1. Germany.
Führer’s headquarters.
– Adolf Hitler is presenting an award to SS Opergruppenführer SS Eicke.
– Officers congratulate Eicke.
– Pilots from the African German Corps in Führer’s headquarters, among them a prominent pilot Hans-Joachim Marseille.
– Adolf Hitler awards Marseille with the Kinght Cross.
– Conversation with the pilot about his exploits in Africa.
Führer’s headquarters.
– Adolf Hitler receives arrived in Germany with a return visit to the Finnish Marshal Mannerheim.
– Meeting on the platform.
– Adolf Hitler and Gustav Mannerheim sits in the car, arrival at the headquarters.
– Guard of honour at the building.
– General Jodl gives explanations on the map.
– Adolf Hitler and Gustav Mannerheim greeted by Grand Admiral Reder and Reichsführer-SS Himmler, they walk along the path of the park.
– Adolf Hitler, Field Marshal General Runstedt and other officers.
– The Führer’s farewell to Mannerheim.
– Mannerheim waving from the carriage window.
Reichsmarschall Hermann Göring receiving Mannerheim in his residence.
– Göring and Mannerheim get into the car.
– Göring and the Finnish Marshal discuss military problems.
– In Göring’s entourage, General Jeschonek.
2. Eastern Front, in the area of Lake Ilmen.
Scheme of the encirclement of Soviet troops in the cauldron near Volkhov on the map.
– Horses with a field kitchen stuck in the mud.
– German soldiers go on the mud.
– Food and ammunition are delivered by narrow gauge railway, the soldiers ride on an open platform.
– At the German soldiers’ stronghold, the soldiers are smoking.
– Company Waffen SS advancing through the forest, a firefight with Soviet troops.
– A German soldier throws a grenade into a Soviet bunker.
– Soviet soldiers surrendering as prisoners.
– Operations by Spanish, Flemish and Dutch troops.
– Destruction of mines.
– Volunteers of the Dutch battalion in the offensive.
– Tanks go forward, exchanging fire with Soviet troops.
– The tank goes through the forest, knocking down trees and squashing bushes.
– Shooting tanks and mortars.
– Under cover of tanks infantry goes forward.
– Explosions, fires.
– German command centre.
– Charging the gun, it fires.
– Soldiers eat in the pause between battles.
– German planes in the air, bombs are flying at Soviet positions.
– View of Volkhov from the aircraft, flying bombs, explosions on the ground.
– Pilots in the cockpit of the aircraft.
– Bombing line of Soviet fortifications.
– German tanks go forward.
– Infantry sneaking through the woods, the soldiers go on the sinking place.
– Shoot machine gunners.
– Soviet soldiers are surrendering, carrying as a white flag soldier’s underpants, the Germans are searching the prisoners.
– Destroyed cars, guns and other Soviet equipment.
– Scattered brass band instruments, a German picks up a bent trumpet.
– Traces of fighting, graves of Soviet soldiers with helmets.
3. The central section of the Eastern Front on the map.
Operations of German troops.
– The figure of an observer with binoculars at dusk.
– They are German tanks, infantry.
– View of the going tanks from an aeroplane from a low point.
– On the tank stretched the German flag.
– Attack of German troops.
– Soviet defectors.
– Mortar fires, machine gunner in full height.
– Soviet prisoners, the Germans are talking to them.
– Coming German tanks, firing artillery, cannon hits the Soviet bunker.
– Burning village.
4. Fighting in the area of Sevastopol. “Stukas” are preparing to take off for Sevastopol, the aircraft in the air.
– Pilot ace, who shot down 100 enemy planes, sits in the cockpit.
– Take off the planes, a view of Sevastopol from above, the seashore, bombing.
– German guns are firing at the enemy, soldiers smoking in the pause.
– Attack of tanks and infantry.
– Liaison officers establish communication, transmission of messages.
– Planes are bombing Sevastopol. NDP on top of the Soviet fortifications.
– Field Marshal General Manstein with binoculars in combat positions, examines the ruins of the ruined fort ‘Maxim Gorky’, shakes hands with soldiers-attackers.
– Broken Soviet guns.
– Fierce street battles in Sevastopol.
– Destroyed city, the hulks of buildings.
– Sunken ships in the harbour of Sevastopol.
– The German Imperial flag over the fortress.
– The ruins of the city, a church, a mosque with the German Imperial flag raised above it, burning buildings.
– Broken guns, narrow gauge.
– Column of Soviet prisoners wandering along the road.
5. North Africa.
Fortifications near Tobruk, ships in the harbour.
– Marshal Rommel in combat positions.
– The soldiers bathe naked in the sea, wash.
– Rommel interrogates a captured British general.
– Kesselring and Rommel talking, discussing the military situation at the map.
– Preparing a convoy for the campaign, pouring petrol into the tank, in canisters.
– Rommel in the car examines the positions of German troops.
– Movement of German vehicles and tanks in the desert to the Egyptian border.
– German artillery fires, wire fences on the Libyan-Egyptian border, fighting.
– German troops travelling towards Sollum, fighting for the town, seashore.
– Signpost “Sollum” at the fortress.
– Artillery fire on British tanks.
– Attack of German tanks and infantry on Marsa Matruk, the capture of the city.
– Burning shot down English fighter on the ground.
– Captured Englishmen.
– Shot down British tanks, the inscription on the tank ‘Rosemary’.
– Column of British prisoners, many cover their faces, walking past the camera, among the prisoners many blacks.
– German tanks on the march.
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