1. Germany.
Construction of military factories and workshops.
– Huge production and assembly halls are being built using the latest construction technology. A view of the workshops under construction.
– Construction work.
– Women on their way to the factory.
– Women in the design office.
– Women working on the manufacture of precision radio equipment.
– Women at the machine tools.
– In the workshops of the locomotive factory.
2. The Atlantic.
France, Atlantic coast.
– Soldiers from the RAD (Imperial Labour Service) and the Todt Organisation erecting fortifications along the Atlantic Wall.
– Soldiers are erecting barbed-wire barriers, driving wooden piles into the ground, and digging trenches reinforced with sandbags.
– Construction of bunkers.
– Anti-tank ditches and barriers on the road.
– German coastal artillery, guns in their emplacements.
– A gun on a railway platform.
– A sentry on duty.
German patrol boats and a destroyer on duty at sea.
– The destroyer’s guns firing at British floating mines.
– Various vessels at sea.
– An observer.
– The appearance of British bombers.
– Alarm on board the ship.
A German ‘Messerschmitt 109’ fighter in low-level flight.
– An aerial battle, resulting in the burning wreckage of a British aircraft falling into the sea.
3. The central sector of the Eastern Front.
On the Smolensk–Orel–Kursk line.
– A view of snow-covered terrain; a German airfield.
– Repair work is underway there, including the replacement of engines, landing gear and other components.
– A ‘Focke-Wulf 189’ reconnaissance aircraft returns from a mission.
– A container of film delivered by the aircraft is being examined at headquarters.
– Staff officers are analysing aerial photographs.
Police battalions and the Waffen-SS are sent on a combat mission to capture partisans who are attacking railway lines and destroying bridges.
– They are in a village, talking to a local woman.
– Soldiers on horse-drawn sleighs.
– A light German tank is driving past.
– The partisan camp is surrounded.
– Captured partisans.
– One of them is providing information.
– A destroyed partisan camp.
– The destruction of partisan weapons and ammunition.
– Killed partisans.
– A ‘Storch’ light aircraft lands; valuable captured documents are being sent to the German command on board.
Military operations in the area of Lake Ilmen and Lake Ladoga.
– Roads are being cleared of snow; a snowplough is at work.
– Soldiers with shovels are clearing snow.
– Signalmen, under enemy fire, are laying communication lines from a remote observation post.
– Observer.
– Shelling of Soviet positions.
– German anti-aircraft guns are firing.
– A downed Soviet aircraft crashes to the ground.
– German soldiers in a trench.
– Scenes of a firefight.
– Alarm.
– Preparations to repel a Soviet attack.
– A German anti-tank gun is firing.
– The gun crew at their post.
German ‘Junkers’ in the air.
– German aircraft attacking Soviet tanks.
A company of infantrymen preparing for an attack.
– First aid being administered to a wounded soldier.
– German soldiers firing.
– Killed Soviet soldiers.
– A Soviet soldier emerges from a bunker.
– Destroyed Soviet tanks.
Lieutenant General of Artillery Johann Zinnhuber, commander of the 28th Infantry Division, awards soldiers the Iron Cross.
Gerardus Mooyman – gun commander of the 14th Company of the SS ‘Nordland’ Volunteer Legion – the first Dutch volunteer to be awarded the Knight’s Cross; the general congratulates the 19-year-old hero.
– He destroyed 13 enemy tanks in a single day.
4. The southern sector of the Eastern Front.
Fighting between the Dnieper and the Donets.
– German troops, tanks and vehicles are advancing eastwards.
– Tanks are moving along the motorway.
– A tank crewman stands on the hatch cover, scanning the surroundings through binoculars.
– A soldier fires a machine gun.
– Close-up of Max Wünsche, commander of the 1st Battalion of the 1st Tank Regiment of the SS Division ‘Leibstandarte SS Adolf Hitler’, recipient of the Knight’s Cross and SS Sturmbannführer.
– Tank attack.
– A destroyed Soviet tank.
– Soviet soldiers surrender.
– A burning windmill collapses to the ground as it burns out.
– Fighting for the settlement.
– Destroyed Soviet tanks in the streets of the village, wrecked Soviet military vehicles, ruins, and the remains of motor vehicles.
– Sepp Dietrich, commander of the ‘Leibstandarte SS Adolf Hitler’ Division, awards Iron Crosses to distinguished soldiers.
A military airfield.
– Bombs being loaded onto aircraft.
– German aircraft, together with Hungarian and Slovak forces, bomb Soviet positions.
– Footage shot from an aircraft.
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