Ostland Woche №24979 (1943)

A funeral ceremony in Minsk for the Gauleiter of Belarus Wilhelm von Kube, who was killed by underground fighters.

A funeral hall, an honor guard at the coffin.

Laying of wreaths.

A wreath from the General Commissioner of the Reichskommissariat Ostland Heinrich Lohse, he and his wife are standing at Kube's coffin.

The coffin is carried out, it is placed on a gun carriage, and is driven through the city streets to the airfield.

The coffin with wreaths is carried into an airplane.

The general shakes the hand of a little boy.

The airplane takes off.

Honey is being collected at an apiary.

A man takes a board with honeycombs out of a hive, a second scares the bees away with smoke.

Boxes with boards are carried to a woman, who scrapes off the honeycombs with a scraper.

The boards are placed in the drum of a machine, and under pressure, honey flows out of a hole at the bottom of the drum into a bucket.

The Cathedral in Bucharest, where the monarchs of Romania are buried, including King Ferdinand I and Queen Maria, the parents of Michael I. King Michael I and General Ion Antonescu arrive at the Cathedral in a car, and are met on the steps by members of the Order, dressed in white cloaks with stylized crosses.

Everyone goes inside to the sarcophagus of the royal couple.

Wreaths with ribbons.

King Michael I conducts the initiation ceremony of officers, touching the shoulder of the next candidate with his sword.

Presentation of orders to officers.

Destruction in Brussels as a result of terrorist actions by Anglo-American aviation.

People are walking along a destroyed street, an ambulance is standing, things are piled up on the sidewalk.

A woman is walking with a child in her arms.

A broken tram is standing on the rails, and dead people are lying near it and inside.

A priest and residents approach a dead man.

Men carry out the bodies of the dead.

A woman carries a child wrapped in a sheet.

A priest and a man carry an old woman in a chair.

A truck with people and things passes by.

Vans with coffins are parked in the square, cordoned off by police.

A priest holds a memorial service near the cathedral.

Young men in uniform carry wreaths, widows in black walk behind the cars.

Residents bid farewell to the victims of the bombings.

Nuns walk behind the truck.

German soldiers carry wreaths with ribbons with swastikas.

Bulgarian troops take the oath of allegiance to the young tsar.

A portrait of the tsar on a gun carriage.

The soldiers drop to one knee.

The first to take the oath are Prince Kiril, the brother of the late tsar, and Minister of War Mihov, they pass the priest and kiss the banner.

In connection with the events in Italy, a grand demonstration of the Croatian people took place in Zagreb, expressing their loyalty to Poglavnik Pavelic.

Soldiers and the population are walking along the street.

Ante Pavelic addresses the people with a speech in which he thanks Germany for the support it provided in creating an independent Croatian state.

Pavelic walks through the crowd of people, shakes hands with representatives of the regions, kisses them, greets the soldiers and the wounded.

Map of Italy.

Arrival of new German reinforcements in northern Italy.

Armored vehicles with soldiers on the armor, cavalry, horse-drawn guns are driving.

Field Marshal Rommel meets the troops.

The announcer reports that the German armed forces, with their lightning-fast actions, prevented the fulfillment of the terms of capitulation signed by Badoglio.

German troops occupied a large number of Italian cities.

Continuation.

German soldiers pass through the city of Recio, the population watches the movement of troops.

The occupation of the city of Pavia by the Germans, cars with soldiers and tanks drive by.

The troops are greeted by soldiers on the side of the road, at the gates of the fence.

Troops on the road to Milan, trucks drive past the Arc de Triomphe, drive through the city, residents watch them.

Military actions near Rome, street battles are underway in one of the suburbs of the capital.

Machine gunners shoot, explosions are visible in the city.

Soldiers in moments of calm, a fighter pours schnapps into the soldiers' flasks.

Badoglio's troops capitulated, German soldiers enter Rome.

Soldiers walk with machine gun belts over their shoulders, canisters, they smoke, pass by broken guns.

Soldiers at the German embassy in Rome, a woman looks out the window.

Women surround the soldiers, one of them takes a kitten out of the soldier's jacket, strokes it, the women laugh.

The cars drive past the Colosseum.

The first shots of Mussolini's liberation.

A special command group, sent by order of the Fuhrer to free the Duce, advances along the plateau.

The commander of the paratrooper squad from General Kurt Student's division orders to occupy the cable car station in the valley, which is the only way to communicate with the Gran Sasso mountain plateau.

The paratroopers, together with soldiers of the SS security service, land on an impassable mountain range.

They rush to the hotel building where Mussolini was imprisoned.

The Duce is freed, he is accompanied by Italian General Ferdinando Stoleti, General Guieri, and German soldiers.

The cable car station in the valley is informed by radio about Mussolini's release.

Reinforcements are climbing up the cable car to the top of the mountain.

The Duce boards a light aircraft "Storch" together with the commander of the SS detachment Otto Skorzeny.

The plane takes off from a mountain plateau and flies to the main headquarters of the Fuhrer, where Mussolini is to stay for several days.

Hitler meets the plane with Mussolini.

His son Vittorio comes up to the Duce, kisses his father.

Mussolini and Hitler get into a car, go to the headquarters.

At the building they are met by the Reich Minister of Foreign Affairs Joachim von Ribbentrop.

After several days at the headquarters, Mussolini leaves Germany.

Hitler sees him off to the plane together with Ribbentrop and the generals.