Ostland Woche №24427 (1943)

Newsreel №63277, 2 parts, Duration: 0:15:00 B/W
Studio UFA

Reel №1

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Meeting at the Riga railway station, the delegation is walking along the platform with suitcases and briefcases.

The delegation is receiving SS-Obergruppenführer, the highest leader of the SS and police in the Latvian administration, Hans Adolf Prützmann.

He greets a young man who fought on the eastern front, pats him on the cheek, talks with the members of the delegation.

A tour of the city in its old part.

An ancient fortress, cannons at the loopholes, the Dome Cathedral.

Kindergarten in Riga.

Women take children to the kindergarten, they are received by teachers.

Children in a room, a nanny opens a cabinet with toys for them, the children sort them out.

A girl sweeps the floor with a small mop, feeds dolls at a table.

Two boys quarrel over a toy.

A group of older children at a drawing class.

Children in the hall dance to music, do various exercises.

Children wash, have lunch, sleep in their beds.

Congress of the Falangists in Madrid.

Franco arrives at the congress building, he is met by a guard of honor.

A ceremonial meeting is taking place in the hall, Franco is giving a speech.

In Prague, the troops sign the text of the oath from 1940 recognizing the leader of great Germany Adolf Hitler as the defender of the interests of the protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia for the common good of the two countries.

The ceremony takes place in the hall, the soldiers approach the table, sign the document.

Agricultural exhibition in Radomyshl.

German officers examine the exhibits: agricultural machinery, German tractors, seeders delivered to Ukraine.

Models of agricultural land, building materials for houses.

Peasants at the exhibition.

Poster: "Sow the field on time from August 25 to September 10", posters about the harvests of lupine, potatoes, buckwheat, rye.

Peasants examine sheaves of wheat, potatoes, beehives with honey, and fish in aquariums.

Keywords

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Reel №2

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Famous figure skaters Maxi Gerber and Ernst Bayer perform on the ice in a Berlin sports hall.

Spectators watch the dance.

Review of Latvian troops returning from the Leningrad front.

Soldiers in formation on the square, a general speaks in front of them, then an awards ceremony takes place.

Poglavnik Pavelic reviews the parade of the Croatian Volunteer Legion in Agram (Zagreb).

He walks around the formation, shakes hands, and goes up to the podium.

Cavalry, horse artillery, and infantry ride by.

Residents watch the parade and clap.

Military action in Tunisia.

A panorama of the city of Tunis from an airplane.

A column of German tanks and armored vehicles drive along the streets of the city.

A rest stop in one of the Tunisian villages.

A crowd of local residents gathered to watch the Germans.

German soldiers talk to the population.

A soldier unceremoniously touches a woman's earrings.

Women in national dress in front of the camera.

Soldiers are given a basket of fruit.

Adult children climb onto a tank.

A soldier throws something into the crowd, the Arabs grab the offering, examine the box of cigarettes, and clap.

They smile.

Continuation of the march of motorized columns across the desert to the Atlas Mountains.

A Tunisian showing the Germans the way.

The column moves in the mountains.

Shelling of British outposts.

The central sector of the front.

Retreat operations of the German troops.

Changing of the guard among the Germans at the front line.

Snow drifting, soldiers in snow-covered trenches.

View of the area from the trenches.

Artillery fires at a populated area, shell explosions on the horizon.

Grenadiers and sappers take up their initial position for the attack.

The Germans advance under fire from Soviet artillery.

The detachment reaches the Soviet trenches, attacks the bunker.

Germans lead Soviet prisoners.

German planes attack Soviet positions.

Bombs are dropped on a populated area where a concentration of Soviet combat forces and equipment is discovered.

A low-angle view from an airplane, a road with Soviet columns and equipment is visible.

The shadow of a German plane slides along the ground.

Bombing, a lot of explosions on the ground.

Keywords

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