German forces pulling artillery across shallow water, and pulling a landing craft along a beach. Aerial view of a large body of German soldiers in formations in a field and many miling about in an opern area An area of wrecked trucks. A German tank turns corner. Two German motorcyclists follow a truck. German light tank . A sign reads ' Maniysh Damm, Grenze Europe Asien' (Frontier border between Europe and Asia).German cavalry units advance along road upon the large, wide earthen dam. A barge with trucks in a lake.
Animated map showing Western boundaries of USSR and arrow depicting German thrust Eastward into Lithuania toward the city of Kovno (Kaunas). The attack commences with a heavy artillery bombardment. German artillery batteries are seen firing 15 cm sFH 18 howitzers. Shells burst in the background. A German soldier gives a hand signal and German Army vehicles move forward beginning with an SdKfz 251 half-track armored personnel carrier, towing a trailer; a staff car; motorcycles; and a Panzer II tank. Camera focuses on German armor moving on the road and across the fields, including Panzer II and Panzer I Ausf. A tanks. Tank commanders stand in their hatches and look through binoculars. Infantry move forward along a path beside a tank stuck in a deep ditch at the roadside. Infantry running across a field while Sound of machine gun fire is heard. Huge explosions are heard and smoke rises at the battle front ahead of a group of advancing German tanks. Several Soviet prisoners are marched to the rear under guard. They salute as they are brought before a German officer who issues orders to them and their guards. Closeups of individual Soviet prisoners shaking their heads and raising their hands. A half-track towing a field piece, passes in background. German soldiers aided by impressed local men, build a short section of corduroy road with logs, to facilitate movement of vehicles over a culvert. A German staff car rides over it, followed by a half-track tractor Sd.Kfz. 7, full of soldiers, and towing a 75mm infantry gun. It passes through remmants of barbed wire fence. Artillerymen manually set up a 105mm howitzer and begin firing it. Others in a battery seen firing. German troops fire an 8cm mortar. Gunners firing MG-34 heavy machine guns. Smoke rising from artillery strikes. German infantry on bicycles move along a path. Scenes of destruction as German forces begin entering outskirts of a town.. Fires burning everywhere
Film starts showing Soviet infantry walking across an open field, during World War 2. . Heavy artillery firing from camouflaged positions in woods. Soviet soldier loading shell into a 120 mm mortar PM-38. Shells bursting near low structures. Soviet infantry moving quickly but cautiously across the area. Sounds of machine gun and smalls arms fire is heard. The Soviet troops enter area of several buildings. Change of scene shows Soviet woman soldier dressing and bandaging the wound of another soldier. Both are in battle gear including steel helmets. Closeup of the soldiers bandaged arm. More views of artillery firing from woods. Soviet soldiers processing a captured German soldier prisoner of war. Soviet soldiers enjoy reading a Russian newspaper. Soviet soldiers scanning skies for aircraft, through binoculars and telescope. Two German aircraft are seen flying low over the area. Soviet soldier signals for anti aircraft artillery to fire. A plane is seen diving toward the ground. Still image of black cloud from the ground is shown as narrator comments.
German campaign in the Soviet Union during World War II. Dead bodies of Russian soldiers and demolished vehicles. Horse drawn carriages and troops advance. German officers congratulate their troops.
Opening scene shows a Russian steel gateway topped by a propeller and two stars. Camera pans down to show that this is the entrance to a Soviet airfield containing a damaged hangar and Soviet military aircraft scattered about. Closeup of a destroyed Soviet airplane. A damaged Soviet Tupolev Tu-2 bomber. Numerous damaged Soviet Polikarpov I-15 bi--wing fighter aircraft. Caissons and Soviet artillery sitting at a railroad siding. Closeup of a damaged artillery piece. Numerous pieces of abandoned soviet artillery, sitting next to heavy guns mounted on rail cars. Soviet tanks missing their turrets. A German soldier examines what looks like a damaged British Mark V tank of World War I vintage. Camera pans over a number of undamaged Soviet tanks parked in a field. Thousands of captured Soviet prisoners of war are seen on a hillside, and then marching under guard. Closeup of one with a large star on his uniform hat. Soviet prisoners being marched about ten-abreast along a road. (Note: about 20 thousand Soviet troops were captured by the Germans in Operation Barbarossa.)
View of collaborationist French soldiers from the Legion of French Volunteers Against Bolshevism (Légion des volontaires français contre le bolchévisme, or, Légion des volontaires français, or LVF.) The LVF soldiers, made of of right-wing French and French prisoners, are marching through the streets of Versailles, France, toward the Versailles Chantiers train station, to begin their trip to the Soviet Union where they will fight together with Germany against Soviet forces in World War 2. To the Germans they were known as Infantry Regiment, or Infanterieregiment 638. Led by a Band, the soldiers march through streets of Versailles and uphill toward the main arched entrance of the Versailles Chantiers station. Civilians line streets to bid farewell, and some women kiss soldiers goodbye. View of black locomotive leading the train. LVF board a train car with chalk inscription on the side "Paris - Moscow, LVF".
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