Ostland Woche № 24609 (1944)

Newsreel №63291, 2 parts, duration: 0:20:37, black-white
Production: UFA

Reel №1

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People at the Labour Exchange.

Talk women.

Seeing Latvian volunteers on the Eastern Front.

Volunteers marching through the city, in front of the orchestra.

Gathering in the square soldiers get hot porridge in the kettles, eat.

A group of soldiers in the center of contrast are the highest and the lowest of them, laughing.

Soldiers say goodbye to the family, chatting with girls.

Report German officer down the line.

Women volunteers accompany the convoy on the road.

Boarding the train, the soldiers waving their hands, the officers salute.

Technical School Students, which trains engineers in the labor camp.

Young men run out of the barracks on the morning exercises.

Hoisting the flag.

Theoretical lessons at the school, the teacher explains the principle of operation of the exhaust pipe of the car on the circuit.

Practical exercises in the workshop for different machines.

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

The Commission shall examine the documents found.

The bodies of the victims recovered from the graves and reburied at the cemetery.

People at the funeral ceremony.

Go priests behind them soldiers carry wreaths on the graves lay flowers.

Archbishop Theodore Greenberg speech, then throws a handful of earth on the grave.

Laying a wreath on the Latvian SS Legion.

Bishops of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church have gathered in Warsaw on the first meeting of the canon of the cathedral.

Priests convey management representative general-governorship, Governor Fischer memorandum in which protest against the policy of expansion of the Ukrainian people, and especially the life of the Church, carried out from Moscow Bolsheviks.

Fischer welcomes priests.

Croatia celebrates third anniversary of its independence.

Townscape, storefront, in her portrait poglavnik (leader) Ante Pavelic.

Pavelic awards honored the representatives of the government.

Parade Croatian Lifeguards in Agram (Zagreb).

Poglavnik horse ahead.

Residents welcome the troops.

Pavelic receives parade.

Marching troops, riding mechanized artillery.

In Germany he comes to visit Mussolini.

Meeting Duce and the Fuhrer, they go to the gym, there is a discussion of the general political, military and economic problems.

In the lobby talking Italian and German military, including Keitel, Ciano.

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

He spends a review of the newly formed division, bypasses system.

Mussolini watching manёrami division.

Soldiers at the supports for the rifles, Mussolini comes to one of them.

Soldiers escorted the Duce.

In the winter velodrome in Paris brought together more than 20 thousand French to demonstrate Legion of French Volunteers Against Bolshevism.

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

Key words

Latvia, 1944, World War 2, the volunteer army, labor exchange, wires
Germany, 1944, World War 2, professional schools, youth
Latvia, 1944, World War 2, the dead, the GPU, the fraternal grave, funeral ceremony, the laying of wreaths
Poland, 1944, World War 2, the clergy, church meeting, state. figures, personalities
Croatia, in 1944, World War 2, the festival national, state. figures, celebrities, award, parade
Germany, in 1944, World War 2, Hitler visited Mussolini, military leaders, celebrities, military maneuvers
France, in 1944, World War 2, rallies, volunteer army, the party leaders, personalities

Reel №2

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Map, the central portion of Vitebsk-Zhitomir, Kirovograd.

Ended winter, flowing streams.

Horses eat thawed patch on last year's grass.

The soldiers on holiday, they sleep, lie in the warm sun, clean weapons.

Location of the Hungarian troops in the city of Stanislav.

View of the carts, standing away train.

The soldiers on holiday, they shave, smoke, eat from the pot.

Hungarian general in an interview with the commander of the German parts.

General travels on a tank.

The infantry in the way they walk along the river.

The German and the Hungarian part in the fighting in the foothills of the Carpathians.

Random father and son met at the front.

Tanks of the enemy scouts noticed the movement.

The message conveys the field station.

The artillery opened fire.

Grenadiers occupied the village, a local resident questioned.

Tanks go on the field.

There is a joint operation of the Hungarian and German units, the soldiers go through the mud.

The village was taken, burning houses.

Hungarian and German officers to discuss the position of the card.

On the road going German supply trains, lying on the roadside burning Soviet equipment.

Burning car explodes, the horse shies in terror aside.

One of the Hungarian connections.

Colonel Rudolf (Rolf) Lippert - winner in equestrian sport at the Olympic Games in 1936 - the commander of a German tank regiments.

It awards the Iron Crosses lieutenant and sergeant.

Germany has been preparing against a possible enemy landing.

View of the Atlantic Wall, pillboxes from which protrude vents guns.

An observer with binoculars.

On the banks of barbed wire, hedgehogs.

Dug communication trenches, anti-tank ditch.

In Flanders and the Netherlands had to open the floodgates to fill the trench with water.

German soldiers are marching through the city.

Defensive sector.

General Field Marshal Gerd von Rundstedt in the show of one of the SS Panzer Division.

Field-Marshal Erwin Rommel inspects all important reference points on the coast.

Drill, the soldiers rush for metam.

Anti-aircraft guns ready for battle.

Infantry runs into the hopper to the gun.

Heavy artillery is ready for battle.

Unfold the protective covers, the tracks carry missiles.

Along the coast are located machine-gun nests.

Detail American Chronicle.

So imagine the Americans landing on the Atlantic coast in Normandy.

With ferries run paratroopers, tanks for water travel.

Atlantic Wall, the German battery.

Target Practice German guns.

Maneuvers German troops - rehearsal repel a possible invasion of the Allies in occupied France by the Germans.

Go armored units.

Crossing the water.

Military exercises indicate readiness of the troops.

Attack Corps.

Road overlap barbed wire, shooting flamethrowers, cannons.

The juxtaposition of Asian people and Soviet prisoners of the Aryan people of German soldiers.

Key words

USSR, 1944, World War 2, natural phenomena, rest soldiers, transports, infantry, tanks, reconnaissance, artillery, fire, military leaders, celebrities, award
The Netherlands, in 1944, World War 2, military leaders, personalities, strengthen, West Wall, tanks, SS troops, artillery
France, the English Channel, in 1944, World War 2, Amphibious Force, the Navy, the military maneuvers, the prisoners

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