The Battle of Stalingrad in USSR during World War 2. A map depicts the eastern front German advance into Stalingrad, Soviet Union. German and Italian skirmishers crouch and advance in a field on the outskirts of Stalingrad, Russia. Axis soldiers advance under the cover of tanks and artillery. German Luftwaffe aircraft provide aerial support. Troops enter Stalingrad. Street fighting in the city. Soldiers amidst war damaged buildings and structures. Wrecked abandoned Russian tanks and war equipment. Rubble on the streets. Military equipment on rail cars. Damaged Soviet factories and plants. The war torn city.
Shows large numbers of war planes in the skies over Moscow, Russia during a military strength demonstration for Soviet leadership. Tupolev TB-3 transports and bombers among the aircraft (civilian designation ANT-6). The TB-3 were the world's first cantilever wing, four engine heavy bombers. They had corrugated skin covering. Joseph Stalin and Vyacheslav Molotov watch the skies during a review in World War II. Russian planes drop bombs on fields. Bombs explode on the fields. Russian paratroopers climb out onto the wing of Tupolev TB-3 aircraft in flight. Troops on wings of the TB-3 aircraft in mid air. Paratroopers slide off from the wings and are airborne, opening parachutes.
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.
Battle of Stalingrad, Soviet Union during World War 2. View from inside a German Army vehicle rolling down a road, as Soviet soldiers with arms raised in surrender appeal to be taken as prisoners of war. Soviet prisoners march on a road. Bombed out buildings of Stalingrad, Russia. Aerial view of destroyed Russian building. German soldiers search a civilian at gunpoint. Views of two dead Russian civilians.
Animated maps show locations in Russia. Cold and snow force Spanish Blue Division troops under German Army (250. Infanterie-Division) use dynamite for digging defensive positions near Leningrad. They explode dynamite and make room for gun emplacements. Blue Division soldiers fashion trenches in the snow and erect crude shelters of wood. After firing artillery, an officer looks through periscopic sighting binoculars. The troops engage in battle over snow covered field, pulling artillery piece. Chimney of Soviet blockhouse is hit. Spanish troops are decorated by German officials. German cavalry General Georg Lindemann presents Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross to Spanish commander, General Agustín Muñoz Grandes. (World War II period).
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.