President Franklin D. Roosevelt addressing Congress on January 6, 1941, asking for authority to supply war materiel to Britain and allies. Animated map showing streams of war materiel going to china and to European allies. Views of transport ships, Douglas A-20 Havoc aircraft with British roundel on them. A U.S. light tank M2; a large artillery barrel; and sacks of goods, being loaded on a ship. View of U.S. Capitol. Lend Lease Act passed. Animated map shows German forces overrunning Yugoslavia and Greece, and attacking Soviet Union. German troops in small boats crossing river to invade. German tanks and artillery operating on the Eastern front. Civilian men and women digging fortifications. Lend lease war materiel being unloaded in Britain, and at Red Sea port for British in Africa.Trucks carrying supplies over the Burma road to China. Lend lease supplies piled up in Murmansk, Russia, and Iran. "Hammer and Sickle 'em" chalked on a shipment.Stevedores rolling large tires.Hitler speaking. Head of Statue of Liberty. Animated illustrations about effects of Axis victory. U.S. Forces entering Greenland and Iceland, with consent of their governments.
A map of Russia. German infantry troops advance along Eastern Front in Soviet Union during World War 2. They are wearing winter coats (likely late 1941). Troops walk on roads. Horse driven carriages, locomotive, trucks and cars in view. German engineers blast factories and other installations to clear a way for advancing troops. Several soldiers carry bicycles. Tanks on unpaved roads. German tanks cross water. Men observe with binoculars. Firing and explosion as Gerrman forces attack Soviet positions.
German invasion of Russia, Soviet Union (Operation Barbarossa). Early morning in Berlin with quiet street scenes during World War II. Hands of a clock in view. A man unloads milk cans from a truck. German radio broadcasting studios. A man operates controls. View of radio tower and buildings. Men enter an office. A sign announces broadcast in progress and requests quiet and no entry. Propaganda Minister Dr Joseph Goebbels enters the room and sits on a sofa. He announces Germany has launched an offensive on the Eastern Front as Germany's actions represent declaration of war against the Soviet Union. Officers stand in the background. Several men seated in cars, listen to radio broadcast. German Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop makes the announcement to journalists at a crowded news conference. Newspapers carry the story. Cameramen take photographs. Animated map depicts the Eastern front extending more than 5 thousand kilometers from Finland in the North to Romania in the South. This is Operation Barbarossa. German troops invade Russia. A ship underway and a bridge in view. Heavy German guns bombard targets. Smoke rises up. Street signs such as "Eydtkau" are shown as evidence of advances. German troops dismantle border barriers. German tanks and artillery advancing Eastward, encountering resistance. They blow up a building.
German troops at the Eastern Front during World War II . Animated map illustrates Eastern Prussian-Lithuanian border and German troop's movement into Kaunas German troops stand near a field gun. Troops loaded on tanks and march forward. They fire a gun. Smoke arises due to fire. Damaged buildings due to fire. Trucks loaded with troops and as they enter a city. Kaunasians wave to passing German vehicles. A view of the city. Lithuanian villagers present flowers to advancing German troops. A German soldier on a bicycle waves.
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
Romanian Marshal Ion Antonescu arrives by aircraft to inspect German and Romanian troops on the Eastern front, during World War II. He is greeted by Nazi officers including General Erich von Manstein. He greets the Romanian General in charge of local mountain troops. Antonescu reviews troop formations and converses with the senior officers. He speaks to individual soldiers. He examines the coat of one of the soldiers.