Ostland Woche №24430 (1943)

Latvian women doing charity work.

Sewing felt slippers.

Making soft toys for children.

Women working in a kindergarten, tutoring children.

Latvian volunteers heading to the camp with suitcases.

They receive uniforms, underwear, and change into their uniforms.

The commander checks their clothes.

At the whistle, the recruits run out into the barracks yard, and the officer addresses them.

Soldiers receiving their pay.

Recruits training.

Soldiers standing in ranks in the snow.

Rifle target practice.

The unit marches to its position.

Machine gunners take up position, a soldier at an anti-aircraft gun in a vehicle.

A mock battle with enemy tanks.

The Latvian SS division in formation, German officers walking around the formation.

Soldiers taking the oath.

Hans von Moltke's visit to Spain.

The car with the adviser, accompanied by the Moroccan guard of the caudillo, heads to the palace.

Moltke climbs the grand staircase, talks with Franco at the table.

The command of the German troops in Thessaloniki has handed over the building to the Greek public for the organization of a kindergarten.

The teachers lead the children to the rooms.

The children play at the tables.

A portrait of Hitler hangs on the wall.

Nannies feed babies from bottles.

Football match between army teams in Rome at an open stadium.

Moments of the game.

Many soldiers in the stands.

Mass rally in the Sports Palace in Berlin.

Goebbels' speech about declaring "total war" on Germany on all fronts.

Applause from the audience, shouts of approval.

Delegations of women, soldiers, and the wounded are sitting in the hall.

The slogan above the stage: "Total war - quick war." The audience chants: "Fuehrer, give the order, we are following you!" The anthem plays.

An announcement on a newspaper column from January 27, 1943 about the mass recruitment of women to work in military factories in Germany.

A call for women on posters.

Women at the labor exchange fill out forms.

They are at the factories, working at the machines, sharpening shells.

The southern sector of the front in the Donets region.

Defensive battles are underway.

German grenadiers in camouflage suits at their positions, soldiers sorting out ammunition.

A German tethered balloon with a reconnaissance aircraft takes off, communicating with him via radio.

The Germans roll out a heavy gun and fire at a populated area.

Snow drifts.

A German soldier covers his face with his hands from the cold, his eyelashes are frozen.

Street fighting in a populated area, soldiers firing from behind cover.

The corpses of Soviet soldiers lie covered in snow.

Broken Soviet tanks in the city.

German bombers take off.

Low-level bombing of Soviet positions, a railroad, houses, and tanks are visible below.

Air battle with Soviet planes.

A Soviet plane explodes in the air and falls down.