Ostland Woche №25702 (1943)

In Vilnius, a farewell ceremony was held for the Lithuanian volunteer battalion heading to the Eastern Front.

The city commandant inspects the formation of soldiers.

The battalion marches along the street, women hand out flowers to the soldiers.

Farewell at the train station.

Civilians at defense work.

Men and women felling trees, cutting down trunks, chopping off branches with axes, sawing them into logs.

The logs are stacked in a woodpile.

A soldier measures the footage of the woodpile.

A view of the basalt mountains.

The use of dynamite to mine basalt.

Workers carry boxes of dynamite, a blaster plants explosives.

Photojournalists from the Czech radio and press set up a camera on a tripod and film the blasting operations.

Enclosures of circus animals, spectators watch a hippopotamus with her baby.

An attendant plays with a baby elephant.

The German Sarasani Circus performs for an audience, among whom are many soldiers.

Elephants in the arena, then tigers.

A tiger jumps through a ring of fire.

In one of the Luftwaffe flight schools.

There are gliders on the field.

Cadets are marching.

An instructor is working with cadets on the airfield, he shows a model of a glider and explains the task.

The first flight on a glider, landing.

Continued.

Training flights on light aircraft, the aircraft performs aerobatics.

The pilot at the aircraft shows the mechanics a problem area, the mechanic tightens the nuts, checks the steering.

An instructor during a lesson with cadets on the material part, explaining the structure of the engine, navigation lessons.

Cadets before their first flight on an aircraft with a motor.

Light aircraft take off. fields at the signal of the flare gun.

They drop bombs into the river to eliminate ice jams.

An ambulance dog sled drives through the snow.

German soldiers transport the wounded on their dogs.

The wounded are transported across mountain streams, then along a cable car across gorges.

The wounded are loaded into an ambulance.

A caravan of ambulances in a Norwegian port.

The wounded are lowered down the mountain into a boat, delivered to a hospital ship.

Doctors take care of the wounded, do bandages.

The wounded are resting, playing chess, cards, lying down.

A film show for the wounded, a ballerina is dancing on the screen.

The ship is leaving for Germany.

The wounded are sitting on deck in deck chairs, basking in the sun, saying goodbye to Norway.

A panorama of the mountainous shores.

A German convoy at sea, escorted by aircraft.

A signalman gives a signal with a searchlight.

Laying deep-sea mines in the sea.

A stopwatch in his hand.

An observer near an anti-aircraft gun.

Alarm, the ship's horn sounds, the sailors take their places according to the combat schedule.

Anti-aircraft gunners are firing at enemy aircraft.

One of the ships rushes to the aid of another, which has caught fire from a bomb hit.

Putting out the fire with hoses, buckets, and fire extinguishers.

The wounded are being reloaded.

The damaged ship is taken in tow.

Light warships hunt for British submarines off the coast of Holland.

Dropping depth charges.