1. France.
Destruction in Paris in the working-class neighbourhood after a British air raid.
– The population dismantles the ruins.
– A meeting in Concorde Square.
– Standing in rows of soldiers.
– A member of the government of Vichy sends relatives of the victims of condolences from Marshal Pétain.
– Funeral of victims of the bombing.
2. Germany.
Mourning day in Berlin in front of the Arsenal of the Old City and the monument to the soldier’s exploits, dedicated to the memory of fallen heroes.
– Adolf Hitler’s arrival at the mourning rally, he exchanges greetings with Grand Admiral Raeder, Field Marshal General Keitel, Field Marshal General Milch, Reichsführer SS Himmler and other generals.
– In his speech, the Führer said: ‘All of us at this moment realise the significance of the times in which we happen to live.
– A new world is being built.
– This struggle will continue until a lasting peace is established until the complete destruction of the enemy.
– And this peace, for which we are paying on all fronts with soldiers’ lives, will be the main task of the future National Socialist state.’
– Ribbentrop, Ley among the listeners.
– Adolf Hitler at the Pantheon of the Fallen, the commandant of Berlin Lieutenant General Paul von Hase reports to Hitler.
– The Führer is going round the troops, on his right is a Knight’s Cross recipient Captain 2nd rank Werner Hartmann.
– Parade.
– Adolf Hitler walks past a battalion of honour guard.
– Honour guard of Knights Cross from the Navy, Air Force and SS troops are carrying the Fuhrer’s wreath to the monument.
– Adolf Hitler in the Pantheon, the wreath-laying ceremony.
– Then the Fuhrer comes out to the veterans and invalids of the 1st and 2nd World Wars at the Pantheon, the Führer talks to the invalids.
– Solemn passage of troops.
– Infantrymen, sailors, SS units. Ceremonial march battalion guard, standard-bearers.
3. North Sea.
German patrol vessels at sea.
– Air alarm at the appearance of British bombers.
– German onboard guns firing, shelling British aircraft.
– Ship’s doctor goes up to the flagship bridge, need to save a wounded man.
– In a suspended hospital bed wounded sailor is transported to the infirmary.
– Surgery on the ship, the surgeon at the operating table removes a bullet from the wounded.
4. East Prussia, Rastenburg.
The Führer receives at his headquarters Field Marshal General Gerd von Runstedt, who is to receive a new appointment.
– Together with Keitel and Jodl, the Field Marshal-General heads for the headquarters building.
– On the flight deck of the headquarters.
– Meeting Colonel General Erwin Rommel, who arrived from Africa.
– Rommel by car arrives at the headquarters.
– The Fuhrer presents Rommel award - Knight’s Cross with Oak Leaves.
– A staff officer helps Rommel to put the Knight’s Cross around his neck.
5. Eastern Front.
Fighting in the Valdai Hills.
– Formation of the SS capture group. SS Obercharführer Ludwig Köchle, commander of the shock group and platoon of the 5th Company of the 1st Totenkopf Infantry Regiment, receives the Knight’s Cross.
– His group destroyed six enemy bunkers, a machine gun nest, and the Soviet garrison of one of the positions with hand grenades.
– Lunch at the soldiers’ home, distributing food and fish oil.
– Preserving transport from bad weather in the village.
– German garage under the sheds, cars are standing under a canopy of branches.
– On one of the most difficult highways, day and night moving columns of cars.
– German military units and convoys are moving forward.
– Construction Battalion monitors the state of the roads.
– Clearing the roads of snow.
– Cars, carts pulled by horses, moving in a snowstorm.
– Soldiers wade through the snow.
– In the German trench.
– It is a knight of the Knight’s Cross Colonel Hinzinger with soldiers.
– Shooting German guns.
In the Donetsk region, the attacks of the numerically superior enemy also crashed against the might of the German formations.
– Soldiers of the Volunteer Walloon Legion who particularly distinguished themselves in these battles.
– Fighting with a Soviet tank.
– Fighting for the village, the Germans take away peasant horses.
– German skiers.
– Coming tanks, infantry.
– Assault group burst into the village.
– Destroyed Soviet equipment.
– Soviet prisoners of war are on the road.
– In the location of the German flying unit.
– Fixing bombs.
– Pilots sit in the aircraft.
– Planes take off into the air from a snow-covered airfield.
– Planes in flight.
– Under the wing of the aircraft a large railway station, bombing from the air.
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