German planes bombing Sevastopol. Map of Ukraine highlights Sevastopol. German planes bomb Sevastopol. German pilots fly bombers. Explosions on field. Demolished Russian fortifications. Wrecked buildings and rubble. (World War II period).
Heavy bombardment by the Germans on Russian positions in Sevastopol, Ukraine. German heavy artillery fired in outskirts of Sevastopol. Russian troops fight Germans on streets. Troops advance through wrecked buildings and rubble. Body of a dead Russian soldier. Troops street fight. German troops firing heavy artillery Karl-Gerät self propelled siege mortar (Thor or Mörser Karl, 60cm). Writing on side of the mortar says, "Thor" . German 800mm 'Gustav' railway gun is prepared to fire on Russian positions. German crew loads Gustav with 800mm shell. Gustav is fired. Heavy explosion on Russian position throwing billows of smoke in air. Heavy artillery explosions. Men roll 800mm shells. (World War II period).
Activities of German soldiers in Russia during World War II. A map shows places. Soldiers fire artillery, anti tank guns and machine guns on the Soviet lines near Novorossiisk. Smoke rises in the foreground due to firing. German soldiers advance on a field. German airplanes take off from the field. The airplanes fly in formation. They bombard Russian positions on bays. A German pilot in the cockpit of an Luftwaffe airplane. Dogfight scenes as German aircraft pursues and fires on a Russian Rata airplane. The Soviet aircraft is hit and downed.
German soldiers battle against Russian troops in Sevastopol, Russia during World War II. A fleet of German aircraft in flight. A pilot seated in the cockpit of an airplane. Aerial view of the ground and a lake below. The aircraft drop bombs over enemy positions. The aircraft strafe. Fire and explosions on the ground.
Views about 10 months into the German siege of Leningrad in World War 2. Isaakievskiy (St. Isaac's) cathedral and other buildings on Vorovsky Square (Isaak Square) in Leningrad (St. Petersburg) as viewed from Mariinsky Palace. (They appear relatively unscathed.) The Monument to Nicholas I is in the center. Boats and ships are docked along the Neva River. Two youths stand atop a building and look at smoke rising across the river from buildings being shelled by German forces. Closeup of buildings being destroyed by German shelling. A small boy helps pick up rubble from the streets. A woman is helped to her feet by a Soviet soldier. Scenes of destruction everywhere. Broken windows, stones falling from buildings, an abandoned doll on a window sill. A dead child lying on stairs. A woman weeping. A young boy holding his hat in his hands and looking sadly in mourning. A mother with a baby. People standing about in sorrow and shock. 14-inch Soviet coastal guns firing, from under camouflage netting, at German positions.
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.