Map shows border of East Prussia and the Soviet Union. Arrow points to Brest-Litovsk (now Brest, Belarus) one of the first targets in Nazi operation Barbarossa, during World War 2. . German 15cm K39 (15cmKanone39) heavy artillery bombarding the Soviet fortress at Brest. Closeup of gun breech. German troops hunkered down in craters and trenches near buildings. More views of German heavy artillery firing from camouflaged positions. Smoke rising from the German bombardment. German infantry moving forward and approaching Brest Fortress. German soldiers in shell craters, observing as the shelling destroys buildings nearby. View of destroyed and burning structures. Soviet defenders of the garrison standing with hands raised, surrendering under white flags. A surrendered Soviet soldier stands on a hill waving his hat to others telling them it is safe to surrender. Other Soviet soldiers coming foreward from their defensive positions to surrender. Soviet POWs huddled together near a Soviet T-18 light tank (aka MS-1) inside part of the Brest Fortress. German officers surveying the situation. Damaged bridge over the Bug River. Surrendering Soviet troops use a rope to help cross river at bombed out section. Wounded Soviet soldiers with first aid bandages, lying on bank of river. Other Soviet POWs under German guard nearby. A soviet prisoner plays a harmonica. More views of destroyed and burning structures. German infantry running across a road, under fire from Soviet defenders. German troops entering the main part of the Brest Citadel, and fighting against stubborn Soviet snipers. Camera pans across destruction in and around the fortress. A dead Soviet soldier slumped in the seat of a vehicle. Others on the ground near a Soviet Army truck. A long line of Soviet soldiers taken prisoners of war, walking under German guard. The City Hall of Brest With German soldier standing guard. Belarussian citizens of the city going about their everyday activities, under German occupation.
A Tupolev ANT-20 (Maxim Gorky) 8-engine aircraft in the Soviet Union. View of the passageway inside the airplane. An automobile pulls up under fuselage of the aircraft. View of the airplane parked in a field.
Scenes of German forces operating on the Eastern front against the Soviet Union during Operation Barbarossa in World War 2. Film begins showing German 250 series half track armored personnel carriers camouflaged by pieces of shrubbery. They pull camouflaged artillery pieces. German infantry advance rapidly along with the armor. Glimpses of horses legs as they move on dusty road. A German soldier stands beside a Panzer III tank, alongside a road over which small military vehicles are traveling. Views of German forces making way with difficulty as Fall rains make it difficult for vehicles to move in the water and mud. German staff cars and half tracks slowed by the conditions. German troops on foot, in horse-drawn wagons and on bicycles, are Silhouetted against a light sky as they move along a ridge road.
Elements of the Red Army conduct field maneuvers in the Soviet Union. A soviet soldier prepares a message and fastens it to the collar on a dog. He then sends the dog to deliver it. Camera follows the dog as it crosses a wide field and then enters shrubbery where another Soviet soldier is concealed. He opens the message which the camera shows, containing tactical information. View of soldier leaving the concealed location and proceeding to an entrenched local headquarters and communications center where soldiers study a map and one makes a telephone call. View of detailed local animated tactical map showing proposed paths of attack upon enemy areas. Soldiers moving out of the entrenched position. Another using a pair of binoculars from a concealed position and one communicating on a field telephone. A soldier telegrapher transmitting a message by code from a field communications center. (World War II period).
A Lend lease U.S. C-47 (military version of Douglas DC-3 aircraft) is seen in sky above a Soviet airfield during World War 2. It lands and taxis past a Soviet Petlyakov Pe-2 bomber, to a parking place. Marshal of Soviet Union, Georgy Zhukov, is seen beside the aircraft along with other senior Soviet military officers. Next, he leads them, walking across a cobblestone path. A factory building is seen in the background. Change of scene shows inside of a large room, with numerous chairs and tables covered with maps. Senior Soviet officers sit at these tables. Camera pans over the scene. General Aleksei Innokentievich Antonov is seen seated at one of the tables. Other Generals and Colonels are seen as the camera moves its focus. Marshal Zhukov presides over the meeting from a table at the front of the room. He is flanked by two other officers. Camera again pans over the assembled group of high ranking officers.
Communist Leon Trotsky drafts a letter in the Soviet Union. An official reads out a document during a conference. People entering a gate, in snow, in Paris, as a French policemen stands by. Riots scenes in a British city show smoke rising from something set afire on steet. streetcars in background. English bobbies pick up an injured man. Crowds move all around street cars in a square. Several people mourn a woman killed in unrest. Russian Tatar troops in formation (Kazakhs or Mongolian descent). Heavy snow falling at a depot.
CRITICALPAST.COM: About Us | Contact Us | FAQs - How to Order | License Agreement | My Account | My Lightboxes | Shopping Cart | Advanced Search | Featured Collections | Website Terms & Conditions | Privacy Policy ©2026 CriticalPast LLC.
License Agreement |
Terms & Conditions |
Privacy Policy
©2026 CriticalPast LLC.