1. Germany.
Construction of
military factories and workshops.
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Huge production and assembly
halls are being built using the latest construction technology. A view of the
workshops under construction.
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Construction work.
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Women on their way to the
factory.
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Women in the design office.
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Women working on the manufacture
of precision radio equipment.
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Women at the machine tools.
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In the workshops of the
locomotive factory.
2. The Atlantic.
France, Atlantic
coast.
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Soldiers from the RAD (Imperial
Labour Service) and the Todt Organisation erecting fortifications along the
Atlantic Wall.
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Soldiers are erecting
barbed-wire barriers, driving wooden piles into the ground, and digging trenches
reinforced with sandbags.
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Construction of bunkers.
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Anti-tank ditches and barriers
on the road.
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German coastal artillery, guns
in their emplacements.
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A gun on a railway platform.
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A sentry on duty.
German patrol boats
and a destroyer on duty at sea.
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The destroyer’s guns firing at
British floating mines.
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Various vessels at sea.
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An observer.
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The appearance of British
bombers.
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Alarm on board the ship.
A German
‘Messerschmitt 109’ fighter in low-level flight.
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An aerial battle, resulting in
the burning wreckage of a British aircraft falling into the sea.
3. The central
sector of the Eastern Front.
On the Smolensk–Orel–Kursk
line.
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A view of snow-covered terrain;
a German airfield.
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Repair work is underway there,
including the replacement of engines, landing gear and other components.
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A ‘Focke-Wulf 189’
reconnaissance aircraft returns from a mission.
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A container of film delivered by
the aircraft is being examined at headquarters.
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Staff officers are analysing
aerial photographs.
Police battalions
and the Waffen-SS are sent on a combat mission to capture partisans who are
attacking railway lines and destroying bridges.
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They are in a village, talking
to a local woman.
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Soldiers on horse-drawn sleighs.
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A light German tank is driving
past.
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The partisan camp is surrounded.
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Captured partisans.
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One of them is providing
information.
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A destroyed partisan camp.
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The destruction of partisan
weapons and ammunition.
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Killed partisans.
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A ‘Storch’ light aircraft lands;
valuable captured documents are being sent to the German command on board.
Military operations
in the area of Lake Ilmen and Lake Ladoga.
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Roads are being cleared of snow;
a snowplough is at work.
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Soldiers with shovels are
clearing snow.
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Signalmen, under enemy fire, are
laying communication lines from a remote observation post.
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Observer.
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Shelling of Soviet positions.
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German anti-aircraft guns are
firing.
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A downed Soviet aircraft crashes
to the ground.
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German soldiers in a trench.
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Scenes of a firefight.
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Alarm.
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Preparations to repel a Soviet
attack.
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A German anti-tank gun is
firing.
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The gun crew at their post.
German ‘Junkers’ in
the air.
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German aircraft attacking Soviet
tanks.
A company of
infantrymen preparing for an attack.
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First aid being administered to
a wounded soldier.
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German soldiers firing.
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Killed Soviet soldiers.
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A Soviet soldier emerges from a
bunker.
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Destroyed Soviet tanks.
Lieutenant General
of Artillery Johann Zinnhuber, commander of the 28th Infantry Division, awards
soldiers the Iron Cross.
Gerardus Mooyman –
gun commander of the 14th Company of the SS ‘Nordland’ Volunteer Legion – the
first Dutch volunteer to be awarded the Knight’s Cross; the general
congratulates the 19-year-old hero.
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He destroyed 13 enemy tanks in a
single day.
4. The southern
sector of the Eastern Front.
Fighting between
the Dnieper and the Donets.
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German troops, tanks and
vehicles are advancing eastwards.
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Tanks are moving along the
motorway.
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A tank crewman stands on the
hatch cover, scanning the surroundings through binoculars.
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A soldier fires a machine gun.
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Close-up of Max Wünsche,
commander of the 1st Battalion of the 1st Tank Regiment of the SS Division
‘Leibstandarte SS Adolf Hitler’, recipient of the Knight’s Cross and SS
Sturmbannführer.
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Tank attack.
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A destroyed Soviet tank.
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Soviet soldiers surrender.
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A burning windmill collapses to
the ground as it burns out.
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Fighting for the settlement.
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Destroyed Soviet tanks in the
streets of the village, wrecked Soviet military vehicles, ruins, and the remains
of motor vehicles.
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Sepp Dietrich, commander of the
‘Leibstandarte SS Adolf Hitler’ Division, awards Iron Crosses to distinguished
soldiers.
A military
airfield.
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Bombs being loaded onto
aircraft.
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German aircraft, together with
Hungarian and Slovak forces, bomb Soviet positions.
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Footage shot from an aircraft.
