Map highlights Vitebsk region of Belarus. Roaring flames in the city, during World War 2. Refugees with a wooden cart mingle with retreating German infantry walking across a bridge over the Dvina River. A German tank with a huge log fastened to its side as extra protection. It is followed by another tank and three soldiers on a motorcycle and side car. Some infantrymen walk casually but another contingent marches in formation, smiling as they pass the camera. Domes of an orthodox church are seen in the background, as passing soldiers wave to the camera. Smiling German infantrymen walk next to picket fence. Line of refugees in horse-drawn wagons leaving the city. German gunners set up an artillery field piece. View of rail lines and station set ablaze by German troops. Explosions occur along rail line as German sappers detonate charges to destroy tracks. Smoke and haze covers the area. German officer looks through binoculars at smoke from explosion in distance. German soldiers bury Teller land mines along railroad bed. Closeup of a soldier setting mine in place and covering it with patch of grass. German antiaircraft battery set up overlooking Dvina River. Below, German army vehicles cross steel bridge.Sappers destroy another bridge. The Uspenski Cathedral in backgound at confluence of Dvina and Vitba Rivers. A huge explosion sends clouds of black smoke aloft, as German sappers destroy more buildings. A German soldier carrying a Panzerfaust recoiless antitank weapon runs to join another lying prone with an MG 42 light machine gun. More huge demolition explosions. German soldiers ready for combat. Huge fires rage in the city.
Map shows Belorussian and Russian areas near the Dnieper river. Field Marshal Ernst Busch, ostensibly being honored for 40 years of service. (He has been notified that he is relieved from command of German Army Group Centre, following disastrous defeat by Soviets during their 1944 Belorussian Offensive of World War 2.) He steps from his headquarters in Belarus, receiving salutes from his staff. He accepts an elaborate candelabra, as a gift. Busch shares a document with a German General, and they both are amused by it. Members of the staff bid Marshal Busch farewell.
German military action on the Eastern front in World War 2. Map shows places. German forces invading Belorussian Soviet Socialist Republic. Soldier near a German Tiger tank. Military vehicles move on street. Soldiers fire from tanks. Soldiers near rail road station. They lay demolition charges on railway tracks. The charges destroy the tracks. Bombardment in the area. Houses and trees. Local refugees leave the area along with their belongings in wagons and their cattle. Tiger tanks move on the field. Destroyed Soviet Sherman tanks (Lendlease). Wreckage in the city.
German leader Heinrich Himmler visits a camp near Minsk Belarus during German occupation of Belarus in World War 2. He is accompanied by other German officers. Several men stand on stairs of a building. German officers stand in a line. Heinrich Himmler meets and talks to them. Several men stand on a balcony. Heinrich Himmler waves to them. His car leaves the area. Heinrich Himmler stops the car and talk to people, including a young boy, working in fields. The car moves on a road. Buildings in the background. He arrives at Minsk Ghetto. Wire fencing on the boundaries of the camp. The prisoners sit on the other side of wiring. He tours the camp area. (World War II period).
A Russian film titled 'Srazhenie Za Gomel' about the Russian campaign along the Belorussian front that liberated Gomel Belarus from German occupation during World War 2. Views of landscape of Belarus including trees, lake and forest. Cut down tree logs piled in field. Map shows position of Gomel. Artillery fired in the forest. Bombs explode. Soviet Army officer looks through binoculars. Marshal Konstantin Rokossovsky's soldiers sit in trenches and fire. They bombard a high watchtower and it topples to the ground. They run in a field. Dead German soldiers. Sign board with city name. Soldiers enter town. Belarussian citizens, buildings and bridges in town. A document in Russian. Soldiers talk to civilians. Officers and soldiers shake hand. Bombs explode in town. Ruins of buildings. The town of Gomel.
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.
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