1. German base on Crete.
Escort aircraft stand on the field, weapons and equipment lie on the ground.
– Soldiers are resting.
– A German transport ship is being loaded for shipment to North Africa.
– Soldiers on board the ship entertain themselves, organising playful competitions.
– A German sailor talks to an Italian soldier.
2. North Africa
The harbour of Tobruk.
– The remains of sunken British ships after the German assault on the fortress.
– Soldiers disembarking in Africa. A tank of drinking water stands nearby, and soldiers pour water into canisters.
Tanks heading towards El Alamein.
– Italian and German aircraft escort the convoy.
– The harbour of Sollum.
– Vehicles on the highway.
– Aircraft in the air.
– Supply trucks drive to Sidi Barrani.
– View of Sidi Barrani from an aircraft.
– The fortress of Mersa Matruh, captured by the Germans and Italians.
– Aircraft fly on.
– Pilot in the cockpit.
– Egyptian coastal railway station with trains carrying military supplies.
– Camp for British prisoners of war behind barbed wire.
– Prisoners in the camp.
– Prisoner baking flatbread on a homemade stove.
– Equipment moving towards El Alamein.
– A German soldier stands next to a sign with the words ‘Wevella Road’ written in English.
– He crosses it out and writes ‘Rommel Road’ in German.
– A convoy of vehicles on the march.
– Aircraft in the air.
– Aerial view of the highway.
– Tanks and vehicles are moving, artillery is being transported.
– The Atlantic coast of Europe.
– German fortifications at Pas-de-Calais.
– A German observer.
– German artillerymen in their underwear cleaning their guns.
– Alarm.
– Guns aiming.
– German anti-aircraft guns firing.
– A downed aircraft falling.
– German fighter planes before take-off.
– A downed British aircraft that crashed into a building; another that crashed into a canal.
– Downed British aircraft on the sand.
3. Germany.
A German submarine returning from a raid on the American coast.
– Sailors prepare flags with records of the tonnage of downed ships.
– Sailors engaged in everyday activities, taking a shower.
– Commander Erich Topp of U-552 on the bridge, the bridge wall painted with two devils holding torches.
– The boat moves forward.
– Meeting with another submarine.
– Lifebuoys and boards with the names of destroyed enemy ships are hanging.
– The boat arrives at the base.
– Grand Admiral Dönitz congratulates the crew.
– Flowers are presented.
– The commander and crew.
– Nurses treat the sailors, who drink beer from bottles.
– The boat enters its designated bunker.
Preparing the boat for its next voyage.
– In the engine room.
– Loading food and ammunition.
– The boat sets out on another raid.
– On deck.
– Near the American coast.
– An enemy freighter is spotted.
– Shelling.
– The submarine moves forward.
– Attack.
– Explosion on the steamer.
– The boat submerges.
– The damaged enemy steamer is visible in the periscope.
– Torpedoes are launched.
– The steamer sinks.
– Announcer reports on the successes of the German submarine fleet.
– Footage of sinking and burning ships.
4. Eastern Front.
On the Kursk-Voronezh-Voroshilovgrad line.
– Destroyed Voronezh.
– A German soldier looks at the city from the top of a building, on which the Nazi flag is already flying.
– Views of the city.
– On the streets of Voronezh, captured by the Germans on 17 June 1942.
– Germans on the streets.
– Ruins of the city.
– Residents with bundles walk along a destroyed street.
– Civilians forced to clear the streets.
– German vehicles on the streets.
– Debris, a monument to Lenin, dead bodies.
– A soldier washes himself from a water tap.
– A German milks a cow and drinks milk.
– A German soldier prepares an omelette.
– German positions on the banks of the Don River.
– Crossing the river.
– Remains of Soviet equipment destroyed in the June battles.
– Destroyed vehicles and military equipment.
– German soldiers sleeping.
– Alarm, German artillery firing.
– Anti-aircraft gunners fire at a Soviet bomber.
– It falls to the ground and explodes.
– German artillery fires.
– Destroyed Soviet equipment, a burning Soviet tank.
– Cavalrymen ride by, one of them holding a mandolin.
– Motorised units and infantry moving south.
– A tank is driving along, with cyclists visible riding along the highway.
– Hungarian infantry on the march.
– German infantry at a destroyed bridge across the Donets River.
– Attempt to repair the bridge.
– Germans advancing.
– Germans on horseback in a village.
– Fragments of a firefight with Soviet troops.
– Soviet prisoners.
– Germans helping the wounded.
– Burning buildings.
– Germans in a village.
– A church is visible in the distance.
– A German gun firing.
– Machine gunners.
– A Slovak battery in firing positions.
– A huge column of prisoners marching towards the camera.
– View of the column from the flank.
– German artillery firing.
– Burning train with fuel, abandoned by Soviet troops.
Germans in the Lisichansk area.
– Fragments of a firefight.
– German infantry on the attack.
– Germans entering Lisichansk.
– German tanks on the streets of the city.
– German infantry marching through the streets.
German aircraft taking off to bomb Soviet positions near Voroshilovgrad.
– Bombs flying towards their target.
– Pilot in the cockpit.
– Signal given for German troops to advance.
– View of Soviet positions.
– Burning Soviet tanks.
– German observer.
Germans on the streets of Voroshilovgrad on 14 June 1942.
– Soldiers on the march east of Voroshilovgrad.
– Tanks driving towards the camera.
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