German invasion of the Soviet Union (Operation Barbarossa) during World War II. German Pz.35t tanks and troops advance towards Leningrad. Explosions occur. Night time advancement of German armor and tanks, setting fires and burning areas as they advance. German artillery being fired at night as flashes occur in the dark. Artillery being fired across a river. German assault troops load into boats to cross the river. Aerial side view of German Luftwaffe bombers and pursuit aircraft in flight, including close-up views with pilots visible in cockpit. Infantry shock troops on bicycles wait to cross the river (Neva ?) in a captured river steamer. German troops advance through outskirts of the city on horseback and with loading equipment trailers. A wrecked through arch bridge being repaired by German engineers. Other damaged bridges in Leningrad. Smoke rises as German Pz.II and Pz.IV tanks roll past.
Propaganda aimed at American soldiers who will occupy Germany after World War II. . Opening scene shows stadium in Nuremberg, Germany, filled with youth rendering the Nazi salute in unison as a leader (unseen) chants "Sieg Heil." Several German Messerschmitt 110 fighter bombers flying in formation. View from inside bomb bay of German bomber aircraft as bombs are released. Bombs striking the city of Rotterdam, Netherlands, on 14 May 1940. Buildings burning and collapsing. Buildings destroyed the same month by German bombing in 1940. Buildings being bombed in Belgrade, Yugoslavia, by German aircraft in April 1941. Views of areas in the Soviet Union, wrecked by German bombing. Lone figure of a woman standing in the midst of the desolation and rubble of destroyed buildings. Civilians pressed into labor by German occupying forces, seen at work building defenses for them. A mother and two children in an occupied region. Variouu scene of dead civilians, in German occupied countries, including some hanging from gallows. Dead American soldiers. More views of Germans assembled in Nazi rallies and other gatherings. People marching with massed flags at a Nazi rally. German soldiers in formation. Unusual view of large group of German soldiers in formation from camera position shoulder-to-shoulder in ranks with the soldiers. Closeups of faces of three Nazi German soldiers in steel helmets. Illustration of an American soldier superimposed on background of German troops in formation. A Nazi leader (who looks like Ernst Röhm, Head of the Nazi Sturmabteilung- Storm Troopers) speaking in the 1930s. German workers shoveling materials into an open hearth steel furnace. Panzer III Ausf.F tanks in a German factory. More persons hung from gallows. Film reenactment of German cavalry attacking in 1870. German villagers dancing. A ship hit by a German torpedo, in 1914. More German villagers dancing. German bombing of Warsaw, Poland, in 1939. More German villagers dancing. Nazi Waffen SS soldiers, in black , goosestepping on parade.
Life of the President of the United States Franklin Delano Roosevelt in the United States. U.S. President Franklin D Roosevelt is greeted by British Prime Minister Winston Churchill aboard HMS Prince of Wales during the Atlantic Conference for signing of the Atlantic Charter off Newfoundland in 1941. The ship approaches the harbor. Soldiers present arms aboard a ship. Prime Minister Churchill and President Franklin D Roosevelt talk. President Franklin Roosevelt addresses U.S. Congress with declaration of war after the Pearl Harbor attack by Japan in World War 2. The President signs a document. President Roosevelt reviews troops in Casablanca. The troops march. Franklin Roosevelt salutes troops. Vehicles driven in the foreground. Cairo: Franklin D Roosevelt and Winston Churchill with the Chairman of the Nationalist Government of China Chiang Kai-shek. Tehran : Franklin D Roosevelt, Winston Churchill and General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union Joseph Stalin pose. United States: The exteriors of the White House. People enter White House. President Franklin Roosevelt with Vice President Harry S. Truman at the 1945 inaugural ceremony. Yalta : President Franklin D Roosevelt, Winston Churchill and Joseph Stalin pose. Franklin D Roosevelt addresses a conference. (World War II period).
Views of Yalta city, Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic during World War II. Russian woman and a child walk along mountain road to Lavidia Palace where Yalta Conference will take place. They stop at Russian pipe soda fountain for drink. A Russian man points to Russian signs, one sign indicates the advance of Nazi German forces into Soviet Union in 1941, the other dated 1945 shows their retreat.
German antiaircraft units fire at soviet bombers in Eastern Front during World War II. Von Kleist and Guderian Panzer Divisions roll past burning villages in Soviet Union just 500 kilometers from Kiev, Ukraine. General Guderian speaks with the officers. Soviet tank units surrender. 65,000 Soviet prisoners march under German guard.
German troops at the Eastern front during World War II during Operation Barbarossa invasion of Soviet Union. A map of Europe. A bridge. Fire in a village and smoke arises. German troops stand in a group near artillery. They load a shell and fire.. A board reads 'Eydtkau'. Soldiers pulling artillery. German soldiers capture two Soviet soldier prisoners of war. German soldiers advance, as they walk on the street.