Tonwoche №659-1 (1944)

The Baltics.

Hitler's birthday celebration in Riga, a symphony orchestra playing in the hall.

Reich Commissioner of Ostland Lohse delivers a ceremonial speech.

The Fuhrer's birthday is celebrated in Reval (Tallinn).

Estonian Commissioner General Litzmann delivers a speech at the ceremonial meeting.

RAD columns with shovels march through the streets of Kaunas, residents watch from their balconies.

Lithuanian Commissioner General Renteln delivers a speech at the ceremonial meeting.

A celebration at one of the German airfields in the presence of Lieutenant General Meister.

The battalion commander gives him a report.

Meister walks along the line of personnel, addresses the soldiers.

Five officers are awarded the Iron Cross, then the recipients walk past the line, salute.

The soldiers ceremonially march past.

The funeral of the commander of the Latvian SS Legion, Standartenführer Voldemar Weisse, took place in Riga.

Funeral ceremony in the Dome Cathedral, residents walk past the coffin, near which stands an honor guard.

The coffin is covered with a banner with a swastika, on the wall there is a cloth with the SS sign.

Weisse's awards are on a pillow, wreaths are near the coffin.

Relatives and friends of the deceased are sitting on chairs in mourning.

Funeral speeches.

The coffin is carried out of the cathedral, soldiers carry it in their arms along the street, put it on a tank gun carriage.

The population says goodbye to Weisse.

At the cemetery, the coffin is removed from the gun carriage, carried.

Close-up of the head of a soldier in a helmet with an SS badge, rain is pouring.

Continuation.

The coffin is lowered by the wall.

Soldiers fire a rifle salute.

The coffin is lowered into the grave.

Close-up of a bas-relief with a warrior in helmet and armor.

The mayor's speech.

Women in mourning are standing, a boy in a military uniform.

Farewell to Weisse, laying of wreaths.

Oldenburg.

The writer August Hinrichs celebrates his 80th birthday.

He greets a gamekeeper in the park.

Hinrichs is presented with an honorary diploma of the artisans of the city of Oldenburg, close-up of the diploma.

Hinrichs is working on a play in his office.

He is present at a rehearsal of one of his plays at the Oldenburg theater.

A concert for soldiers at the theater in the city of Stettin.

Soldiers are sitting at tables in the hall, girls are carrying refreshments, pouring coffee.

Artists are performing on stage.

Two girls in Tyrolean costumes are singing.

A tour of the Croatian dance ensemble in Vienna.

A fragment of a concert, a folk dance.

Soldiers are sitting in the hall.

Military sports competitions in Kolberg.

Start of a mass race.

Runners on a cross-country course with obstacles.

Athletes jump over poles, overcome a moat with water, some fall into the water.

The spectators - soldiers and sailors - laugh.

The winner is from the city of Stralsund, an officer shakes his hand.

Germany.

Classes at the school of artistic wood carving in the city of Pirna.

Under the guidance of a master, children carve figures from wood: kids, a peasant with a pipe.

The master carves a figurine of theatrical Petrushka with a long nose.

A puppet theater performance is in progress (the puppets are made by the school students).

Young spectators.

Production processes at one of the German military factories.

The process of making guns for ships.

Lorraine, handing over the houses built for local residents to them.

A ceremonial meeting on the square, the construction manager hands over the keys to the mayor.

Everyone enters the new barn and looks around.

Germany.

Master Wels (?), creator of copies and models of works by famous artists and architects of the past.

View of Wels' models of the cathedrals in Orvieto, St.

Peter's in Rome, copies of Michelangelo, Raphael, Botticelli, Donatello and others.