Map highlights Vitebsk region of Belarus. Roaring flames in the city, during World War 2. Refugees with a wooden cart mingle with retreating German infantry walking across a bridge over the Dvina River. A German tank with a huge log fastened to its side as extra protection. It is followed by another tank and three soldiers on a motorcycle and side car. Some infantrymen walk casually but another contingent marches in formation, smiling as they pass the camera. Domes of an orthodox church are seen in the background, as passing soldiers wave to the camera. Smiling German infantrymen walk next to picket fence. Line of refugees in horse-drawn wagons leaving the city. German gunners set up an artillery field piece. View of rail lines and station set ablaze by German troops. Explosions occur along rail line as German sappers detonate charges to destroy tracks. Smoke and haze covers the area. German officer looks through binoculars at smoke from explosion in distance. German soldiers bury Teller land mines along railroad bed. Closeup of a soldier setting mine in place and covering it with patch of grass. German antiaircraft battery set up overlooking Dvina River. Below, German army vehicles cross steel bridge.Sappers destroy another bridge. The Uspenski Cathedral in backgound at confluence of Dvina and Vitba Rivers. A huge explosion sends clouds of black smoke aloft, as German sappers destroy more buildings. A German soldier carrying a Panzerfaust recoiless antitank weapon runs to join another lying prone with an MG 42 light machine gun. More huge demolition explosions. German soldiers ready for combat. Huge fires rage in the city.
German forces battle against invading Allies in France, during World War 2. German German ME-109 and FW-190 aircraft starting engines on an airfield. Three ME-109s take. Pilot point of view from inside cockpit as aircraft strafes ground targets. An FW-190 in flight. View from cockpit during strafing run. View of pilot's hand on control stick. View from cockpit of strafing run against targets on village streets. German machine gunners in trenches look through binoculars. Huge explosions nearby from Allied counterfire. German artillerymen fire heavy guns, at zero elevation, from positions in forest. Germans in assault guns and tanks covered with foliage camouflage. View from inside a tank as it crushes foliage in its way. Tank commander in Tiger tank of s.SS.Pz.Abt.101 talks on radio. Panther tanks firing. Marder III tank destroyer. Tiger tank of s.Pz.Abt.505 fires. Destroyed and disabled Allied armor, including Assault guns and Sherman tanks. GermanTanks and infantry fire at Allied positions. German infantry engaged in house-to-house battles and using flame thrower, in ruins of a French town. German rocket launchers obscured by smoke as they fire rapidly.
German fighter aircraft and antiaircraft guns battle against U.S. B-17 B-24 bombers during World War 2. Formation of B-17s in flight. A high altitude formation of U.S. bombers leaving condensation trails. German air defense coordinators in control room give instructions to German and Italian defenders. Antiaircraft gunners fire at Allied bombers. Views of the American B-24 Liberator bomber "Sunshine,"tail number: 42-52106, of the 719th Squadron, 449th Bomb Group of the 15th Air Force, which force-landed with two engines shot out, inside enemy occupied Italy. (After repairing the aircraft, the Germans filmed it with its American crew for propaganda purposes. Those scenes are what appear here.) Artwork is seen on the "Sunshine." The final scenes include gun camera footage of Me-109s firing at B-17s and B-24s.
German military and civilians collaborate to build defenses against Soviet forces in East Prussia, during World War 2. They dig foundations and prepare pill boxes, among other fortifications. German Generals and other officers participate in the manual labor, laying their uniform blouses aside and digging in with the rest of the workers. They are seen preparing wide and deep antitank ditches to trap Soviet armor.
German forces evacuating German civilians from the Eastern Front during World War 2. Baltic Sea convoy officers assist in the evacuation of German civilians from the eastern front, where they are threatened by advancing Soviet forces. German civilian refugees, mostly women, board a ship. Girls talk aboard and a mother feeds her child on the ship. Convoy of warships escorting transports back to Germany.
Latvian aviation volunteers, who serve with the German Luftwaffe, parade in a ceremony, following training, in Latvia, during World War 2. Opening scene shows the Latvian and German flags flanking a speaker's stand. An honor guard of helmeted Latvian soldiers, with rifles, is seen closeup. A German Luftwaffe (German Air Force) officer stands at the podium and speaks, as large number of young Latvian aviation volunteers listen. Then the Latvian volunteers march, passing in review before German and Latvian officers who render the Nazi salute. Closeup of the parading volunteers. (Not all wear wings, presumably, because many will be serving as mechanics, and in other aviation ground support roles.)
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