German Air Force engages Soviet ground forces in Hungary during World War 2. Opening scene shows map of Hungary, Croatia, Serbia, Romania. Next, in view from cockpit , a loose formation of German Ju-87 Stuka dive bombers is seen in flight. They bomb and strafe Soviet tanks on the ground. (Narrator states that German aircraft flew thousands of missions destroying more than three hundred Soviet tanks.) German soldiers are seen in trenches in Hungary. Next, are scenes of fires and of German soldiers near a burning Soviet tank.
Conflict in Yugoslavia during World War II. Officials of Axis Powers confer, including German officers and Ante Pavelic, head of the Nazi puppet government of Croatia. Milan Nedic, prime minister of Nazi puppet Serbia, is the center of attention on several occasions. Soldiers lined up. A pistol, knife and a hand grenade arranged on a table cloth. Italian soldier throws hand grenade. Smoke rises from a street in Yugoslavia. Corpse lying on ground. Nazi-backed Prime Minister of Serbia, Milan Nedic, shakes hands with German officers. German soldiers seek cover from partisan resistance artillery. Yugoslav partisans, on hill, fire machine guns at Axis trucks moving along a road below them. Occupants abandon the vehicles and jump into ditches at side of road. Partisans organize with primitive weapons and head into hills. Partisan women kiss their homes goodbye and evacuate with their families into the hills. Yugoslav partisans climb into highlands carrying small arms. A German armored train moves along a rail line, firing heavy machine guns at partisans, who wait in hills, ready to detonate explosives. They destroy bridge as train crosses. View of destroyed locomotive.
Anti-German Partisan resistance in Nazi occupied areas of Yugoslavia during World War II. Partisans martial their forces in the wooded hills. Partisans fire guns at Italians in a ravine. Dead Italian soldiers. An Axis convoy of trucks under attack by partisans in hills above. Axis troops patrol in a Yugoslav village backyard. A poster offering an award for capture of Partisan leader. Pictures show hanging of Yugoslav Partisans and their execution by Nazi German firing squads. Yugoslav Partisans receive arms on a mountainside. Contingent of uniformed Partisans (including several women) march with arms. Partisans setting up explosives. Detonated explosives. Partisans charge from hilltops. Dead German soldiers. Partisans returning to their villages from the hills. More war dead. Uniformed partisans march into a village. Partisans firing field artillery at German positions. Adolf Hitler shakes hands with Ante Pavelic, head of Croatia. Germans launch an offensive against partisans, whose families flee further into the mountainous and forested regions of the country.
Germans retreat in Romania. Map shows boundaries of Romania, Serbia and Croatia. German military troops load artillery and fire on advancing Russian tanks. German tanks move through a grain field. Romanian troops surrender before the Germans. The troops search in the corn fields. Smoke rises from a burning truck. (World War II period).
Religious processions and celebrations in Marija Bistrica in Croatia. A group of people walk uphill in a village. The crowd includes a local priest, nuns and the villagers. The gathering reaches the destination and kneels before a cross. A large crowd gathered outside a church in Marija Bistrica in Croatia. Large sculptures outside the church. People light candles and pray. The church bells toll. A long line of devotees wait outside.
German Army units parade in Zagreb, Croatia. They parade in commemoration of 'Croatian independence'. Officials discuss amongst themselves. Buildings along the sides of a street. Cars passing on the street. People gather to watch the parade. Soldiers march. (World War II period).
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