1. Finland.
Preparation for the bombing of Murmansk.
– German airfield near Murmansk, preparing for departure.
– Soldiers loading shells in the plane.
– Winged mascot of the squadron - hand falcon - sits on the sleeve of the overcoat of a soldier.
– German planes in flight, shining midnight sun.
– Bombs fall on the airfield in Murmansk.
– Bombing port facilities.
2. The area of Lake Ladoga.
– On the road galloping German cavalry.
– Behind the forest rising clouds of smoke from fires.
– Burning huts.
– The offensive of German and Finnish troops, which pursue and destroy three Soviet divisions.
– Finnish sappers erect a crossing across the river.
– They are carrying logs, laying bridges on which the soldiers get to the other side.
– German troops on the march.
Bombardment of the locks of the White Sea-Baltic Canal.
– GPU used political prisoners to dig the canal, tens of thousands of them died because of deprivation and the burden of barbaric forced labour.
3. Southern section of the Eastern Front.
– Arrival of the Führer at the headquarters of the commander of Army Group South. The plane lands at the front airfield.
– Field Marshal General Gerd von Runstedt and Colonel-General Alexander Löhr, commander of the 4th Air Fleet, welcomed the Führer.
–Adolf Hitler in a car, he is greeted by soldiers.
– Adolf Hitler’s car drives the through the village, then on the motorway.
– He enters the headquarters, then leaves it.
– Soldiers greet the Führer.
USSR. Romanian troops are moving on Odessa.
– Close-up of soldiers’ feet in boots marching on a dusty road.
USSR. German cyclists are moving to the city of Nikolaev.
– German vehicles are moving on a muddy road.
– The population of one of the settlements east of the Bug welcomes German soldiers, an old woman gives the soldier in the car treats.
4. In the south of Ukraine.
– Many towns and villages had German names.
– Palatinate and Swabian peasants once conquered these lands.
– Election of a new burgomaster in the German-captured village of Worms (Vinohradnoe) on the western Bug.
– German officers shake hands with the elected elder.
The Germans are advancing on Nikolaev.
– Hungarian officers explain to the Germans, how to dislocate their units.
– German forward units in the lower reaches of the Bug.
– Crossing the river Bug.
– Machine gunners guard the crossing.
– The Germans at the railway, they blow it up, stopping the Soviet armoured train.
– Shelling Nikolaev German and Hungarian artillery.
– Burning fuel depots.
– German tanks and infantry on the offensive.
– German storming units enter Nikolaev.
– Port facilities and shipyards in the harbour captured, cruiser under construction, four destroyers and a submarine on the boathouse.
– The path of retreat of Budyonny’s army.
– Broken echelons.
– Destroyed railway station.
– Here stopped the evacuation of war materials.
The miserable dwellings of harbour workers.
– Parade House of the Red Army.
– Poverty-stricken neighbourhoods, here people live worse than animals.
– A poor family with children sitting near their shack.
– Street children.
5. On the central section of the Eastern Front.
– After the battle at Roslavl the Germans are moving to Gomel to hit the army of Marshal Timoshenko.
– Wagons and motorised units are driving on broken roads.
– German infantry and artillery moving in the dust.
– German guns are shelling Soviet positions.
– View from a tank slot.
– Multiple strikes allow the German army to encircle Soviet divisions in Gomel.
– A Soviet echelon is burning on a railway track.
– An assault team rides in a drayage truck, it clears debris on the road and mines the railway track.
– An oncoming Soviet patrol on a drift railway is fired upon.
– Infantry removes a huge tree from the tracks, tanks go forward, crumpling trees.
– The tank fires at the enemy.
– Shot down and set on fire Soviet tank.
– In this battle, the Bolsheviks lost 169 tanks.
– Soviet prisoners, they are searched.
– Cavalry rides along the road past broken cars.
– Killed soldiers.
After ten days of attacks Gomel collapsed.
– The ruins of the city.
– The Germans are entering the city.
– Cyclists ride past the ruins.
– The capture of Gomel.
– A huge column of prisoners is on the road, the assembly camp.
– The prisoners are sitting, lying on the ground, among the prisoners - women.
– Captive women’s battalion.
– Women peel potatoes, boil them in a cauldron.
– Asian faces of prisoners.
– View of a huge crowd of prisoners.
6. Eastern Front.
General Brauchitsch arrives at the headquarters of the Northern Front by car, he is met by General Field Marshal von Link, General Kuchler.
– They go into the headquarters.
– Sentry at the post.
– They come out of the house.
– Brauchitsch gets into a light aircraft.
7. Map of the Eastern Front.
Narva.
– German wagons, guns, infantry on the road to Narva.
– The river with rapids, a destroyed bridge.
– A view of the city of Narva from the river. The panorama of the city, fires, the fire is knocked out of the windows of houses.
– Night shooting, burning city.
– Narva in the morning, a view of the ancient fortress.
– German soldiers on the march.
– Balloon in the air.
– Liaison officers at work.
– Cyclists passing along the shore, on the bridges.
– Carried guns on the planks.
– Artillery hits Novgorod.
– Communication is carried out by telephone.
– German infantry on a dusty road.
– The troops are on a wooden bridge, a soldier with a flamethrower, tanks.
– Burning tank with petrol.
– German artillery firing.
– Trenches left by Soviet troops, the corpses of Soviet soldiers in the field.
– German motorcyclists enter the city.
– Through the bridge view of the city, the Kremlin.
The Germans are advancing on Nikolaev.
– Hungarian officers in the company of the Germans.
– German tanks and Hungarian troops on the bank of the Bug, crossing the Bug.
– Machine guns guard the crossing.
– Explosion of the railway.
– Artillery fire on the city of Nikolaev.
– Burning fuel depot.
– German tanks and infantry on the offensive.
– German units are entering Nikolaev.
– Port facilities in the harbour, a battleship under construction on the boathouse.
– List of captured trophies.
– Destruction in the city.
– Burnt tram, the ruins of the city, destroyed railway station and station.
– The miserable dwellings of workers.
– House of the Red Army.
– Poverty-stricken neighbourhoods, poor family with children, children.
8. The central section of the Eastern Front.
The Germans are advancing on Gomel.
– German infantry and artillery moving in the dust, German guns fired at Soviet positions.
– View from the slit of a tank.
– Burning Soviet echelon, destroyed wagons on the tracks.
– German sappers on a drayage train inspect and clear the railway bed.
– Shelling oncoming Soviet patrol.
– Infantry dismantles the rubble.
– German tanks go forward, the tank fires at the enemy.
– Shot down and set on fire Soviet tank.
– Broken Soviet equipment, the corpses of soldiers.
– Captured Red Army.
– Cavalry attack.
– View of burning Gomel, the ruins of buildings.
– The Germans are entering the city.
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