Ostland Woche №23873 (1944)

In Kaunas, specialists and production organizers gather at a cutting-edge grain processing plant.

Dr.

Krauze delivers a speech at the opening ceremony.

Seed Department Manager Vasalinskas demonstrates the operating units.

They inspect the workshops and observe the production processes.

Workers place sacks of grain on a conveyor.

The grain is poured into a processing and cleaning device.

The finished grain is poured into sacks, weighed, and loaded onto vehicles.

Long columns of Ukrainian and Romanian refugees accompany German troops entering eastern Romania.

Refugee convoys on the road, horses and camels harnessed to the carts.

People at the station waiting for the train.

German Red Cross nurses supply people with food, hand out soup from cans, look after the refugees’ babies, and bathe them.

Children sleep in their cribs.

On the front line near the Adriatic coast.

An observation post in the mountains, a German soldier telephones to report an attack.

A German tank destroyer leaves its shelter.

A soldier erases the tracks of its tracks in the sand.

The destroyer fires into the valley.

The observer watches, wiping his face with a handkerchief to remove sweat.

On another section of the Italian front south of Rome, a major battle has begun near the city of Cisterna with the advancing Anglo-American units.

Only ruins remain of the city of Cisterna.

German soldiers stubbornly defend themselves against superior enemy forces.

A soldier with a panzerfaust on his shoulder.

Faces of young soldiers.

A break between battles, soldiers sleeping in the ruins of a building.

Heavy batteries in battle.

Tanks counterattacking.

Detachments of the so-called "green devils", so feared by the enemy, are advancing in the forest.

Corpses of enemy soldiers, broken tanks.

Prisoners, among whom are many soldiers of the colonial troops: blacks, Indians.

German soldiers running between haystacks, shooting, lying in the grass.

A gun crew firing a cannon and a grenade launcher.

Enemy aircraft in the sky, a soldier looking at the sky, examining a bag pierced by shrapnel.

Explosions on the ground.

Admiral Wilhelm Meendsen-Bolken visiting the teams of German submarine fighters.

A line of sailors on the pier.

Captain of the anti-submarine ship Oberleutnant Otto Pollmann, decorated for sinking 12 enemy boats, in front of the camera, his crew.

The admiral walks around the formation.

A German submarine goes on a raid, protecting a German convoy of ships in the Mediterranean.

In a special room of the boat there are devices with which it is possible to determine the location of the enemy boat.

The noise of engines under water is heard.

An alarm sounds on the boat, the sailors run to their places.

Dropping depth charges, explosions in the water.

Traces of oil on the surface of the water - a sign of a direct hit on the target.

The raid continues, a new battle is underway.