1. Germany.
A military training film on dealing with incendiary bombs.
– An instructor in a bomb shelter explains what incendiary devices are and how to extinguish them.
– A burning flat.
– Firefighters extinguish the source of the fire.
– Burning furniture.
– The instructor answers questions from members of the public.
2. China.
Announcement by the government of National China (the territories of mainland China occupied by the Japanese) on 9 January 1943 declaring war on the USA and Britain.
– Wang Jingwei – head of the Chinese government – signs the declaration of war.
– Map of the territory of National China.
– A demonstration by the population in support of the government.
– Southern China, Yunnan Province.
– Operations by Japanese troops on the border.
– The Japanese are advancing.
– The population welcomes the liberators.
– Zhuang Province: Japanese troops on the march, firing on the enemy.
– Japanese soldiers with the national flag.
– Shanxi Province.
– Operations by Japanese troops against the communist bandits.
– Japanese soldiers on the march.
– Scenes of a firefight; a battle in the mountains.
3. Africa.
A German tank regiment in reserve; the daily life of tank crews.
– Germans amongst cactus thickets.
– They are shaving, looking at photographs, cleaning their weapons.
Field Marshal Rommel (marking the second anniversary of his time in Africa).
– He greets the officers.
– Erwin Rommel and Albert Kesselring amongst the soldiers.
The German offensive in western Tunisia, in the Atlas Mountains.
– German tanks travelling through the desert.
– Soldiers levelling the ground for the tanks with spades.
– German military vehicles on the motorway.
– Infantrymen on the march.
– Tank battle near Sidi Bou Zid.
– Tanks firing.
– Burning British and American tanks.
– Prisoners of war.
– Interrogation of prisoners.
– Field Marshal Rommel walks through a cactus field, inspecting damaged American tanks and other military vehicles.
4. USSR. The southern sector of the Eastern Front near Novorossiysk.
German artillery fires on Soviet ships in the area of Tsemesskaya Bay.
– German infantry in the streets of a settlement.
– The same troops in the forest.
– The site where a Soviet amphibious landing was repelled.
– The bodies of Soviet paratroopers on the seashore.
– A Soviet barge, loaded with tanks and put out of action.
– Destroyed military vehicles.
– Half-sunken ships.
5. USSR. The Donets region.
Repelling Soviet attacks.
– German troops with artillery advancing along a snow-covered road; motorised units in a burning village.
– Soldiers leading prisoners out of huts.
– Soldiers in camouflage uniforms running between houses.
– Destroyed Soviet military equipment.
– A German soldier against the backdrop of a fire.
– SS-Obersturmbannführer Kurt Meyer, commander of the reconnaissance unit of the tank reconnaissance battalion of the SS Division “Leibstandarte Adolf Hitler”, walks along the road wearing a white sheepskin coat and a helmet.
– German soldiers on leave.
– A German soldier carrying a chicken; soldiers drinking schnapps.
– Meyer amongst the soldiers.
– Infantry and SS troops continue their march; tanks on the steppe.
The Donets River, frozen over.
– A newsreader reporting on the advance of German troops towards the Donets.
– A meeting of officers
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