Film opens showing destruction being inflicted on city of Caen, France, from fighting between the British Second Army and German Panzergruppe West for control of the city and vicinity, during the World War 2 Battle of Normandy in June, 1944. Walls of a building collapse from shell fire. Refugees, flee the city carrying belongings in cart. Numerous destroyed buildings seen in the background. Retreating German soldiers are seen, most carrying M42 machine guns. Next, German troops, assembled for a counter offensive, are lined up informally and briefed by an officer. Their helmets are covered in netting. Closeups of some, one shouldering an M42 machine gun, and a junior officer briefing them. A Tiger I tank rolls along a dirt road towards the camera. This is followed by a DW19 Katzchen APC, another Tiger I tank, a motorcycle, and several heavily camouflaged half tracks, and a tracked APC. A Panzer tank and another Tiger I continue the column. Closeup of a bearded junior officer, who is then seen from short distance walking a bicycle past a column of smiling troops. Some soldiers shouldering M 42 machine guns as they walk past a field of grain. Others in column carry small arms. One carries a panzerfaust anti tank weapon. Glimpse of soldier placing foliage into netting of his steel helmet. German soldiers begin running as shelling and gunfire from American Army forces are heard. They seek cover at side of a berm as a shell explodes nearby. Soldiers lying prone as shells burst all around them. Some German soldiers smoke cigarettes as barrage abates. German officer communication by field telephone. German Self-propelled gun (8.8cm Pak43 Geshtzwagen III Sd.Kfz.164) moves into firing position at a tree line. Gun crew includes one tending large supply of shells. Closeup of shells stacked in the vehicle. Gun commander signals and crew fires the gun. Other guns also firing from the tree line. Officer looks through binoculars. A knocked out U.S. Army Sherman tank. German soldiers moving quickly and cautiously along the side of a road. One hunkers down over the body of a dead German soldier. Brief view, between a building and a tree,of a Sherman tank passing in the background. German troops, carrying antitank weapons (Panzerschreck and Panzerfaust), moving among damaged buildings. A Sherman tank passes in background. Soldier fires a Panzerschreck which explodes. Sherman tanks continue to pass on dirt road in background. German soldiers rush to a damaged Sherman tank. German soldier throws a hand grenade. A dead American soldier is seen in the turret. German soldiers release an unmanned, remote-controlled Goliath Tracked Mine, or Leichter Ladungsträger Goliath, also known as a "beetle tank" to Allied forces (or German robot tank). Watching from tree line, German soldiers see an explosion across the field. Closeup of destroyed Sherman tank. German officer signals for soldiers to follow him. A German soldier, carrying a Schmeisser Mp40 submachine gun, points to a dead American soldier lying beside the road. Views of the site as soldier examines it. Camera focuses on a small round hole in the earth. Scene shift entirely to American soldiers at side of a road. They examine a spot where a trenching tool and some soldier's gear is seen. Scene changes showing knocked out armor atop a hill. Closeup of a knocked out German Tiger I tank, with American soldier looking out through a lower porthole. Closeup of American soldier with foliage topped helmet and belt of machine gun ammunition around his neck. Closing scenes show ambulatory wounded German army prisoners, including some assisting others, as they proceed away from the battleground.
Women and children German citizens evacuate Berlin after air raida in Germany during World War 2. Military officers in a meeting discuss among themselves. Citizens and soldiers work to load furniture, food, and personal items into trucks, buses, and trains. Views of busy streets and railroad train stations as loading takes place Women and children in trains under German military escort, evacuating to safer locations.
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).
German Soldiers fire at Soviet Russian enemy positions in a snow covered field in the Soviet Union, Eastern Front, during World War 2. Artillery fire at targets across field. The German soldiers wear warm uniforms in white camouflage for winter. They talk amongst themselves during the advance.
German Army soldiers advancing on a road during World War 2. Views of three different burning and destroyed German tanks in a town and on a battlefield. Dead bodies of German soldiers near a destroyed tank. Dead bodies of German soldiers in foxholes and trenches. Scenes inside a German war production factory with workers making rifles. A worker inspects a rifle stock. Newly built German tanks driving up ramps onto rail cars for transport. Adolf Hitler reviews columns of German soldiers marching on a road and delivers Nazi salute to them.
The operation of printing press in Italy. Italian civilians operate the printing presses that are turning out propaganda leaflets for the U.S. Army during World War 2, as part of psychological warfare campaigns. They sort bundles of the leaflets coming out from the printing press. A man checks the print.
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