Ostland Woche №24755 (1943)

German troops in Riga, an armored car with soldiers on it is driving down the street.

Residents of Riga joyfully greet the Germans, women have tears of emotion in their eyes.

A German soldier in glasses with flowers walks past the crowd.

Military equipment drives down the street, Wehrmacht soldiers march.

A soldier joins the Latvian and fascist flags together.

A demonstration passes under this banner down the street.

A car drives by, a man and a woman are waving the national flag.

A Latvian soldier is reading the newspaper "Tevija" ("Fatherland").

A recruiting office.

Two guys read an ad on hay and go to the office.

Young people enter the building where the SS battalion is being signed up, stand in line with applications.

Close-ups of smiling faces.

A guy sits down at a table, they talk to him.

Symbolic shot: against the background of two flags on the table - Latvian and fascist - they shake hands.

Rows of volunteers lined up in Riga Square, general and officers walking around them.

General's speech to volunteers.

Close-ups of faces in helmets.

Volunteer squads march through the streets behind an orchestra, accompanied by relatives, a girl handing out flowers to soldiers.

Residents watch the movement, some raise their hands in a fascist salute.

Farewell at the train station, relatives and fiancées kissing volunteers.

Volunteers leaving for work in Germany are seen off in Riga.

Oberarbeitsführer makes a speech to young people.

Residents watch and smile.

Parade of volunteers.

Food for departing Latvians is unloaded from trucks, boxes, sausage rings, a keg of wine are carried, flasks are carried.

Couples say goodbye at the train station, a young man kisses his mother.

Volunteers talk to a Latvian soldier, rock soldiers in their arms.

Train departure.

Girls and women are going to Germany to work, they are walking with suitcases to the station.

Farewell to relatives and friends at the station.

A girl gives a bottle of milk to a group of people leaving.

Everyone gets into the carriages, the train departs.

Help for the front.

An old woman knits socks.

A little girl looks at knitted socks and mittens.

A girl takes knitted things out of the closet.

At the call of Commissar Aizeman, the population is donating warm clothes for the Latvian legionnaires at the front.

Women collect knitted things, fur coats, they are loaded onto cars.

Men carry boots and felt boots.

Things are brought to the collection point.

A line of residents handing over furs, things, skis.

A line with skis at the collection point.

A little boy carries men's ski boots, a soldier shakes his hand.

A train with workers leaves for logging.

The men receive axes and saws on the spot and start felling trees.

The logs are stacked in woodpiles.

Latvian farmers arrive by train in the countryside of Germany.

They are on a farm.

Working in the field.

A man shows a girl how to weed the plants properly.

A man with a whetstone can sharpen a hoe right in the field.

A girl weeds the sprouts and smiles at the camera.

A man rides along the rows on a horse with a trailer.

A Latvian strokes the horse's muzzle.

At the factory, workers free boxes of metal debris.

A worker at a machine gives away defective metal.

The population collects metal products from their homes to hand them in for remelting.

A woman takes a metal can and a saucepan off the shelf, a man takes down a chandelier, another takes a metal wine set out of a sideboard, people give away various souvenirs, jewelry, and vases.

A queue at a reception point where metal objects are weighed.

A woman with a samovar, people hand in spoons and candlesticks, a woman weighs a metal tureen.

A view of dishes, figurines, coins, etc.

The operation of smelting furnaces at a metallurgical plant.

Manufacture of guns and shells at a military plant.

A warehouse of finished products.

Soldiers take rifles from a pyramid and sling them over their shoulders.

Riga, the Statue of Liberty.

A funeral ceremony for the fallen Latvian legionnaires.

Soldiers carry wreaths.

Residents and military personnel at the ceremony, speeches by speakers.

Women lay flowers at the monument.

Knight of the Order of the Iron Cross Atenis Matias is on leave at home.

He is sitting at the table with his wife and two children, who are listening to his story.

A hospital for wounded Latvians in Latvia.

On the bed is Latvian soldier Karoly Kivis (?), awarded the Iron Cross, Matias comes to him and shakes his hand.

Matias gives a speech to the camera about the fight against Bolshevism, about the Latvian legionnaires.

A look into Latvia's past.

Men dressed as knights ride out onto the river bank on horses, blowing long trumpets.

A view of the setting sun through the broken branches of trees.

Views of Latvian countryside, forests and fields.

A ceremonial speech by the announcer off-screen.

Latvian soldiers march along the road.

The head of a soldier in a helmet against the backdrop of blossoming trees.