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).
German Me-109 and Stuka Ju-87 dive bombers take off from an airstrip near the Eastern Front during World War 2. Crews inside German Ju-88 aircraft in flight. Formation of Ju-88. Aerial view of snow-covered target area. German Luftwaffe Ju-88 aircraft drop bombs that explode on ground. Heavy black smoke seen from one strike. Soviet Yak fighter intercepter aircraft engage the bombers. Air-to-ground rockets being fired. Aerial dogfight scenes with air-to-air rockets purportedly striking a Soviet fighter aircraft
A German documentary film titled 'Die Frontschau' based on an attack by German infantry and armor against a village on the Eastern Front during World War II. A German half-track towing a gun through deep mud. German infantry on a snowy field. A German soldier digs. Gun crew manning their gun. Troops fire artillery guns and machine guns. A column of soldiers advances along a snowy field. The infantry continues machine gun and artillery fire on the field.
German infantry and tanks advance on the Eastern Front during World War 2. German Panzer IV tanks move across a snowy field. Artillery crew in action. Soil and snow thrown into air as shells hit the ground. An officer shouts into a megaphone. The crew of a German Sd.Kfz. 251 half track firing their gun at Soviet positions. They celebrate after hitting a target. German infantrymen run on the snowy field under fire. Type Sd.Kfz. 250/2 Half-track armored personnel carrier advances with crew member manning a gun. The tanks fire at enemy positions. They continue to advance and attack. Smoke rises from an explosion in the background. Infantrymen advance in the snow.
A German documentary film shows German infantry battling Soviet forces on the Eastern Front during World War 2. A German soldier looks through binoculars. German infantrymen in white camouflage suits advance across a snow-covered field. Infantrymen fire machine guns and rifles. A German soldier enters a dugout. Soldiers rush from the dugout and run along a trench. Two observers climb up a tree. The infantrymen fire machine guns and rifles. German ski troops wearing white clothing advance across snowy plains. German soldiers fire mortars from concealed positions.
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.