A map of Russia. German infantry troops advance along Eastern Front in Soviet Union during World War 2. They are wearing winter coats (likely late 1941). Troops walk on roads. Horse driven carriages, locomotive, trucks and cars in view. German engineers blast factories and other installations to clear a way for advancing troops. Several soldiers carry bicycles. Tanks on unpaved roads. German tanks cross water. Men observe with binoculars. Firing and explosion as Gerrman forces attack Soviet positions.
Germans advance against Russian troops on the Belorussian Front (Belarus) in Soviet Union during World War II. A map indicates Grodno (Belarus) and Kaunas (present day Lithuania) as German destinations during Operation Barbarossa. German soldiers fire a mortar in the Soviet Union. Mortar shell explodes nearby. German soldiers firing machine guns and advance in field. They march forward to attack Grodno. Soldiers in prone position firing with guns. Smoke rises due to fire. They march forward. A map shows Kaunas as their next destination. Troops on top of a tank as one of the soldiers inspects a shell. Damaged and destroyed Soviet military equipment in Kaunas vicinity. Many Soviet aircraft are seen with damage. Captured Soviet prisoners march on a road. German soldier inspects various scraps from destroyed vehicles. Tank and truck wreckage scattered over a field. Remains of a tracked vehicle. A German soldier gets off from a tank.
German invasion of the Soviet Union. Animated map shows German advances toward Minsk and Baranowitschi (Baranavichy), after taking Grodno, Belarus, during the Operation Barbarossa invasion of the Soviet Union, in World War 2. An armored column of the German Panzer II and III tanks of the Panzer Group Kleist (Panzergruppe Kleist) move along a dirt road. (They display the letter "K" on their fenders.) Seen are Panzerkampfwagen II (Sd.Kfz. 121) and Panzerkampfwagen (Sd/Lfz/141/1 Pz.Kpfw III Ausf.L). Closeups of the tanks moving in clouds of dust. Infantrymen wave at the tanks as they pass. The tanks deployed in an open field. Burning wooden structures. Tanks speeding ahead. One drives across a field at high speed, raising a trail of dust. Houses in a village burning. A tank moving down over a berm. Tanks in a field with smoke rising in the background. Officers standing next to a camouflaged vehicle, observing the scene with binoculars. German infantry advancing in ditches alongside a dirt road. Dense smoke rising in the field. A knocked out Soviet tank burning. Two Soviet BT tanks burning in the field. Closeups of burning Soviet BT tanks. Body of a Soviet soldier in the grass. A surrendering Soviet soldier runs toward the German lines.Closeup as German crew opens hatches and climbs out of their Panzer III tank to take advantage of temporary lull in their advance while thousands of Soviet troops are surrendering. View of Soviet soldiers walking with hands behind their necks. More Panzer III tank crew members taking a break as the Soviet troop surrender. Closeup of German officer interrogating an Asian Soviet soldier, as German soldiers watch. Two captured Soviet soldiers with their gear in a field. .
The German Campaign in the Soviet Union during World War II. German troops advance in the Soviet Union. Artillery being fired at the enemy. Soldiers cross a bridge. Officers inspect and look through a sighting instrument at enemy positions. German soldiers advance and fire rifles. Explosions occur. A soldier look into a building. Soldiers outside a hut. Soviet prisoners being taken.
The German Campaign in the Soviet Union during World War II. Aerial views of a town in the Soviet Union. Buildings in the town. Soldiers and cavalry units trudge through mud. German officers look on. An officer looks through binoculars. A medic provides first aid to a wounded on a field. Soldiers fire at enemy positions. Dead soldiers lying near vehicles on a road.
Soviet civilians on a farm in the Soviet Union during World War II. A wheat farm in the Soviet Union. Threshers being operated on the farm. Wheat being collected in a container. Men pack grain in sacks. A grain bag loaded on a carriage being pulled by a tractor.