A map of the Eastern Front (Present-day Ukraine) is being displayed during World War 2. German Field Marshal and Flying Ace Robert Ritter von Greim, wearing glasses, is in a meeting with Luftwaffe officials. A sign in front of bushes saying “Gruppen- Befehlsstelle” ("Group command post" in German). Nazi soldiers smiling and laughing as they play card games in a field. The soldier wearing an Iron Cross medal turns his head on his left. Airplanes in the sky. A soldier, wearing an Iron Cross medal, climbs on a jet-fighter written “13”. The pilot of the jet-fighter (Messerschmitt Me 262 with the Nazi swastika on the empennage) facing the camera as he prepares for take-off. Plane takes off. A group of fighters with explosion in the sky. German soldiers survey the field with binoculars. Fighters firing at one another in the sky. Anti-aircraft guns fire towards the sky, towards the fighters. A Messerschmitt Bf 109 zooms in the sky. Soldiers, sitting in the field, are looking up in the sky. A Soviet plane is on fire up in the sky, heading downwards. The soldiers, with binoculars, are observing the falling plane. The Soviet plane falls and crashes into the other side of the field. The plane explodes. A plane zooms in the sky. A Luftwaffe pilot smiles as he climbs down the plane. The pilot shakes hands with a comrade. The Luftwaffe reconnaissance flew back. German soldiers in the field looks up to the sky. A pilot jumps down from the aircraft parked in the field. Soldiers put out aircraft fire with flame retardant foam. Operator views large format film emulsion images obtained through aerial reconnaissance. Luftwaffe officials in a meeting. Grille of a Wehrmacht truck.
German forces on Eastern front battling Soviet forces in World War 2. A map points places in Soviet Union including Kiev, Smolensk, Poltawa. Snow covered field. Soldiers fire from trenches. They move on StuG III Assault Guns. Tiger tanks of SS.PR.1 LAH advance. Houses and trees in the background. A soldier smokes and puts on his helmet. (World War II period).
After effects of German invasion of Soviet Union during World War II. Musical works of famous Russian musician Tchaikovsky. Wrecked house of Leo Tolstoy and his famous work War and Peace. Leo Tolstoy's grave site and cemetery of Nazi soldiers who lost their lives in the Soviet invasion. Dead Russian civilians lie in the snow as others mourn their death. Frozen bodies of civilian dead men, women, and children.
Animated map on globe of world shows extent of the USSR from East to west and North to South (9 million Square miles). Miners extracting her natural resource minerals. 110 million acres of forests and timber being felled. Coal on a conveyer belt. A "forest" of oil derricks in a Soviet field. Oil tank cars moving on a railroad. Iron and steel mills. 370 million acres of farmland. Farms being worked. Tea, tobacco, and cotton crops. Herds of ranch animals. Corn,oats,hops,rye and wheat being harvested by machinery. Huge parades of people parading in Red Square, Moscow, Russia. Dancers on floats in the parade. Cossacks from the Don River Valley demonstrate horsemanship. Map showing Ukraine, Russia,Hungary, Romania,and other adjoining areas. Musicians playing balalaikas accompany dancers. Ukranians,Moldovians and Beserabians in local costume. Map of the Caucasuses between the Caspian and Black Seas. People from that region dancing and playing instruments. Armenians,and people riding on horseback from tribes of the Caucasian mountains. Uzbeks blowing long horns. Turkmen with horses. Mongols playing stringed instruments. Views of people from further East and North approaching Siberia. Some hunting with rifles. Views of Moscow. Moscovites walking on a summer day. Man riding in a horse-drawn carriage. Cars driving on a street. All kinds of vehicular traffic in Moscow city, including trams. Outside views of Soviet factories. Soviet soldiers. Soviet bricklayer, traffic cop, and sailor are shown. A riveter at work. Soviet school children. An old fireman.Nurse in a hospital. Civil engineer with transit. A window washer. A sales girl. Housewives. A Postal clerk. A radio announcer. A stewardess on an airliner. A chemist in a laboratory. A typist at work. A harpist playing and a ballerina dancing as an orchestra plays. Soviet citizens walking across a field. Narrator refers to their love for the soil. Animated map sums up Russia's size and characteristics. (World War II period).
Soviet troops in fierce fighting with German forces at Stalingrad in World War 2. They fire numerous artillery field pieces. Soviet infantry stooping low as they advance. Soviet soldiers firing machine gun.Soviet infantry advancing in courtyard of apartment building, past body of fallen German soldier. German troops abandoning a concrete building behind one carrying a white flag of surrender. German Generals surrendering, walk past body of a fallen Soviet soldier on the frozen ground. German Lieutenant General Alexander Edler von Daniels, Commander of the German 376th Division, salutes as he surrenders. German Lieutenant General Werner Sanne, Commander of the German 100th Jäger Division, is seen in White winter gear, as he walks to surrender. Romanian Brigadier General Demetriou, Commander of the 20th Romanian Infantry, salutes as he surrenders. Five more German generals standing in a group. Closeup of German XIV Corps commander, General Helmuth Schloemer(Schlömer). Lieutenant General Max Pfeffer, Commander, German 297th Infantry Division. Lieutenant General Renoldi, Medical Chief of the 6th German Army. German Field Marshal Friedrich Wilhelm Ernst Paulus, commander of all Axis forces at Stalingrad, is seen stepping from a staff car and entering the wooden building headquarters of Soviet General N. Shumilov, commander of the 64th Soviet Army. He takes a seat at a table surrounded with by Soviet officers and listens as Shumilov reviews his record. Scene changes to regular German Wehrmacht (Army) troops, outdoors in the cold, along with some of their officers. Long lines of surrendered German soldiers making their way in the snow down slopes and up hills, on their way to POW camps. View of German prisoner lacking adequate footwear during the march. The Red Soviet flag being waved from balcony of a tall building, as line of German prisoners of war proceed below. The line extends as far as can be seen. (Note: At TC: 00:27-39 an apartment house and courtyard is seen in Stalingrad South. As of 2015, it is reported to be the House of Specialists for the Hydrolytic Plant, and still stands west of the intersection of Barrikadnaya & Rozlovskaya Streets.)
Germans fire artillery to shell Leningrad heavily during World War II. Russian people work in factories continuing war production while bundled in warm clothing due to cold. Baker cuts loaves of bread into ration pieces. People move on snow covered streets. Close-up view of German soldiers readying and firing a massive Karl-Gerät (040/041) self propelled siege mortar (also known as Thor or Mörser Karl). Writing on side of the mortar says, "Thor." Other large German rail guns and a variety of German field artillery fire shells at Russian targets in Leningrad A building collapses from shelling. Men and women factory workers continue factory production of war materiel and supplies throughout bombing campaign by Germans. A woman operating a grinder. Rapid montage of scenes of men and women forging iron and creating weapons and arms including shells and grenades. A woman stacks finished artillery shells. A woman war production welder operating a welding torch. People in streets transport dead bodies on sleds and coffins on runners in the snow, as people die from cold, disease, hunger and bombing.