Ostland Woche №25134 (1943)

Newsreel №63319, 2 parts, Duration: 0:15:28 B/W
Studio UFA

Reel №1

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The Royal Guard marches down the streets of Stockholm and enters the palace gates.

The German Ambassador Hans Thomsen travels to the palace in a carriage rented for the occasion to present his credentials to King Gustav V. The King meets the Ambassador.

Journalists take pictures of them as they leave the palace.

The 4th anniversary of the founding of the state was celebrated in Pressburg (Bratislava).

The highlight of the celebration was a demonstration on the square in front of the National Theatre, filled with 15,000 Slovaks in national costumes from different regions.

Officials are on the balcony.

A parade of Slovak troops, which became part of the Wehrmacht, took place at the stadium.

President Tiso walks past the ranks of soldiers.

Tiso and representatives of the German Wehrmacht review the parade.

Columns of soldiers, sailors, and fascist youth march, and the cavalry rides by.

An air parade concludes the event.

Slovak and German soldiers are in the stands.

Mechanized artillery and tanks pass by.

The NSV charity organization gives children from German-occupied areas, who need health and rest, the opportunity to go to Germany.

Polish children on their way to Germany.

A train from Leipzig with 700 children from the Belgian province sets off.

At an intermediate stop, women from the NSV hand out paper bags with sandwiches to the children.

Arrival at the Oybin station.

A view of the snow-capped mountains.

Adults and children with sleds walk from the rest home.

Training of ski instructors in Romania.

Skiers climb up the mountain using stairs, then there is a group descent, slalom.

Under the sign of the revival of sports, a football match between two famous national teams is taking place in an open, restored stadium in Madrid.

Moments of the game, a goal is scored.

The game continues, the goalkeeper catches the ball.

The introduction of additional Wehrmacht units into Greece.

A fascist flag against the background of the columns of the Acropolis.

Armored vehicles with guns are driving along the street.

Residents of Athens are looking at the column.

German tanks on the streets of the city.

Loading tanks and other equipment for sending to the islands.

Tanks are lifted by a crane.

A sea transport ship is leaving for the island of Crete.

A sailor on the ship is giving signals with a searchlight.

The convoy is escorted by destroyers.

View of the island of Crete from the sea.

On the island, coastal fortifications are being built together with local workers.

A German artillery battery on the coast, a sentry is walking near the gun.

German planes are parked at the airfield.

The pilot gets into the car, the squadron takes off into the air.

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Reel №2

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A day of mourning in Berlin dedicated to the memory of soldiers who died on the Eastern Front.

The Fuhrer arrives at the Zeughaus (German House), walks with Goering, followed by Field Marshal Keitel, Admiral Doenitz, and other military leaders.

Soldiers on guard.

A ceremonial meeting in the courtyard of the German House.

Hitler's speech about the insidious plans of Bolshevism and the merits of German soldiers.

Visiting the pantheon of fallen heroes on Unter den Linden.

The ceremony of laying a wreath from the Fuhrer.

A column of soldiers with bowed banners.

Berliners with their arms outstretched in a fascist salute.

Hitler approaches the wounded and disabled war veterans and talks to them.

Goering and Himmler are nearby.

Hitler and Goering review the troops.

The southern sector of the front, the battle for Kharkov.

Tanks, motorized units of the Waffen SS move through the snow in the direction of Kharkov.

Infantrymen with a Nazi flag are walking.

A motorcycle with a sidecar drives up to a tank, the tanker hands a package to a soldier, the motorcycle goes back.

Soldiers on motorcycles rush along a flooded road.

German artillery fires, huts fly apart from the explosions.

Infantrymen are attacking.

German troops storm the city from the north and east.

Germans in the suburbs of Kharkov, fragments of street fighting.

At the end of the street, Soviet soldiers are visible running, artillerymen are firing at them from a cannon and machine guns.

A soldier in a helmet with an SS badge near a cannon.

The Germans pass by the fence of a park, shoot in the streets of the city.

Houses are burning.

A German soldier tears a red flag from a building and throws it on the ground.

A soldier with a bandage on his head runs by.

German soldiers shoot from the windows of empty houses.

Panorama of the city.

Keywords

Germany, 1943 year, World War 2, memorial ceremony for the fallen, Hitler, Goering, Himmler, military leaders, personalities, rallies, laying of wreaths, military parade, USSR, 1943 year, World War 2, tanks, motorized parts, SS units, motorcycles, artillery, explosions, infantry, street fighting, fires

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