Ostland Woche №24008 (1943)

Agricultural work in the village.

A peasant drives a car, ploughs the land.

A peasant ploughs on a horse with a plough, harrows, sows by hand.

In the city of Velikiye Luki, a review of volunteer units and the police formed in the occupied eastern lands was held.

The General Commissioner of Estonia Karl Litzmann and the National Director of Estonia Hjalmar Mäe inspect the line of volunteers.

The head of the police reports to Litzmann, who shakes his hand.

Litzmann speaks from the podium.

Faces of volunteers in formation.

A group of foreign filmmakers visited a film studio in Munich.

They walk along a built-up street with decorations of houses in the old style.

A tour of the city, the Triumphal Arch, sculptures and architectural monuments, which the guide talks about.

An Estonian soldier in the barracks reads a newspaper in his native language.

Then he puts on a helmet and blows a wake-up signal with a whistle.

The soldiers jump out of their bunk beds, wash, eat, run out of the barracks, and line up in the yard.

The officer gives a report.

The soldiers march onto the field, disassemble their weapons, and prepare their machine guns for battle.

An SS unit lies down in the forest, the soldiers drag a machine gun and set it up.

A view of the area with a river.

After the training, the soldiers gather in the canteen.

The women set the tables, put out mugs of beer.

Free time, the soldiers play chess at the table, write letters.

Two soldiers play the accordions.

Hitler's Mein Kampf lies on the table.

National holiday in Slovakia.

People in national costumes have gathered in the square of Pressburg (Bratislava) near the city theater.

Officials are standing on the balcony, and many flags are hanging.

The President of Slovakia, Dr.

Tiso, walks past the line of soldiers, behind which a line of soldiers with bicycles can be seen.

A parade of troops is taking place in the stadium in front of Tiso and the generals.

Troops of soldiers and sailors march, cavalry gallops.

Motorized artillery and tanks pass by.

Air parade, planes fly in threes.

Map of Greece.

Introduction of additional Wehrmacht units into Greece.

Motorized columns of German troops and tanks drive along the streets of Athens.

People watch the movement of troops.

Loading of tanks and other equipment at the port for shipment to the islands.

A ship gives a signal with a searchlight, while another responds with flags.

A sea transport ship sets off for the island of Crete.

Stormy sea off the coast of Crete, view of the embankment and the city.

Under German observation, the Greeks build coastal fortifications.

A German artillery position on the shore, a gun under a protective net, a German soldier at his post at the gun.

German planes at the airfield, pilots board their vehicles and take off.

A day of mourning in Berlin, dedicated to the memory of soldiers who died on the Eastern Front.

The Fuhrer walks from the Deutsches Haus, followed by Goering, Field Marshal Keitel, Rear Admiral Doenitz, Field Marshal Bock and other generals.

A ceremonial meeting, Hitler delivers a speech about the insidious plans of Bolshevism and the merits of German soldiers.

Benches are installed in the courtyard, on which officers sit, listening to the Fuhrer.

Hitler visits the pantheon of fallen heroes on Unter den Linden.

A wreath-laying ceremony.

Hitler, Goering and Keitel enter the pantheon.

Hitler straightens the ribbons on the wreath and salutes.

Columns of soldiers and officers stand at the pantheon, they salute the fallen.

Berliners raise their hands in a fascist salute.

Hitler greets the wounded and disabled of the First and Second World Wars, sitting in wheelchairs.

Goering and Himmler follow him.

Ceremonial march of the honor guard company, standard bearers.

Wehrmacht units and sailors pass by.

Hitler and his comrades-in-arms take the parade.

Southern sector, fighting in the Kharkov area.

Tanks, motorized units of the Waffen SS move through the snow in the direction of Kharkov past the village.

Soldiers sit on tanks, smile at the camera.

An officer looks at a map, points out the direction.

German infantrymen walk across a field, one of the soldiers carries a flag with a swastika.

A motorcyclist drives up to a tank, takes a package from the officer, and rides along a flooded road.

Motorcyclists race through the water.

German artillery fires, explosions are heard, and fragments of a peasant house fly into the air.

The Germans pass by burning peasant houses.

Tanks roll through the village.

German artillerymen notice running Soviet soldiers at the end of the street, fire at them from a cannon.

Fighting on the outskirts of Kharkov.

An SS soldier fires a machine gun.

Tanks enter the city.

Soldiers advance along the streets, walk along the fence of the city park.

Tanks and guns shoot in the streets of the city.

Houses are burning.

A German soldier tears a Soviet flag off a house.

A wounded German officer with a bandaged head walks.

Soldiers advance forward, shoot from the windows of captured houses.

A panorama of the ruins of the city.