Ostland Woche №25435 (1943)

A cluster of refugees from the "Bolshevik terror" at a station.

Children are sitting in the train carriages.

The German Wehrmacht is helping the refugees, a soldier is leading a cow out of a carriage.

Women, children, and old people with belongings and livestock are walking along the road.

Refugees at a station near a barrack in a temporary camp.

People are feeding the livestock.

A man is distributing bread near a cart.

Laundry is hanging on ropes.

A woman is washing in a basin.

Food is being cooked over a fire.

A woman is washing a girl's feet, pouring water from a mug.

People are sitting by a fire.

A knife sharpener is sharpening knives.

Groups of refugees at a barrack.

A young man is playing the accordion, a man is dancing in a circle of seated people.

The Commissioner General of Lithuania, Theodor Adrian von Renteln, has arrived in Riga on a visit.

With the Director General of Latvia, Dankers, and his entourage, he goes to an ancient tower, comes out to an observation deck, from where a view of the city on both sides of the river opens up.

Negotiations in the administrative building.

Then everyone goes to the farm, where they are shown a horse and a foal at the stable.

The guests walk around the farm, inspect the agricultural land, a plowed field, an elite bull, and return to the building.

The visit of the Bulgarian Tsar Boris to Germany.

Hitler meets Tsar Boris at the airfield, with Ribbentrop, Field Marshal Keitel, and other generals in his retinue.

Hitler and the Tsar get into a car and drive to the Führer's headquarters.

After the conversation, Hitler and Boris leave the headquarters, and Boris says goodbye to the Führer.

At the airfield, the Tsar boards a plane. (The episode is edited from footage from 1941-42).

The funeral of Tsar Boris in Sofia (08/28/1943).

The coffin with the Tsar's body is in the Alexander Nevsky Cathedral.

An honor guard is at the coffin.

Residents of the capital walk in a long line past the coffin.

Queen Joanna enters the cathedral for the funeral service.

Representatives of foreign delegations.

The German delegation with Admiral Raeder and Keitel.

Soldiers carry a wreath from the Fuhrer.

The young Tsar, heir to the throne.

The funeral cortege leaves the cathedral.

The coffin on a gun carriage leaves for the train station for burial in one of the monasteries in the city of Rila.

The funeral procession moves through the city, the population sees the Tsar off on his final journey.

The Tsar's favorite horse is led.

Soldiers march, horse artillery passes by.

Commander-in-Chief of Group South, Field Marshal Kesselring, inspects German coastal fortifications.

An observer at a pipe.

Officers in T-shirts sit in the open air at a map.

Receive messages by telephone.

Guns are stationed at regular intervals along the road, a sentry walks.

German artillerymen clean guns and eat grapes.

A column of motorized German troops crossing the German-Italian border via Brenner.

A sign to Brenner.

Driving across a bridge over a river.

View of the station where trains with tanks and guns arrive.

Armored vehicles drive along the road, a soldier decorates a metal mesh with flowers.

German troops at the border.

Italian children and Germans, soldiers transport children in military vehicles.

The population greets the Germans with flowers, offers wine and fruit.

German equipment moves along the roads of Italy, drives along a mountain road, through a tunnel.

Bombing of German transport ships by British aircraft.

German anti-aircraft battery in action.

A shot-down British plane falls to the ground and burns.

German flight support service headquarters.

The radio operator's hand taps out a Morse code radio message about an air attack.

Female employees receive the message.

An officer marks a location on a map.

Night fighter command post.

Aircraft take off.

Combined shot: planes in the air and an officer in headphones with a microphone.

German night fighters pursue British bombers.

Air battle, view from the pilot's cockpit.

A shot-down British plane falls to the ground.

The pilot ejects with a parachute and is captured.

His leg is bandaged.

A collection point for wrecked British and American planes in the forest.

Workers dismantle scrap metal and drag chassis.