Ostland Woche №24413 (1944)

Latvia free from the Bolsheviks, the population is busy with peaceful affairs.

Trucks with Latvian legionnaire soldiers are driving along the road.

Peasants on horses are riding to the fields to harvest.

Traces of fierce battles on the territory of Latvia.

Broken equipment and guns are lying on the roadsides.

A close-up of a car with traces of holes in the windows of the cabin.

Abandoned guns near a field.

Soldiers are examining abandoned American tanks, inscriptions in English.

Soldiers collect unused shells, climb onto the tank.

Shells are handed over to the tankers.

A German tank is towed by an American one.

A Latvian peasant sharpens a scythe next to an abandoned gun, mows wheat.

A hand turns the pages of a calendar from August 22 to 23. The headline of the Latvian newspaper "Tukuma", newly published in Latvia, is visible, about the battles in Italy.

A military journalist from the Latvian unit writes information on a sheet of paper.

Officers at a meeting at headquarters.

A journalist writes the headline: "To arms, Latvians!" A printing house, typesetters at work.

A photograph of a German Panther tank and the headline of an article about the liberation of the country, also thanks to modern German tanks.

Soldiers hand out front-line newspapers to residents from a car.

Review of the Estonian legionnaire detachment that joined the German SS tank corps and returned from the Finnish front.

The legion's banner flutters.

Legionnaires in a row on the field, SS General, commander of the 20th SS Grenadier Division Johannes Soodla inspects the formation.

Soodla's speech to the legionnaires.

SS and Estonian Police Brigadeführer Heinrich Möller speaks.

The legion ceremonially marches past the general.

The civilian population is evacuated to Germany by ship.

There are people, carts with things, cars on the pier.

Children are sitting on things.

The military are checking the documents of those leaving.

Soldiers are helping people carry things onto the steamer, carrying a baby carriage, children.

A woman with flowers in her hands.

A girl in her mother's arms is eating bread.

Children are eating sandwiches.

People are waving their hands and flowers from the deck of the steamer.

The destruction wrought by the Bolsheviks in Lithuania.

The ruins of an ancient fortress, a destroyed bridge across the river, burnt houses, stove pipes sticking out among the ashes.

An abandoned village, broken houses, debris through which soldiers are walking.

The Lithuanian population is digging communication passages, trenches.

Grenadiers in a pause between battles.

A soldier-observer with binoculars looks out of a dugout.

A bridge is being restored on the river.

Soldiers are ferrying planks to the other bank in inflatable boats, sawing.

A soldier with a sledgehammer is driving in supports.

The bridge is being repaired on both sides.

Tankers are watching them.

A tank division is moving to new positions along a dusty road.

Enemy planes appear, a German anti-aircraft gun fires.

The planes bomb a populated area and a bridge.

Tanks are driving along the road past a forest.

View of the Fuhrer's headquarters after the assassination attempt on July 20, 1944. A detailed display of broken furniture, holes in the ceiling.

On the platform in the rain, Hitler in a raincoat and the generals meet the train with Mussolini for the first time since the assassination attempt.

Soldiers are standing on an open platform in front of the train near an anti-aircraft gun.

Mussolini gets out of the carriage and greets Hitler.

Marshal Graziani arrives with Mussolini.

Hitler and Himmler walk along the path to the headquarters, followed by Goering and Mussolini.

Hitler talks to the guests at the building.

The Duce says goodbye to the Fuhrer from the carriage window, Goering and Ribbentrop wave their hands.

The train departs.

Map of the English Channel, German troops in France.

Loading heavy equipment for shipment to the front.

Soldiers carry shells wrapped in matting, loading them into vehicles.

Trucks, camouflaged with branches, drive along the road to the front.

Soldiers look at the sky.

When enemy planes appear, the cars stop, the soldiers jump out.

Artillery fires at the planes.

The city of Caen is being bombed.