Ostland Woche №24993 (1944)

Latvian legionnaires on maneuvers, soldiers walking through a populated area.

Close-up of a Latvian soldier against the backdrop of a field of ears of corn.

Latvian peasants harvesting, there are stacks of wheat in the field, a woman collecting ears of corn, tying them into sheaves, a man sharpening a scythe.

An SS soldier talking to a peasant, then taking up the scythe himself.

Legionnaires on combat training.

A radio operator at a field radio.

A signalman walking with a reel of wire, winding it.

Artillerymen preparing a gun, firing.

Mobilization in Latvia.

Latvian volunteers marching down the street with their belongings.

Legionnaires in uniform walking along the road.

Women with flowers see the volunteers off to the station.

Soldiers are given dry rations from a truck: bread, sausage.

Legionnaires boarding a ship.

Soldiers and nurses are looking at the pier from the deck.

A general and officers look at papers.

Soldiers climb the gangway, one carries the flag of Latvia.

A small orchestra plays on the deck.

Variety artists perform for the departing legionnaires, a couple dances a sailor's dance.

The ship departs from the pier, those seeing off wave their hands, close-ups of old women, women with children, girls.

Latvian legionnaires on the Eastern Front.

A radio operator at the device, he receives messages on the phone.

A resting soldier drinks from a mug depicting a head.

At the signal, the gunners run out of the tent to the gun, remove the camouflage made of branches and netting, load and fire.

Empty boxes of shells fly to the ground.

The radio operator records new reconnaissance data.

The gunners turn the gun towards the sea, fire at the enemy ships.

Smoke from explosions and fires are visible.

Return volleys thunder from the ships.

Fires are visible on the shore in the twilight.

Military operations in Lithuania.

Tanks drive along a forest road.

Close-up of a tanker with the Iron Cross around his neck.

Mechanized artillery drives by.

Captured Soviet soldiers are being led along the road.

A dead horse harnessed to a cart with a gun lies on the side of the road, ammunition in boxes has been abandoned.

Troops in the city.

A board with an inscription in Lithuanian and Russian: "The city militia is located at the corner of Zelenaya and Ernestinskaya streets, house No. 13." City buildings, a water tower.

A Lithuanian girl smiles, together with a man she hangs a Lithuanian flag on the roof of an official building.

The man raises his hand in a fascist salute.

Preparing horses for the army at a stud farm.

Female soldiers breaking in horses.

Men in uniform prance on horses.

Women on horses take barriers.

A column of female riders moves along the road, each holding a second free horse by the bridle.

Cross-country racing.

The President of Slovakia, Dr.

Tiso, visited the military academy in Pressburg (Bratislava) for the graduation of Slovak cadets.

Formation on the parade ground, Tiso addresses them with a speech.

German and Slovak officers are present.

The cadets take the oath, drawing their sabres.

The return of Croatian troops by train after completing their training in Germany.

A rally at the station.

Poglavnik Ante Pavelic walks with the military, accompanied by residents, gives a speech, goes around the line of soldiers, shakes hands.

The troops, led by the Poglavnik, march to Zagreb.

16 thousand civilians were left homeless, almost 3 thousand dead were buried under the rubble as a result of the bombing of the Anglo-American aviation.

Ruins of buildings, fires.

A fire engine drives by, firefighters put out the flames.

People are walking in the ruins, among them a nun, a man in a beret, workers with pickaxes.

Surviving belongings are being carried along the street on carts.

The surviving townspeople are hiding in caves near the city.

People are sitting on the ground in the dark.

The map shows the English Channel between England and Europe.

German reserves are advancing along the roads of Normandy to the place of military operations.

A soldier on the side of the road hands out a front-line newspaper to passing cyclists.

A soldier is reading a newspaper at a rest stop, the headline is visible: "Eisenhower did not catch us by surprise." Soldiers are leading bicycles, trucks with soldiers and cars are driving by, broken cars are lying on the side of the road.

An observer in a helmet camouflaged by branches looks at the sky.

Enemy planes appear, all of them throw themselves on the side of the road, explosions are heard.

A German gun fires, a shot down four-engine bomber falls, its wreckage burns out on the ground.

A signpost to Vire and Avranches.

German troops in a ruined French city.

A motorized column drives by.

A cathedral damaged by bombing, interior view.

A German soldier in glasses plays the organ.

Destruction inside the cathedral.

German tanks on the streets of the city.

German officers discuss combat missions over a map right on the street.

Tanks and vehicles, camouflaged by branches, move forward.

An artillery unit turns into the forest, soldiers prepare a gun for battle.

A tanker takes cover under a tank.

Infantrymen smoke and eat from a frying pan during a break between battles.

A German with a young pig caught in the forest in his hands.

At one of the forward combat posts.

A cyclist arrives and hands over a package.

A soldier climbs out of a dugout with a puppy in his arms.

An observer with binoculars.

After the rain, the area has turned into a swamp, there is mud everywhere.

A strike force is sent out on reconnaissance.

A soldier walks through the mud, then along a footbridge to a dugout, a fighter looks out of it.

Discussing the combat mission with the commander.

A soldier climbs a tree and surveys the surroundings.

The reconnaissance force carefully makes its way across the field.

Explosions of shells are visible in the distance.

Soldiers run across the swampy areas.

The start of a firefight with the enemy.

Tanks prepare for a counterattack.

Mortars fire.

Soldiers rush to the attack.

A battle with American tanks.

Knocked-out tanks on the field.

The crew of one of the self-propelled guns is awarded Iron Crosses.

One of the heroes, Oberleutnant Franz Ludwig, a Knight of the Iron Cross, together with his team destroyed 16 English tanks in one day.

He watches as an artilleryman draws white lines on the gun barrel to indicate the number of destroyed tanks.

In a sector in Normandy.

German units are in close proximity to the enemy, a battle is underway.

Enemy tanks are burning.

Soldiers are running to attack.

Street fighting in a destroyed city.