Ostland Woche №24134 (1943)

Celebrations of the Day of Liberation from Bolshevik Terror were held in Kaunas.

People listen to a military orchestra concert in the square.

A ceremonial meeting is held in the hall in the presence of the Director General of the Interior of Latvia, Oskar Dankers.

General Commissioner von Renteln makes a speech, presents diplomas to the leading workers, and shakes their hands.

Work on a poultry farm.

A woman feeds the hens.

The hens enter the compartments and lay eggs.

Collecting the eggs and placing them on trays in the incubator.

The chicks hatch from the eggs, they are placed in boxes, and weighed.

Sending off the chicks.

A delegation of Latvian farmers visits an agricultural syndicate enterprise.

They are taken through a fertilizer processing workshop.

The delegates inspect experimental plots with plantings, walk around the fields and greenhouses.

Visit of the Romanian Marshal Antonescu to Germany.

Hitler meets him at headquarters.

Negotiations with the participation of Ribbentrop, Field Marshal Keitel.

They go to the headquarters room with a strategic map, where they listen to a report on the situation at the front.

Poglavnik (leader) Ante Pavelic in Zagreb.

He is present at a religious ceremony in the cathedral.

A motorcade of cars passes through the streets of the city, Pavelic, standing in a car, greets the city's population.

Pavelic takes the parade of troops.

In Sofia, a demonstration of fascist youth took place with the slogan: "Our struggle".

A crowd at the German embassy holds a rally.

A banner: "Our struggle is a youth revolt to stop Marxism".

"Tiger" - a new achievement of German tank building.

Tanks are being tested at the proving ground.

Crews take their places.

Demonstration of combat capabilities on rough terrain. "Tiger" fells a powerful tree on the way, drives through the forest, descends into a ravine.

The tank's gun turret rotates 360 degrees.

The gun fires at tank models.

Reich Minister of Armaments and Ammunition Albert Speer, Professor Ferdinand Porsche and officers watch the tanks through binoculars.

The tank rams a brick house, passes through it, the house collapses.

Battles for New Guinea.

Japanese naval units move to the coast of New Guinea.

An observer with binoculars on the deck.

Anglo-American planes bomb Japanese ships.

Anti-aircraft guns fire from the ship.

Japanese troops land on the shore, the Japanese infantry advances in the jungle.

Capture of an English airfield, view of destroyed hangars and planes.

Japanese planes take off to bomb the port of Darwin in Australia.

Squadron in the sky.

Pilots in the cockpit eating canned food.

View from the plane of the northern coast of Australia and the port of Darwin, bombing of Darwin, bombs flying down.

German submarine on raid during a storm.

Crossing the equator.

Everyday life of submariners during the voyage.

A sailor lies on a shelf, shaking off sweat, the fan is working.

A sailor decorates a Christmas tree.

In the galley, a Christmas cake is being made, the cake is being divided into pieces.

December 24 on the calendar.

Sailors in the forecastle, one with an accordion.

Reading of a congratulatory telegram from Grand Admiral Karl Doenitz.

Distribution of gifts, books.

The commander is presented with a model of a submarine, the sailor - an artificial cactus in a pot.

A boat off the coast of the Lesser Antilles near Curacao.

An observer looks through binoculars.

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

The hatches close, the boat goes under water.

The boat tilts, a view inside the cabin, a jacket moves away from the wall with a hanger.

The commander at the periscope, a view of Curacao.

The cameraman takes the camera, films the island through the periscope peephole.

An allied ship appears, it is fired at with torpedoes.

The sailors watch the damaged sinking ship.