1. Germany.
Solemn rally NSDAP,
organised by Radio Great Germany on the occasion of the birthday of the Führer.
– Announcer
about the programme of the evening: speech by Dr. Goebbels and a concert of the
symphony orchestra. NDP auditorium.
– Dr. Goebbels
Goebbels comes off the podium.
– Orchestra
conducted by Furtwängler, performs Beethoven’s 9th Symphony.
– Listeners in
the box, among them Joseph Goebbels, Robert Ley, Japanese Ambassador Oshima.
– Violin group.
– Cello.
– Wind band.
– Ovation from
the audience.
– Dr. Goebbels
shakes hands with the conductor.
2. The Führer in
his headquarters.
– Wilhelm Keitel
and other generals.
– Hermann Göring.
– Heinrich Himmler.
– They are on a
walk in the park.
– Joachim von
Ribbentrop.
– Erich Raeder
with Adolf Hitler.
– Delegation
‘Hitler Youth’ performs a song in honour of the Führer's birthday.
– Adolf Hitler
and children.
3. Sicily.
German military
airfield.
– Loading bombs
in the aircraft.
– The plane
takes off into the air.
– He is heading
towards Malta.
– View of Malta
from the air.
– Planes are
bombing an English aerodrome.
4. Germany.
Italian submarines
are returning from the Atlantic Ocean.
–
Sailors with flowers.
–
German U-boats are
returning from the raid to the coast of North America.
–
In the harbour enters
the boat of Oberleutnant Otto Ites, girls offer him flowers.
–
To date, he became the
youngest Knight's Cross recipient among submariners.
–
Mail distribution.
–
Sailor with a hand
white mouse.
–
A boat in the harbour.
–
The boats go into the
protective bunkers that were built according to Dr Todt's plan.
–
They protect against
any air attack.
–
The shipyard workers
immediately start preparing the boat for the next voyage against the enemy.
–
Diesel fuel is poured
into the tanks, food supplies are replenished and the boat is ready to sail
again.
–
The course is west to
North America.
5. USSR. Eastern
Front.
German troops are
preparing to land on the island of Suursaari (Gogland) in the Gulf of Finland,
an important strategic point in the eastern part of the Gulf.
–
The assault units have
just driven the Soviet troops off the coast of the island and cut off their
escape route.
–
Soldiers are carrying a
gun on a dragger, mechanised artillery is on its way.
–
Now the rest of the
troops are pulling up here, they have to completely clear the enemy and occupy
the island.
–
Snowploughs are
clearing the way.
–
Parts go on the frozen
sea.
–
The sun has melted in
some places a layer of snow, cars are driving on the thawed snow of the bay.
–
Liaison platoon lay a
line of communication, he rides on the car, unwinding the cable behind him.
–
The connection between
the land and the island is established.
–
Abandoned Soviet boat
in the snow.
–
Artillerymen take up
positions.
–
The beginning of the
shelling of Soviet troops.
–
Stormtroopers have to
make their way through the wire barriers.
–
Infantry burst into the
dense forest Suursaari.
–
Meanwhile, Finnish
troops attacked from the other side of the island and drove back the enemy.
–
Another part of Finnish
land is reclaimed back.
6. USSR. Military
operations in the area of Leningrad.
Destroyed ‘Soviets’
railway bridge over the Narva River.
–
Repair crews during its
restoration, severe frost complicates the already difficult work.
–
Soldiers are hammering
in supports, installing parts.
–
In the neighbourhood of
Leningrad a few days ago thaw prevailed.
–
Vehicles sneak through
the muddy roads.
–
Delivery of ammunition
and war materials.
–
There are horse carts,
soldiers lead horses under the reins, drowning in mud.
–
Stuck in the mud cars,
soldiers pull cars out of the mud.
–
The lorry is skidding
sideways.
–
The chauffeur repairs
the car on a country road.
–
On the streets of the
village water and mud.
–
Soldiers clean the
streets, cut thawed ice.
–
Artillerymen at the
gun, bringing shells.
7. USSR. The
central section.
Here still prevails
frost.
–
Soldiers clearing
positions with shovels.
–
Clearing roads from
snow.
–
On the road bring
ammunition.
–
Cars in the snow.
8. USSR. Central
Precinct.
Police team and SD
detachment pursue Bolsheviks through the snow in the forest.
–
Discovery of a partisan
hideout - an abandoned bunker.
–
The Germans pelt the
bunker with grenades.
–
Partisans surrender,
here were hidden explosives and weapons, camouflage cloth, radio.
–
The GPU agent and his
henchmen are arrested by the SD. They confessed that they wanted to kill a
severely wounded German pilot who had thrown himself out by parachute.
–
A woman, the agent’s
wife, they are searched.
Harvesting timber
for making planking during the thaw.
–
Making planking.
–
Destroyed bridge.
–
Aerial ropeway, built
by the Germans.
On the front line.
–
The Germans in the
trenches.
–
Skirmish with the
Soviet side.
–
The attack is repulsed.
–
The corpses of Soviet
soldiers.
9. USSR. Military
operations in the Donets area.
Explosion of ice
jams on the Donets to protect from ice drift railway bridges over the river.
–
View of the Dneproges.
–
During the retreat the
Bolsheviks wanted to completely destroy the power plant.
–
However, they managed
to undermine only a small part of the dam.
–
Organisation Todt at
work on the restoration of the dam.
–
Divers remove debris
from under water.
–
Construction and
restoration work at the hydroelectric power station. panorama of the restored
hydroelectric power station, its engine room.
–
At the front in the
Donetsk region.
–
German infantry at
rest.
–
This time in the
vanguard are tanks.
–
A firefight with Soviet
troops.
–
German infantry in
camouflage goes forward.
–
On the snow are the
corpses of Soviet soldiers.
–
German gun fires on the
Soviet positions.
–
Squad at the gun.
–
‘Junkers’ in the air.
–
Infantry in the battle
for the village.
–
A sniper with a
telescopic rifle in a snow-covered trench.
–
The panorama of the
battlefield.
–
Destroyed Soviet tanks,
the corpses of Soviet soldiers.
– German tanks
on the march.
