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German troops cross a river and besiege outskirts of Leningrad in the Soviet Union during World War II.

German invasion of the Soviet Union (Operation Barbarossa) during World War II. German Pz.35t tanks and troops advance towards Leningrad. Explosions occur. Night time advancement of German armor and tanks, setting fires and burning areas as they advance. German artillery being fired at night as flashes occur in the dark. Artillery being fired across a river. German assault troops load into boats to cross the river. Aerial side view of German Luftwaffe bombers and pursuit aircraft in flight, including close-up views with pilots visible in cockpit. Infantry shock troops on bicycles wait to cross the river (Neva ?) in a captured river steamer. German troops advance through outskirts of the city on horseback and with loading equipment trailers. A wrecked through arch bridge being repaired by German engineers. Other damaged bridges in Leningrad. Smoke rises as German Pz.II and Pz.IV tanks roll past.

Date: 1941
Duration: 2 min 17 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675065989
Damaged buildings, antiaircraft gun position and injured Soviet people on the streets in Leningrad, Soviet Union.

A film about war activities in Leningrad, Soviet Union during World War II. Damaged buildings of the Russian city. An antiaircraft gun position and a streetcar running in the foreground. Explosions on buildings as German shells impact. Injured Soviet people standing by. An old woman is made to sit on the ground. A woman cries. A young boy looking downward, sadly. A dead child lying on steps. People help clear debris in the streets following bombardment.

Date: 1943
Duration: 1 min 6 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675067474
Germans shell Leningrad in Soviet Union during World War II, while Russian civilians cope with deprivation

Germans fire artillery to shell Leningrad heavily during World War II. Russian people work in factories continuing war production while bundled in warm clothing due to cold. Baker cuts loaves of bread into ration pieces. People move on snow covered streets. Close-up view of German soldiers readying and firing a massive Karl-Gerät (040/041) self propelled siege mortar (also known as Thor or Mörser Karl). Writing on side of the mortar says, "Thor." Other large German rail guns and a variety of German field artillery fire shells at Russian targets in Leningrad A building collapses from shelling. Men and women factory workers continue factory production of war materiel and supplies throughout bombing campaign by Germans. A woman operating a grinder. Rapid montage of scenes of men and women forging iron and creating weapons and arms including shells and grenades. A woman stacks finished artillery shells. A woman war production welder operating a welding torch. People in streets transport dead bodies on sleds and coffins on runners in the snow, as people die from cold, disease, hunger and bombing.

Date: 1943
Duration: 1 min 41 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675058276
Allied National Leaders hold numerous conferences to plan and coordinate their efforts during World War II

First scene shows President Harry Truman shaking hands with Joseph Stalin on a porch of the Cecilienhof ( home of Crown Prince Wilhelm) in Potsdam, Germany. The two leaders are accompanied by their respective foreign ministers, James F. Byrnes, U.S. Secretary of State, and Soviet Minister of Foreign Affairs, Vyacheslav Molotov. Stalin descends steps from the building followed by Truman. View of the back lawn at Cecilienhof. View of its front entrance. Various views of the house and grounds. American, Soviet, and British flags flying from the building. Cars carrying the leaders on road to the Cecilienhof. President Truman and James Byrnes entering outside gate, followed by other attendees. Then Stalin is seen entering followed by Soviet officers and officials. U.S. General Dwight D. Eisenhower, Supreme Commander Allied Expeditionary Force (SCAEF) in Europea and U.S. Army Chief of Staff. George Marshall are seen walking together in a wooded glade on the meeting grounds. British Field Marshal Bernard Law Montgomery, entering the grounds for the meeting. British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, President Harry Truman, and Joseph Stalin stand on a step before an entrance to Cecilienhof. Truman places their hands together in a mutual handshake, at which Churchill and Stalin laugh. Views of the Kremlin and St. Basil's Cathedral, in Red Square, Moscow, Russia where foreign minsters of the United States, Britain, and the Soviet Union are seen meeting meeting in conference at the Spiridonovka Palace in October, 1943. Closeup of Soviet Prime Minister Vyacheslav Molotov, British Prime Minister, Anthony Eden, and U.S. Secretary of State, Warren Hull, successively signing a document. Scene shifts, to a C-47 transport aircraft flying over great pyramid of Giza in Cairo, Egypt. Next, the front of the Soviet Embassy in Teheran, Iran, is shown. The "Big Three" (Stalin, Roosevelt, and Churchill) sit on the porch of the building. Military officers from their countries stand behind them. Narrator (Franklin D. Roosevelt) says they agreed to launch a gigantic attack on Germany. Scene shifts to Germany, where German military is paraded on public display, showing artillery, Panzer I tanks carried aboard army trucks, Heinkel He 111 bombers in formation overhead, and marching troops giving Nazi salute silhouetted against bright pavement. View shifts to the Livadia Palace, in Yalta, Crimea, Russia. Brief view of the "Big Three" and their staffs sitting around a conference table. Change of location to San Francisco, California, where flags of many nations are displayed along with a United Nations Logo. Representatives of the many nations sign the Charter of the United Nations, founding the U.N. organization on 26 June 1945. Film shifts to Germany where victorious American, British and Soviet troops shake hands and celebrate victory. They share drinks and toast victory.

Date: 1945
Duration: 3 min 16 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675069647
Visual saga of the American Soldier from 1945 to 1970: WWII; Korea; Berlin Crisis;Cuban Missile Crisis; Red China

Review of conflicts involving U.S. from World War 2 to 1970. A U.S. soldier with rifle and binoculars, on guard. German Chancellor Adolf Hitler speaks in Germany to mass audience. German mobilization and blitzkrieg. U.S. troops firing small arms on island in Pacific, battling Japanese. U.S. soldiers on half-track firing artillery. Explosive destruction of Nazi swastika and Eagle symbol on top of building in Zeppelin Field, Nuremberg, Germany. General Douglas MacArthur stands as Japanese General signs surrender documents aboard USS Missouri, ending World War II. Times Square in New York City on Victory over Japan Day (VJ Day) marking end of World War 2. American troops firing artillery and small arms in Korean War. Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev speaking at the United Nations. Newspaper headlines about postwar Berlin Crisis. Soviet missiles on display in military parade in Red Square in Moscow, Russia, Soviet Union. Soviet General Georgy Zhukov and Nikita Khrushchev, at Kremlin, reviewing the parade. Cuban President Fidel Castro giving a speech. A newspaper headline reading: "Khrushchev orders removal of missiles" ending the Cuban Missile Crisis. Soviet cargo ship with covered missiles on its deck. Red flag with image of Lenin and message: 'Partido Communista Dominicano' and a crowd chanting support for the Communist party in the Dominican Republic. Communist Chinese people marching with massed flags in the People’s Republic of China. Chairman Mao Zedong waving to a crowd of young supporters and Red Guards in China as they chant. A United States soldier in South Vietnam during Vietnam War looks through binoculars and then walks carrying his M-16 rifle. A map of Vietnam.

Date: 1969
Duration: 1 min 43 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: English
Clip: 65675054811
Leningrad workers building bunkers for German occupying forces during World War II.

A map showing Leningrad (St. Petersburg) and the Ladoga lake in Russia during World War 2. In a forest, workers working on wood beside a truck. Workers cutting wood with a saw machine for lumber. The workers appear to include Soviet soldier prisoners of war (POW) and Soviet civilian slave laborers, including boy child laborers. The workers are leveling slurry for road construction. Workers using axes as mallets to put end grain lumber into the road construction. A woman uses a machine to spray the road. A steam roller is used to compact gravel and flatten the road. Two donkeys pull a carriage with soldiers while a soldier passes by in a motorcycle. A German Wehrmacht soldier smiles as he supervises. A sign displaying “Strassenwetterdienst” (Street Weather Service” in German) with Russian towns spelled in German writing. A Horch 901 military service car pulls over beside blooming trees as a soldier approaches the vehicle. A soldier inspects some papers from the car. Trucks drive on a narrow, dilapidated road. A truck drives by construction site. Workers installing rebar for building construction supervised by soldiers. Building site with concrete forms. Finished concrete bunkers. A worker transfers mixed concrete from a wheelbarrow to a form using a spade. Workers arrange forms as a man pours concrete with a spade. Workers tamping concrete into forms. Men walk on a bridge made from ropes and wood. Men carrying wooden boxes on their backs follow a soldier. The soldier and the workers crouch as they walk past a sign “Achtung Feindeinsicht” (“Warning Enemy Observation” in German). Soldier carrying bricks to add to the wall his comrades are building. Soldier arranges bricks while building wall. Soldier picks up some excess bricks from the wall. Soldiers working on a brick structure. New gun turrets lined up behind concrete barricade as a soldier covers a gun with a black cloth. Soldiers working on a subterranean masonry structure in a field. Soldier on top of gun turret getting ready to aim.

Date: 1943
Duration: 1 min 48 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: German
Clip: 65675078959