Ostland Woche №24421 (1943)

Volunteers are recruited for labor detachments in Kaunas.

Detachments march along the street and line up in the square.

The Arbeitsführer makes a speech.

General Commissioner of Lithuania Renteln addresses the volunteers, calling for discipline and good work.

Renteln lays a wreath at the pedestal.

Production processes at the engine repair plant.

Teenagers work in the shops together with adults.

A detailed demonstration of engine repair and assembly, finished products.

Ukrainian girls working in Germany are sent to the workers' barracks.

The girls' morning toilet, they wash and comb their hair.

Work at a factory making soldiers' boots.

A girl irons sewn linen.

Women knit and sew shirts.

Doctors monitor the health of the workers.

Lunch in the canteen.

Rest in the barracks.

Girls in national embroidered shirts sit at tables, sing folk songs, read books.

A girl holds a Cossack doll in her hands.

Folk dances and a round dance.

On the anniversary of Japan's entry into the war, the German and Japanese ambassadors to Italy laid wreaths at the Glory Monument in Rome.

The Bolsheviks destroyed bridges, railways, factories and plants during their retreat.

In Ukraine, the destroyed economy is being restored.

Repair work is underway in the plant workshops and at the power plant.

A new locomotive leaves the depot, with the number 100 on the driver's cab in front.

Work is underway in a quarry for the extraction of crushed stone and gravel.

Restoration of a bridge, a train is moving across it.

Military operations near Leningrad.

An artillery battery under a protective net.

Construction of additional fortifications at the front line.

Everyday life of German soldiers at the front.

Humorous signs with inscriptions and drawings near dugouts.

Soldiers in camouflage suits carry logs, saw firewood, and bring them into a dugout.

A soldier rubs himself with snow.

Ice is being chipped, snow is being cleared from the trenches, wet slush is being poured from the bottom with a bucket.

An SS officer inspects the positions, a Finnish soldier makes a report.

A soldier crawls out from under a pile of logs; a tram and cars lie on top, fallen on their side.

Broken Soviet tanks in the snow, mangled guns.

Artillery shelling of the city.

Soldiers fire a machine gun and a grenade launcher.

Military action in the Toropets area.

A German battery fires on the outskirts of the city.

Map of the central section of the front, diagram of the encirclement of several Soviet divisions in the Toropets area.

Soviet tanks attack; they are trying to break out of the ring.

German machine gunners fire.

After the battle, destroyed American and Soviet tanks stand on the field.

A German soldier approaches a tank and examines it.

The corpses of Soviet soldiers lie in the snow.

German troops move to new positions.

An officer observes the movement of horse artillery.

A signalman passes on a message to the commander.

Night artillery shelling of Soviet positions, which continues in the morning.

The Germans lead Soviet prisoners.

The battlefield near Toropets, there is broken equipment, trucks, guns.

Tanks, corpses of Soviet soldiers.

The announcer talks about the losses of the Russians.

German submarines on a campaign in the South Atlantic.

They follow in the footsteps of the cruiser Atlantis, sunk by the British.

The rescued crew on board the boat.

A convoy is formed from the empty lifeboats in which the sailors sat day and night.

The return of the German submarines to the base, where a meeting with their Italian colleagues takes place.

An official celebration of the sailors took place at the Kaiserhof Hotel in Berlin.

Admiral Raeder and Captain 1st Rank Bernhard Rogge review the rescued crew of the Atlantis, Raeder presents commemorative insignia to the German sailors.

The sinking of British ships by the German cruiser Atlantis / fragments from previous newsreels of the Deutsche Wochenschau.

A cruiser, a conning tower.

Alarm signal, Nazi flag raised, sailors at guns.

Cruiser firing at English freighter, sinking ship.

Rescued sailors from sunken ship on board boat.

Shelling of another enemy ship, explosion, fire on board tanker, smoke from burning oil.