Ostland Woche №24420 (1942)

Newsreel №63274, 2 parts, Duration: 0:17:27 B/W
Studio UFA

Reel №1

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In Latvia, fascist youth organizations have been created in the German style.

Latvian girls in formation in a clearing.

They raise their hands in a fascist salute.

Raising the flag.

Outdoor activities, the girls learn German.

In the classroom, the girls are taught typing, they retype an article from a newspaper.

At the sound of a gong, the girls go to lunch, the tables are set outside.

Sports activities, the girls do gymnastics to a tambourine, dance, exercise with clubs, play volleyball.

The girls run to the sea, swim, surround a man in a kayak, he "surrenders", raises his hands.

Lumberjacks lower finished logs to the river, roll them down the slope of a hill.

The men jump on the logs, assemble a raft.

Rafting timber down a river with rapids.

Views of the banks.

German soldiers go to the Sarasani Circus for a performance.

They enter the tent with tickets.

A performance by a trainer with tigers, they jump on pedestals, through a fiery hoop.

Elephants in the arena.

A woman dances with a snake.

A comic dance by a clown with a doll.

A cabaret show in Paris.

Two gymnasts perform exercises on wooden horses standing on their hind legs.

A playful dance by two clowns, the audience laughs.

Keywords

Latvia, 1942, World War 2, youth, fascist organizations, professional studies, sport, Latvia, 1942, timber rafting, logging, Germany, 1942, World War 2, circus, soldiers, France, 1942, World War 2, variety show

Reel №2

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A parade of vintage carriages is taking place in Paris.

A carriage pulled by four horses is driving down the street.

A tandem bicycle is pulling a carriage with a couple sitting in it.

Deck-cabs are passing.

Passengers are getting out of a van.

The stands of the hippodrome, filled with spectators, in Bucharest.

The Grand Prix horse races are taking place here.

Spectators are placing bets at the box office and looking at programs.

Smartly dressed women are watching the jockeys on their horses.

A horse race.

A simultaneous display of ladies' fashionable suits and hats.

A Frenchman wins the races.

An art gallery is hosting a portrait exhibition.

Visitors are in the exhibition hall.

Portraits of women and a display of women's faces in the hall.

Two girls are looking at nude sculptures.

In Rome, at the Altar of Victory, a celebration of the Italian militia was held.

Mussolini and King Victor Emmanuel III are inspecting the militia line.

The King presents orders and medals to officers and privates.

He presents an award to a policeman's widow, a boy in uniform.

A detachment of standard-bearers lowers their flags.

Mussolini and Victor Emmanuel III salute.

Celebrations in Prague to mark the 70th birthday of the President of the Reich Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia, Dr.

Emil Hacha.

Hacha is on the podium.

The speaker steps up to the microphone and waves his hand.

There is a crowd of residents and soldiers in the square.

People are looking out of their windows, standing on the roof of their houses, greeting the President.

The German air force is preparing to take off for Sevastopol, the planes are in the air, they are bombing the city.

Soldiers in the trenches are watching the sky.

Tanks and infantry attack.

Field Marshal Manstein with binoculars in combat positions.

He is examining the ruins of the destroyed fort "Maxim Gorky", examining the trophies - Soviet guns, tanks.

Romanian sappers defuse Soviet mines, walk across a field with probes.

A sapper pulls a mine out of the ground.

Fierce street fighting in Sevastopol.

Sunken ships in the city harbor.

A captured fortress, a fascist flag raised on the tower.

Ruins of the city, a church, a fascist flag on the spire of a mosque.

A soldier spreads a flag on the ground.

The remains of ships and boats are burning near the shore.

Burning ruins, craters from explosions.

A panorama of the ruins and broken Soviet guns.

A huge column of Soviet prisoners wanders along the road.

German fortifications near Tobruk.

Smoke from fires is visible on the horizon.

Colonel General Erwin Rommel in combat positions, watching ships at sea from his car, holding a meeting at headquarters, discussing the military situation with Field Marshal Albert Kesselring at a map.

Rommel interrogates a captured British general.

The movement of German mechanized artillery and tanks across the desert towards Sallum.

View of Sallum from above.

A sign near the fortress.

Artillery fire on British tanks.

Attack of German tanks and infantry on Marsa Matruk, capture of the city.

Rommel watches the battle.

Destroyed British tanks, the inscription "Rosemary" on the tank.

A panorama of the battlefield with destroyed tanks.

A column of captured British soldiers marches, many cover their faces as they pass the camera, there are many blacks among the prisoners.

German equipment and tanks on the march.

Keywords

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