1. Germany.
A gathering at the Berlin Sports Palace on the occasion of the National Socialist holiday, Harvest Day.
– The appearance of Reich Marshal Hermann Göring and Reich Minister of Propaganda, Gauleiter of Berlin Dr. Joseph Goebbels.
– State Secretary of the Reich Ministry of Food Supply Herbert Bake announces the awarding of high honours to the most deserving figures and organisers of agricultural production.
– Farm director Kurt Lettler, who works in the occupied eastern territories, receives the Knight’s Cross with Swords.
– Farmer Ernst Ritter is awarded the Knight’s Cross.
– Hermann Göring presents the awards on behalf of the Führer.
– Hermann Göring’s speech on the importance of the ‘eastern territories’ captured by Germany for supplying Germany.
– Ovations in the hall.
– Hermann Göring leaves the Sports Palace.
– Together with two new Knights of the Iron Cross, he passes the guard of honour.
Arrival of a train carrying food supplies from Ukraine.
– This is a gift from Gauleiter Erich Koch, Reichskommissar of Ukraine, to Gauleiter Dr. Joseph Goebbels of Berlin.
– Unloading of crates.
– Soldiers unload eggs, poultry, etc.
– Statistics on the consumption of bread, meat and fats in Germany between 1917 and 1942, diagrams.
– Data on key indicators of agricultural production.
– The announcer talks about the failure of plans to starve Germany.
2. USSR. Caucasian Front.
Military operations and daily life of German mountain troops in the mountains.
– Soldiers on a mountain road at an altitude of 3,000 metres above sea level.
– Distribution of food, mail, cigarettes.
– The convoy prepares to continue its journey.
– Soldiers against the backdrop of the Caucasus Mountains.
Elbrus, German battery in the mountains.
– Repelling attacks by Soviet troops.
– German artillery in action.
– Soviet soldiers surrendering.
– Battlefield: corpses of Soviet soldiers lying on the ground.
Stalingrad Front.
– Map.
– German artillery fires on Soviet tanks.
– View of tanks in a field from above.
– German officer looks through binoculars.
– Operations of German bombers.
– Destroyed Soviet tanks.
– German tanks break through to the northern part of Stalingrad, tanks drive past a fence, along the street.
– A self-propelled anti-aircraft gun with artillerymen is moving.
– Ruins of a factory, houses, an elevator building is visible.
– Awarding of the Knight’s Cross to Senior Sergeant Karl Freundner.
– With his self-propelled anti-tank gun, he destroyed ten Soviet tanks in just half an hour.
– Soviet prisoners of war near Stalingrad walking across a field.
3. USSR. Military operations south of Lake Ladoga.
German artillery and infantry on the offensive.
– USSR. Military operations south of Lake Ladoga.
– A tank unit receives its orders; the commander looks at the map.
– Tanks on the offensive.
– Destruction caused by German bombing.
– Craters, dead soldiers lying on the ground.
– Burnt forest.
– German anti-aircraft artillery repels an attack by a Soviet aircraft.
– The aircraft crashes.
– Military operations in the Ilmen Lake area, map.
– A balloon rises with an observer in the basket.
– German artillery in action.
– German soldiers are sleeping and are awakened.
– An SS unit in trenches before an assault, an attack.
– Mud in the trenches, soldiers’ boots get stuck.
– Sappers clear mines from the battlefield.
– Soviet soldiers surrender, prisoners sit, among them a woman.
– German planes fly, bombing Soviet transport, the road and the sea are visible.
– A carpet of bombs in the sky.
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