Tanks reach the Volga.

Soldiers look at the Volga through binoculars.

Soldiers with weapons in a shelter on the bank.

A tanker looks through binoculars at Soviet positions, tanks fire.

Black smoke on the other bank.

Infantry and equipment move across the steppe towards Stalingrad.

The infantry consolidates its position near the Stalingrad-Moscow highway.

A tank drives past at high speed.

German artillery fires at the city.

Armored vehicles with soldiers drive, infantry advances.

The Caucasus.

German motorized units on the roads of the Caucasus drive past destroyed Soviet tanks.

A detachment of the Caucasian militia created by the Germans.

Close-up of a Caucasian in a papakha.

Troops in the vicinity of Pyatigorsk.

The movement of German mountain rifle units to Elbrus along a mountain road with horses and camels.

The road is blocked by a flock of sheep, shepherds drive the herd away.

The Bavarian division at a halt near Elbrus.

Soldiers clean their weapons.

Installation of a radio, the radio operator works.

A soldier drinks water from a mountain stream.

Soldiers with horses and cargo move up the mountains.

Climbing Elbrus on a snow crust using spiked boots.

Weather station in the mountains.

Germans at the summit, they install a fascist sign.

Views of the Caucasus Range from an airplane.

Keywords

Africa, 1942, World War 2, tanks, desert, armored vehicles, population, artillery, soldiers rest, USSR, 1942, World War 2, infantry, tanks, river, artillery, armored vehicles, SSR, 1942, World War 2, Caucasus, tanks, police, volunteers, Caucasians, Mountain shooters, pets, walkie-talkie, mountaineering

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