Ostland Woche №24429 (1944)

SS-Standartenführer Alfons Rebane, commander of the 45th regiment of the 20th SS Grenadier Division (1st Estonian), awarded the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross with Oak Leaves, at a meeting with the Director General of Internal Affairs of Estonia Dr.

Hjalmar Mäe at his residence, the meeting is attended by the General Commissioner of Estonia Karl Litzman, a conversation with the hero.

Rebane at home drinking tea with his wife, he shows her a newspaper.

The 19th Waffen-SS Grenadier Division (2nd Latvian, which distinguished itself especially on the Eastern Front) is often mentioned in the reports of the High Command.

The division is billeted in a village.

The division commander, SS-Oberführer Hinrich Schuldt, meets with the commander of the 42nd SS Grenadier Regiment of the 19th Division, SS-Standartenführer Woldemar Weiss.

They talk near a hut and shake hands.

Weiss walks around the position and talks to a soldier.

The Japanese ambassador Hiraka arrives to meet with Mussolini.

He walks past the guard of honor, enters the Duce's residence, and is greeted by officials.

The Duce receives guests.

The Italian ambassador Ralli meets with Mussolini before leaving for Japan.

The Fuhrer's headquarters.

The arrival of German generals and admirals, including Manstein, at the conference.

Küchler.

Generals are chatting in the courtyard.

Hitler is walking along the path, accompanied by Field Marshal Keitel and Admiral Doenitz, all heading to headquarters.

Marshal Petain is visiting a labor camp of the Annamites (Vietnamese), located in Vichy.

The Annamites line up along the wall of the barracks.

Petain is presented with national treats and flowers.

The Marshal goes around the formation, goes into the prayer room, at the exit, priests are waiting for him, they bow to him.

Training of the Madrid firefighters.

Trucks leaving the garage, a fireman rings the bell.

Putting out a fire in a building, firefighters climb up the ladders.

A fireman climbs a rope to the truck, descends the ladder, demonstrating acrobatic skills.

Providing assistance to the victims in the building.

Descending to the ground along a long canvas, a stretcher with a wounded man is lowered along the rope.

Meeting of boxers Karelzis (?) and Van Doering in Brussels, progress of the fight.

Van Doering wins on points.

German pilots train Italian pilots in German attack tactics.

After receiving the instructions, the Italians conduct a training flight.

German fighter pilots in their homeland.

The famous German pilot Captain Walter Nowotny, accompanied by his comrades, walks down a city street; residents greet the heroes.

The pilots went on an excursion to a military plant.

They observe the work in progress, talk to the workers, among whom are many women and teenagers.

West of the Zhitomir-Kirovograd-Nikopol line.

Soldiers on leave return to the front by train.

Soldiers are given dry rations for the journey at one of the food points.

The soldiers rest, wash, do their laundry, shave, and board the carriages.

Nurses wave after the departing train.

The echelon moves across the snowy steppe.

The arrival of a military train at the final station, the soldiers register at a special point.

They are sent to their units using various types of passing transport: trucks, sleds.

The soldiers walk along the road, one of them is holding a lamb.

Again with their front-line comrades, the vacationers share their impressions of the vacation, show photos of their loved ones.

The soldiers throw snow at their comrades sitting by the hut, and a cheerful brawl in the snow begins.

A meeting of officers before the attack.

Tank units have taken up their initial positions in a field in one of the Russian villages.

The soldiers go on the attack.

A huge haystack is burning.

Soviet soldiers surrender.

German sappers clear a field of mines marked with signs with inscriptions in German: "Caution, mines!" German artillery in action.

A burning captured village, destroyed Soviet tanks and guns on the battlefield.

The battle for Monte Cassino.

Views of Monte Cassino and its environs.

American bombers raid, explosions are heard in the city.

German soldiers in camouflaged dugouts.

Advancing German forward units encounter American scouts, a shootout begins.

German soldiers examine an American soldier they have killed.

A captured "tongue" is taken to the location of German troops, interrogated.

The Germans begin shelling.

A German artillery spotter observes the shooting.