Ostland Woche №24571 (1943)

A factory in Riga that makes board games for frontline rest homes and hospitals.

Printing chessboards on cardboard sheets, board games.

Women pack the sheets into boxes, arrange the dice.

There is a drawing of players on the lid of the box.

Making chess pieces on a machine from wooden blanks.

An old woman assembles chess pieces from parts.

Packing chess into boxes.

Soldiers receive boxes with chess sets and games, one of them stamps a drawing of chess players on the boxes.

Soldiers play chess in a frontline rest home.

The opening of parliament in Stockholm.

A ceremonial march of the royal guard in tall fur hats passes along the street.

Members of parliament walk past the guards to the building.

King Gustav V arrives at parliament in a carriage that is used only once a year.

The building of Quisling's residence.

The anniversary of the prime minister's leadership is celebrated here.

The leaders of the work detachments have gathered in the hall.

Quisling enters, greets the commanders, talks to them.

Workers' battalions are lined up on the square with shovels in their hands.

Quisling walks around the formation.

On January 6, the Christmas holidays in Spain end with Three Kings' Day.

Preparations for the holiday in Barcelona.

Street traffic in the city.

Rows of stalls with children's toys stretch out along the street, adults and children look at them.

A boy climbs onto a bicycle.

An evening carnival procession through the city.

A man in a carnival costume stands next to a live camel loaded with carnival things.

Carts with models of a sailboat and a figure of an elephant are driving.

Illuminated advertising on the streets.

A torchlight procession goes along a night street, riders on horses, carts with models and people in costumes are riding.

In winter, athletes are faced with a choice - to train outdoors or indoors.

Young people on a snowy field do physical education under the guidance of a trainer.

They do jumping in place, running.

But after a while they are sent to a warm room.

Gym classes, pole vaulting.

Women's hockey competitions in Sweden, they are more accustomed to the cold.

Moments of the game on the ice of the lake.

After the game, the girls take snow baths, throw snowballs, tumble in the snow, rub themselves with snow.

The chimney of a Finnish sauna smokes nearby.

European Boxing Championships in Breslau.

Moments from the match between German Karl Suess and Italian Luigi Muzina.

Suess wins on points.

A train with French soldiers freed from captivity in Tunisia arrives in Rouen.

Carabinieri get off the carriages, a sailor with a knapsack walks along the platform.

A prisoner reception point, trucks are heading towards it.

Military action in Tunisia.

Unloading German and Italian transports in the harbor, cars, ammunition, and boxes on the pier.

Arabs roll barrels of fuel.

German gunners at a gun.

Anti-aircraft artillery repels a raid by British aircraft.

German fighters take off.

Anti-aircraft gun hits a British plane.

Enemy bombs fall into the sea.

Planes leave a smoke trail in the sky.

A shot down British plane on the ground.

German soldiers on a motorcycle near a downed English pilot, he surrenders.

The soldiers wrap his parachute.

The wreckage of the English plane.

The central section of the front, on the Smolensk-Bryansk-Demyansk line.

The movement of German supply trains and infantry during a blizzard.

Infantry from the reserve, marching to the front.

Horse artillery advances through the snow, weapons are carried on sleds.

A soldier in camouflage looks through binoculars, a view of a snow-covered field.

The village where the Germans have dug in is shelled by Soviet artillery.

Explosions.

Two soldiers running across the field fall, escaping from the explosion, take cover in a trench.

Return fire from German anti-aircraft artillery.

The battle continues until night.

Blinding flashes illuminate the battlefield.

German soldiers are visible sitting in trenches at night.

In the morning, after the artillery preparation, German light tanks enter the battle, followed by infantry.

The edge of the forest being fired upon.

German infantry in their initial positions, then goes into battle under the cover of tanks.

The tanks stop (they are filmed against the backdrop of the forest).

Fighting on the approaches to the forest.

Tanks and guns are firing.

One of the German military airfields.

Bombers and fighters take off.

Pilots in the cockpit.

A massive raid by German aircraft on the Soviet rear.

The bombing begins, shells fly down.

Numerous fires from exploding bombs (aerial view).

An air battle with the enemy is underway in the sky.

An airplane flies apart from a direct hit.