The Germans dig defensive positions on the eastern border of Germany during World War II. Hitler Youth, Reich Labor Service units and Baltic people dig defensive trenches on Germany's eastern border. View of Hitler youth lined up with shovels ready to fall out and dig. Hitler youth ride to the eastern front trench digging site on bicycles while holding shovels. At the trenches, men and women march carrying shovels and dig defensive positions. Mass hand digging effort underway by men and women and Hitler youth. Ground and aerial views of the trenches being dug. Wide aerial view of long line of jagged defensive trenches separating German held areas from the front with the Soviet Russian forces. English overlay narration describes difficult working conditions for the Baltic forced laborers, virtually slave labor, with poor working and living conditions.
U.S. Medical Corps in Italy during World War II. Injured U.S. soldiers being loaded onto railroad train, and wounded seen in bunks and beds aboard the medical train or hospital train. Nurses move in the moving train. The soldiers eat food. Next scene is at the Anzio Nettuno beachhead: The exteriors of a wrecked building. British and American soldiers and officers walk through a passage down the stairs. Soldiers work on maps and typewriters in tunnels at the underground Allied headquarters in Cassino. View of girl pin-up images decorating walls of the converted wine cellar headquarters. U.S. Soldiers pack German language leaflets into shells to be fired into the German lines at Cassino. View of one of the leaflets, which narrator says tell of the victories by Soviet forces on the eastern front. Shells holding propaganda leaflets are fired as soldiers discuss the strategy. A truck near a heap of shells. St. Elia: U.S. soldiers help injured civilian refugee people. An Italian woman carrying a child walks. A young civilian refugee girl stands near the truck and cries.
German map shows cities in Poland and Baltic countries such as Warsaw, Riga, and Tallinn. German General Hermann Balck with his aides on the Eastern Front during World War II. Nebelwerfer rockets firing at enemy positions. Smoke rises from fire in battlefield. German Panzer tanks and artillery on patrol in the streets of the Praga district of Warsaw, Poland during the abortive uprising against German garrison in the city (led by General Tadeusz Komorowski also known as General Bór-Komorowski, or as General Bor). Camouflaged German tank firing at Polish Resistance. Rocket guns firing at a city. A soldier uses binoculars. Smoke rises far behind haystacks. Warsaw after German bombardment. Smoke rises from destroyed buildings in Warsaw. German soldier advances with basketful of grenades, walking over rubble. A German soldier sprints during street fighting. German troops engage in street fighting with Polish Resistance Movement in Warsaw. Fighters in flight before a cloud of smoke rises above Warsaw. Heavily bombed buildings. German soldier aims his gun while hiding behind a wall. Soldiers firing of antitank guns point blank at building in city. German soldiers using flamethrowers and mortars during the Warsaw Uprising.
Nazi Germany during World War II. Members of the Nazi paramilitary unit Hitler Youth train. An officer blows a whistle and supervizes the exercises. The youth at attention hold flags while they sing an anthem. Hitler Youth march. German troops cycle to the front. Hitler Youth members, old men and women dig trenches on the Russian front. The diggers with tools. An aerial view of the long trench.
Dead German soldiers lying among destroyed German armor and artillery, in a snow-covered battlefield in Russia, during World War Two. Among the destroyed armor and artillery , two wrecked Pz.IV tanks and field guns are seen. Footage is from the Battle of the Korsun-Cherkassy Pocket as Soviet forces reclaimed Ukraine.
Frozen battle field scene as Russian forces advance through bombed out German positions in the Battle of the Cherkassy pocket of the Ukraine region. Destroyed German tanks, artillery equipment, and German horses and dead soldiers lie on the frozen battlefield following battle. A captured German soldier is huddled on a cart. Piles of abandoned and wrecked German equipment. Soviet forces approach and identify the body of dead German Commander, General Wilhelm Stemmermann, who died with many of his forces after being encircled by the Russians. A long line of German prisoners, four deep, moving over snow under Russian guard in snowy and windy conditions. The Russian soldiers escort the prisoners. The prisoners cross a bridge. View of a snowy field covered with frozen bodies of dead German soldiers, some still holding rifles. A Russian officer addresses troops near Potchemky. The dead Germans are strewed over the snow. Various views of the wrecked German equipment and dead bodies of the soldiers frozen on the snowy battlefield. Low aerial view of the destroyed German front as seen from a Russian aircraft. Long line of destroyed German vehicles and dead Wehrmacht soldiers defeated in Battle of the Korsun - Cherkassy Pocket.