Ostland Woche №24609 (1944)

People at the labor exchange.

Women chatting.

Farewell to Latvian volunteers for the Eastern Front.

Volunteers march through the city, an orchestra in front.

Gathering in the square, soldiers receiving hot porridge in their pots, eating.

A group of soldiers, the tallest and shortest of them standing in the center by contrast, laughing.

Soldiers saying goodbye to their families, talking to girls.

Report to a German officer in front of the formation.

Women accompany a column of volunteers along the road.

Boarding a train, soldiers waving, officers saluting.

Students of a technical school that trains mechanics, in a labor camp.

Young men running out of the barracks for morning exercises.

Raising the flag.

Theoretical classes at the school, a teacher explaining the principle of operation of a car exhaust pipe on a diagram.

Practical classes in a workshop on various machines.

Not far from the city, in the forest, in a mass grave, the bodies of people killed by the GPU were found.

The commission is examining the documents found.

The bodies of the victims are exhumed and reburied in the cemetery.

People at the funeral ceremony.

Priests walk, followed by soldiers carrying wreaths, flowers are placed on the graves.

Archbishop Theodore Grinberg gives a speech, then throws a handful of earth on the graves.

Laying of a wreath from the Latvian SS Legion.

Bishops of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church gathered in Warsaw for the first meeting of the canonical council.

Priests hand over to the representative of the General Government Administration, Governor Fischer, a memorandum in which they protest against the policy of decomposition of the Ukrainian people and especially their church life, carried out by the Bolsheviks from Moscow.

Fischer greets the clergy.

Croatia celebrates the 3rd anniversary of its independence.

Views of the city, a shop window with a portrait of the poglavnik (leader) Ante Pavelic.

Pavelic awards honored representatives of the government.

Parade of the Croatian Life Guards in Agram (Zagreb).

The Poglavnik on horseback in front.

Residents greet the troops.

Pavelic reviews the parade of troops.

Detachments march, mechanized artillery drives by.

Mussolini arrives in Germany on a visit.

The Duce and the Fuhrer meet, they go into the hall, discuss common political, military and economic problems.

Italian and German soldiers talk in the foyer, among them Keitel and Ciano.

Mussolini accompanied by Field Marshal Keitel and Marshal Graziani in the Italian division in Germany.

He inspects the newly formed division, walks around the formation.

Mussolini observes the division's manners.

Soldiers at rifle rests, Mussolini approaches one of them.

The soldiers see the Duce off.

More than 20,000 French people gathered at the Winter Velodrome in Paris for a demonstration of the Legion of French Volunteers against Bolshevism.

Speech by Jacques Doriot, his appeal to young people to take part in the battles for a free Europe.

Map, central section Vitebsk-Zhitomir-Kirovograd.

Winter is over, streams are flowing.

Horses are eating last year's grass on a thawed patch.

Soldiers are resting, they are sleeping, lying in the warm sun, cleaning their weapons.

The location of Hungarian troops near the city of Stanislav.

View of supply trains, a train standing in the distance.

Soldiers are resting, they are shaving, smoking, eating from mess tins.

A Hungarian general is talking to the commander of German units.

The general is riding in a tank.

The infantry is on the way, they are walking along the river.

German and Hungarian units in battle in the foothills of the Carpathians.

A chance meeting of father and son at the front.

Reconnaissance tanks have noticed enemy movement.

A field radio station transmits a message.

The artillery opens fire.

Grenadiers occupy a village, interrogate a local resident.

Tanks are driving across a field.

A joint operation of Hungarian and German units is underway, soldiers are walking through the mud.

The village has been taken, houses are burning.

Hungarian and German officers are discussing the situation near a map.

German supply trains are driving along the road, burning Soviet equipment is lying on the side of the road.

The burning car explodes, the horse shies away in fear.

One of the Hungarian units.

Colonel Rudolf (Rolf) Lippert, winner of the equestrian event at the 1936 Olympic Games, is the commander of one of the German tank regiments.

He awards the Iron Cross to an Oberleutnant and a Feldwebel.

Germany has completed preparations against a possible enemy landing.

View of the Atlantic Wall, pillboxes with gun muzzles sticking out.

An observer with binoculars.

On the shore there are barbed wire fences, hedgehogs.

Communication trenches and an anti-tank ditch have been dug.

In Flanders and Holland, the floodgates had to be opened to fill the trenches with water.

German soldiers marching through the city.

Defensive sector.

Field Marshal Gerd von Rundstedt inspecting one of the SS tank divisions.

Field Marshal Erwin Rommel inspects all the important strongholds on the coast.

A training alert, soldiers rushing to their positions.

Anti-aircraft guns are ready for battle.

Infantry running to the bunker to the gun.

Heavy artillery ready for battle.

Protective covers are opening, shells are being transported along the rails.

Machine gun nests are located along the coast.

A fragment of an American chronicle.

This is how the Americans imagine the landing on the Atlantic coast in Normandy.

Paratroopers are running from ferries, tanks are driving along the water.

The Atlantic Wall, a German battery.

Training fire of German guns.

Maneuvers of German troops - a rehearsal for repelling a possible Allied invasion of German-occupied France.

Tank units are moving.

Crossing water.

Combat exercises demonstrate the readiness of the troops.

Infantry attack.

The road is blocked by barbed wire, flamethrowers and guns are firing.

Contrasting the Asian faces of Soviet prisoners and the Aryan faces of German soldiers.