An animated map shows the eastern front cities in Russia. German StuG III Assault Guns and artillery advance to the eastern Transcarpathian Oblast as troops fire at enemy positions. (World War II period).
A map shows cities on the Italian front. German troops fire shells at enemy positions in San Marino. Smoke rises from the top of a hill. German officers read a map and discuss the strategy for the attack. Germans blast dynamite on trees to block the road. (World War II period).
Members of Hitler Youth, paramilitary organization of Nazi party, being reviewed by German Nazi national leader (Reichsjugendführer) Arthur Axmann in Germany in World War II. Axmann gives a speech to the members of the Hitler Youth. Axmann decorates the members with badges on their sleeves. Arm badge reads “Hitlerjugend” (“Hitler Youth”).
German newsreel shows a map with Arnhem and Nijmegen and other nearby cities in Holland region. British aircraft flying overhead during Operation Market Garden (British 1st Airborne Division) as German troops fire at them from the ground during World War II. Sky is filled with Allied aircraft and parachuting British troops. British planes, gliders, and parachutes descend and some aircraft explode on impact after being hit by German rifle, machine gun, and artillery fire. German soldiers view wreckage and some burning British aircraft through binoculars and up close. British Horsa Invasion gliders burning on an open field. Scattered Allied equipment, dead bodies and gliders are seen. A group of British prisoners of war is seen gathered together on a roadside.
During Operation Market Garden, German soldiers move forward on foot and on bicycles in Arnhem and other areas of Netherlands during World War II. German infantry find abandoned American and British equipment. They open a cigarette tin from their findings, share cigarettes all around, smoking and smiling. German infantry, including some very young German soldiers march along a roadway. House to house fighting between British and German forces in Dutch towns and villages of Arnhem region. Germans take British and American soldiers as prisoners and search them thoroughly. Allied POWs are marched between locations and guarded at roadsides, including near a building with sign that says "Maarland" on it (likely hamlet of Maarland, or present day Oost-Maarland). Near end of clip German narrator references Operation Berlin withdrawal and rescue effort being conducted by Allies to try to remove remaining Allied forces from the region.
German troops in white field garb fighting from trenches on the Eastern Front, during winter, in World War 2. Artillerymen firing heavy guns. One is seen covered with ice and snow, as the gun crew fires. German StuG III Assault Guns and artillery firing at Russian positions. German Soldiers look through binoculars at enemy positions. Shells burst as heavy firing takes place from both the sides. Advancing German infantry jump from an armored vehicle, and run across the field. View from atop an advancing German StuG III. Knocked out Soviet T34 and KV tanks. Soviet Prisoners of War march through a village.
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