Ostland Woche №28297 (1943)

Peat extraction in Lithuania.

Men use shovels to collect layers of peat and place them on a conveyor belt, which feeds the peat into a machine that presses it.

On the other side of the machine, women receive the peat and cut it into bars.

The peat is laid out on the ground to dry.

The dried peat is piled up.

The National Socialist Party of Norway, National Solidarity (Nacional samling), celebrated its 10th anniversary.

A demonstration of party units took place on Oslo's Castle Square.

Residents greet the units marching along the streets of the city.

Columns of soldiers and sailors march.

The party leader, Prime Minister Vidkun Quisling, walks around the columns lined up on the square and delivers a speech.

A line of girls in military uniform, Norwegian SS units in formation.

War invalids and the wounded sit on a bench.

Poland, Krakow hosts celebrations to mark the 400th anniversary of Nicolaus Copernicus' death.

City views, fortresses.

Copernicus Museum in Fromborg, visitors to the museum.

Portrait of Copernicus, scientist's drawing of the structure of the celestial sphere.

Archival materials, Copernicus' manuscript, his main work "On the Revolutions of the Celestial Spheres".

The Italian period of the scientist's life and work, the building of the University of Bologna.

A ceremonial meeting was held at the University of Königsberg, in the building of the former German Albertina.

Scientists, academics, and military personnel enter the hall.

Reich Minister for Education and Culture Bernhard Rust delivers a speech.

A representative of the Italian university is invited to the podium, where he is presented with an award.

Horse racing took place at the Belgrade hippodrome.

Moments of the races.

There are many soldiers among the spectators.

Production processes at a glass factory producing products for the needs of the army.

A worker takes a hot glass mass out of a furnace and places it in a mold.

A glassblower blows a huge flask.

Women sit at tables in a workshop, cut circles out of glass for glasses, and grind them on machines.

The glass darkens in the solution.

The lenses are installed in protective glasses.

A young man in protective glasses is welding.

Tank training for young people preparing for military service.

Cadets jump out of tanks and line up near them.

They are in a material training class, an instructor is conducting classes near a disassembled tank.

Equipment is being repaired, mechanics are tightening the tank track, screwing on nuts, etc.

Training trips on tanks over rough terrain, on sand.

In Agram (Zagreb), the first Croatian SS volunteer division takes the oath.

The general walks around the formation, the soldiers raise their hands in a fascist salute.

The division's parade.

Various agricultural works performed by local residents under the supervision of German soldiers in the occupied regions of the USSR. Inventory is being prepared for sowing.

A man is repairing a Stalinets tractor; German machines are standing nearby.

Plowing the land with a horse-drawn plow, tractors.

Planting vegetables in open ground and greenhouses, watering the plants.

Cucumbers and tomatoes are growing in the greenhouse.

German soldiers sow, plant seedlings, water, and tend the beds.

A soldier washes himself with water from a large barrel.

A church is visible in the background.

A comrade approaches the soldier and douses him with water from a bucket.

There is laundry hanging on a rope.

A soldier feeds pigs, sheep, and a calf.

A large gazebo where soldiers rest, play cards, read newspapers.

Soldiers rest in the sun, sleep.

The southern sector of the front, battles in Kuban.

A German soldier and a sailor are standing on the shore.

German and Italian torpedo boats set out into the Black Sea on a raid against Soviet transports.

Crews on the deck, a sailor at the helm.

A naval battle at night, tracer bullets are flying.

Searchlights illuminate the water area.

Morning, ground artillery is firing from the shore across the river.

Explosions in the mountains.

A heavy gun is firing.

German bombers take off, their flight over the sea and land.

Explosions from bombs on the water, on Soviet positions.

A pilot in the cockpit.

A raid on a Soviet fortified line in the mountains.