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German military operations on the Eastern Front in World War II

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.

Date: 1944
Duration: 2 min 54 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: German
Clip: 65675045592
German forces,attempting to hold the line, fire artillery at at advancing Soviets on Eastern front during World War II.

Action on the Russian Front by German soldiers in Russia during World War II. German Sdkfz.250 halftrack passes through mud and infantry marches. Sdkfz.4 halftrack prepares for action. Germans in zig-zag trench and a radio post. German soldiers talk. A soldier smokes a pipe in a trench. Germans fire 150mm howitzer. Shells bursting and rockets being fired. Smoke rises from explosions. Soldiers watch through binoculars. Rare German 8.8 cm PaK 43 being fired. German Pz.III Befehls tanks and Ferdinand tank destroyers, also called Elefant tank destroyers, Panzerjäger Tiger (P) Sd.Kfz. 184, move across an open field. Knocked-out Russian KV tank and a gun. Wounded being aided in a medical center.

Date: 1944
Duration: 3 min 11 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: German
Clip: 65675045013
German troops reinforcing the Eastern front, in Ukraine.

German reinforcements arrive on the plains of the Ukraine. A map shows various places. German troops arrive at a railroad train station and get off for a short rest stop. They obtain cigarettes and snacks at a refreshment stand attended by local women. Sign above the stand reads: "Marketenderei." The troops wash and shave and then reboard the train to continue their journey. The train travels through flat featureless snow-covered terrain, arriving at an Army base, where the troops leave the train. Writing on the side of a wooden building reads:"Urlauber GD hier melden gegenuber Haus 29." The troops sign in, receive instructions, and board trucks to the front, where they proceed on foot in the snow. One soldier carries a pet lamb in his arms. They move supplies on sleds pulled by horses through a forest, past parked German tanks and halftracks. Troops line up for soup and relax as they eat. Two soldiers,in white winter combat garb, talk about their families at home. One shows a photo of his child, and the other shows a black doll dressed in skirt and hat -- perhaps a Christmas tree decoration. The soldiers amuse themselves wrestling and throwing snow at one another. A soldier in a StuG III tank destroyer. Troops in white,seen in trenches, crawling through the snow, and operating a field communications center. Officers confer over maps. Infantry moves out in the snow, carrying small arms and trenching tools. Tiger tanks of s.Pz.Abt.503 along with artillery and infantry move across vast barren snow-covered plains.Two Soviet soldiers in a foxhole, are captured. German soldier unearths a mine. Several more seen. Sign erected warning of mines. Artillery fires. Wooden buildings in village set ablaze. Soviet tank abandoned and smoking. Knocked out Soviet tanks, artillery, and vehicles. (World War II period).

Date: 1944
Duration: 4 min 42 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: German
Clip: 65675045586
German forces engage Soviets on the Eastern front in winter during World War II

German troops in white winter gear are seen taking prone defensive positions as they battle Soviet forces. German heavy field guns firing. The white clad soldiers smoke cigarettes as they pose for the camera. Narrator identifies the German soldiers as Panzer Grenadiers. German tiger tanks move and fire their guns, as Grenadiers move along with them. Tanks and soldiers, in long lines, advance rapidly across a snowy field. Closeup of German soldiers, in heavy dark overcoats, firing a mortar. Heavy German artillery guns firing. Artilleryman throws empty shells out of their site, into the snow. Troops advancing with tiger tanks. Closeup of several German soldiers. German troops moving forward behind tiger tank as several captured Soviet soldiers are escorted to the rear, past them. Tank firing and soldiers advancing past burning wooden structures. Shells exploding in near distance. Batteries of multiple rocket launchers (Nebelwerfer) firing.

Date: 1944
Duration: 2 min 2 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: German
Clip: 65675053351
Soviet offensive against Nazi forces on Eastern Front during World War II

Soviet forces fight against the Nazi German soldiers in the Soviet Union during World War 2. Soviet soldiers in action as artillery is fired. Soviet Katyusha multiple rocket launchers firing at night. A waterfront city under bombardment. Soviet infantry spread out and walking across a field. Soviet soldiers firing mortars. Soviet troops crowded atop an armored personnel carrier. A Soviet T34 tank. Soviet troops raising their flag over a re-captured town. Former residents returning to Soviet towns and cities after the Nazis are driven out. Soviet cavalry on horseback. View of Red Square with antiaircraft guns firing volleys in salute.

Date: 1944
Duration: 2 min 6 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675059174
Germany institutes measures to increase war efforts on the home front during World War II

Captured German propaganda film designed to encourage the population in the final days of World War 2. The closed Theater des Volkes (Theater of the people) in Berlin is seen at it's start. Steel gates are being pulled across the entrance of the Deutsches Opernhaus (German Opera House). Steel gates are drawn across the entrance to the Schiller Theater on Bismarckstrasse in Berlin. A sign announcing the open hours at a play house, is covered by a cardboard. Likewise a sign at an opera theater is covered. (Narrator states that Joseph Goebbels, Nazi Reich Minister of Propaganda, has been given the title: "Reich Plenipotentiary for Total War.") City trams are diverted to carry war supplies. View of men loading boxes into one. A tram pulling rail cars loaded with freight. An automobile being towed by a tram. Morale boosting slogans posted in various places. (one reads "Relentlessly determined to win victory." Another reads "With the Leader (Fuhrer) to Victory." Joseph Goebbels, addressing a rally of armaments workers in the Rhineland District, tells them (according to the Narrator) "Before we admit the enemy to German soil, and submit ourselves to his will, we will first work our hands bloody and work to our last breath." The assembled workers applaud enthusiastically.Men and women over 65 years of age are seen engaged in light manufacturing. German miners coming off shift volunteer to dig trenches and prepare earthworks. The receive tools and march to a work site. Views of men digging defenses in East Prussia where it became urgent as the Soviet army drew near in October, 1944. In another similar scene, many women are seen working alongside men building defenses. A group of Nazi officers pose for pictures ostensibly working to also dig fortifications. A huge civilian work force is seen digging deep and wide ditches to stop or delay invaders.

Date: 1944
Duration: 1 min 36 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675044520