German offensive on the Eastern Front of World War II. Nazi officers look at a map and discuss plans for attack on Soviet positions. A German reconnaissance plane takes off from an air base. German Stug III Assault Gun being re-armed. Nazi soldiers loaded on Panther tanks advance, with a Sdkfz.251halftrack in Kursk markings, to the battle field. SS commander in Sdkfz.222 armored car. Pz.IV tank of 2.Pz.Div. ("Das Reich") with skirts operating in village. Heavy firing takes place. StuH42 105mm artillery mounted on tank fired. Explosions occur and smoke rises.
German officer looks at a map in hand and speaks to other officer. German troops put barbed wire on barricade and lay land mines. The land mines buried include S-mines, or 'bouncing betty' mines, as well as Teller mines. Motor vehicle drives along road. Troops march. Civilians leave their homes on horse carts. Civilians aboard train. Large explosion on railway track. Large overhead outdoor conveyor system operates. Civilians roll barrels to be loaded on ships.
Starboard beam view of a Russian Kresta class cruiser (No. 542) underway in the Mediterranean Ocean. Russian missile submarine of Juliett or J-class underway. Sonar bulge can be seen on bow of the submarine. Russian "F" class or Foxtrot class submarine on surface. "J" class Russian submarine on surface.
The 1956 Hungarian Revolution. People on roads, views of burnt books. Citizens burning flags, Russian tanks moving. Hidden soldiers aiming at different Russian targets. Tanks and soldiers on empty streets. Body of a dead soldier, with face covered by picture of Matyas Rakosi, General Secretary of the Hungarian Communist Party.
Industrial, agricultural and civil rebuilding of Germany after World War II. State Department building in Washington DC. Secretory of States, James F. Byrnes dictates to secretary. General Luicius D Clay speaks to the members of British Occupational government. Ernest Bevin, Vyacheslav Molotov and James F. Byrnes pose for a group photograph. German farmers in an agricultural field. Men and woman plow farm by horse cart. Worker watches a factory kiln with molten metal. Cavaliers of American Military Police on horse back patrol on the streets in Germany with a destroyed cathedral in the background. They cross a bridge with sign Herkules Bridge. German workers make farm equipment and a German family with young children eats a meal.
Auschwitz Concentration camp of the Nazi Germans in Auschwitz, Poland during World War II. Women and children prisoners of the camp walk along the barbed wire fencing. Male prisoners and survivors of the camp. Snow covered barracks and buildings. A map of the gas chamber and other parts of the camp. Women and children prisoners at the camp. Electrically charged barbed wire fencing. Torture equipment at the camp. Old and sick women inmates look out from windows and talk to each other inside women's barracks. Clip is part of Nuremberg Trials prosecution exhibits 228, 229.
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