1. Germany.
Berlin, Kaiserhof Hotel.
– Reception hosted by Foreign Minister Ribbentrop on the occasion of the second anniversary of the signing of the Tripartite Pact.
– Guests and diplomats in the hotel courtyard.
– Italian Ambassador Alfieri and Japanese Ambassador Oshima in conversation with Joachim von Ribbentrop.
– Reich minister Ribbentrop’s speech, audience.
Reception in Berlin by Propaganda Minister Dr Goebbels for African hero Field Marshal Rommel, their meeting with journalists.
– Erwin Rommel’s speech on operations in Africa.
– Rommel leaves for a reception with the Führer.
– Adolf Hitler presents Rommel with a marshal’s baton.
Sports Palace in Berlin.
– Opening of the 1942/43 Winter Relief Campaign.
– Banners and standards are brought in.
– Reich minister Dr Goebbels and Rommel arrive and walk down the central aisle of the auditorium.
– Erwin Rommel and Dr Goebbels are in the hall, and those present greet them.
– Dr. Joseph Goebbels takes the podium and reports on the results of the 1941/42 Winter Relief campaign. of 1941/42.
– The results of these campaigns from 1933 to 1942 are shown on a diagram.
– The data is accompanied by footage showing aid being provided to various groups in need.
– The hall applauds; among the audience are Field Marshal Keitel, Rommel, and Dr. Ley.
– The Führer appears and greets Rommel.
– The Führer on the podium.
– Rommel and Himmler in the presidium. Pan of the hall, singing of the anthem.
2. Eastern Front.
The far north of Finland.
– German horse-drawn carts.
– Soldiers building a primitive water pipe to deliver water to the hospital.
– Nurses in the hospital distribute food to soldiers.
– Loading supplies and transporting them by horse on a narrow-gauge railway.
– Supplies arrive at the front lines, soldiers eat.
– Soldiers dig trenches, secure their positions.
– Sappers crawl along, pulling communication lines.
– The start of a firefight with Soviet troops, artillery fire, artillery crew.
– An aerostat rises with an observer-corrector. Tundra.
– Heavy battery fire.
Tundra.
– German tanks advance to the front lines in the forests of Karelia.
– Tanks firing.
– Germans at positions recaptured from the Russians.
3. Central section of the Eastern Front.
On the Smolensk-Kursk line.
– German columns advance.
– In the background - a balloon.
– Observation post of German artillerymen on the bell tower of a church.
– German guns firing, crew at the gun, explosions.
– Burning houses.
– German observer.
– Food distribution in German trenches.
– Shelling of a Soviet bunker, direct hit.
– German soldiers in trenches and at their positions.
– Attack by Soviet tanks.
– German anti-tank guns firing.
– A damaged Soviet tank is burning.
– Crew at the gun.
– Colonel General Model walks among the soldiers, talks to them, awards Iron Crosses.
– Infantrymen in trenches.
– Soviet aircraft in the air.
– German advance guard takes up positions.
– Machine gunners firing.
– German soldiers in a trench.
– Corpses of Soviet soldiers in a trench captured by the Germans.
– The firefight continues.
– The advance unit returns to its starting positions.
– Assistance is provided to the wounded.
– Soviet prisoners are interrogated by a German officer.
– The commander talks to soldiers of the German advance guard, awarding Iron Crosses.
– German soldiers and local residents harvesting crops in the nearby rear.
Harvesting grain.
– A cart with harvested grain.
– On the threshing floor, grain is being threshed and scattered.
– Harvesting cabbage.
– Sign ‘State property’ — property of the German Reich.
– Livestock on a farm, a herd of cows, a flock of sheep.
German squadron at its airfield, planes taking off for the Stalingrad area.
– German guns shelling the city.
– Germans occupy the outskirts of Stalingrad, captured Soviet airfield.
– Officers observe the area through binoculars, guns firing.
– An armoured vehicle drives through the suburbs of Stalingrad.
– Fragments of street fighting.
– The ruins of the city are visible.
– Germans raise the flag of the Reich over a half-destroyed church.
– Stalingrad, the Volga River is visible.
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