Soviet forces East of the Vistula River, attack Praga district, on eastern outskirts of Warsaw, Poland on their way to the city of Warsaw, during World War 2. View of Soviet Colonel-General Vasily Kazakov and his staff studying charts of the area. Nighttime view of Soviet artillery and rocket fire. Fires blazing and knocked out German tanks. Formation of Soviet Ilyushin Il-2 Shturmovik aircraft in flight. Bombs exploding on the ground. Anti-aircraft guns firing. A nearby explosion raising a huge amount of earth into the air. IS-2 / JS-2 (Josef Stalin) heavy tanks moving across smoke-filled terrain amidst explosions from German shells. Soviets operating captured German Panther tanks. Soviet infantry moving past barbed wire and attacking on the ground. Soviet Marshal Konstantin Rokossovsky (wearing large Marshal's star) and accompanied by a Lieutenant-general (two-star) is seen conversing with Colonel-General Vasily Kazakov at the local Soviet headquarters. Closeup of Marshal Rokossovsky, smoking a cigar in a holder. View of distance smoke rising from town. Scene shifts to Soviet armor and machine gunners engaged in urban building-to-building battles. Armor and infantry elements of the First Polish Army (Berling's) operating with the Soviets, are seen entering the Praga district of Warsaw, as liberated citizens cheer them.
Concentration camp survivors of Bergen-Belsen and Nordhausen in World War II. Some victims lying inside a building and two sitting outside a tent. U.S. soldiers with red crosses on their helmets, place one survivor on a litter. Another survivor is carried to ambulance by other survivors dressed in striped prisoner uniforms. Views of emaciated concentration camp survivors. Scenes of war in Germany. Aircraft drops bombs. Tanks fire guns at buildings in cities. Rescuers carry concentration camp survivors on stretchers. Views of healthy, well-fed local German citizens who live only a few kilometers from a concentration camp, where atrocity victims were starving and suffering. Prisoners of war cooking food over fires at a prison camp. They show their bodies after surviving maltreatment at Nazi camp. Rescued prisoners being provided medical treatment. View of Lublin Castle, Poland. Rooms filled with dead bodies of forced laborers killed by the Nazi German forces. Women weep looking at the dead bodies.
Russian attacks on Warsaw and Poznan in World War II in late 1944 and early 1945. Soviet army using tanks, heavy artillery, machine guns and grenades advance forward. Marshal Zhukov and Marshal Rosokofskey inspecting Russian cossacks advancing on horses. A Soviet soldier is shot by a sniper while running through street intersection. A Russian machine gunner firing a Soviet DP-28 light machine gun shoots at building to take out a sniper's nest. Dead bodies of German snipers in rooms next to windows. Views of ruined city of Poznan. Liberated concentration camp victims, including a woman who has been blinded in one eye. Interior of a room in Poznan Prison loaded with torture equipment, including a guillotine. Piles of bodies of persons mass executed during German retreat. Women crying over bodies in coffins of three Polish men that were found hanging in the liberated prison. German Generalmajor Ernst Mattern and his fellow officers seen after surrendering Fort Winiary Citadel (Poznan Citadel). Soviet soldiers. Liberated civilians in Poznan hit and beat German soldier prisoners of war as they are marched under Soviet guard. Scenes of ruined Warsaw include a sign that reads, 'Adolf Hitler Platz.' A wrecked trolley or street car with signs on it that read, ''Wierzeno' and 'Ein u. Ausstieg nur fur Deutsche' which translates to English as, 'On and off exit points only for Germans' The ruined home of Frederic Chopin in Warsaw. The Polish flag flying again after battle.
Soviet forces break through German lines on Eastern front during Vistula-Oder Offensive of World War II. An animated map with arrows showing Soviet forces attacks against German forces in region from Warsaw and 100km South, to Radom. Soviet artillery and rocket batteries firing during battle. Aerial view of a formation of Soviet Ilyushin II-2 Sturmovik aircraft in flight. Bomb explosions and smoke shrouded battlefield. Soviet artillery fired. Views of burning buildings. Dead German soldiers on the ground and wrecked German artillery. Soviet tanks and infantry advance through dense smoke. Heavy Soviet guns fire; views of resulting explosions in distance. Soviet and Polish soldiers embrace in front of Polish National flag. Close-up views of solemn faces of Soviet and Polish soldiers during a flag ceremony. Polish soldier salutes the flag with two-finger salute.
German Panzergrenadier troops use artillery, mortars, and machine guns to stop the Soviet Red Army offensive in Poland and the Eastern Front during World War II. Map of Poland with the names of cities and the Vistula River in German. German troops in dugouts wait for the Red Army. A German soldier adjusts the straps of his Stahlhelm helmet. Bombers dropping bombs over enemy positions. A bomb explodes upon hitting the ground. German gun crew firing with anti-aircraft gun (likely 8.8cm FlaK 18 L-56). Explosion in a forest. A German soldier backs away. Gun crews fire anti-tank flaks covered with camouflage. A flamethrower tank shoots flames at ground. A German grenadier tosses a fuel container from foxhole while other Grenadiers load shells into mortars in foxholes. Pillars of smoke rises in battlefield. German troops shooting with rifles and machine guns from a basement. A German soldier fires with a Panzerschreck rocket launcher. Rockets firing in salvo. A German soldier with machine gun pointing. German troops and tanks advancing. Soldier assumes prone position in snow-covered village. German Panzer tanks firing at Soviet positions. More explosions from German tanks. Panzerschreck and mortar firing. Smoke from shell and rocket explosions covers the field. German soldiers stand on snow-covered foxhole. A bomber in flight. German soldier dressed in winter camouflage coat watches the bomber drop bombs. Explosion from bombs hitting the ground. Tanks firing at enemy positions. Panzergrenadier troops firing rifles from behind fences, climb from basement or walls. Aerial view of track marks from Soviet motorized column over snow covered winter landscape. Gun camera view of German Luftwaffe aircraft strafing a Red Army motorized column and Soviet tank explodes. A German aircraft in flight. Bullets flying in the battlefield at night.
Warsaw is liberated by Soviet troops during World War II. Soviet artillery fire victory salvo to celebrate the liberation of Warsaw in Moscow at night. Aerial view of Warsaw, Poland after its liberation. Smoke rises from destroyed buildings and structures. Shows Hitler and German troops in Poland in 1939 and the final surrender to Germany. Stalin and Russian generals. German Fuhrer Adolf Hitler and his generals in Warsaw during its 1939 siege. Warsaw sign in Polish stands in front of Hitler and his group. German infantry troops firing in prone position. Buildings engulfed in flames as Warsaw held out for 18 days. Civilian refugees panic on the street. Polish garrison, commanded under General Walerian Czuma, officially capitulated to the Germans. German General der Infanterie Johannes Blaskowitz and Generalmajor Bruno Bieler in a meeting inside a bus for signing of surrender. Polish colonel Aleksander Praglowski seen at window of bus during signing. Polish women watch as captured Polish Army soldiers are led to captivity. Polish prisoners of war (POW) gather on a field. The Red Army fight German Wehrmacht troops in Russia. Red Army tank move across the battlefield. Pillars of smoke rises far from the tanks. Howitzers and Katyusha rocket launcher firing at night. Soviet tanks on fire. Rear view of soldiers advancing in smoky battlefield. Scenes of devastation and rubble of bombed buildings in Warsaw after its liberation by Soviet forces. Polish civilians in bombed streets, some holding newspapers. Soviet Marshal Georgy Zhukov uses a compass on a map. Marshal Konstantin Rokossovsky of the 2nd Belorussian Front talks to military officers. Marshal Ivan Konev of the 1st Ukrainian Front smokes a long cigarette. View of the Kremlin. Josef Stalin smiles in the Kremlin.