Ostland Woche №25071 (1944)

Latvian teenagers volunteer for paramilitary units.

They are examined by a doctor.

The boys march to the barracks, receive uniforms.

A teenager puts on a cap and smiles.

An officer in front of a line of volunteers.

The commander of the SS troops in the Reichskommissariat Ostland, SS-Obergruppenführer Walter Krueger, arrives at the location of the Latvian volunteer troops, a corporal greets him, they shake hands.

Krueger watches soldiers performing military exercises in the forest.

A soldier puts on a helmet camouflaged by branches and crawls along the ground.

The soldiers jog, fire rifles and a machine gun.

Officers watch the exercises.

The soldiers throw Molotov cocktails at a training tank, it burns.

A soldier runs to a tank with a mine and places it under the armor.

Soldiers squat in a trench, an explosion occurs.

Soldiers throw grenades, fire mortars, and panzerfausts.

Soldiers near a wrecked tank.

A signalman blows the retreating trumpet.

Krueger addresses the line of soldiers, shakes the commander's hand, and then leaves.

Count Helldorf, President of the Berlin Police, inspects the fire brigades.

He receives a report, walks around the line of firefighters, talks to them, and watches the fire brigades maneuver.

The firefighters scatter to their vehicles, unscrew the hoses, connect the pipes, and turn on the water.

The firefighters walk in special protective suits and gas masks.

Helldorf speaks in front of the line.

The fire brigades solemnly march past.

Marshal Petain tours the cities of France that have suffered from Allied air raids.

A motorcade of vehicles drives through the streets of the city, and residents greet the Marshal.

In Lyon, Pétain visits a hospital where wounded residents are lying after the raids.

He talks to a wounded woman.

The marshal examines the ruins of the city, talks to the residents.

The clergy of the Catholic and Orthodox churches, who had escaped from the Bolsheviks, found shelter and protection from the German authorities.

In the presence of SS Gruppenführer Gille, who was awarded the Order of the Iron Cross with Diamonds, the German military authorities handed over to representatives of both churches the church valuables saved in Kovel by the German army.

A panorama of icons and church utensils.

The banner of the Sokol organization from Kovel with the image of the Mother of God.

The Germans talk to the priests.

Military exercises for cadets of the German infantry school.

Final training in the field.

Cadets camouflaged by branches in the forest.

The face of a soldier in a helmet among the grass and flowers, he looks through binoculars.

The cadets set up the guns, load them.

Shooting from a grenade launcher, rifles, a soldier throws a grenade.

The all clear signal of the bugle.

The cadets run to the commander, sit down near him on the ground.

Returning to school with a song.

Aerial view of columns that merge into one on the road on three sides.

Battle in the area of Cherbourg and the mouth of the Orne River.

German coastal battery teams fight on two sides: on land and on water.

Shelling of the enemy transport fleet.

Heavy guns fire from a bunker at ships.

Burning cruiser.

Enemy naval artillery fire.

Panorama of the shore where the wreckage of Allied landing military equipment lies.

A large wrecked landing ship loaded with vehicles.

View of the road with wreckage of British equipment, cars, and tanks.

Signpost to Villers-Bocage, a ruined city.

Wrecked American tanks on the narrow streets of the city.

German anti-aircraft artillery fires at American bombers during a raid on Paris.

Destruction and fires in the city, a ruined cathedral.

Air battle over Paris.

Guns are firing, a shot down English plane falls to the ground.

Residents are saving their belongings from the ruins, taking cover in shelters.

Firefighters are working.

A wardrobe is lowered down from a window.

Downed Anglo-American planes are burning on the ground.

Crosses on soldiers' graves.

German soldiers are leading captured American pilots, they are holding parachutes in their hands.

At one of the collection points for prisoners of war, they are sitting on the ground.

A soldier covers his face with his hands.

The combat post of SS General Sepp Dietrich in the forest, he is among the officers.

SS tank units are resting.

Soldiers are walking along the wet road, carrying weapons, entering the forest.

The battle begins.

Broken American tanks, holes in the armor.

Women's names and humorous inscriptions on the armor of tanks.

German tanks and self-propelled guns in the fighting area.

Counterattack against Anglo-American units.

Self-propelled artillery in battle.

The shooting continues until dark.