Ostland Woche №23866 (1942)

Farewell to winter in Stockholm.

A symbolic image of winter is erected in the square: a snowman on a pole.

Residents gather in the square.

The pole, lined with brushwood, is set on fire, and people rejoice at the end of winter.

A man in the crowd waves a flag.

Growing decorative flowers in the fields of Liguria, sent for export.

Picking flowers, packing them into bales.

A woman lays out roses.

Tags with the names of the cities where the flowers are sent - Sofia, Copenhagen, etc.

Bales of flowers are loaded into wagons and transported by trucks.

A traditional folk festival is held in the province of Murcia.

A costumed procession along the streets of the city, residents in national costumes.

The public watches the procession.

Decorated carts with models of huge dolls drive by.

Girls from the cart throw tangerines into the crowd.

Spontaneous dance floors appear in various places in the city, where folk dances are performed.

A carriage with a model of a yacht and a figure of a huge goose made of straw is driving by.

People are throwing confetti and streamers, flowers are flying from the balconies.

Girls in sailor suits are on the carriage.

Opening of the regatta season, yachts on the water.

Minister of the Liberated Eastern Territories Alfred Rosenberg arrives in Riga, he is met on the platform by State Commissioner of Latvia Heinrichs Loze and the local administration.

They walk along the line of soldiers, drive around the city by car.

Laying a wreath at the memorial to fallen soldiers of World War I at the military cemetery.

A wreath is laid at the monument to soldiers who died at the hands of the Bolsheviks.

A ceremonial meeting at the Riga Commissariat.

Rosenberg, Loze and others enter the hall, General Kalmanen (?) speaks.

Rosenberg walks around the military, shakes hands, makes a speech.

At the end of the speech, everyone stands up, stretches out their hands in a fascist salute.

Rosenberg visited the city of Jelgava.

Residents have gathered for a rally.

A woman in a national costume presents Rosenberg with flowers.

Rosenberg signs the book of honored guests.

He walks around the line of Latvian volunteers.

Residents wave flags with swastikas.

Rosenberg visits the academy, is greeted in the hall, then taken to the laboratory.

Rosenberg leaves the city, residents see off the motorcade of cars, students stand along the streets waving flags.

Rosenberg in the city of Bauska.

A rally is held at the ruins of an ancient fortress.

Local residents sit on benches, Rosenberg with Loze, General Commissioner of Latvia Drexler and Gebietskommissar Medem are on the steps of the fortress.

Welcoming speeches.

A folk dance ensemble performs for the guests.

Girls in national costumes approach Rosenberg, present gifts: an embroidered towel, a box, carry jugs and cups on trays.

A peasant carries a barrel of wine.

Rosenberg walks past the crowd, greeting people.

The airfield in Zagreb.

Marshal Slavko Kvaternik visits a German air unit stationed in Serbia.

German planes on the field.

Kvaternik gets into a combat aircraft with a pilot and takes off.

After landing, he talks to German officers.

Marshal Ion Antonescu visits Romanian work detachments created on the German model.

Soldiers with shovels in formation.

Soldiers demonstrate drill training for Antonescu, perform sports exercises with a huge hoop.

Antonescu and officers walk along a railway track, where soldiers are doing earthworks.

The organization's flag flutters.

French legionnaires on vacation in Berlin.

Boxers perform for the soldiers in an improvised arena, fenced with ropes.

French actors prepare to perform for their compatriots.

A male actor dresses up as a woman, his hair is curled into curlers, he paints his eyelashes with mascara.

A group of actors on stage sing a humorous song for the soldiers.

A panorama of the mountains and the city.

Local residents begin spring work in the gardens and vineyards.

They dig the earth, plant seedlings, prune the vines.

Tractors enter the field, ploughing is done by horses and machines.

View of the temples in Mandalay.

A Krishna festival is taking place near the temple.

A man is scattering grain from an open decorated gazebo.

A figure of Krishna in the temple.

A richly decorated chariot is pulled through the air on a rope, residents watch below.

The central area.

Spring thaw, a river flood.

German soldiers are floating in a boat tied to a tractor in the shallow water.

Soldiers are crossing the river in motorboats and getting out on the opposite bank.

Streams of water rush along the city streets, residents are walking along the narrow sidewalks.

A soldier is wading through the water in boots.

Chains are wound around the wheels of a truck.

Cars and trucks are driving along the flooded street.

Trucks are skidding along the muddy country roads.

A caterpillar-mounted vehicle is barely moving through the liquid mud.

Soldiers are riding in motorized artillery trucks.

Cavalrymen lead horses through the mud, boots get stuck in the silt.

An artillery crew fires in the forest.

Soldiers are waiting for an attack, they walk through marshy terrain, run through shallow water.

A burning village.

German soldiers near destroyed Soviet tanks.

German sappers work on the construction of a railway, they lay sleepers, drag rails along them, secure them with levers, and install a track.

Two soldiers ride along the restored track on a handcar with a field kitchen.

Lunch break.

Military operations near Leningrad.

View of the city from German positions on the opposite bank.

Shelling of Leningrad from long-range guns.

Shells are delivered to the gun using a crane.

Smoke from fires over Leningrad.

Berlin.

The head of the Italian government Benito Mussolini arrives at the Reich Chancellery to visit Hitler, he is met by Field Marshal Keitel.

The SS guard of honour is passing by.

Conversation in the hall, meeting at the map.

General Jodl reports the situation.

Close-up of the drum and drumsticks.

Hitler, Mussolini and the generals leave the building, escort Mussolini to the car, go to the train, say goodbye.

Mussolini looks out the window of the carriage, Hitler shakes his hand.