1. Hungary.
Funeral in Budapest of the son of Regent Admiral Horthy, István Horthy, who died on the Soviet-German front.
– Mourning ceremony in parliament.
– German Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop lays a wreath on behalf of the Führer.
– Wilhelm Keitel with a marshal’s baton.
– Italian Foreign Minister Count Ciano lays a wreath on behalf of the Italian government.
– Members of foreign delegations.
– Funeral procession on the streets of Budapest.
– Admiral Horthy, his wife, Ribbentrop and others follow the coffin.
2. North Africa.
German airfield on the southern coast of Greece.
– Pilots receive provisions for their flight to Africa.
– Italian paratroopers board transport planes bound for Africa.
– Soldiers put on life jackets.
– The plane takes off.
– Soldiers in the cabin of the plane, one holding a dog to his chest.
– Landing in Africa.
– This transport group celebrates its 150,000th flight, with a poster displaying this number attached to the arch.
– Unloading manpower and equipment.
– Italian troops immediately proceed to El Alamein.
– The plane returns for its next mission.
– German pilot Hans-Joachim Marseille jumps out of the cockpit of his fighter plane, already with 125 victories to his credit.
– Marseille surrounded by his comrades.
– He was awarded the Knight’s Cross with Oak Leaves, Swords and Diamonds for his exploits.
– Field Marshal Erwin Rommel and Field Marshal Albert Kesselring talk with Italian Marshal Ugo Cavalleri, Marshal Ettore Bastico and other Italian officers.
The Egyptian front.
– Italian self-propelled guns advance through the desert.
– The ancient oasis of Siwa is an important base for British aviation.
– German and Italian troops enter the thousand-year-old Siwa, with vehicles and tanks rolling in.
– The commander of the Italian garrison greets the troops, and residents raise their arms in a fascist salute.
– German artillerymen near the city.
– Lunch in the city with local residents.
– Sheikh Ali, the richest man in the oasis.
– The Germans are treated to grapes, and the Arabs load the grapes into a car.
– The Germans bathe naked in Cleopatra’s pool.
3. USSR.
– Reich Marshal Hermann Göring visits wounded soldiers on the eastern front awaiting transport to their homeland.
– He inspects a medical train before its departure for Germany.
– Hermann Göring with the wounded and medical personnel.
4. USSR. Central section of the front on the Smolensk-Bryansk-Kursk line.
At the front lines.
– Meeting at the command post.
– A half-destroyed city theatre building, converted by the Germans into an artillery observation post.
– German artillery fires on Soviet positions.
– A tank fires.
Central sector.
– German anti-aircraft guns repel an attack by Soviet tanks.
– Destroyed Soviet positions, dead Soviet soldiers, wrecked Soviet tanks.
Military operations near Stalingrad.
– Friedrich Paulus’s 6th Field Army of the Wehrmacht is involved here.
– German troops moving across the steppe towards Stalingrad, a large concentration of troops is observed.
– Filtering water for engines.
– Marching across the Russian steppes, soldiers’ boots kick up dust as they walk.
– Horses bathing in a tributary of the Don.
– Horses are watered from a bucket and fed.
– German soldiers pluck and roast captured chickens and milk cows.
– Infantry marching across the steppe, covering 60 km a day.
– Tanks crossing the Don on a pontoon bridge.
– Captured Soviet soldiers surrender their weapons, run across the bridge, cars with German soldiers drive by.
– German bombers take off.
– Bombing of Soviet positions near Stalingrad.
– Bomb explosions on the ground, aerial view.
– German tanks on the offensive.
– German motorised units reach the Volga, views of the Volga.
– German infantry on the offensive near Stalingrad.
– Infantry takes up positions near the Stalingrad-Moscow railway line.
– German reconnaissance aircraft in the air.
German artillery shells Stalingrad.
– Panorama of the city in flames.
– Soldiers on armoured vehicles.
– German soldiers walk through dust, smiling at the camera.
– Cars and cannons drive by.
5. USSR. Caucasian Front.
German motorised troops drive past destroyed Soviet tanks on the roads of the Caucasus.
– Soldiers on a break, drinking wine, eating raw eggs and watermelons, sitting by a fence.
– Infantrymen climb onto a tank and drive away, motorcyclists pass by a burning house.
– Germans near Pyatigorsk, view of the city from the road.
– A detachment of Caucasian militia created by the Germans.
– Caucasians in papakhas ride horses along the road.
– German mountain infantry units move towards Elbrus along a mountain road.
– Camels carrying loads.
– A flock of sheep blocks the road, shepherds drive the herd away.
– On the bank of a mountain river.
– A Caucasian man in a papakha hat on horseback against the backdrop of the river.
– Germans walking along a mountain path.
– View of Elbrus.
– A soldier drinks water from a mountain stream.
– Climbing Elbrus on snowy crust with the help of ski poles.
– Weather station in the mountains.
– Germans at the summit, setting up a sign.
– Views of the Caucasus Range.
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