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Post-World War II scenes in Communist occupied areas of Europe and Asia

Animated map shows thrust of German forces during invasion of Soviet Russia in World War 2. Stalingrad is highlighted as a turning point. Another animated map shows Soviet territorial gains at the end of the war, as narrator discusses the disposition of those places and their respective populations, as in Latvia, Lithuania, and Estonia. He also discusses Soviet zones of occupation. Animated map shows "Iron Curtain." Soviet troops on parade. Soviet ZSU-57-2 self-propelled anti-aircraft guns (SPAAG) on display during a parade in 1945. A stadium filled with people in Soviet-occupied East Germany, in 1949. Friedrich Wilhelm Reinhold Pieck, the first President of the German Democratic Republic, is seen in the stands. Young East German women parade in traditional costumes, clapping their hands, in the stadium. Waterfront scenes show Soviet trade activities with post-war occupied entities. Scenes of conflict as Chinese communist forces expel Chiang Kai-shek's Nationalist Chinese forces (ROC) from mainland China to Formosa (Taiwan), in 1949. A litter-borne casualty and a refugee mother and small girl are seen.

Date: 1949
Duration: 1 min 55 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675064331
Contrasting views of Berlin, Germany from 1945 to 1943, to 1945 again, during World War II

Soviet Forces battling in Berlin during 1945, in World War 2, employ tanks and heavy machine guns. A Soviet soldier herds two German prisoners from a building. Groups of German soldier prisoners struggle through rubble as they are led from buildings, under guard. Soviet tanks firing as they pass a church building. A Soviet heavy gun being fired point blank on a Berlin street. Buildings on fire. Soviet soldiers firing artillery field pieces. Views of destroyed and damaged German military aircraft on and in hangars of an airfield. Soviet Ilyushin II aircraft land on the airfield. Closeup of distressed German General rubbing his eyes. Flashback in time to 1943, in World War II. Field Marshal Hermann Goering is seen reviewing flyers of a German Luftwaffe (Air Force) unit. A Junkers Ju 52 trimotor aircraft lands and parks on an airfield. Italian leader Benito Mussolini steps from the aircraft after his rescue from imprisonment by the Italian Government at the Hotel Campo Imperatore. He is personally welcomed by Adolf Hitler, who had ordered the mission to rescue him. Change of time, again, to 1945, when Berlin, Germany is attacked by Forces of the Soviet Union. Closeup of a despairing German General. Scenes of utter destruction as Soviet troops batter Berlin, Germany with artillery. Soviet soldier steps down from his tank and gives a Soviet General a handgun, which he pockets and then leads a group of Soviet officers into a building

Date: 1945
Duration: 2 min 35 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: Korean
Clip: 65675074100
German Army in combat with Soviet forces during retreat on the Eastern Front during World War II.

German forces operating in Russia during World War II. Film opens with map showing Northern sector of Eastern Front, highlighting city of Luga, the Luga river, Nowgorad (Novgorad) , the Woldhow river (Volkhov River), Schlosselburg (Shlisselburg), the Ladoga-see (Lake Ladoga), and Leningrad. Next, German forces in army trucks and some in horse-drawn wagons, are seen taking up new positions (retreating) in a snowy landscape, during World War 2. They move through a town, and are seen using vehicles to drag aerial and other bombs into position on a bridge , for use as demolitions to make pursuit by Russian forces more difficult. The bridges are destroyed as the last German troops pass over them. View of fires raging in wake of retreating German forces. Closeup of German Army engineers setting charges and detonating them, creating a large explosion. Numerous explosions as demolitions continue in the midst of burning areas. Closeup of a German soldier in a white helmet, smoking a pipe. Others are seen sharing sandwiches and bottled drinks. One passes a bottle to a soldier wearing the Iron Cross First Class medal. German soldiers dig new foxholes and defenses in the snow. Close front view of a German Panzer IV tank and others moving along a road in the distance. German forces exchanging fire with Soviet forces. Artillery shells bursting along the battle front.

Date: 1944, February
Duration: 2 min 24 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675045025
Spanish troops under German Army attack Russia during winter. Spanish troops and a General are decorated by Germany

Animated maps show locations in Russia. Cold and snow force Spanish Blue Division troops under German Army (250. Infanterie-Division) use dynamite for digging defensive positions near Leningrad. They explode dynamite and make room for gun emplacements. Blue Division soldiers fashion trenches in the snow and erect crude shelters of wood. After firing artillery, an officer looks through periscopic sighting binoculars. The troops engage in battle over snow covered field, pulling artillery piece. Chimney of Soviet blockhouse is hit. Spanish troops are decorated by German officials. German cavalry General Georg Lindemann presents Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross to Spanish commander, General Agustín Muñoz Grandes. (World War II period).

Date: 1942
Duration: 2 min 26 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: German
Clip: 65675041932
Soviet Army fights back invasion of Nazi forces. Victims of Nazi atrocities during World War II.

Battles fought by Soviet Russians fighting military invasion from Germany during World War II. Home of great artists like Tchaikovsky and Leo Tolstoy burnt and destroyed by Nazi Army. Dead bodies of Russian soldiers killed during battle and civilians brutally murdered by Nazis. Civilians view the atrocity victim corpses in piles with hands tied behind and gunshot in head. People weep at the site. Children murdered. Girls rescued from Nazis. Victims of mass hangings and an infant cries near his dead mother. Russians pledge, of revenge. Fierce battle to force them out of Russia. A map shows German retreat. Captured German soldier prisoners of war (POW) walk under guard of Red soldiers. Red Army marches in Leningrad. A wrecked ship in harbor and the beautiful city before German raid. Workers including women and children with shovels dig trenches, transport food supplies to aid their armies fighting on the front.

Date: 1943
Duration: 6 min 22 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675036936
U.S. Ambassador William Averell Harriman presents memento to Soviet Premier Stalin after Battle of Stalingrad in World War II.

Reconstruction of Stalingrad, Soviet Union after World War II attack. Ruins of Stalingrad. Exteriors of a building. Woman works at home. Female telephone operators at work. Soviet girls arrive at university to attend classes. Soviet children attend classes. Soviet children attend classes. Russian newspapers being printed at a press. A sword is made by workers. Soviet Marshal Semen Mikhailovich Budennyi presents the same sword to city officials. U.S. Ambassador to Soviet Union William Averell Harriman presents a memento to Soviet Premier Joseph Stalin and Foreign Minister of Soviet Union Vyacheslav Molotov.

Date: 1945
Duration: 3 min 14 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: Korean
Clip: 65675074196