Newsreels of the Second World War and the Great Patriotic War (1938-1945)

Nazi troops on the streets of Prague in March 1938. German armored cars drive through the streets of Prague.

Residents of Prague raise their hands in a Nazi salute.

A column of motorcyclists drives by.

Faces of SS officers.

A German officer returns salutes from a car.

Children and teenagers of Prague salute Nazi troops.

A column of mechanized artillery drives through the streets of Prague.

Residents of Prague salute German troops.

View of one of the streets of Prague during the passage of German troops.

Map of Wehrmacht military operations in Poland in 1939 (animation).

View of part of burning Warsaw in September 1939. Panorama of one of the streets of Warsaw with barricades installed on it and trenches dug.

German soldiers occupy one of the suburbs of Warsaw.

German officers inspect overturned buses and various vehicles on a street in Warsaw, a panorama of a barricade made from the wreckage of buses and cars.

A column of German horse artillery enters Warsaw.

A view of part of one of the Warsaw districts (top), a Wehrmacht infantry unit moves along the street, a panorama of part of the roof of a building, a dead territorial defense fighter lies near a chimney.

Polish posters with military-patriotic themes.

Polish officers of the Warsaw commandant's office leave the commandant's building and surrender.

Columns of Polish prisoners of war march along the streets of Warsaw (top).

German troops at a parade in Warsaw in October 1939. Hitler greets the passing troops.

A brass band plays, German troops march in parade formation in front of Hitler (panorama).

Hitler greets the passing troops, faces of marching soldiers.

Columns of German troops march in parade formation (top).

A cyclist unit on parade in Warsaw, the face of Hitler inspecting the parade.

One of the Wehrmacht cavalry units on parade in Warsaw, the faces of German cavalrymen.

German cavalry passes in front of Hitler (top).

Hitler's face.

Horses' legs.

Horse-drawn Wehrmacht artillery during a parade in Warsaw, Hitler salutes the passing gunners.

The commander of the 10th Army of the Wehrmacht, Field Marshal von Reichenau, talks to Hitler.

Wehrmacht tank units on parade in Warsaw, tankers salute Hitler, Hitler raises his hand in a Nazi salute.

Hitler salutes the passing motorized artillery units.

Soldiers in the backs of passing trucks.

Hitler's face salutes the passing troops.

A motorized infantry unit of the Wehrmacht on parade in Warsaw (top).

Hitler shakes hands with von Reichenau.

Hitler leaves in a car after the parade, soldiers salute him.

Hitler talks to German soldiers during his stay in captured Warsaw.

Soviet soldiers at the front in 1943-1944 in trenches and dugouts eating food from mess tins.

The face of a Soviet soldier holding a wooden spoon.

A soldier mending his greatcoat during a break between battles.

Photographs of regimental shoemakers and tailors at work.

Photographs illustrating bath and laundry services for Soviet soldiers at the front.

A soldier smoking a hand-rolled cigarette.

Soldiers reading newspapers.

A soldier shaving while sitting in a trench.

A soldier with an iron.

A soldier getting a haircut.

A soldier mending his uniform.

The face of a smoking soldier.

Faces of smoking Soviet soldiers and officers.

Tankers waiting out the rain while sitting by the tank's road wheels.

A tank moving through a forest.

German bombers fly to bomb the territory of the USSR on June 22, 1941. The shadow of the flying plane.

Explosions of aerial bombs on the ground.

Explosions of German aerial bombs during raids on Soviet cities.

View of a burning, smoke-shrouded city block (top).

A German bomber diving toward a target.

View of the railway junction during the bombing (top).

Parade of SS units in Berlin in the 1930s.

Planes fly over the Berlin stadium.

Hitler, Goering and their entourage leave the building.

Hitler, Goering and their entourage exiting a building.

German soldiers on foot march after the invasion of the USSR in June 1941. Boots of marching soldiers.

The face of a German officer directing the battle and giving signals with gestures.

A German officer observes the battlefield through binoculars, gives commands to subordinates.

The face of a German officer directing the battle and giving signals with gestures.

A German officer observes the battlefield through binoculars, giving orders to his subordinates.

A panorama of a field with burning haystacks.

A broken chimney, the remains of a destroyed house.

Red Army soldiers engaged in street fighting.

Red Army soldiers advance along the street past destroyed houses.

German bombers set course after taking off from the airfield.

View of a Soviet fortified area under fire (top).

Bombs fall on a residential area.

A German tanker observes from the hatch of his tank, the tank turret rotates.

German armored vehicles advance to positions near Moscow.

Plan for the capture of Moscow on a map (animation).

Views of Moscow streets in November 1941 (top).

View of part of the Moscow Kremlin (top).

Interior view of a workshop at one of the factories evacuated to the rear, production of artillery ammunition.

New aircraft in a workshop at one of the aircraft factories.

Production processes in factory workshops, production of artillery guns and tanks.

Faces of girls working on machines.

New tanks heading to the exit from the workshop.

A train with artillery pieces on platforms goes to the front.

Combat operations of the Soviet troops in the winter and summer of 1943. Commander of the Steppe Front, General of the Army I.S. Konev at the command post.

Soviet tanks go on the attack.

Rocket artillery fires at the enemy.

Zhukov G.K., Konev I.S. at the command posts.

Colonel General Rokossovsky at the command post observes the actions of the troops.

Tanks and infantry go on the attack.

The crew of a guards rocket mortar loads the installation with shells with the inscription "To the Reichstag!" during the storming of Berlin.

One of the streets of Berlin under fire from rocket mortars.

A Guards rocket launcher crew loads a launcher with shells bearing the inscription "To the Reichstag!" during the storming of Berlin.

One of the streets of Berlin under fire from rocket launchers.

Soviet soldiers with a red banner rush to the Reichstag building.

The installation of a red banner on the roof of the Reichstag.

Soviet soldiers on the steps of the captured Reichstag building.

Soldiers and officers salute with small arms shots.

Residents of a European city greet the Soviet soldiers-liberators.

Soldiers from the back of a truck respond to the greetings.

The faces of people greeting the Red Army.

The Red Army in Vienna.

US Ambassador A. Harriman and his entourage go to meet the American officials and military personnel who have arrived in Moscow.

Harriman greets the Chairman of the War Production Board D. Nelson.

General P. Hurley, who has arrived in Moscow, near the plane.

Hurley's face.

Soviet representatives greet the guests.

Harriman talks with Nelson near the plane.

Harriman and Nelson walk along the airfield to the cars.

General Hurley gets into the car.

Kalinin M.I. presents Stalin I.V. with the Order of Victory in the Kremlin in 1944. View of the order.

Kalinin presents Stalin with a box with the order.

Kalinin congratulates Stalin.

A battalion of captured banners at the Victory Parade on June 24, 1945. The captured banners are thrown at the foot of the mausoleum, Stalin's face standing on the mausoleum tribune.

View of the guest tribune on Red Square.

German flags at the foot of the mausoleum.

Allied parachute landing in Northern France in 1944. Paratroopers leave the planes.

Parachute canopies in the sky over France, paratroopers landing.

American fighters at a British airfield.

Automobile equipment before loading onto transport ships.

Ammunition of various calibers in a warehouse.

Camouflaging aerial bombs.

Transporting a heavy aerial bomb on a special tractor trailer.

Supreme Commander-in-Chief General D. Eisenhower holds a meeting.

Eisenhower's face.

Faces of Air Marshal A. Tedder and Field Marshal Montgomery.

Photojournalists take pictures.

Eisenhower outlines the plan of the operation from a map.

Marshals of the Soviet Union G. K. Zhukov and A. M. Vasilevsky in the Kremlin before being awarded the Order of Victory in April 1944. Shvernik N.M. presents Zhukov with the Order of Victory.

Presentation of the Order of Victory to Vasilevsky.

View of the Order of Victory.

Vasilevsky, Shvernik and Zhukov after the presentation of the award.

A ceremonial meeting at the All-Union Society for Cultural Relations with Foreign Countries (VOKS) on the occasion of the presentation of the Franklin Medal to Academician P.L. Kapitsa.

Kapitsa's face.

VOKS Chairman Kemenov reads the text of the congratulatory speech and presents Kapitsa with the medal; those present applaud.

Obverse and reverse of the Franklin Medal.

Certificate for the medal in the name of P.L. Kapitsa.

American B-29 bombers in flight.

Views of the airfield near Poltava, which receives American bombers (above).

Landing of one of the bombers.

The crew exits the plane.

US Ambassador to the USSR Harriman meets American pilots in June 1944. American planes at the airfield.

An American general presents an award to General A. R. Perminov for exemplary preparation of the air base.

American pilots near one of the planes.

Bombs and crosses painted on the side of one of the American planes, indicating the number of sorties and shot down German fighters.

Harriman among Soviet and American pilots.

Views of Moscow streets in the winter of 1942. A poster for the film "The Defeat of German Troops near Moscow" on the facade of the Khudozhestvenny cinema, a queue at the cinema box office, faces of people standing in line.

A unit of Red Army soldiers enters the cinema for another showing.

Hitler in March 1942 at headquarters among the generals during the development of the summer offensive.

Hitler's hand on a map.

Panorama of one of the Soviet oil refineries.

Commander-in-Chief of the Southwestern Direction, Marshal of the Soviet Union S. K. Timoshenko, speaks at a meeting at the headquarters of the Southern Front. L. I. Brezhnev among the participants of the meeting.

Brezhnev at the table of the presidium of the party meeting in one of the military units, view of the meeting.

Faces of the Red Army and Red Navy men - participants in the meeting.

Red Army soldiers before the start of hostilities.

Hitler at the airfield on June 4, 1942, before flying away from von Bock's headquarters.

Hitler says goodbye to von Bock and the officers of his headquarters.

Hitler climbs the ladder to the plane.

Hitler in the cabin of the plane.

Views of Sevastopol during the fighting in late June 1942. Burning pier.

Burning and destroyed buildings of Sevastopol.

Panorama of the destroyed coastal battery in the Sevastopol area (top).

German bombers in flight.

Bombers approaching the target

Barrage balloon over the Pushkin monument in Moscow in the summer and fall of 1941. Transportation of barrage balloons along Gorky Street.

Street views of wartime Moscow, a shop window filled with sandbags.

A tram passes anti-tank obstacles.

A sentry at an artillery gun.

Enlistment in the militia in the fall of 1941. An observer with binoculars at an anti-aircraft machine gun on the roof of a Moscow house.

Anti-aircraft gun crews fire at German bombers.

Air defense searchlights in the Moscow sky.

People descend the escalators to the bomb shelter at the metro station.

People in the bomb shelter at the Mayakovskaya metro station.

Anti-aircraft artillery repels a night air raid.

The burning tail of a downed German bomber.

German planes drop bombs.

View of bombs exploding on targets (above).

Episodes of an air battle.