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Adolf Hitler and the invasion of the Soviet Union. Italian troops head to the Eastern front in World War II.

A Junkers Ju-52 aircraft, carrying Adolf Hitler, lands in a grass airfield at Kalinovka, Ukraine, during Operation Barbarossa in World War 2. German soldiers and airmen rush to meet the aircraft, as it arrives. Closeup of Hitler as he steps from the airplane and returns a Nazi salute to officers greeting him. Closeup glimpse of swastika displayed on hood of Mercedes Benz G4 staff car as officer opens door for Hitler., who climbs aboard. View of the staff car driving across the field. German aircraft parked, casually, around its periphery in the background. Closeup of destroyed Soviet artillery tractor and field piece. Hitler's motorcade driving along a tree-lined dirt road. Closeups of destroyed Soviet tank parts along the roadside. German officers and German troops line the roadside and salute as Hitler passes. Hitler arriving and entering the Army Group South headquarters. Inside He is seen at a planning table pouring over a map with Field Marshal Fedor von Bock. Next, Hitler is seen leaving the headquarters building, surrounded by officers and soldiers rendering the Nazi salute. he shakes hands with several of the officers and is next seen boarding the Mercedes G4 staff car, encircled by enthusiastic soldiers. All salute again as the vehicle drives away. Location shifts to Italy, where civilian recruits march on their way to join the army. Helmeted army troops stand in formation on the platform as their train leaves the station. A contingent of Italian army soldiers heading to the Eastern front moves through cheering crowds. They are inspected by an Italian General and others, including a German officer, as they stand in formation on a train platform. Afterwards, some are presented flowers by loved ones. The platform is filled with well-wishers who wave as their train leaves the station. A contingent of Italian troops stands at attention as they prepare to depart to the Eastern front. they receive flowers as they board train and depart. The train station platform is filled with those waving goodbye.

Date: 1941
Duration: 3 min 23 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: German
Clip: 65675065888
Eastern Front troops and German Armament Minister Speer in a munitions plant in Germany during World War II.

German Minister of Armaments and War Production Albert Speer and Eastern Front troops in a munitions plant in Germany during World War II. The Eastern front troops arrive at the munitions plant. The German war production workers in the plant seated at a table and drinking from jugs. An officer and soldiers talking to workmen. The troops inside the plant looking at the production processes. The troops looking at an equipment in the plant. They watch a worker operating an equipment. Albert Speer with other officials on his visit to a munitions plant. The minister congratulates the workers of the plant during his speech. People gathered around him. Views of the workmen smiling. The minister talking to an officer and a few people in the crowd. The minister walking through the crowd.

Date: 1944
Duration: 1 min 33 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: Portuguese
Clip: 65675066373
Nazi infantry troops supported by tanks and artillery advance in Ukraine on eastern front during World War II.

Map of Eastern front around Charkow, Ukraine. German Army troops advance in that region during World War II. Nazi Pz.IV tanks advance in Ukraine supported by infantry and artillery. A motorcycle messenger crosses the snowy eastern front. Soldiers on motorcycles cross streams. Nazi artillery fire at and completely destroy a building. Infantrymen take aim and fire at Soviet defenders. Infantrymen and tanks of 1SS Liebstandarte Adolf Hitler advance through the frozen roads of Charkow. Firing breaks out in a building. A sniper fires from inside a building. Buildings destroyed due to battle. Bandaged Nazi military officer.

Date: 1943
Duration: 4 min 29 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: German
Clip: 65675036552
Images pertaining to advance of communism during 20th century, especially in East Germany

Statue of Karl Marx on his grave stone in Highgate Cemetery, London. A picture of Karl Marx. Scenes in Russia around the time of the Russian Revolution circa 1917 and creation of the Soviet Union. Soviet soldiers walking slowly in loose formation. Bolsheviks standing with a large banner. Images spanning many years thereafter: Damaged shops on a street. "One way" street signs in several languages. Large gathering of people carrying signs reading: "Frieden" (Peace, in German). A sign reading: "HALT, Landesgrenze" marking a German provincial boundary. A sign in German, designating the customs border at Furth im Wald, Bavaria ("Zollgrenz-Bezirk, Furth i.Wald"). East German border guards setting obstacles and sentry paths at barbed wire barriers (constituting the Berlin Wall, early on). Picture of Günter Litfin, a twenty-four-year-old tailor, who swam across the Spree Canal to West Germany on 24 August 1961. View of him being fatally shot from across the border, by East German guards, as he is being pulled into West Germany (the first such fatality at the East West German border). Animated map of the world with label references to Berlin,1961; Havana, 1959; Budapest, 1956; Coyoacan, 1940; and Kronstadt, 1921.

Date: 1961
Duration: 2 min 7 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675064322
Football game held at Ferry Field of the University of Michigan in 1917

A Wolverines college football game held at University of Michigan. Crowd seated in the spectator area stands. Campus and athletic buildings in the background. Players at line of scrimmage. Slate indicates "Spark's drop kick scores for Michigan" (referring to Cliff Sparks). Another slate during the action reads "Michigan makes a clever forward pass." (Ferry Field Athletic Clubhouse at the east end of the field is seen in the background.) Includes views from field-level and from high up in bleachers.

Date: 1917
Duration: 1 min 52 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675041694
German Forces attack Bialystock, Belorussia, during Operation Barbarossa on the Eastern Front in World War II

German infantry and artillery move towards Bialystock, Eastern Poland (Belorussia) in June, 1941, during their suprise offensive (Operation Barbarossa) on the Eastern Front in World War 2. They enter a town through a decorative gateway. Destroyed Soviet T-26 tanks sit in the woods. German mechanic inspects a destroyed Soviet BA-20 Armored car. Others inspect a destroyed Soviet Bt 7 tank. A badly damaged Soviet KV-1 tank with tread and drives destroyed. german troops in work parties building a pontoon bridge. stacks of wood in a clearing. Troops shoulder a boat to be used as a pontoon. Some soldiers take advantage of a lull in fighting to relax and sleep. A few drink from their canteens. A German armored car crosses the now finished pontoon bridge across the Biala River. Assorted other vehicles follow. Next infantry march across the pontoon bridge. The foundations for a former bridge sit next to this one. Two columns of heavy smoke rise in the distance accompanied by sound of heavy artillery. Glimpse of German gunners at a 105mm howitzer. Smoke rising from a shelled building. Dense white smoke obscuring an entire area. Gunners fire a 105mm howitzer and strike a smoke stack, bringing it down. A wounded German soldier carried on a litter. More German artillery being fired and explosions and smoke from it seen in the distance. Several Soviet soldiers in uniform (and one civilian) surrendering with hands in the air.

Date: 1941, June
Duration: 2 min 16 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: German
Clip: 65675047187