Ostland Woche №25109 (1944)

Newsreel №63318, 2 parts, Duration: 0:16:07 B/W
Studio UFA

Reel №1

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A ceremonial burial of a victim of the Bolshevik atrocity, Metropolitan Sergius of Lithuania and Yurin, took place in Riga.

The murder was committed while the Metropolitan was traveling from Vilnius to Kovno.

A church ceremony and funeral service are held.

Residents accompany the procession, holding candles.

The coffin is carried out of the church and driven along the street in a hearse.

At the cemetery, the coffin is lowered into the grave.

Commissar Eisenberg and other speakers speak at the funeral meeting.

Laying of wreaths, a wreath from the German delegation, a wreath with the inscription in Russian: "To Vladyka Metropolitan Exarch Sergius." Finnish President Per Evind Svinhufvud /shot during his lifetime/: with his wife on the balcony, fishing from a boat on his estate on Lake Kirimits.

The President with a gun, he was a great fan of hunting.

Funeral of the President.

Field Marshal Carl Gustaf Mannerheim and members of the government bid farewell to the late president.

Church, carrying out the coffin.

High-ranking army officers.

The coffin is lowered into the ground, wreaths.

Restoration work is underway after the destruction left by the civil war.

The Spanish government's authorized representative, Jose Moreno Torres, accepts the completed work - the opening of the newly restored Carmelite monastery.

The nuns of the monastery walk along the gallery.

Opening of the 192-meter-long bridge to traffic.

Cutting the ribbon, walking along the bridge, traffic.

In the capital of Croatia - Agram (Zagreb).

Palace, the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Croatia, Dr.

Mile Budak, opens the first meeting of the Japanese-Croatian cultural organization.

Presentation of gifts to Ambassador Miura: an album of drawings.

The Croatian Ballet gave several demonstration performances in Vienna, where they showed beautiful dances in national costumes.

Soldiers are watching.

Days of National Music in Paris.

Choir and orchestra in one of the best halls in Paris.

The Grand Orchestra of French Radio Broadcasting under the direction of conductor Ingelbert performs a number of works by Berlioz.

In particular, an aria from the opera "Benvenuto Cellini".

More than 1000 people, athletes of the German army, take part in a cross-country race over a distance of 7.5 thousand meters.

They run over obstacles, through mud, a swamp.

The winner is a representative of the Stralsund air club.

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Reel №2

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A reconnaissance aircraft takes off from an Italian airfield, with a view of the terrain below.

A German pilot takes photographs, collecting new data on the enemy.

Over Anzio harbor.

The aircraft lands.

The vehicle with the data goes to headquarters, the photographs are processed in the lab.

New targets for German long-range guns are set on the map based on the photographs.

Ships in Anzio harbor.

Nettuno, a gun is brought up on a platform, loaded and fired.

On the northern section of the eastern front.

Long-range guns fire from a platform.

An officer looks through binoculars.

Fresh forces and supply trains are pulling up to the Narva area.

German tanks and vehicles with soldiers are moving.

Shelters in the snow.

Supply trains are on the way, a soldier tries to light a cigarette in the wind, a snowstorm.

A strike force in camouflage suits is located among the ice floes near Lake Peipus.

The Bolsheviks have fortified themselves on the island.

German guns fire at the island.

The strike force clears the island of the remnants of enemy forces.

The shelters of Soviet soldiers are destroyed by guns.

Soviet prisoners.

Light vessels of the German naval forces fire at enemy firing points on the coast of the Narva Front.

The guns on board fire.

The engine room.

German Heinkel 129 attack aircraft take off to carry out a combat mission.

Bombing of Soviet tanks, filmed from a low angle.

Destroyed tanks.

Keywords

Italy, 1944 year, World War 2, BBC, intelligence, photo shoots, Navy, artillery, USSR, 1944 year, World War 2, artillery, convoys, tanks, natural phenomena, prisoners, Navy, USSR, 1944 year, World War 2, BBC, bombings, tanks

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