Film starts showing view from a hilltop of the port of Yalta, Crimea, during World War 2. A Soviet soldier stands behind barbed wire next to several street signs. One points toward Livadia (site of the Yalta Conference). A woman with a small child walks along a winding sidewalk overlooking the port. The Medved'-gora (Bear mountain) is seen in the background. A motorcycle with sidecar drives down a road. A Soviet soldier walks past destroyed structure. Camera pans over other destroyed buildings. Street scene showing three-story apartment buildings with porches, lining the road and pedestrians walking along the street and sidewalks. No motor vehicles are seen. Closeup of civilians standing in a group that includes several men, a woman, and some school age children. A boy in the group wears a military style cap. Children gather near a cartoon poster depicting Adolf Hitler with bandages on his head. Two Soviet men converse near the displays. Another cartoon poster with 1941 on it, shows Hitler and his cronies using periscopic artillery binoculars as they hungrily eye the Kremlin as a target. Below it in juxtaposition, with date 1945, is a cartoon showing Hitler in rubble, completely overwhelmed by Soviet military might. A woman with a boy and girl are seen at an open shop window where a woman is dispensing drinks. The boy is drinking one and the woman gets one too.
German soldiers arrive in the Kerch Peninsula during the Battle of the Kerch Peninsula of World War II. Animated map shows Kerch, Stalino and other places. German ships arrive at the Kerch Peninsula after evacuating a Cuban bridgehead. A soldier looks at Russian aircraft in flight through binoculars. An antiaircraft gun downs attacking Russian aircraft. Bombs dropped from the aircraft. A convoy of ships at sea. German soldiers walk in columns. Soldiers load material in a truck. A railroad engine used to pull down a tower. German engineers detonate installations to cover their retreat.
Artillery fire is directed on Russian lines from observation balloons in the Kerch Peninsula during the Battle of the Kerch Peninsula of World War II. A German observation balloon is raised. Wire reel and gear box of the balloon are raised. A soldier looks through a binocular. A soldier talks over a field telephone. Soldiers work with a map at a table. The soldiers fire field artillery. They push bombs to be loaded.
German bombers strike Russian positions during the Battle of the Kerch Peninsula of World War 2. German He-111 bombers in flight. A German gunner seen at the window of bomber. Crew in a German bomber aircraft. Bombs are dropped on Russian positions. Aerial view of bomb explosions on targets. A pilot and a copilot in a cockpit. Aerial view of bombs dropping on Russian positions.
Funeral services at mass grave unearthed in Vinitsa, Russia. Civilians look at thousands of corpses, primarily of Polish dead, as they are unearthed. The commentator calls it another "Katyn massacre" by the Russian G.P.U. ("Gosudarstvennoye Politicheskoye Upravlenie of the NKVD of the RSFSR"). People look at a document. Several articles lying on a table. A clergyman conducts funeral services. People express their grief.
German soldiers battle against Russian troops in Sevastopol, Russia during World War II. A fleet of German aircraft in flight. A pilot seated in the cockpit of an airplane. Aerial view of the ground and a lake below. The aircraft drop bombs over enemy positions. The aircraft strafe. Fire and explosions on the ground.