



A football match between the German teams Riga and Königsberg took place in Riga.
Spectators at the open stadium, before the start of the game the players are presented with flowers.
A speech by sports figure Riga Krums.
The most intense moments of the game.
The score is 5:0 in Königsberg's favor.
A party was held in Kaunas for the "peaceful shovels", soldiers of the labor paramilitary formations created by the Germans in Latvia on the model of the RAD. It was organized by the Imperial Labor Service and the local National Socialist Party organization.
The banner of the labor detachment with a picture of a shovel and ears of grain.
A meeting in the hall, Vellems, a representative of the German administration of the Labor Service, speaks.
In conclusion, the soldiers shout a greeting to the Fuhrer, stretching their hands forward.
Rest homes for miners in the mountains.
Workers rest, read newspapers at the table, lie in deck chairs in the sun.
The gong sounds for lunch.
Girls put sausages in the soup.
Lunch in the canteen.
Vacationers play cards, billiards, listen to a brass band.
Madrid.
Minister of Public Works Jorge Argullé opens a new metro line.
Model of the Madrid metro, metro map.
The minister and his entourage take a test ride on the train.
National gymnastics competitions are taking place in Amsterdam's Apollo Hall.
Jumping over a goat.
Rhythmic dance of a group of girls. 100 athletes take part in a 6,500-meter marathon.
They run through the streets of the city, while residents watch the race.
Slovak champion Alkus receives the cup.
Three-year-old horse races took place near Brussels.
Scoreboard at the hippodrome. 9 horses start.
Spectators in the stands.
The winner of the race receives 200,000 francs.
Jockey with the winning horse.
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German soldiers save an ancient Greek library, they carry boxes of books out of the basements.
A soldier opens an ancient volume of the Lexicon of Manvale.
The boxes are loaded onto trucks.
The library is handed over to representatives of the Greek government and clergy.
The southern sector.
German and Romanian troops retreat from the Crimea.
Motor columns and tanks are on the way, soldiers are in trucks.
Refugees retreat with the troops.
A Soviet bomber appears, German anti-aircraft guns fire.
Bombs explode in the harbor.
A downed Soviet plane falls, the pilot ejects by parachute.
Heavy anti-aircraft guns in action.
Sevastopol is on fire.
Under cover of a smoke screen, German transports leave the coast of Crimea.
A Soviet plane attacks the transports, on-board guns fire.
Wounded soldiers are carried to a hospital ship.
Central section: Dnieper, the cities of Zhitomir, Kirovograd, Nikopol.
The Grossdeutschland tank division distinguished itself in the defensive battles between the Prut and Moldova.
This battle was fought with the participation of large air forces.
Tanks in their initial positions.
The division commander, Lieutenant General von Manteuffel, directs the battle, he looks through binoculars.
Soldiers are marching.
German tanks are attacking, infantrymen with panzerfausts and rifles.
Burning Soviet tanks.
Close-up of Manteuffel, the general is riding a tank.
Tanks with grenadier landing forces are entering the battle.
Soviet soldiers surrender, among them a female rifleman.
Close-up of the faces of the prisoners, faces of the German soldiers.
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