Newsreel Ostland Woche №25184 (1943)
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0:05:13Ostland Woche №25184 (1943)
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A concert for the SS Volunteer Legion and the city's residents is taking place in Riga.
Proceeds from the concert will go to support the legion.
A performance by a military brass band.
Three buglers begin to play, then other instruments join in.
A swastika and the SS emblem are depicted on the back of the stage.
A view of the theater boxes with spectators.
A folk choir in national costumes sings, a song about Latvia is played.
The curtain closes.
Troops of the SS Legion, which are leaving for the Eastern Front, are lined up on a square in Riga.
The commander of the Latvian division, SS Major General Peter Hansen, Inspector General Rudolf Bangerskis, and SS Obergruppenführer Friedrich Jeckeln inspect the formation.
Hansen speaks from the tribune.
A group of military leaders stands.
Four soldiers with the division's banner march across the square, stopping in front of the formation.
Residents watch the oath-taking ceremony, sheltering themselves from the rain with umbrellas.
The Legion marches ceremoniously down the street.
The soldiers have flowers tucked into their belts.
The locals wave their hands after the Legion.
In Croatia, unified agricultural organizations have been created on the basis of the law.
In the agricultural district near Agram, Poglavnik Ante Pavelic confirmed the election of representatives and the community council at a meeting in front of the peasants.
The peasants are added to the lists.
The peasants approach Pavelic, with whom he shakes hands.
All those present extend their hands in a fascist salute.
Pavelic leaves his house accompanied by a man in national costume, walks down the street, and leaves in a car.
The Bulgarian Minister of Justice, Dr.
Konstantin Ardov, arrives in Pressburg (Bratislava).
He is met at the station by officials, who inspect the guard of honor.
The ministers sign a legal agreement.
A view of the ruins of the University of Madrid, destroyed during the civil war.
The ruins are blown up to begin construction of new buildings.
A panorama of the university campus and the new university buildings.
In the Swiss city of Bern there is a sport – cycling on rotating rollers.
This makes it possible to organize competitions in places where there are no tracks for cycling races.
World-famous cyclists compete in such a "velodrome", victory is awarded on points.
Savoy Alps.
Descending a snowy slope in a kayak in which three people are sitting.
A girl pushes off from the snow with an oar, slides to the river, and runs down to the water.
A man capsizes with a boat on the snow.
The kayaks, having descended to the water, continue their journey along the river.
A modern locomotive of the P 50 series was built at the Ostrovets locomotive plant of the general government.
The locomotive leaves the depot, a flag with a swastika is attached to the cabin.
It is inspected by a commission.
Construction of new military factories in Germany.
Installation of equipment using machines.
New building of the plant.
Women go to work.
Design bureau, women at drawing boards.
Women work in the workshops, they are at tables assembling military devices and equipment.
Making cartridges at the factory.
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A meeting in Prague, attended by representatives from various regions of Bohemia and Moravia.
The meeting is opened by the Prime Minister, Dr.
Jaroslav Krejci.
The Minister of Public Education, Emmanuel Moravec, reads out the President's declaration, which expresses the desire of the Czech people to join the general mobilization.
In conclusion, the speech is given to SS Gruppenführer, State Secretary of the Reich Protectorate, Karl-Hermann Frank.
Map of North Africa, military operations in Tunisia.
Delivery of fresh reinforcements to Tunisia for Rommel's army.
German transport planes in the air, they are over the sea with ships sailing on it.
Reinforcements are leaving the ships that have arrived in the port of Bizerte.
Equipment, weapons, and tanks are being unloaded.
A column of German tanks is moving toward the front line in the direction of the city of Gabes.
Mechanized artillery and trucks with soldiers are driving.
Road sign: Kebili, El Gamma, etc.
Traffic controller on the road.
View of Gabes from an airplane, typical buildings of a Muslim city.
Southern sector of the front in the Donets region.
German equipment, motorcycles go east along a muddy road.
Tank division on the march.
A tanker jumps down to the ground, another looks through binoculars from the tank armor.
Tank attack.
Destroyed Soviet tanks, corpses of Soviet soldiers.
Soviet soldiers surrender.
A burning windmill crumbles, having burned out, to the ground.
Fighting near a populated area, German soldiers flee.
Corpses lie in the snow, broken tanks stand.
Close-up of holes in the tank armor.
Ruins of houses.
German military airfield in a blizzard.
Airplanes take off.
German Stukas, together with Hungarian and Slovak aircraft, bomb the positions of Soviet troops, a cluster of tanks.
Keywords
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