Joint Axis operations on the Eastern Front during World War Two. (A brief glimpse of Nazi rally, not related to the rest of clip.) A map of Eastern front in areas of Belorussia and Ukraine. German and Hungarian troops in Stanislau, preparing for offensive. Troops are relaxing. They pose for camera, "sleeping." German and Hungarian officers meet and confer. A soldier getting a haircut and shave, as many look on. Soldiers eating from their mess kits. Long supply trains seen in background on railroad. Hungarian and German Generals meet and salute each other, with traditional military hand salutes (not Nazi arm salute). The Hungarian General departs in a German tank. Mixture of Hungarian and other Axis infantry on the move. An extremely tall radio tower and associated Hungarian field communications center in operation. Radio operator tapping out Morse code. Axis tanks and artillery firing at the front. A German Stug III Assault gun seen and several tanks. Axis infantry crossing a field under fire and slogging through mud. Axis troops advancing in horse-drawn wagons, past burning vehicle and destroyed field artillery pieces. German and Hungarian soldiers form an honor guard as German Regimental commander decorates two Hungarian soldiers with Iron Crosses.
View of a beet Kolkhoz (a collective agriculture farm) near Kiev, Ukraine, Soviet Union. Farmers at work. Beet is processed into Sugar. Russian women in a farm. Cotton is picked and unloaded at Commune of Paris cotton Kolkhoz, located in Armenia. Rice is threshed and stacked in North Star Kolkhoz in Turkestan.
Austro-Hungarian officers under the command of General Eduard Freiherr von Bohm-Ermolli enter the city after recapturing Lemberg (aka Lviv) in Galicia (the part now in Ukraine) from the Russians in World War 1. Citizens line the sidewalks to watch as a motorcade of Austrian officers, in open staff cars, drive into the city. Soldiers are posted along the street,to maintain order, but several bystanders still manage to run into the street to throw flowers to the passing cars. Monsignor Count Andrew Sheptytzkyj (aka Andrey Sheptytsky) the Archbishop Metropolite of the Uniate Greek Catholic Church, is seen in the midst of a group of senior Austro-Hungarian officers. The Archbishop had been imprisoned by the Russians,during their occupation of Lemberg. He converses with one of the officers. (WWI; WW1)
A farm and farm activities in Kiev, Ukraine, Soviet Russia during winter time. People stand with horse wagons on grounds of a farm covered in snow. Many sleds and horse drawn sleds are seen. Russian men lead a cow. A man leads a group of cows. The cows at a watering trough. A woman draws water from a well. Horses carry a hay wagon across a farm. A woman feeds chickens in a farmyard. Horses harnessed and a farmer pitching hay onto wagon. A farm accounting office. Interior of an accounting office on farm. Accountants seated on a desk. An accountant talks to a woman. He looks at a book kept on his desk. The book-keeper figures out a sum on abacus as a farm woman named Luda Volkhova looks on. A tractor repair shop. Men work in it on motors. Men working on tractor engine in a farm repair shop. Men using sledge on tractor cart and links driven into tractor treads. People ascend hill towards a building.
Chief architect shows his model of a street in Kiev, Ukraine. Chief architect of Kiev walks with two officials and shows them his model of a main street.
German ground and air offensive in Kharkov in the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic during World War II (also spelled Kharkiv). German airplanes attack Kharkov from a Greek base. German Junkers Ju 87 airplanes in flight over a target area. Dive bomber dives toward target. View from gunner position inside Ju 87 as it attacks target area. The airplanes fly in formation overhead. A German bomber drops bombs over the target area. View of German soldiers on ground using a sighting device. Smoke rises due to bombardment and firing in the area.