1. New Guinea and Australia.
Japanese naval units are advancing toward the coast of New Guinea.
– American bombing of Japanese ships.
– Japanese troops land in New Guinea.
– Japanese troops advance through the jungle.
– Capture of a British airfield destroyed by the Japanese air force.
– Japanese planes take off to bomb the port of Darwin, an important British stronghold in Australia.
– Pilots in the cockpit.
– A view from the plane of the northern coast of Australia, looking toward the port of Darwin.
– Bombs are falling on the port.
2. The Eastern Front.
The central sector.
– A thaw on the front; streams are flowing.
– Spring mud.
– Vehicles are driving along a flooded road.
– Soldiers advance along laid planks; their boots sink into the mud.
– Soldiers help motorcyclists pull their vehicle out.
– Laying plank roads on strategic routes.
At positions between Lake Ladoga and Lake Ilmen.
– On Lake Ladoga.
– Soldiers are scooping water out of the trenches, using a pump, and carrying water out of the dugouts in buckets.
– Cleaning weapons, artillery pieces, and helmets; washing tanks.
– Inspection of personal weapons.
– A soldier washes his hair by pouring water from a mess kit over his head, while another shaves his comrade.
– A soldier stands near a willow tree with swollen buds and breaks off a twig.
– Artillery opens fire on Soviet positions.
– Damaged Soviet tanks stand after the battle.
– The bodies of Soviet soldiers.
– Terrain ravaged by battle.
– Disabled Soviet tanks.
– The famous tank killer, First Lieutenant Nigeman (wearing glasses), recipient of the Knight’s Cross.
– Commander of the 2nd Army, General of the Infantry Walter Weiss, greets soldiers who distinguished themselves in destroying tanks; he shakes Nigemann’s hand.
3. Northern Finland and Karelia.
The Lapland Front.
– Soldiers with Haflinger horses.
– Small and hardy, they are well-adapted to the conditions of this land and find their way even on narrow trails.
– They arrive at a German military base carrying their loads.
– Weapons, ammunition, and mail are unloaded every six days.
– The horses rest.
– A Karelian forest in winter; a reindeer moves among the trees.
– Scouts in camouflage gear set out on a combat mission.
– They must destroy a recently established Soviet base.
– They march through the snow.
– The gun is set up; the barrage begins.
– A grenade launcher fires.
– Infantrymen launch an attack and capture the enemy base.
– Soldiers march along a trench and enter a dugout.
– A captured gun; the bodies of Soviet soldiers lie in the snow.
– A wounded soldier is placed on a sled and pulled by ropes.
– A dog sled pulls the sled carrying the wounded soldier.
4. Norway.
One of the fjords.
– Wounded soldiers are loaded onto a hospital ship.
– The ship at sea.
– Disembarkation at a German port.
– A medical train en route; further transport of the wounded across Germany.
5. Austria.
Mussolini’s visit to the Führer, April 7–10, 1943. The train arrives; Hitler waits on the platform.
– Mussolini steps out of the train car.
– Meeting between the Führer and the Duce at Kessheim Palace near Salzburg.
– Ribbentrop and Keitel greet Mussolini.
– Colonel General Kurt Zeitzler, Chief of the General Staff, reports on the situation at the fronts.
6. Germany.
The Führer’s headquarters.
– Grand Admiral Karl Dönitz with the Führer.
– Dönitz is awarded the Oak Leaves to the Knight’s Cross for his exceptional achievements in submarine warfare.
– The Führer converses with the Grand Admiral.
– A newsreader reports on the successes of the German submarine fleet.
7. Additional film – Im Wald von Katyn a black-and-white short documentary film about the Katyn massacre from 1943, directed by Fritz Hippler.
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