The Russian Campaign of World War II, as seen through the German lens. A German Heinkel He 111 aircraft in flight. View inside a He-111 of the German pilot in the cockpit of the aircraft. Bombs away view of bombs being dropped on Russian positions. Smoke rising from the shelled positions. The aircraft in flight drops bombs as it flies over several positions. Explosions occur in the bombed areas and smoke rises. Several damaged buildings and the debris scattered on the ground.
Marshall Joseph Stalin and Russian staff officers move towards the table on which sword of Stalingrad is displayed in Russian Embassy, Tehran, Iran, during timeframe of Tehran Conference in World War 2. Marshall Voroshilov and British Prime Minister Winston Churchill with other officials stand around the table. Prime Minister Churchill shakes hands with Marshall Joseph Stalin. The sword is presented to Joseph Stalin by Prime Minister Churchill. He hands it to a Russian soldier who marches with it. Sword is carried to U.S. President Franklin Roosevelt. It is handed to Marshall Voroshilov.
A Soviet horticulturist conducts outdoor classes demonstrating how to prepare small sapling fruit trees for planting. His audience is a group of villagers in the Georgia, USSR. Trees in full flowering bloom are seen in background. The scene shifts to Tajikistan, USSR, where men work with pickaxes preparing irrigation channels and planting trees in a vast, otherwise barren region. Farmers carry sapling trees to the project and plant them in the bottom of a deep (dry) irrigation channel.
German footage of Russian Campaign during World War II. German Heinkel He 111 aircraft preparing for takeoff. Dusk and night views of several German He-111 aircraft in flight. Interior cockpit view of aircraft with a German pilot controlling the aircraft. Flares and night time explosions are seen. Night time view of explosions on the ground as German bombers hit Soviet targets on eastern front in World War 2.
German slates refer to the dream of "Northern" people to fly, fulfilled by aircraft development. Scenes from Paris airshow in 1908, when it was a feature of the automobile show that year. Hangars bear names of aircraft companies: Bleriot; Vetze and others, with historic vintage airplanes of the period parked on the grass in front of each. A man plays with a dog in the grass. Spectators are seated in stands set up in the background. Scene shifts to 1935, where a long row of German aircraft are shown parked with engines running. Then it shifts to 1943, during World War 2, with a long line of German Messerschmitt aircraft parked with engines running. An animated map shows air lines of communication emanating from center of Germany and extending throughout Europe. Huge formations of German warplanes are seen in flight.
Soviet troops and tanks enter the city of Bryansk after its liberation from German forces during World War 2. Buildings heavily damaged in Bryansk. Soviet soldiers speak with women about a mass grave in Bryansk. A sign written in Russian and German (“Entering this area is prohibited under a death penalty” in English). Bodies of Soviet victims of Operation Barbarossa, mainly civilians, found in mass grave in Bryansk.
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