Ostland Woche №24541 (1943)

The General Plenipotentiary for the Use of Labor, SA Obergruppenführer Fritz Sauckel arrives in Riga by plane to meet with Latvian labor detachments.

He is met by the military at the airfield.

The date on the calendar is April 20. Hitler's birthday is celebrated in Riga.

A bust of Hitler against the backdrop of a banner with a swastika, portraits of the Fuhrer.

A ceremonial meeting in the Opera building.

Speech by Reich Commissioner for Ostland Heinrich Lohse.

Soldiers and city residents in the hall.

At the end of the speech, everyone stands up and raises their hands in a fascist salute.

Ukrainian volunteers are sent to the eastern front.

Units of the Ukrainian Liberation Army at the station.

Cavalrymen stand with horses, a Cossack saddles a horse.

Soldiers with things walk along the platform.

Close-up of a Ukrainian soldier.

Loading into carriages.

A soldier talks to a railroad worker.

A cart with things is dragged into a carriage.

A German general sees off volunteers.

The Turkestan Volunteer Legion has set up camp in the forest.

Soldiers are sitting by the fire, cooking soup.

Fighters are mending clothes, cleaning a gun.

Soldiers' faces.

A broken, burnt-out carriage lies on the railroad tracks.

Turkestanis in combat positions.

Recruitment of the peoples of Europe into units of the German army to fight Bolshevism.

Norwegian Prime Minister Vidkun Quisling sees off a company of Norwegian police to the front, he hands over the banner to the company commander.

In France, the Volunteer Legion is preparing to leave for Versailles.

The detachments are lined up on the square, the soldiers are marching down the street, the residents are watching them.

At the train station, the soldiers are seen off by their relatives.

In Latvia, volunteers are marching down the street, the residents are accompanying the formation.

Boarding the carriages at the train station.

Nurses are pouring hot soup into the soldiers' pots.

The train departs.

Lapland (northern Finland and Karelia).

German convoys on horses make their way through the snow with cargo to supply outposts.

At a German military base, the delivery of delivered cargo and food.

Unharnessed horses rest.

A reindeer walks through a winter forest.

Soldiers in camouflage suits set off on a combat mission, they walk through the forest on skis, a horse pulls a sled.

An attack on a Soviet stronghold, shooting from machine guns and a submachine gun.

Capture of a Soviet dugout.

On the way back, the Germans carry a wounded comrade on a drag sled, and take out the wounded on a dog sled.

Antwerp after the Anglo-American air raid.

Panorama of the destroyed quarter, people dig up the ruins, remove debris, and carry out surviving things.

Ruins of a school.

Civil defense fighters carefully dig up an unexploded shell.

The wounded and dead are pulled out from under the rubble.

Nuns among the ruins.

A destroyed church, exterior and interior.

A burial ceremony for the victims of the bombing is taking place in the city, with the participation of Cardinal Van Royer and archbishops.

Widows follow the hearses.

Carts with numbered coffins.

A mass burial and wreath-laying takes place.

The northern sector of the front.

Spring drip, streams flow, snow melts.

A soldier walks across a stream on a plank.

A car drives through the spilled water.

Soldiers' boots get stuck in the mud.

Soldiers drag a motorcycle through the mud, horses pull a cart.

A soldier tries to ride a motorcycle, but the wheels get stuck, his comrades help him.

German positions near Lake Ladoga, trenches in the water.

Soldiers bail out water from trenches and dugouts, pump out water.

After the winter, soldiers wash off the white camouflage paint from their equipment, wash tanks by the river, clean the cannon and weapons.

Soldiers wash themselves, pour water from a mess tin on their heads, and comb their hair.

An army barber shaves a soldier.

A soldier sees buds on a willow and picks a twig.

An aerostat is visible through the flowering branches in the sky.

Mussolini's visit to Germany, 7.04-10.04.1943. The Duce gets off the train, Hitler, Field Marshal Keitel, and Ribbentrop meet him.

Arrival at the Fuhrer's headquarters, Hitler and Mussolini talk at a round table.

Work on further strengthening the Atlantic Wall.

German artillery and torpedo batteries guard the entrances to the Norwegian fjords.

German patrols guard the English Channel and monitor the English coast.

German naval units guard the coast of Belgium and Holland.

Construction work on concrete fortifications on the coast of France is underway.

Earthworks, a huge bunker in the forests.

Installation of a heavy gun.

A chain of bunkers and gun positions has been created on the coast.

Soldiers march along the coast.

The muzzle of a heavy gun.