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.
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.
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.
May day celebration in Leningrad, Russia near end of World War 2. Masses of Russian troops parade before Russian dignitaries. Troops in Palace Square of Winter Palace, with Arch of the General Headquarters in background. Photographs of Lenin and another dignitary on a wall. Troops march, while dignitaries watch. View of marching Soviet troops, some from stationary elevated position and some from moving camera. General Georgy Zhukov on mausoleum. Troops salute and dignitary salutes back. Naval troops march. Russian trucks and artillery parade. People carry a photo of Lenin during a rally. Balloons being released as they head for the sky.
Postwar scenes in Moscow, Russia, after end of World War II. The population including civilians and soldiers mingle and enjoy peacetime activities. A young Soviet soldier walks with a young woman who carries a large bouquet of flowers. People stroll leisurely along the sidewalks. A motorist in a convertible coupe automobile, parked on Red Square, paints a picture of Saint Basil's Cathedral, which is seen clearly in background. Trams pass behind him. View of huge storage tanks.Bricklayers at work on top level of a building. Numerous government buildings. View of Moscow State University building from 1793 on Manezhnaya ploshchad (Square). Students emerging from the University.
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.
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