Ostland Woche № 24993 (1944)

Newsreel №63303, 2 parts, duration: 0:20:49, black-white
Production: UFA

Reel №1

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Latvian legionnaires in the maneuvers, the soldiers go through the locality.

Close-up of Latvian soldiers in the background Eared field.

Latvian farmers harvest on the field there are stacks of wheat ears of woman gathers, binds in bundles, a man sharpening his scythe.

SS soldier talks to a farmer, then he takes up the scythe.

Legionnaires in combat exercises.

The wireless operator in the field radio.

Signalman comes with a coil of wire, pulls it.

Gunners are preparing a weapon, shoot.

Mobilization in Latvia.

Latvian volunteers marched down the street with things.

Legionaries in the form are on the road.

Women with flowers accompany the volunteers at the station.

With truck the soldiers issued dry rations: bread, sausage.

Legionnaires climb aboard.

From the deck of the pier watching the soldiers, nurses.

General officers look paper soldiers climb the ladder, one carries the flag of Latvia.

On the deck of a small orchestra playing.

Variety artists and bands, the couple takes the sailor dance before departing legionnaires.

The ship departs from the pier, mourners waving their hands, big old ladies plans, women with children, women.

Latvian legionnaires on the eastern front.

The wireless operator in the unit, it receives messages over the phone.

Resting soldiers drink from the mug, depicting the head.

At a signal from the gunners ran out of the tent to the gun, remove the camouflage of branches and the grid, load and fire.

On the ground fly empty boxes of shells.

Radioman writes new intelligence.

Gunners deploying a weapon in the sea, shoot at enemy ships.

Visible smoke from explosions and fires.

With ships thundering volleys response.

At dusk on the banks of visible fire.

Fighting in Lithuania.

Tanks are on the forest road.

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

Goes mechanized artillery.

They are captured Soviet soldiers on the way.

On the side of the road lies dead horse, the cart pulled by a gun, ammunition boxes abandoned.

The troops in the city.

Blackboard with the word in the Lithuanian and Russian languages, "City Police placed corner of Green and Ernestinskoy street house number 13."

Buildings of the city, water tower.

Lithuanian woman smiling with a man she hangs Lithuanian flag on the roof of the building official.

The man pulls his hand in a Nazi salute.

Training horses for the army at the stud.

Dressage female soldiers.

Men in the form of prancing horses.

Women on horseback take barriers.

Column horsewomen moving on the road, each holding the reins of a second free horse.

Horse racing over rough terrain.

Slovak President Dr.

Tiso visited in Pressburg (Bratislava) Military Academy in the issuance of Slovak students.

Story on the parade ground, Tiso appeals to them with speech.

The presence of German and Slovak officers.

Students take an oath, drew his sword.

The return of Croatian troops on the train after the end of training in Germany.

Meeting at the station.

Poglavnik Ante Pavelic goes to the military, accompanied by residents, a speech, bypass the guard of soldiers, shakes hands.

The troops under the command of poglavnik march in Zagreb.

Key words

Latvia, 1944, World War 2, the volunteer troops, military maneuvers, farmers, field operations, communications, artillery
Latvia, 1944, World War 2, mobilization, volunteer army, the navy, variety, dance
USSR, 1944, World War 2, the volunteer troops, communications, artillery, fire, explosion, Navy
USSR, 1944, World War 2, tanks, artillery, prisoners, people
Germany, in 1944, World War 2, the animals home, stud, woman jumps
Slovakia, 1944, World War 2, the state. figures, personalities, institutions military oath
Croatia, in 1944, World War 2, the state. figures, personalities, soldiers, rallies, public

Reel №2

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16 thousand civilians left homeless, almost 3000 dead, buried under the rubble by bombing the Anglo-American Aviation.

Ruins of buildings, fires.

Drives a fire truck, firemen extinguish the flames.

The ruins are people, among them a nun, a man in a beret, working with picks.

On the streets on carts driven surviving belongings.

Survivors of the townspeople are hiding in a cave near the city.

People sitting in darkness on the ground.

On the map of the Strait of the English Channel between England and Europe.

German reserves moving on the roads of Normandy to the place of combat operations.

The soldier on the side of the road gives out front newspaper to passing cyclists.

A soldier reading a newspaper at rest, seen the headline: "Eisenhower did not catch us by surprise."

Soldiers are bicycles, passing trucks of soldiers, vehicles on the roadside lie the broken machine.

The observer in the helmet, camouflaged with branches, staring at the sky.

There are enemy planes, all rush to the side of the road, there was an explosion.

Shoot German guns, falls downed four-engine bomber, its fragments burning down to the ground.

A pointer to the Vir and Avranches.

German troops in the French town destroyed.

Goes motorized column.

Cathedral, bombing damaged, interior view.

German soldier in glasses playing the organ.

Destruction inside the cathedral.

German tanks in the streets.

German officers discussing combat missions over the map on the street.

Tanks and machine camouflaged with branches, moving forward.

Artillery of the wraps in the forest, the soldiers prepared for battle weapon.

Tankman hiding under the tank.

Marines in the pause between fights smoke, eat from the pan.

German to get caught in the woods kabanёnkom hands.

On one of the most advanced battle stations.

Comes cyclist passes the package.

A soldier gets out of the dugout with a puppy in her arms.

An observer with binoculars.

Village after the rain turned into a swamp, mud everywhere.

Shock troops sent to investigate.

Soldier goes through the mud, and then along the footbridge to the dugout, peeking out of her fighter.

Discussion of the combat mission with the commander.

A soldier climbs a tree, examines the surroundings.

Reconnaissance Detachment carefully sneaking through the field.

In the distance can be seen exploding shells.

The soldiers run across wetlands.

Start a firefight with the enemy.

Tanks are preparing for the counterattack.

Shoot mortars.

The soldiers are fleeing the attack.

Fight with American tanks.

Destroyed tanks on the field.

Calculation of a self-propelled guns was awarded Iron Crosses.

One of the characters - Lieutenant Franz Ludwig, holder of the Iron Cross knightly degree with his team destroyed in one day 16 British tanks.

He watches as a gunner on the gun barrel draws white dashes on the number of destroyed tanks.

In the area of ​​Normandy.

German units are in close proximity to the enemy, there is a fight.

Burn the enemy tanks.

The soldiers are fleeing the attack.

Street fighting in the ruined city.

Key words

France, in 1944, World War 2, the destruction of the population. ruins, fire
France, in 1944, World War 2, the infantry, front-line media, the BBC, explosions, artillery, churches, musical instruments, tanks, soldiers rest
France, in 1944, World War 2, natural phenomena, infantry, reconnaissance, tanks, awards, personalities, street fighting

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