Children seated in their class room write down in their note books as a teacher teaches them at a school in Minsk, Ukraine. A student writes alphabets in the note book. A girl figures, with a sum of Abacus. Another girl reads out aloud from an English text book.
German planes bombing Sevastopol. Map of Ukraine highlights Sevastopol. German planes bomb Sevastopol. German pilots fly bombers. Explosions on field. Demolished Russian fortifications. Wrecked buildings and rubble. (World War II period).
Heavy bombardment by the Germans on Russian positions in Sevastopol, Ukraine. German heavy artillery fired in outskirts of Sevastopol. Russian troops fight Germans on streets. Troops advance through wrecked buildings and rubble. Body of a dead Russian soldier. Troops street fight. German troops firing heavy artillery Karl-Gerät self propelled siege mortar (Thor or Mörser Karl, 60cm). Writing on side of the mortar says, "Thor" . German 800mm 'Gustav' railway gun is prepared to fire on Russian positions. German crew loads Gustav with 800mm shell. Gustav is fired. Heavy explosion on Russian position throwing billows of smoke in air. Heavy artillery explosions. Men roll 800mm shells. (World War II period).
German leader Heinrich Himmler visits a camp near Minsk Belarus during German occupation of Belarus in World War 2. He is accompanied by other German officers. Several men stand on stairs of a building. German officers stand in a line. Heinrich Himmler meets and talks to them. Several men stand on a balcony. Heinrich Himmler waves to them. His car leaves the area. Heinrich Himmler stops the car and talk to people, including a young boy, working in fields. The car moves on a road. Buildings in the background. He arrives at Minsk Ghetto. Wire fencing on the boundaries of the camp. The prisoners sit on the other side of wiring. He tours the camp area. (World War II period).
The first Cold War era USSR two-stage hydrogen bomb, the RDS-37, detonates at the Semipalatinsk nuclear weapons test site. Multiple thin mushroom clouds form before a larger, thicker ring-shaped cloud forms in dark red sky.
Soviet Cold War nuclear bomb testing at the Semipalatinsk Test Site in the Kazakh SSR. Mushroom cloud forms from pillar of thick smoke following test blast of nuclear weapon.
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