Panzer divisions advance through snow in a wooded area on the Eastern front in World War II. Heavy tanks and artillery fire from the wooded area. German troops wearing white clothing man artillery guns. German lookout is seen high in a tree. German tanks advance. Artillery guns being fired. German flame-thrower tank in operation. Infantrymen fire machine guns. A huge explosion in a field. A soldier crawls along the snow-covered ground and cuts barbed wires. A German Pz.kpfw II tank hauls three infantrymen lying down on a large steel pan trailing behind. German infantry continue advancing and firing guns. A soldier throws a grenade.
Romanian Marshal Ion Antonescu reviews German and Romanian defenses on the Eastern Front in winter. He talks to soldiers as they stand next to horses. Gun crew members hold belts of cartridges as Antonescu looks on. He inspects an entrenched artillery piece. Antonescu comes out of the trench and talks to officers. He reviews troops lined up at an airfield. (World War II period).
Romanian Marshal Ion Antonescu steps from his Ju-52 transport airplane upon his visit to the Eastern front. The ground is snow covered. He is greeted by Nazi officers including General Erich von Manstein. Marshal Antonescu reviews German and Romanian troops drawn up in formation. He converses with the senior officers, and then reviews the troops, taking time to speak with a number of them individually. He holds up the flap of one soldiers coat and examines it. (World War II period).
Romanian Marshal Ion Victor Antonescu visiting German and Romanian troops on the Eastern Front during World War II. The area is covered in snow and ice. He talks to Romanian cavalrymen as they stand next to horses. he is accompanied on his inspection tour by German General Erich von Manstein. A ship can be seen in the background. Antonescu speaks with machine gun crews holding belts of cartridges. He examines a 75mm field piece in a camouflaged trench. He visits a dugout in a trench. Marshal Antonescu and his entourage walk slowly past assembled troops
Nazi Operation Barbarossa (Invasion of Soviet Union during World War II). A map of Eastern Front. Flare goes up in dark. The silhouettes of troops in dark. Artillery fire and burning target in East Prussia. Troops raise a barricade at a border post. German troops move cautiously forward. Explosion occurs in a building
Opening of film shows image of famous statue being projected on a screen. The statue depicts a Soviet worker and a collective farm woman, respectively, raising a hammer and sickle high above their heads. The statue is a stainless steel art work created by Vera Mukhinafor the 1937 World's Fair in Paris, France. (It was later moved to Moscow, Russia.) Next a field and forest is shown on the Western front of the Soviet Union (Eastern Front of World War 2, in Europe). Soviet soldiers are preparing for combat during a temporary lull in their defense against German forces in their Operation Barbarossa offensive ,begun in June, 1941. Soviet soldiers place branches and foliage upon a BT tank as camouflage. Others assemble loose ammunition rounds into machine gun belts. Soldiers camouflaging an artillery field piece with foliage. Soviet soldiers refueling a tank. Soldiers moving through wooded area past another camouflaged gun. Several Soviet soldiers at a shelter in the woods, placing ammunition rounds in a clip. A printer producing a daily newspaper for soldiers. A soviet soldier picks one up to read. Closeup of the newspaper. Soviet munitions handlers inserting fuses into noses of artillery shells. A T-34 tank sitting in foliage. Soldiers looking at charts as they sit in the woods. A Soviet soldier running (possibly to deliver a dispatch).
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