Ostland Woche №23811 (1944)

General Commissioner of Estonia SA-Obergruppenführer Karl Litzmann received a delegation of Estonian farmers who worked in Germany.

They report on their work and share their impressions of the Reich.

General Director of the Estonian Land Administration Hjalmar Mäe talks to farmers at a table.

A propaganda poster on the wall: an SS soldier with a bandaged arm, the inscription - "How are you helping to win?" Destruction and fires on Latvian soil at the hands of the Bolsheviks.

Ruins of houses in the city.

Mobilization of Latvians into the "Latvia" Legion, an admissions committee.

Medical examination of volunteers, issuance of a document.

Recruits try on uniforms.

Latvian soldier in a helmet with the SS emblem.

Patch on the sleeve: "Latvia".

Rows of volunteers on the square.

Residents see off volunteers leaving for the eastern front, girls throw flowers at the columns.

Latvian soldiers on training, they march, study artillery guns at the battery, overcome obstacles in the area.

Soldiers disassemble cartridges, load rifles, shoot at a target.

Latvian soldiers arrive at the front by ship, descend the gangway, march along the pier.

Residents watch the troops.

The fight against speculation during the war in one of the occupied eastern cities.

A patrol on the street of the city checks the documents of passers-by.

A stopped man opens a briefcase, in it are two boxes with food with inscriptions in German.

The man throws the briefcase and runs, but the patrol stops him.

The building of the police department, a card index on criminals.

The fingerprints of the arrested person are taken, checked against the database.

Propaganda posters with slogans: "What have you done for Latvia?", posters calling for vigilance.

A pedestal on the street, covered with posters, which are looked at by residents.

A Latvian soldier-artist draws another poster, it is printed in a printing house.

Cultural and social life continues in occupied Latvia.

A cabaret performance, two girls dance.

Women are busy with earthworks to build fortifications and ditches.

Men work on construction sites, clearing the banks of the river.

Shelters are being built in a village.

Work is being done near Riga to install fortifications.

Youth labor brigades are marching in East Prussia, the guys are riding bicycles to work.

Students at work.

Teenagers, old people, and women are working on the construction of a defensive line.

A view of the fortifications and the defensive line from an airplane.

Northern sector of the front, Narva, Dunaburg (Daugavpils).

Soviet troops are routed, broken guns and equipment are visible everywhere, shells are lying around.

Captured Soviet soldiers in formation.

German soldiers ride bicycles along the road past broken Soviet guns and overturned vehicles.

A German truck with soldiers drives by.

Soldiers near a Soviet tank, looking at holes in the armor.

Inspection of a captured American tank with Russian inscriptions.

Mechanized artillery, camouflaged by branches, drives along a road in the forest.

Artillery fires across the river, burning buildings are visible.

German tanks advance on a populated area.

Soldiers lead a prisoner.

SS grenadiers discuss the attack plan, they are in a populated area.

SS Gruppenführer, defender of Kovel Herbert Otto Gille conferres with officers at headquarters near a map.

The movement of mechanized troops along the road, field, German soldiers are walking across a flowering field.

German tanks are driving.

Soldiers are running across the field, hiding behind haystacks.

Tanks and artillery are shooting, houses are burning.

German soldiers are advancing in a village past burning huts, destroyed Soviet tanks.

They climb onto a tank, look at the holes.

Scorched and burning terrain.

A German submarine on a campaign.

Night footage.

An observer notices an enemy vessel, a torpedo is sent from the boat.

An airplane appears in the sky, an alarm is sounded on the boat, it goes underwater.

The sailors tiptoe, listening to the explosions.

The boat is hit, the lights go out.

The sailors repair the hull on the move.

An entry in the logbook.

The officer looks through the periscope, orders the all-clear.

The engines are started, the boat rises to the surface.