Ostland Woche №25339 (1944)

The International Olympic Games were held in Tallinn.

View of the stadium, flags of the participating countries.

The stands are filled with people.

Rows of athletes stand on the field, a group of girls in national costumes.

Officials attend the opening of the Olympic Games, including General Commissioner of Estonia Litzmann, Director General Mäe, SS Oberführer Soosaa.

The opening speech is given by the head of sports Osman.

Hjalmar Mäe speaks from the stadium stands.

Awarding of memorable signs to outstanding athletes of the past takes place.

Youth groups perform folk dances on the stadium field.

The beginning of the Olympic Games, men's and women's running.

Spectators clap.

Football match, moments of the game, scoring a goal.

Soldiers are sitting among the spectators.

June 21, 1941, Berlin.

Early morning, 5.30 am.

Wilhelmplatz, Reich Chancellery.

Goebbels enters the hall, he reads out the Fuhrer's statement about the "conspiracy" between the USSR and England and about Germany's decision to begin military action against Russia.

Listeners.

Press conference for foreign journalists, Ribbentrop's speech.

Voluntary conscription into the army against Bolshevism begins in European countries.

The Estonian SS battalion marches before the commander.

On the square in Tallinn, there are ranks of volunteers in civilian and military clothes.

Close-up of the patch on the sleeve: "Estland".

Ukrainian volunteers, SS insignia.

Slogan: "For Ukraine, for freedom, for honor, for glory".

A Ukrainian detachment marches in Lvov.

A soldier near the banner of the Slovak volunteer battalion.

Officers walk along the line.

Taking the oath.

French volunteer units march across the square.

Patch of the Belgian battalion "Wallonia", Belgian volunteers march with flowers in their hands.

German generals walk along the line of the SS legion.

Faces of volunteers.

A French general inspects the formation.

Farewell at the train station, volunteers on the train.

A poster with the face of a German soldier.

Soldiers marching along a dusty road.

Awarding soldiers with the Iron Cross.

Officers meeting over a map of the area.

Machine gunners at firing points.

Firing rifles and cannons.

Explosions and fires on the ground.

Map of the English Channel.

At the invasion front.

Combat activities of the German aviation.

At the airfield, technicians prepare planes for takeoff.

One of the German night fighters shot down 100 enemy machines.

Close-up of the pilot, he is smiling.

Planes taking off against the background of guns.

Traces in the sky.

Anti-aircraft battery in combat with Anglo-American planes.

Tracer bullets.

The plane falls to the ground, its wreckage.

The pilots are taken prisoner, searched.

The burning French city of Le Havre.

The announcer reports that the "liberators of France" have turned everything into ashes and ruins without regret.

A destroyed city, fires.

The return of refugees.

Tens of thousands of French civilians were killed.

Women and children near a destroyed house, people are crying.

The wounded and dead are carried on stretchers.

Refugees leave the city after the bombing, get into trucks, the wounded are loaded into cars.

German soldiers rest between battles.

One reads a letter.

A soldier lies on the mown grass with a pipe in his mouth.

Soldiers eat, smoke.

Continuation.

An officer walks around the formation.

Lieutenant General Meindl, commander of one of the paratrooper corps (in overalls) walks among the division officers, talks to the Knight of the Order of the Iron Cross, Major Ondergeist, and shakes his hand.

Meindl leaves in a car, the officers see him off.

The head of the reconnaissance detachment explains the combat mission to his group on the street near the house.

A sign for the city of Saint-Loup, German tanks drive by, camouflaged by branches.

After a heavy battle, the Anglo-American tanks, which temporarily managed to advance almost 10 km, were thrown back to their original positions.

Soldiers with weapons and ammunition walk.

Fighting on rough terrain is of a special nature.

A soldier with a panzerfaust walks, smiles, digs in by the road.

A signalman with a radio.

German paratroopers advance, armed with weapons, behind tanks.

SS soldiers, paratroopers lie in wait deep in a dense forest.

SS division grenadiers are fully prepared to attack.

Officers at a map.

Soldiers lead a wounded man.

German soldiers wait for a signal.

Heavy tanks advance, followed by infantry.

Mortars fire.

Soldiers crouch by the road, run to attack.

Explosions in the forest.

Broken and burning Sherman tanks in the Saint-Loup area.

Panoramic view of broken American tanks, anti-tank guns, corpses of soldiers.

Main road to Saint-Loup, cars driving by.

Burning cars, tanks, broken guns lie on the side of the road.

French prisoners walk along the road, sit near a house.

German bombers prepare to attack.

Meeting at headquarters.

Shells are being delivered to the planes.

Along with bombers and heavy artillery, the crews of high-speed boats participate in the attack.

Pilots prepare for a night flight.

Guns fire in the night.

A burning enemy transport vessel.

A torpedo is launched from a boat.

The vessel is burning.