German Army and SS (Schutzstaffel) Troops fight Polish resistance in Warsaw. A map shows Warsaw. German troops crush the Warsaw Uprising. The German army troops operating tanks and heavy artillery. Smoke rises up due to explosions as Germans bombard Warsaw. A German soldier looks through binoculars. German take a Polish prisoner. Tanks and artillery on roads of Warsaw during street fighting in Warsaw. German soldiers fire rifles and machine guns. Close up views of faces of German soldiers in combat. German artillery fired. A dead body of a Polish resistance fighter on the street, wearing a resistance armband. German General Reiner Stahel pores over a map with other German officers fighting against the Polish resistance. Rubble on streets. Point of view shots from German guns and German positions targeting Polish resistance positions. German set demolition charges and blow up parts of walled off buildings. The Germans take prisoners and escort male prisoners and sympathizers at a railroad station with trains in background. Polish prisoners walk under German guard. Precise locations in Warsaw unknown, but some scenes could be from the Warsaw Ghetto. (World War II period).
At start of film, a German Stug III tank destroyer with single crew member is seen in a snowy landscape on the Eastern Front during the winter of 1942 in World War 2. Another Stug III, with large protective side plates installed, is seen sitting in the snow next to a barn. A third one is seen parked in snow with no soldiers present. The scene changes to German infantry in white cold weather parkas, at a battle front. One soldier looks through binoculars. German radio operator seated operating a radio, at a field communications center. Officers review maps and instructions. Infantry begin marching forward through the snow. Some load supplies on a half-track prime mover. Tiger I tanks of s.Pz.Abt.503 (503rd Heavy Tank Battalion) accompany infantry spread widely across flat snow-covered field. A locomotive and train passes nearby. Several dead Soviet soldiers are seen in the snow. Infantrymen capture two soviet soldiers and take them prisoner. A German soldier digs up a heavy box-shaped land mine. A rough posted sign warns of mines. Troops fire field artillery. Several views of destroyed Soviet armor and artillery pieces.
Polish Prime Minister Joseph Cyrankiewicz in Russia. Polish Prime Minister Joseph Cyrankiewicz and Premier Hilary Minc are received by Soviet Union leader Joseph Stalin and Premier Vyacheslav Molotov in the Kremlin. They pose for photographs. Polish Prime Minister arrives by a car at the railway station. He is greeted by Soviet dignitaries. Premier Vyacheslav Molotov comes to bid him farewell. Russian troops lined on side. Joseph Cyrankiewicz delivers speech reaffirming Polish-Soviet relations. Dignitaries in the background. Polish Prime Minister Joseph Cyrankiewicz boards a train.
Polish Prime Minister Joseph Cyrankiewicz in Russia. Polish Prime Minister Joseph Cyrankiewicz and Minister of Industry Hilary Minc are received by Soviet Union leader Joseph Stalin and Premier Vyacheslav Molotov in the Kremlin. They pose for photographs at the reception. Polish Prime Minister arrives by a car at the railway station. Premier Vyacheslav Molotov and Deputy Minister of foreign affairs Andrei Vyshinkii see Polish delegation off. Russian troops lined on side. Joseph Cyrankiewicz delivers speech reaffirming Polish-Soviet relations. Dignitaries in the background. Polish Prime Minister Joseph Cyrankiewicz boards a train.
Towers and complex piping and structures rise high above the ground as part of the new concentrated oxygen blast furnace being constructed at a steel plant in Tula Russia,Soviet Union. A prefabricated part is lowered into place by cable from a crane. A train of open rail cars moves through the factory yard. Russian construction experts contracted to build the furnace are seen working on the last part of it. They tighten bolts and weld sections of the furnace.
Salt being extracted from the surface of Lake Lake Baskunchak, 270 km North of the Caspian Sea, USSR. Narrator says it is sufficient for the needs of the entire Soviet Union. View of waves rippling over salt deposits in a part of the Russian lake. A dredging-type tool spins as it grinds and extracts salt from the lake surface. A conveyer system carrying the extracted salt to rail cars. A woman inside a control shack, on a railroad car, controls the speed of the conveyer with a large wheel. Salt is seen clearly deposited on the conveyer panels as they rise. View from below, of the control shack and water being discharged back into the lake from a pipe. View of the conveyer, mounted on its rail car, emptying salt into a train of open rail cars on a parallel set of tracks. At the same time water flows from its discharge pipe, on the opposite side, back into the lake. Finally, a locomotive is seen pulling rail cars filled with salt.
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