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Leningrad workers building bunkers for German occupying forces during World War II.
A map showing Leningrad (St. Petersburg) and the Ladoga lake in Russia during World War 2. In a forest, workers working on wood beside a truck. Workers cutting wood with a saw machine for lumber. The workers appear to include Soviet soldier prisoners of war (POW) and Soviet civilian slave laborers, including boy child laborers. The workers are leveling slurry for road construction. Workers using axes as mallets to put end grain lumber into the road construction. A woman uses a machine to spray the road. A steam roller is used to compact gravel and flatten the road. Two donkeys pull a carriage with soldiers while a soldier passes by in a motorcycle. A German Wehrmacht soldier smiles as he supervises. A sign displaying “Strassenwetterdienst” (Street Weather Service” in German) with Russian towns spelled in German writing. A Horch 901 military service car pulls over beside blooming trees as a soldier approaches the vehicle. A soldier inspects some papers from the car. Trucks drive on a narrow, dilapidated road. A truck drives by construction site. Workers installing rebar for building construction supervised by soldiers. Building site with concrete forms. Finished concrete bunkers. A worker transfers mixed concrete from a wheelbarrow to a form using a spade. Workers arrange forms as a man pours concrete with a spade. Workers tamping concrete into forms. Men walk on a bridge made from ropes and wood. Men carrying wooden boxes on their backs follow a soldier. The soldier and the workers crouch as they walk past a sign “Achtung Feindeinsicht” (“Warning Enemy Observation” in German). Soldier carrying bricks to add to the wall his comrades are building. Soldier arranges bricks while building wall. Soldier picks up some excess bricks from the wall. Soldiers working on a brick structure. New gun turrets lined up behind concrete barricade as a soldier covers a gun with a black cloth. Soldiers working on a subterranean masonry structure in a field. Soldier on top of gun turret getting ready to aim.
U.S. Vice President Henry A. Wallace along with American visitors visits a farm and a village in Russia.
U.S. Vice President Henry A. Wallace's journey to China through Soviet union. Animated map of the world. He visits Siberian railroad and being greeted by an engineer from Leningrad. Wallace along with American visitors and engineer visit a farm. A view of the houses in the city and ducks in a pond. Then they visit a farm. Tomatoes and cucumbers in the green house. They look at the vegetables and fruits in the farm. Wallace eats a fruit. Pigs and cattle in the filed. He stands with a cattle. Next they visit a small community or a village. They enter a village store. A woman looks out from a window. Next they visit a village soviet. The American visitors shake hands with a man.
Nazi planes bombard the city of Leningrad in Soviet Union during World War II.
Nazi Luftwaffe aircraft drop bombs over Leningrad in Soviet Union during beginning of its siege by German forces in World War II. Buildings in flames, dead and injured civilians. Many anti-aircraft guns and artillery fire on German aircraft. Many search light beams scanning the sky for aircraft. Scenes of night time bombing and destruction in Leingrad. An ambulance being loaded with injured civilians. Russian fire fighters train fire hoses on burning fires caused by bombing. Civilians dig and remove rubble following night blitz bombardment by Luftwaffe. Civilians crying and mourning loss of life. An abandoned baby doll. A dead child on a stair. Crying women and a sad looking boy. Quick scenes of bombing aftermath in London blitz, in Rotterdam, and in Warsaw. Dead elephant from Leingrad Zoo lying on its side. German soldier with orders in hand runs and leaps into sidecar of motorcycle that drives away. German Army soldier helmet shot through with bullet holes lies atop a post.
German forces surrounding Leningrad and miserable condition of civilians during World War II.
Battles fought by Russians fighting military invasion from Germany during World War II. Miserable condition of civilians of Leningrad, the city surrounded by Germans in harsh cold and snow of winter starting in 1941. Lack of food, water, oil and electricity during siege of Leningrad by German forces. German artillery fire heavy projectiles. Workers in munition factories. Soldiers in snowy battlefield alert on their positions. Civilians migrate on ledges through a frozen Lake Ladoga eastwards. Food, medical care, oil and supplies to the city through the lake. German bombers raid the supply lines. Trucks drive at night on road over ice covered lake delivering relief supplies. A railway track built over Lake Ladoga to restore supply. Wounded civilians board the trains returning back across Lake Ladoga. Soviet Russian Army attacks invading Germans. Supply trucks roll over thawing ice of Lake Ladoga in early spring. Children and people during spring as Germans retreat. Civilians on the roads. A stage performance after defeat of German army enjoyed by Russian soldiers aboard a warship. Arrested Nazi soldiers walk under rifle guards of Red Army as Soviet citizens jeer and heckle the German prisoners.
The German siege of Leningrad in World War II
Views about 10 months into the German siege of Leningrad in World War 2. Isaakievskiy (St. Isaac's) cathedral and other buildings on Vorovsky Square (Isaak Square) in Leningrad (St. Petersburg) as viewed from Mariinsky Palace. (They appear relatively unscathed.) The Monument to Nicholas I is in the center. Boats and ships are docked along the Neva River. Two youths stand atop a building and look at smoke rising across the river from buildings being shelled by German forces. Closeup of buildings being destroyed by German shelling. A small boy helps pick up rubble from the streets. A woman is helped to her feet by a Soviet soldier. Scenes of destruction everywhere. Broken windows, stones falling from buildings, an abandoned doll on a window sill. A dead child lying on stairs. A woman weeping. A young boy holding his hat in his hands and looking sadly in mourning. A mother with a baby. People standing about in sorrow and shock. 14-inch Soviet coastal guns firing, from under camouflage netting, at German positions.
Allies demand the unconditional surrender of Japan in World War II. Entry of Soviets and use of atomic bomb ends the war.
Representatives of three nations, seated around table at Potsdam Conference held at Cecilienhof in Potsdam, Germany. British prime minister, Clement Attlee; President of United States, Harry Truman; and representative of Soviet Union, Joseph Stalin at the Potsdam Conference, July 1945. They deliver an ultimatum of unconditional surrender to Japan. Swarms of B-29 bombers and Aircraft Carrier Task Forces destroy Japanese homeland. Planes on carrier decks.Navy Grumman carrier-based TBF aircraft dropping bombs.. Destruction of ships at sea. Mushroom cloud due to atomic bombing. Chart depicts the power of one atomic bomb. Britain's 'grand slam' bomb, most destructive conventional bomb ever produced. Doctor Ernest Orlando Lawrence, inventor of the cyclotron (atom smashing machine). A man works at the Cyclotron at the University of California, Berkeley. General Leslie Groves, head of the project speaks. He is seated with Dr Vannevar Bush, government director of science and research, and Dr Richard Tolman, technical expert. Quantities of uranium shipped from Alberta, Canada are used in bombs. The atomic bomb process (Manhattan Project) is developed in widely separated areas; scenes from Hanford Project plant in Richmond, Washington. Project personnel exit cars and enter into the search area before starting their work day. Lieutenant colonel Franklin T Matthias with the army corps of engineers, appointed to the Hanford Project. Sign of 'Oak Ridge' in Tennessee. Largest of the three atomic bomb plants located near the TVA dam. Employed personnel in atomic bomb plants are seen going to work. Man and woman employees at the plan read and smile at a Knoxville Journal newspaper in August 1945 with news headline "Power of Oak Ridge Atomic Bomb hits Japs" after the atomic bomb was dropped in Hiroshima. View of dense prefabricated home communities to house large number of Oak Ridge plant workers. View of families setting up their houses in trailer towns after the prefabricated homes were full. People come out from the Henebry's Jewelers and supermarket, among stores setup to meet the needs of the quickly built city. Scenes changes to show view of Soviet leader Joseph Stalin at conference. Russian artillery and troops in a parade at Red Square in Moscow, Russia (these parade scenes are from the May 1, 1945 May Day parade, just days before Germany's surrender). President Harry Truman reports on the latest developments regarding the war with Japan. He states that the United States is prepared to destroy every productive enterprise in Japan and the U.S. shall completely destroy its power to make war. He warns of an attack by the U.S. due to the rejection of the July 26th ultimatum at Potsdam. He warns that Japan "should expect a rain of ruin from the air; the like of which has never been seen on this earth." Truman notes that it will be followed by an unprecedented sea and land invasion of Japan.
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