1. The Atlantic coast of Europe.
The English Channel.
– German coastal fortifications.
– Guards on duty.
– After the Compiègne Agreement, the Führer gave orders to fortify the Atlantic coast and the English Channel.
– The entire coastline from the North Sea to the Bay of Biscay is dotted with numerous fortified points of all kinds.
– The Fritz Todt Artillery Battery.
– Cleaning the guns.
– Wire barriers.
– Bastions, pillboxes.
– An advance post in the dunes, about to change the guard.
– An outpost in the dunes, a change of guard is about to take place.
– A tank is heading for refuelling.
– A train carrying weapons at the station.
– A train carrying fuel tanks.
– Cannons and tanks on the streets of the town.
– German soldiers.
– One of the military airfields.
– Messerschmitt 109, Heinkel 111, and Junkers 87 fighter planes are standing.
– German planes in the air.
– New anti-aircraft batteries in position.
– Installation of guns.
– Gunners at the guns.
– Various types of guns.
– A huge heavy howitzer.
– Motor vehicles.
– A heavy gun on a railway platform leaves the bunker and moves into position.
– Gunners at the gun.
– Delivery of shells.
– Shell storage.
– Observation post.
– Observers watching the work.
– Training alarm.
– Everyone takes their places.
– Delivery of shells to the gun on special lifts.
– The gun is ready for battle.
– The guns fire.
– A formation of German warships leaves the base.
– Ships at sea.
– Combat escort aircraft.
2. Ukraine.
General Augusto Muñoz Grandes, commander of the Spanish “Blue Division”, which fought in difficult defensive battles on the northern section of the eastern front, at the Führer’s headquarters in Vinnitsa.
– He walks down the avenue with a group of officers.
– The Spanish general is greeted by Field Marshal Wilhelm Keitel, Colonel General Franz Halder, Chief of the General Staff of the Army.
– Muñoz Grandes meets with the Führer.
– Handshake.
3. USSR. Crimea.
After the capture of Sevastopol, the remnants of the defeated Soviet armies retreated to the Chersoneses Peninsula.
– Battles for Chersoneses. 4 July 1942 - the day the last resistance of the Russian troops was broken.
– Aircraft bomb fortifications equipped with heavy artillery, which the Bolsheviks still hold.
– German infantrymen fire at the enemy.
– Observer.
– Infantrymen taking a break. Battlefield with tanks.
– Soviet soldiers and sailors surrender.
– Capture of a bunker, a Soviet soldier is pulled out of it.
– A destroyed lighthouse, around which a battle raged.
– Captured Soviet soldiers, including women.
– A group of Soviet soldiers hiding under a cliff wave white handkerchiefs and rags, surrendering.
– End of the fighting.
– The German column is moving eastward.
– Wagons and carts are travelling.
– Romanian soldiers in berets are marching, German infantrymen are moving along country roads in the heat and dust.
– Motorcycle vanguard units are breaking ahead.
– Tanks are travelling.
– Knight’s Cross recipient Major Günter Pappe in the open hatch of a tank.
– Soviet air raid.
– German anti-aircraft guns fire.
– Infantrymen watch the firefight.
– A downed aircraft falls to the ground.
– German infantry.
– Construction units immediately get to work clearing roads, removing obstacles and building bridges.
– German tanks near a mill.
– Fighting with Soviet troops.
– Soviet defectors.
– A German motorcyclist pursues a Soviet soldier.
– Germans in a village.
– Soldiers break down doors in search of hidden Bolsheviks.
– Tanks continue to advance.
– German troops in the streets of a village.
– Firefight with Soviet troops.
– Columns of prisoners are led towards the advancing German troops.
– German motorised infantry units approach the Don River.
– Ferry crossing of heavy artillery and horses.
– Military operations near Rostov.
– Massive tank offensive on Rostov.
– The road runs through wide fields with blooming sunflowers.
– Tanks overcome an anti-tank ditch using an embankment built by sappers.
– Fragments of battles near Rostov.
– The battles for Rostov.
– German aircraft in the air.
– View of Rostov from an aircraft.
– Diving bombers clear the way for the troops.
– The troops lie low for a while.
– German tanks drive along the road, soldiers sitting on the tanks smile.
– Self-propelled guns on the move.
– View of Rostov, a city of half a million people at the mouth of the Don River, with developed industry and a large port.
– German troops enter the city.
– View of powerful bunkers near the city.
– Tanks on the streets.
– Soldiers on the streets.
– Sign: Taganrog - Rostov - Kalatyr.
– Views of the city.
– Destroyed buildings, railway station.
– Destroyed Soviet equipment.
– Soviet prisoners are being led down the street. 24 June - the capture of Rostov by the Germans.
– German infantry advancing.
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