1. Italy.
Celebration of the 20th anniversary of the ‘March on Rome’ /the seizure of power by the fascists in Italy/. PNR Rome.
– Building with Italian flag, bust of Il Duce.
– Italian Ambassador Dino Alfieri speaks at the Italian Embassy in Berlin.
– He talks about the significance of the March on Rome.
– Mussolini's quote: ‘My blood is the cause of the Fascist revolution.’
– Historical footage of the March on Rome on 28 October 1922. Armed columns enter the city.
– Mussolini at the head of the Blackshirts, 1942.
– King Victor Emmanuel III. Mussolini on the balcony.
Construction of new roads, bridges, residential buildings and holiday homes.
– Drainage of marshy land in Agro Pontino.
Mussolini in the city of Littoria.
– Mussolini with a pickaxe at a road construction site.
– Children swimming in the sea.
– Mussolini in one of the villages.
– He takes part in agricultural work.
Italian ship.
– Construction of a new road and villages in an African colony.
– Settlers in a new house.
– Marshal Italo Balbo, Governor-General of Italian Libya.
– A new industrial enterprise.
– Launching of a new military vessel.
– Italian submarines, destroyers, cruisers, etc.
Combat aircraft.
– A squadron in the air.
– Italian infantry marching.
– Tanks on parade.
– A solemn formation of troops.
– The Italian flag.
2. Eastern front.
The northern section of the eastern front in the Ilmen Lake area, where German troops are surrounded.
– Colonel General Alfred Keller, responsible for supplying the surrounded troops by air, exits the aircraft and takes up his position.
– Keller presents the Knight’s Cross to Peter-Paul Breu, commander of the 2nd Group of the 3rd Bomber Aviation.
NSKK Corps Commander Erwin Kraus inspects the ranks of the National Socialist Motor Corps.
– Loading of ammunition and supplies by the NSKK. Vehicles with ammunition on the move.
– They pass through Staraya Russa.
At the German air unit’s location, a pilot watches a puppy.
– Loading of containers with shells, letters and newspapers onto a transport aircraft.
– Planes take off into the air.
– Dropping containers to surrounded soldiers.
– Inscription on the ground: ‘We thank you.’
– German soldiers reading newspapers.
Commander of the Totenkopf Division (‘Death’s Head’), SS-Obergruppenfüher Theodor Eicke, and commander of the 16th Army, Colonel General Ernst Busch, at a meeting in the forest.
German train travelling on narrow-gauge track, soldiers on platforms.
– Infantrymen disembark.
– They cross the bridge to their positions.
– Horse-drawn carts with weapons and ammunition.
– A fallen horse is pulled out of the mud.
– Unloading at the final destination.
In the Ilmensky Lake area.
– Supply troops with canisters on their shoulders walk across swampy terrain under enemy fire.
– They reach the trenches and distribute food to soldiers in mess tins.
– Firefight with Soviet troops.
– German artillery fires.
– Tanks with infantry on the attack.
– Junkers in the air.
– Tank crews watch the air battle from the ground.
– A soldier watches the battle through binoculars.
– A downed Soviet aircraft falls.
– German artillery fires.
– Soldiers on a break, lunch.
– Fighting near the river.
– German infantry advancing in a chain.
– Signalmen pulling a cable.
– A mortar firing.
– A German tank in the forest.
– Tanks firing.
– A damaged Soviet tank.
– Soviet prisoners.
– Destroyed Soviet equipment. A view of the battle-scarred terrain.
– Abandoned and destroyed Soviet equipment.
3. The North African front.
Meeting of German officers at the headquarters of a combat squadron.
– Officers with maps.
– The Kufra oases, which are British fortifications on the southern Egyptian-Libyan border, must be attacked.
– German air unit.
– A 1,000 km flight is planned, and the bombers are being prepared in a special way, even for a forced landing (spare petrol cans, food supplies, a pilot's kit: flask, mess tin, machete, sunglasses).
– Flight over the Libyan desert.
– View from the plane.
– Bombing of the hangar at Fort Etak.
– Burning oil tanks are visible.
– Dive attack on anti-aircraft artillery positions, British rifle trenches, tanks.
4. Stalingrad Front.
– German batteries unleash a barrage of fire on the northern outskirts of the city.
– Smoke from fires.
– German soldiers take cover in one of the anti-tank trenches.
– An assault unit reaches residential buildings, behind which is the Barrikady artillery factory.
– Soldiers take cover in the ruins of houses, run, and flee behind tanks.
– Panorama of the burning city, the Volga River is visible.
5. Caucasian Front. Aerial view of Soviet positions.
– German infantry on the march.
– Soldiers climbing the mountains near Tuapse, horses with luggage.
– Crossing a mountain river.
– Among the rocks.
– Firefight with the enemy.
– German mortar crews in a mountain forest.
– Soviet bunker.
– Soviet prisoners.
– Long-focus camera footage of the city of Tuapse.
– German planes bomb the city.
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