German and Hungarian troops fortify hills in the Carpathians during World War 2. Map shows areas of conflict along the range. German soldiers and Hungarian soldiers on a hill near an artillery piece. Soldiers digging. They put up barbed wire along the camp boundary. Tents in the camp area. German soldiers bathe beside Panzerwerfer 42 auf Maultier (Sd.Kfz. 4/1) that they have parked partially submerged in water. German soldiers driving in a Volkswagen Schwimmwagen enter water. German soldier uses pole to push read propeller into position and vehicle is propelled in water. View of a line of Volkswagen Schwimmwagen amphibious vehicles driving in a stream and crossing it to the other side. Soldiers cross a bridge. Hungarian 40M Turán I medium tank driving on a dirt road. Close up profile view of a German soldier as he looks through binoculars while in a foxhole position. Smoke due to bombardment as German artillery fires on Soviet positions on battlefield. More views of closeup of dirty face of German soldier wearing combat helmet. Russian troops and tanks advance towards the Germans and Hungarians. German soldiers fire on a Soviet T34 tank. Hungarian soldier crouched in a foxhole and surveying battle. German soldiers riding along German lines in a Sd.Kfz. 251 half-track armored personnel carrier. Marder III Ausf. H tank destroyer with Pak 40 anti-tank gun firing on Soviet tanks. German and Hungarian officers seen monitoring and directing battle. Soldiers advances through a burning village.
Film opens showing Russian Bear covered by iron gate and slate reading 100 days Blockade. Camera pans over war-damaged areas of the city of Berlin, Germany. Narrator refers to the Berlin Airlift by the Allies and the Berlin residents not giving up. Views of several buildings undamaged by World War 2, including Kammergericht, the Headquarters of the Allied Control Council. Streets crowded by pedestrians going about ordinary business in Berlin. Among them is seen a German soldier, missing a leg and using a crutch. Some Berlin industry activity is seen in a factory where welders are at work. Blockade fences are seen separating the Soviet zone of east Berlin from the allied sectors of West Berlin. Trams are seen that cannot travel between the zones. A person trying to use a gas stove to cook, but has no gas pressure. The city grows dark at night due to electricity shortages, resulting in blackout conditions. Berliners trying to manage simple things at home such as exercising on a fixed bicycle. A man planting a garden in sight of the Brandenburg Gate, at the boundary of the Soviet zone. A police officer using a radio in an automobile in the free part of the city. View of the City Council meeting in West Berlin. This is contrasted with view of East Berlin where members of the Socialist Unity Party of Germany (SED) backed by the Soviet authorities are seen meeting in a separate city council of East Berlin, not long before the formal founding of East Germany in 1949. Next, Dr Ferdinand Friedensburg, Mayor of West Berlin, addresses the West Berlin City Council.
German troops in the Eastern Front during the winter of 1941-1942 (World War II). A German soldier keeps watch in the Eastern Front (“Ostfront” in German). Two German soldiers walk in the snow. Troops walk with horses under extremely cold conditions, with temperature as low as -45°C. Soldiers cover their mouths with cloths to protect their faces from extreme temperatures. Soldiers build houses of made of ice blocks and a bridge. Railway embankment construction and ice blocks. German soldiers lift blocks of ice from a lake. Men building a railway embankment. Soldiers on tanks. Soldiers repair a tank track. Soldiers escort wagons. Snow covered tanks and field. German soldiers assume prone position in the snow. German tank fires. Germans attack Russian positions. Soldiers firing with rifles. Germans move forward on the front. German soldiers in white winter camouflage suits rush towards a barbed wire fence. A soldier cuts a barbed wire entanglement on the field. Firing and bombardment in the field. German soldiers clear a village. Soldiers with machine guns facing the window inside a house. Soldiers stand on top of moving tanks. German soldiers use a machine gun in the snow. Soldiers take the prisoners from the snow. Panzer tanks penetrate Soviet positions. An injured Soviet prisoner with head bandage. German troops lead away captured Soviet prisoners.
Soviet Army and Navy personnel line up in columns at a celebration ceremony held prior to the withdrawal of Soviets from North Korea. Prime Minister of North Korea, Kim II Sung and Vice Premier Hong Myung He present Soviet Army and Naval officers with Liberation Medals. View of medals on an officer's uniform.1948.
Starboard bow area of a Juliett or J-class cruise missile submarine of Soviet Navy underway in the Mediterranean Sea. Sailors on bridge of the submarine. View of conning tower and sonar device on nose of the submarine. A Soviet F class or Foxtrot class missile sub, underway on surface. A Soviet Z-class or Zulu-class submarine is seen near the end.
Battle of Grosswardein, precursor to Battle of Debrecen, in World War 2. In late September, 1944, the German 23rd Panzer division was ordered to clear Grosswardein (aka Oradea or Nagyvárad) and environs occupied by Soviet and Romanian forces (who had switched sides a month earlier). In late September, 1944, the German 23rd Panzer division was ordered to clear Grosswardein (aka Oradea or Nagyvárad) and environs occupied by Soviet and Romanian forces (who had switched sides a month earlier). This was prelude to the World War 2 Battle of Debrecen, in October, 1944. Map shows areas of interest and reflects German treatment of Grosswardein and Debrecen as part of Hungary (Northern Transylvania), A German 88mm artillery piece is seen being towed uphill by a SdKfz 6 half-track. Battery of German 15 cm schwere Feldhaubitze 18 cannons being fired from high ground. Their shells striking at edge of wooded area. View of shells being loaded. Chalk writing on one "trotzdem siegen win" or in English "We will win despite all this". German Panther medium tanks move at the head of a column that includes Stug III and other armor. A Stug III camouflaged with tree branches. German armor advancing across and open field. Two tanks parked, and their crew members watching the battlefield. Explosions in the field. German machine gunners firing against Soviet infantry. Romanian soldiers surrendering in a grove of trees, are searched and processed as prisoners of war. German infantry moving through field of corn stalks, along with armored personnel carriers (Schutzenpanzerwagen SdKfz 250/10 Neu). A truck burning in the field, with a field piece attached on a towbar.
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