German troops battle Russian at Leningrad during World War II. Germans entrenched behind a ridge. Soldiers enter a ridge. Germans operate a heavy gun. They fire from a camouflaged position. Germans fire across a river at Russian positions. Tanks piled up on top of one another. Several bombs burst along the bank. Wrecked Soviet equipment and dead Soviet soldiers lay around a field at river bank.
World War II on the Russian Front. View as German troops advance near bombed out buildings. fight on streets. View of destroyed city and a bridge over water. Smoke rises up in the sky due to explosions. German soldiers stand on hills. Ships in water. German Tank moving across wheat fields. Smoke and explosion due to bombardment. German bombers in flight. Aerial view of the Russian villages. Bombs being dropped on city. German Pilot in cockpit of aircraft. Soldiers, jeeps and tanks move along a road. German artillery fires. Damaged villages. Russian women mourn for soldiers killed in battle. Dead bodies of Russian soldiers.
German truck convoys move supplies through snow blizzard, advancing to engage Soviet Russian troops on the eastern front in World War II. German soldiers shovel snow and clear pathway through snow. A German soldier with a snow encrusted, frozen mustache. German soldiers walk through a snowy trench with snow roofed area. Wire entanglement placed across open field and a German soldier scans the horizon with binoculars. Tanks and tracked armored vehicles uncovered from barn covering camouflage. Artillery forward observer moves through field on Panzer tank. Signal man relays message. German artillery fired. Fire and smoke. Shells hit objectives. German Tanks roll on the snow covered battlefields. Scenes of destroyed Soviet tanks and dead Russian soldiers on snow covered ground.
Views about 10 months into the German siege of Leningrad in World War 2. Isaakievskiy (St. Isaac's) cathedral and other buildings on Vorovsky Square (Isaak Square) in Leningrad (St. Petersburg) as viewed from Mariinsky Palace. (They appear relatively unscathed.) The Monument to Nicholas I is in the center. Boats and ships are docked along the Neva River. Two youths stand atop a building and look at smoke rising across the river from buildings being shelled by German forces. Closeup of buildings being destroyed by German shelling. A small boy helps pick up rubble from the streets. A woman is helped to her feet by a Soviet soldier. Scenes of destruction everywhere. Broken windows, stones falling from buildings, an abandoned doll on a window sill. A dead child lying on stairs. A woman weeping. A young boy holding his hat in his hands and looking sadly in mourning. A mother with a baby. People standing about in sorrow and shock. 14-inch Soviet coastal guns firing, from under camouflage netting, at German positions.
German attack on Stalingrad, Soviet Union during world War II. A map depicts the attack on Stalingrad. A sign on a street. A German Focke-Wulf Fw 189 Uhu observation aircraft takes off and in flight. Aerial view of the ground below. German Luftwaffe pilot in the cockpit of the aircraft. German artillery being fired on a field. Smoke rises from a Soviet ship. German equipment advances. Damaged houses and buildings in the city. German infantry advances. German soldiers patrol a street.
Opening scene shows Russian soldiers in ruins of Stalingrad, with captured German combat films. A soldier hold up a film and looks at some of the images, upon which the scene changes to the captured German film, itself, showing German troops in the midst of destroyed and damaged Soviet buildings, during the Battle of Stalingrad, in World War 2. . A German field artillery piece fires, and black smoke rises from the area. A formation of German Messerschmitt Bf 109s is seen. Then bombs are shown dropping from a bomber (unseen). German Tiger tanks advance across a plain. German artillerymen look through binoculars. A periscopic binocular is on a tripod nearby. A German soldier, standing at a height, next to a smoke stack, observes huge fires burning in the distance. A German officer leads several hatless German soldiers. Scene switches to post-siege, as Soviet troops are dealing with aftermath. A mortuary team in protective clothing is disposing of the body of a fallen German soldier. A group of wounded Russian soldiers is being moved in a wagon, by medics. Civilians in Stalingrad read notices posted on a bulletin board. Soviet workmen probe rubble (perhaps for survivors). A buried shell explodes sending white smoke aloft. A destroyed anti-aircraft gun sits in rubble, with destroyed and damaged buildings in background. Skeletons of buildings are all that is left in some places. A hand written sign is posted addressed to "Mama!" (Addendum) Interestingly the narrator is speaking in Korean about the Soviet victory at Stalingrad, implying the source might be a Soviet-made propaganda film for ethnic Koreans.