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Hitler and German General Staff plan Operation Barbarossa in Berchtesgaden
Snow-covered hills at Berchtesgaden. Inside a building, Hitler plans Operation Barbarossa (invasion of the Soviet Union) with his General staff. Among others present are, General Heinz Wilhelm Guderian; Colonel General Franz Halder and Colonel General Ludwig Beck. Animated map shows planned offensive against the Soviet Union and thence through the Caucauses and into Mideast oil fields. Further grand schemes are illustrated. Ocean supply lines needing to be choked off at Murmansk, Russia, and in the Mediterranean are diagrammed. German U-boat bases are shown on the map. View of a U-boat displaying skull and cross bones on conning tower. U-boat reinforced concrete pens. Map showing U-boat missions.
Soviet Navy warships defend allied convoy against German air and submarine attack during World War II
Elements of the Soviet Navy Nothern Fleet escorting a supply convoy in the Barents Sea during World War 2. Soviet destroyers in camouflage are seen moving amongst the transport ships of the convoy. Soviet officers conferring in pilot house of a ship. Scene of some heavy seas. A Soviet Leningrad class destroyer moving rapidly astern the photo ship. Cargo ships steaming in background. Soviet antiaircraft gunners near their weapons, search skies with binoculars. Three German airplanes are sighted overhead and an alarm is sounded. Soviet sailors run to their battle stations. One gun crew is seen uncovering their weapon and beginning to fire at the German aircraft. A German three-engine Ju-52 flies low over the ship and drops a bomb that explodes in the water. Soviet gunners continue their barrage. Black flak begins to appear in the sky. A German Ju-78, Stuka dive bomber heads toward a ship. Two Soviet officers, on deck in heavy clothing, looking through binoculars. sailors load shells. Sequence shifts to a fast moving Soviet MO-4 small guard ship. View from aboard the MO-4 as it speeds through the water. Officers seen on the open foredeck. A crew member signals and the ship launches a depth charge to defend the convoy against German submarines. She continues to lay a cordon of depth charges. Final scene shows convoy transport ships continuing safely.
Women serving in the Soviet army and women with children, preparing gifts for soldiers during World War II
A battalion of Soviet women soldiers stands at attention in formation as officers address them, during World War 2. . Change of scene shows one bandaging the arm of a wounded soldier. A shell bursts nearby. Several Soviet soldiers advancing in a field. Closeup of a Soviet woman soldier. Another shell explosion. View reverts to the battalion of women soldiers in formation. Closeups of several of them. The battalion members break formation and board open army trucks that will take them to the battle front. Views of civilian women and children behind the lines at home, filling parcels with cakes, socks, handkerchiefs, and the like, for soldiers at the front. Closeups of women knitting and sewing items for the troops. One little girl has painted a design on a box for the soldiers. Camera zooms in on the painting. Closeup of a package ready for shipment. In bold letters the main heading on the parcel reads: "подаркн боицам" (Gifts for Fighters). View of a package being opened by soldiers at the front, reveals newspapers and other small items. Soldiers reading an enclosing message from the senders. View of a letter, with many signatures on it. Smiling soldiers share contents of the box, which includes cigarettes
Soviet forces engage invading German forces during World War II
Opening scene shows Soviet troops gathered in a forest during World War 2. Artillery fire is heard in background. Next Soviet artillerymen are firing a 122 mm howitzer M1910/30 at a front line position during World War 2. . A Soviet Polikarpov I-16 aircraft is seen briefly, in flight overhead. Soviet infantry advancing across a field behind a T-34 tank. Heavy smoke clouds nearby in the background. Soviet infantry moving through forest as machine gun fire is heard. One soldier places a slit shield in front of himself and fires through it with his rifle, while standing in a trench. View of him firing alongside a comrade in the trench. Soviet troops jumping from an army truck to take up positions in the field. Soviet Marshal Semyon Timoshenko is seen at the battle front accompanied by another officer. . A string of dropped bombs explode in the distance. Soviet soldiers in a trench looking for enemy aircraft with binoculars. Infantry passing through barbed wire. One carries a mine detector. Soviet machine gunners duck as a shell explodes near them. Infantry charging through the woods.Soviet Polikarpov.I-16 aircraft attack German tanks that maneuver in attempt to escape them. Bombs explode among the tanks. A Soviet Polikarpov I-16 aircraft climbs rapidly overhead. View from Russian aircraft of German tanks racing across a field, that appear to be emitting smoke screens. Soviet tanks moving past a blazing wooden structure. Wrecked German army motorcycle and side car displaying the Totenkopf (death head) symbol. Closeup of the symbol. Dead German soldiers in the grass and lying next to a motorcycle. Remains of a downed German airplane, in flames. Dead German flyer entangled in remains of parachute. Soviet soldier examines a knocked out German Panzer I tank. Partial views of other destroyed German tanks. Smoke drifts across a quiet battlefield. Soviet infantry moving forward. Several views of German prisoners of war being marched in various locations. Closeup of Totenkopf and number 13 on the side of a German armored vehicle. A Soviet soldier begins to scrub it off the vehicle. Camera pans closely over some of the prisoners. A German soldier, who wants to stop fighting, presents a pass to a Soviet soldier as he surrenders. Closeup of the pass, one of many that had been scattered among the German forces, by the Soviets. It invites a bearer, who is fed up with killing, to come to the Soviets. The document states boldly, "Geht mit diesem ausweis durch die front." (Go with these identification papers through the front.) Soviet soldiers escort the German soldier away. Soviet soldiers help a wounded comrade from a tank camouflaged under hay. Soviet medical corps women and a male doctor tend to the wounds of a soldier. A Soviet non-commissioned officer speaks at a battlefront funeral in woods. Afterwards, all attending stand and remove their hats in respect. View of the grave marker and flowers covering the grave.
Soviet army, civilian guerillas, and Home Guard, defend against German forces invading the USSR in World War II
Soviet Russian civilians meeting with Soviet soldiers, to receive weapons instruction and training in guerrilla warfare,during World War 2. A soldier holds up a RGD-33 hand grenade and explains its operation. Some small arms and grenades are distributed to the guerillas. One guerilla with several grenades hanging from his belt. Another holds a sub-machine gun. The members of the group all stand together and read an oath to fight until the last fascist in their territory is destroyed. The members , including several women, take their weapons and march off. Scene changes to a Soviet airfield, where aircrews head to their bombers. Closeup of gunner closing the hatch of his compartment on a bomber. Aerial view of a Soviet Petlyakov Pe-2 bomber in flight above a German supply depot. View of bombardier inside the aircraft sighting for a bomb drop. View from the aircraft of bombs falling away. Black flak clouds seen slightly below the aircraft. Closeups of pilot in the cockpit. More bombs seen dropping from aircraft and exploding on the ground. A man rings an air raid alarm as German aircraft are seen approaching his village. The villagers run for cover to the surrounding woods. Boys mount work horses to bring them into the shelter of the trees. Farmers drive their cows toward the woods for shelter. Local Home Guard militia grab weapons and ride off to circle the village in the woods. Some take up positions covered by boughs of trees as camouflage. Anti-aircraft guns raise their barrels in several places near a lake. Gunners fire a multi-barrel machine gun. A variety of anti-aircraft guns firing. A German Messerschmitt Bf-109 aircraft maneuvers overhead, ostensibly, after being struck by anti-aircraft fire. A plene crashes and smoke rises. Soviet gunner records the event in his log book. Villagers gather around a crashed German Dornier Do 17 bomber in a field. Some men are atop the airplane and others surround the cockpit. Scene shifts to Soviet pilots at their airfield, and then back again, to the crashed Do 17 bomber in the field
A Russian pilot who rammed a German bomber, tells his family about it. Small children being tended for parents during World War II
Film opens showing a wounded Soviet army aviator lieutenant, at home on leave, surrounded by family members. He holds a microphone with his bandaged right hand. According to narrator, he is telling his sister and a girl he went to school with, about his recent experience. He was at 4 miles altitude intercepting a German bomber on its way to Moscow. He chased and fired at the bomber until he ran out of ammunition and the blast from his machine gun had burned his hand. So he accelerated and rammed the German aircraft, bringing it down. His mother is seen telling that she had heard the news, on the radio, of her son ramming a German airplane. She kisses her son. Change of scene shows small children in a play ground under the care of several women Next, children are seen seated at tables for a meal, as Girl Scouts attend them. Later, the children are tucked into bed for the night, and Two Girl Scouts make soft toys for them.