Ostland Woche №24221 (1943)

Newsreel №63270, 2 parts, Duration: 0:15:49 B/W
Studio UFA

Reel №1

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A public celebration was held at a stadium in Riga.

General Commissioner Drexler enters the stadium and shakes hands with an officer of the guard of honour.

Local residents are sitting in the stands.

Drexler and General Director Dankers walk across the field past columns of soldiers and youth organisations.

Girls in national costumes wave their hands, girls present flowers to the guests.

Drexler, Dankers and the local leader sit on a bench decorated with garlands.

A military orchestra plays.

A folk choir performs.

Close-ups of the faces of soldiers, women and children in the crowd.

After the concert, the conductor is presented with flowers.

Production processes at a shoe factory.

Making wooden soles for sandals, decorating them with ornaments using the firing method, nailing straps to the soles with decorative nails.

Finished sandals in a warehouse, women putting them in boxes.

A customer trying on sandals in a store.

Celebration of the 85th birthday of King Gustav V in Stockholm.

View of the decorated street from above.

Sailors fire small cannons from the fortress wall in honor of the king.

Crowds of people on the streets of the city.

Foreign delegations arrive in Stockholm.

The king and his wife are riding in a carriage drawn by four horses.

The population welcomes them.

The Alcazar fortress in Toledo in ruins after its capture by Franco's troops.

The flag over the ruins of the fortress as a symbol of victory over the Republicans.

Caudillo Franco arrives at the Alcazar to meet with the military, he walks around the line of soldiers.

The oath-taking ceremony is underway.

The military walks past the flag, kissing the edge.

The military and Franco in the crowd of residents.

An international pro-fascist conference of journalists took place in Vienna, the conference participants get off the bus.

Reichsleiter Otto Dietrich greets conference participants in the foyer, shaking hands with a woman, the head of the Finnish delegation, Vukonen.

Reich Minister Alfred Rosenberg delivers a speech on Europe's struggle against Bolshevism.

Dietrich's speech.

Opening of the 7th Great Art Exhibition in Munich.

Reich Minister Dr.

Goebbels heads toward the exhibition building and enters the hall.

Individual exhibits of the exhibition in front of the camera.

Landscapes, genre paintings, portraits of soldiers, sailors, a painting about the Battle of Stalingrad.

Sculpture of a soldier holding a grenade.

Fountain with a sculpture of a nymph holding the whiskers of a huge fish, by sculptor Helmut Liebermann.

Nude by sculptor Breker.

Equestrian monument to Frederick the Great by sculptor Josef Thorak.

Water sports competitions in an open-air pool were held in Brussels.

Diving from a diving platform.

Men's backstroke competition.

The winner is in front of the camera.

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Reel №2

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On June 27, the 2nd Great German Horse Races took place at the Berlin Hippodrome.

Spectators at the ticket office, placing bets.

Scoreboard.

The bell rings.

Horse racing begins.

Spectators look through binoculars.

Close-up of women's legs on a stool, rising on tiptoe.

The winner on a horse, Allgäu.

The southern sector of the front.

A reconnaissance detachment of SS troops in special amphibious vehicles during maneuvers.

Practicing combat techniques.

The soldiers jump out of the vehicle while moving, take up a position, and fire machine guns.

Then, also while running, they take their places in the vehicles.

Driving over rough terrain to the river.

The amphibious vehicle overcomes the water obstacle, emerges on the other bank, and continues on its way.

Romanian Defense Minister Pantazi arrives by plane at the location of Romanian troops on the Kuban Front.

The minister and his officers inspect the guard of honor.

Pantazi at the troop positions, he walks around the line of soldiers, talks to them.

Ceremonial march of units in front of the minister.

The minister at the artillery battery on the coast.

The central section of the front.

The infantry battalion is located in the forest to rest.

The life of soldiers in a forest camp.

A soldier is lying in a hammock, next to him is a jacket with medals.

Soldiers wash, shave, mend clothes.

A soldier inspects a shirt.

Near the tent, soldiers eat from mess tins, helmets hang on the crossbar.

A soldier smiles at the sun.

At the table, soldiers read and write letters, drink coffee.

A mailbox nailed to a tree, soldiers drop letters into it.

Soldiers play cards.

A clock hangs on a tree.

A soldier whistles, everyone runs to him.

Sports games and competitions begin.

Soldiers run across the field, tumble.

Swimming competitions in the river, relay race with machine guns in hand.

Soldiers swimming in full military uniform.

Rowing competition in boats, guys try to turn over the "enemy" boat with oars.

The battalion goes to the front, soldiers march along the dusty road.

A convoy moves, a soldier plays the accordion in a cart, a field kitchen moves.

Soldiers in position, they clean their weapons, prepare the gun for battle.

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