Ostland Woche №24546 (1943)

Newsreel №63286, 2 parts, Duration: 0:14:58 B/W
Studio UFA

Reel №1

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Use of female labor in the military industry.

Women at the labor exchange.

Women in the general flow of workers.

Production processes at a factory, women at tables assembling parts, learning to operate machines.

In Tallinn, a farewell ceremony for volunteers for the Eastern Front is taking place.

Girls give flowers to the soldiers.

General Commissioner of Estonia Karl Litzmann and National Director of Estonia Hjalmar Mäe see off the SS legion, inspect the formation.

The legion marches down the street, with drummers and standard bearers in front.

Farewell to volunteers at the train station, relatives saying goodbye to the soldiers.

A soldier plays the harmonica.

Departure of the train.

Caudillo Franco arrives by car in El Escorial for the opening of the monument to King Alfonso XII, he goes around a row of diplomats who have arrived for the ceremony.

Everyone goes into the memorial building, the bishop meets Franco at the king's tomb.

On March 23, 1943, elections for candidates from the Social Democratic and Radical parties are held in Copenhagen.

Agitators with bundles of leaflets leave the building on bicycles.

The streets of Copenhagen, national flags are hanging, cyclists are riding along the street, passers-by are walking.

A rally is taking place in the street.

A woman is pinning a badge to a man's lapel.

A bus pulled by a pair of horses is driving along, with propaganda posters for Carl Petersen on board.

People are going to the polling stations, voting.

Counting the votes.

The paramilitary service of the labor front in Croatia.

Soldiers are running out of the barracks, disassembling shovels, building.

Soldiers at a construction site, earthworks are underway, carts with earth are being manually transported.

Construction of prefabricated houses, a soldier is installing a pipe.

Production processes at a woodworking factory.

Sawing logs into boards.

Making plywood, parquet boards, furniture.

A craftsman is planing a board.

General view of the workshop.

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Reel №2

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Opening of the new bridge across the Danube in the presence of Regent Admiral Horthy.

He cuts the ribbon, shakes hands with the construction managers and the frontline workers.

A shield with a commemorative inscription about the construction of the bridge.

Everyone is walking along the new bridge.

Opening of the cross-country cycling season.

Cyclists race across the bridge, carry their bikes in their arms, climb a steep street-stairs, ride along a mountain road, over snow-covered hills, run in the snow with their bikes.

Having reached the stage, they put on skis and continue the competition.

The winner at the finish line, a girl presents him with flowers.

A parade of troops took place at a sports stadium in Brussels.

An anti-Bolshevik rally in the hall, Dr.

Elias with the military is walking down the aisle, he is giving a speech.

Soldiers and nurses are sitting in the hall.

Close-ups of faces.

Military action in North Africa (Tunisia).

German airborne troops take up positions, soldiers are behind cover.

German aircraft bomb concentrations of Anglo-American tanks, Italian and German artillery fires.

German tanks on the offensive.

A burning American tank.

German reserves are moving up to the front, soldiers are walking and smiling.

The Germans are leading a column of captured Anglo-American soldiers, a collection point near the walls of a building.

German soldiers are walking past military trophies: guns, ammunition.

A British position captured by the Germans, a shelter made of sandbags.

Gas masks, broken weapons, and grenades are lying on the ground.

German soldiers are climbing onto a broken American tank and examining it.

The southern sector of the front near Kharkov.

A soldier in camouflage is examining the surroundings through binoculars.

German tanks are firing near a populated area.

A tanker is throwing spent shell casings out of his tank.

German infantry is attacking.

Burning huts are in the distance.

The Germans are firing from an anti-aircraft gun.

A burning village, a well crane in the foreground.

Soldiers are walking through a field with haystacks.

A corpse of a Soviet soldier lies there.

German soldiers near a dugout, a Soviet soldier gets out of it and surrenders.

The Germans are walking through a burning village, hiding behind the walls of houses, a tank is turning the corner.

A burning Soviet tank.

German tanks are driving past destroyed Soviet positions, dead Soviet soldiers are lying in a trench.

A tank with holes in its armor, an abandoned gun.

A German airfield in the Kharkov region.

A massive sortie of German planes, they are in flight.

Bombing of Soviet positions and populated areas.

Bombs are flying towards the target, explosions and fires on the ground.

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