What German narrator calls: The great Dnieper battle. German troops in Russia during World War II. A map of Dnieper area of Russia. Entrenched German soldiers look through binoculars, a soldier shaves. Wreckage as a result of bombings. A demolished bridge across Dnieper River. German soldiers fire guns and artillery at Russian positions. German scouts look at a map and briefed. Troops move about in the area. German Pz.III command tanks and Pz.IV's move across a field and fire artillery. StuG III Assault Gun (tank destroyer) of 24th.Pz.Div. A plane flies at a low angle. Smoke rises due to firing. Russian tanks destroyed by Germans. Russian prisoners file past a Panther tank. Dead Russian soldiers on the field.
German troops in a flooded area of Russia. Infantry units arrive through train. They sit in motor barge to travel through water. Supplies transported on boat, wrapped in hay. Troops unload supplies and provisions on shore. They unwrap supplies and bring out bottles. Drink ladeled from barrel and given to other troops. Horses pull rubber rafts in water. Fodder for horses is carried on rubber rafts. Field officer travel in a motor launch. Troops bail water from their barracks. Troops climb up on tree platform and sit in observation post.
The German Ju-87 Stuka dive bomber in Russia. Swastika sign on bomber. Bomber drops bomb on Russian positions in the Kuban front. It hits a Russian ship in the sea of Azov. German soldiers look up in sky. They hide in trenches. Russian bomber drop shells, it explode on land. Antiaircraft guns are fired. It hits Russian bomber. Wrecked tanks are salvaged by German troops. (World War II period).
A pictorial map showing cities in the Eastern Front of World War II. German soldiers countering Soviet soldiers are seen struggling through mud in Russia's Lake Ilmen area, as snow melts. Water gushing on the ground. Water flowing between areas of snow. A man standing on a slab and water flowing from under the slab. A car driving on a path covered with water. Snow on both sides of the path. German troops drag a motorcycle through mud .
A map of Russia. View of Voronezh, Russia. Buildings in the street. Smoke rises up in the background. Dead bodies lay on the ground. Wrecked buildings and rubble all over the building. Cars near a street. A view of waterfront. Horses and German munitions carts. Soldiers sit near the horses. Planks lay across a stream. Troops on motorcycles and bicycles. Russian prisoners walk. Prisoners carry their belongings and walk across the fields. (World War II period).
German troops advance on fields in Voronezh, Russia. Tanks move across the streets. Buildings in the view. A man looks through binoculars. Trees and houses in view. Troops march in front of buildings. Artillery loaded and fired. Tank guns are fired. Enemy installations are bombed. Smoke and explosion. Camouflaged tanks and trucks move along a road. (World War II period).