Ostland Woche №27859 (1944)

A confectionery factory in Riga.

Women pack boxes of cookies and sweets for front-line soldiers.

Women in national costumes carry boxes to the Riga hospital for soldiers.

The wounded wave to them from the balcony.

A delegation from the factory enters a ward, hands out sweet gifts to the wounded, and talks to them.

A concert for the wounded in the hospital.

A woman sings a folk song accompanied by a chamber orchestra.

The wounded clap.

A speaker delivers a speech in the hall to front-line soldiers and home front workers.

In Tirana, young Albanians leaving for Germany to receive higher education have gathered at the German embassy for a reception with the consul.

Before leaving, a representative of the Albanian government and the German consul general bid them a warm farewell.

The young people listen to the parting words, enjoy a meal at the table, and then leave with suitcases in their hands; local residents see them off.

They load suitcases onto the roof of the bus and get into the cars.

Summer semester at German universities.

Students from different countries are heading to classes at the German Institute.

Many young soldiers have received leave to study.

One of the professors, himself a veteran of the front, is giving a lecture on the latest achievements in chemistry.

Young men and women, war invalids and soldiers on leave are sitting at tables in the auditorium.

A meeting of the Friedrich Friesen Student Society is taking place in a room, discussing current political issues near a map and a globe.

Fencing lessons are taking place in a physical education class.

German cultural film has taken a leading place in the world.

Herta Jülich, who is the head of microfilming, at a microscope at the UFA studio in Babelsberg.

This studio, equipped with the most modern microtechnical equipment, creates films about the mysteries of nature that the naked eye cannot see.

Herta takes a drop of water from an aquarium.

She examines it through a microscope.

A water flea, magnified a thousand times, under a microscope.

Reproduction of water fleas.

Three riders ride along a path in a park in Paris.

The famous German riding teacher Jose Moser on his Andalusian stallion Sultan shows examples of his skills during morning training.

The horse performs various types of gaits, dances to music, rises on its hind legs.

In Paris, as in all of France, a symbolic oath of allegiance was held for athletes.

Columns of athletes walk through an open stadium.

Fencers with foils, tennis players with rackets, rowers with oars, speed skaters with skates, skiers with skis, cyclists, and track and field athletes pass by the stands with spectators.

Flags of various sports disciplines, standard bearers on the steps of the podium.

An athlete climbs onto the central platform, raising his hand in a fascist salute.