Ostland Woche №23812 (1942)

In Riga, a review of the Latvian volunteer troops took place.

The flags of Latvia and Germany are hanging.

The Chief of Police, Major General Walter Schroeder, and the Director General of Latvia, Oskar Dankers, walk along the line of soldiers.

Dankers gives a speech.

Schroeder presents awards to the carabinieri, and the soldiers pin the badges to their greatcoats.

The units solemnly march past the generals.

The soldiers cradle their decorated comrades in their arms.

The Commissioner General of Latvia, Dr.

Otto-Heinrich Drexler, visited the military museum in Riga.

He is greeted at the entrance by child buglers.

Visitors to the museum look at the stands with exhibits.

Stands with anti-Soviet propaganda.

A poster: a Soviet soldier at a border post, he is pulling cattle from the Latvian border – cows, horses, pigs, sheep.

On his side of the border there are ruins.

Another poster: a Soviet soldier is grabbing a tractor from Latvian territory.

On the walls and under glass are documents and photographs.

On the world map there are photos of the enemies of fascism and Latvia: Roosevelt, Stalin, Churchill, Belisa, Kaganovich, Radek, and the Hungarian communist leader Bela Kun.

Headlines of Latvian newspapers from the Soviet period about the election of candidates.

A view of the cathedral, its decor, and sculptures.

The cathedral is undergoing reconstruction.

Craftsmen are carving bas-reliefs and sculptures in stone.

The finished statue is placed on a wheelbarrow and taken to the wall, lifted up with ropes, and installed in place.

A panorama of the cathedral.

After the first communion, the parents take the girls in elegant carriages to the Prater Park.

There are many carriages near the amusement park.

A Ferris wheel towers in the park.

Parents with children on the rides – a roller coaster, a carousel, a children's railway.

A view of the hippodrome, where the traditional derby is taking place.

Spectators are sitting with programs in their hands, among them are many soldiers.

Jockeys ride past on horses.

Bets are placed at the box office.

The races begin, spectators watch them through binoculars.

The winner on a horse.

King Victor Emmanuel III attends the opening of the European Masters Art Gallery in Venice.

He walks through the hall, examining the paintings and sculptures.

Sultan Mohammed V of Morocco pays a friendly visit to Spain.

Residents greet the distinguished guest, Muslims kiss his hand.

The Sultan visits a tobacco factory, examines a machine that makes cigarettes.

The Sultan, accompanied by officials, walks down the street in the Muslim quarter, he is at the market.

A ceramics shop, the seller demonstrates a curved dagger.

A boy in a shoe shop slaps painted shoes.

A car with the Sultan, accompanied by Moroccan guards, heads to the palace, where he meets with Caudillo Franco.

The Sultan reads a document to Franco, presents him with an order, placing it around his neck.

Franco's conversation with the Sultan.

A mourning meeting is held at a factory in the Protectorate of Moravia for the assassination of the Reich Protector of Bohemia and Moravia, SS General Reinhard Heydrich.

A speaker addresses the workers.

A demonstration in Brno.

A speaker speaks from a platform in the square against the backdrop of a banner with a fascist eagle, then the Minister of Education Moravec.

The French volunteer legion "Tricolor" leaves for the Eastern Front.

The legionnaires march through the streets of Versailles, with an orchestra in front.

Boarding a train at a station, saying goodbye to relatives.

The train departs, with the inscription on the carriage: Paris - Moscow.

Colonel General Erwin Rommel at a map during a meeting.

A diagram of the fortifications at Tobruk.

A firefight with the enemy on the ground.

German artillery fires at the enemy.

German tanks advance across the desert, with soldiers running behind them.

German anti-aircraft guns firing.

The infantry overcomes the barbed wire fortifications.

The tanks drive into the passage, with soldiers following them.

Colonel General Rommel at the front, watching the battle through binoculars.

Fragments of a firefight with the Anglo-American troops, tank attacks continue until dusk.

A low-angle view of Tobruk from an airplane, ships at the pier, houses stretching along the shore.

German officers are driving along the road in a car, with columns of prisoners marching towards them.

The prisoners are standing along the road.

German and Italian troops in the city, a view of the destroyed houses.

Rommel at headquarters directing the offensive.

Armored vehicles, tanks, motorcycles, mechanized artillery – the full might of German equipment – are driving across the desert.

The southern sector of the front, Crimea.

The terrain from above, a diagram of the fortifications of Sevastopol.

German aircraft are bombing the city.

German and Italian soldiers in their positions are watching the air battle.

Junkers are bombing Soviet positions.

The captured fort “Maxim Gorky”.

A German soldier approaches a bunker and looks into it.

A destroyed firing point, the body of a Soviet soldier lies near the gun.

German soldiers are examining Soviet guns near the destroyed bunkers.

Enemy destroyed guns are lying on the ground, destroyed by shells.

Ruins, debris, destroyed railroad tracks, burnt carriages are all around.

German artillery is shelling the city from the other bank of the river.

German and Romanian soldiers are running through the destroyed city, they are shooting from cover.

A heavy gun with the inscription "Thor" is firing.

A heavy gun on a railway platform is being pulled up to the positions.

Soldiers load the gun with the help of special mechanisms, the shells are carried along the rails.

Sevastopol is on fire.