1. Germany.
A mass rally at the Sports Palace in Berlin.
– Reichsminister Dr. Joseph Goebbels’ speech announcing Germany’s ‘Total War’ on all fronts.
– The speech is reproduced partly as a live recording and partly as a narration by the announcer.
– Applause from the audience, shouts of approval; in the hall are delegations of women, military personnel and the wounded.
– Albert Speer is in the hall, along with a Japanese delegation.
– Above the stage, a slogan reads: “Total war – a swift war”.
– The hall chants: “Führer, give the order, we follow you!” The anthem plays, close-up of the Imperial eagle.
2. The southern sector of the Eastern Front in the Donets region.
Defensive battles are taking place.
– The Germans are sawing down telegraph poles.
– Retreating German troops with supply trains drawn by horses and camels.
– The civilian population moving alongside the retreating units.
– SS battalions in the trenches.
– A German tethered balloon with a scout takes to the air; communication with it.
– The Germans roll out heavy artillery and fire on a settlement.
– A blizzard; a German soldier shields his face from the cold with his hands; his eyelashes are frozen.
– Street fighting in a settlement.
– Destroyed buildings.
– Destroyed Soviet tanks.
– Infantrymen on the attack.
– The bodies of Soviet soldiers, covered in snow.
A Messerschmitt Bf 109G is wheeled out onto the runway.
– The pilot climbs into the cockpit.
– Messerschmitt 109s taking off. Bombers in the air against the backdrop of the sky.
– Bombing at low altitude.
– Explosions on the ground; Messerschmitts in the air.
– Firing at ground targets from the aircraft.
– Air combat with Soviet aircraft.
– Shots fired and hits on a YAK aircraft.
No comments:
Post a Comment