1. Germany
The Führer’s meeting with veterans of the National Socialist movement on 9 November. Hall, ceremonial guard of honour with banners.
– Everyone stands up to greet Adolf Hitler.
Berlin.
– Solemn wreath laying at the grave of Horst Wessel.
Munich.
– Solemn ceremony on the occasion of the Day of Remembrance for those who fell during the March on the Feldherrnhalle
– Munich Gauleiter Paul Giesler and Field Marshal Keitel at the ceremony.
– The Führer lays a wreath at the graves of the fallen.
– Wilhelm Keitel lays a wreath from the OKW.
– Solemn march past the Eternal Flame.
– Soldiers marching.
– Wreaths on the graves.
2. Defensive lines in Norway.
– Here, as on the coasts of France, the English Channel and the North Sea, German armed forces are on constant alert to repel enemy attacks.
– German ships at sea, stormy waters of the fjord.
– German coastal fortifications.
– Training alarm for garrison troops.
– Infantry takes up positions on the defensive line stretching along the entire coast.
– Crew at the gun.
– Mortar firing.
– Firing at the supposed enemy.
– A smoke screen is set up over the coast for camouflage.
– Aircraft control the space up to the edge of the eternal ice, they are over the frozen bay.
– An iceberg in the sea.
– Torpedo boats block the entrance to certain fjords.
– Torpedo battery.
– German artillery positions in the fjord, disguised as peasant houses, guns.
Northern Norway.
– Military exercises on German coastal fortifications.
– All the bays along the coast are literally studded with artillery pieces of all calibres, bunkers and special weapons.
– Anti-aircraft guns defend the coast from enemy air attacks.
– Heavy artillery crews are also ready to open fire at any moment.
– Runways are evenly distributed along the coast, from which military air squadrons of aircraft and seaplanes can take off simultaneously.
Norway.
– German naval forces guard the coast of Norway.
– Ship guns are at the ready.
– The Norwegian coast has been turned into an impregnable bastion that should prevent any attempt by the enemy to break through to the European continent.
3. The Finnish front.
Reconstruction work in liberated Karelia.
– Preparing timber for house construction, sawmill, manufacturing boards.
– Finnish soldiers on leave are building houses for the families of their fallen comrades.
– Here, 52 houses are being built simultaneously, which Karelian units will then place on the foundations of destroyed houses.
– And so another village has been restored.
– The Finnish flag flies.
– On behalf of the troops, a Finnish general hands over documents certifying the property rights of the families of fallen Finnish soldiers at a general meeting of residents.
– A woman with a child in her arms smiles.
4. USSR. Military operations near Leningrad.
Artillery fire on Kronstadt.
– Explosions on the factory grounds.
– A burning power station.
– German artillery fires on the Soviet battleship Marat in Kronstadt harbour.
– German and Finnish aircraft raid Leningrad.
– Bombing of the Leningrad harbour.
5. USSR. Stalingrad Front.
Fighting on the approaches to the city.
– German and Italian troops in battle.
– View of destroyed Stalingrad.
– Destroyed Soviet equipment and tanks in the streets, wrecked trams.
– A train carrying weapons captured by the Germans.
– Ruins of the Stalingrad Tractor Factory, view of the workshops.
– Soldiers in trenches.
6. France
On the German-French demarcation line. On 11 November, German troops begin their march through unoccupied French territory towards the Mediterranean coast.
– The narrator describes this advance as a ‘response’ to Allied special operations in North Africa and preparations for a landing in southern France.
– Crossing the demarcation line, the border barrier opens.
– German motorised units move towards the Mediterranean coast.
– Residents watch the movement of troops.
– Columns of troops pass through Toulouse, Narbonne and other cities in southern France.
– German soldiers on leave.
– French boys approach them with curiosity.
– Soldiers sit on the parapet of the embankment, swinging their legs.
– German tanks on the road to Marseille.
– A train carrying fuel tanks for the Air Force travels along the railway. Troops march through the streets of Marseille.
– German tanks at the Arc de Triomphe.
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