German war newsreel (1941)

Map of part of the North African coast.

The Adam's Head flag flutters.

North African landscape, a German observer in a trench.

Artillery officers in an underground shelter discuss a plan for the next operation.

An artillery crew leaves an underground shelter.

Bringing artillery ammunition to a final state of readiness.

Actions of gun crew numbers before opening fire.

German artillery opens fire, shells explode on the enemy's forward edge.

An anti-aircraft gun fires direct fire.

German gun crews fire.

Dive bombers take off.

Bombers in flight, approaching the target.

Bombs explode on the ground (from above).

Pilot in the cockpit.

View from the air gunner's cockpit.

Tank battle in the desert, actions of the gunner of one of the crews.

German tanks replace each other in position.

Knocked out and burning British armored vehicles.

Commander of the Afrika Korps General Rommel E. and the German and Italian officers accompanying him inspect the holes and damage to a British tank.

The faces of Rommel and the Italian officers.

A German tank passes over the myoma of a knocked-out British tank.

A German tanker climbs out of the hatch and jumps off the tank.

A tanker fries an egg on the tank's armor, which is hot from the sun.

Tankers eat an egg cooked on the armor.

A meeting between a leader and representatives of one of the nomad tribes and German soldiers.

Performing a ritual dance.

Donkey racing.

Nomads watch a boxing match between German soldiers.

One of the nomads tests the force of a blow on a homemade dynamometer.

The scale of the dynamometer.

Tug-of-war competition.

Nomads riding a homemade carousel.

Map of the Karelian Front.

View of an observation post.

German scouts observe Soviet territory through binoculars in June 1941. Finnish rangers fire small arms, a medical instructor bandages the head of a wounded ranger.

A machine-gun crew fires.

A panorama of a burnt-out village, stovepipes sticking out.

A German officer talks with Finnish soldiers and local authorities.

Inspection of Soviet equipment captured as trophies.

Finnish sappers carry pontoons to the river bank.

Launching the pontoons and boarding the personnel.

Finnish troops begin crossing in boats and pontoons.

Finnish cavalry marches through Soviet territory.

Finnish soldiers pass by a disabled Soviet tank.

Artillerymen manually roll a gun to a firing position.

Finnish artillery fires direct fire.

A machine-gun crew fires.

Finnish soldiers overcome a barbed wire fence.

Finnish and German troops are fighting on Soviet territory.

Map of the western part of the USSR showing the line of advance of German troops in the summer of 1941. Panorama of a German artillery firing position of a coastal battery.

Mounting guns on the platform, driving in stop wedges.

Observers on duty at a camouflaged observation post.

An artilleryman applies a silhouette of a ship to the gun barrel.

Symbols of destroyed targets on the gun barrel.

A talisman doll on the gun recuperator.

View of a river crossing, a tank is moving towards the crossing.

German tanks on the march.

A gun, covered with a camouflage net, fires, shells explode between village houses, an officer watches the results of the shooting through binoculars.

German infantry attacks under cover of artillery fire, overcomes barbed wire entanglements.

Wehrmacht units on bicycles move along the roads in June 1941. German troops pass through a village.

A soldier fills a canteen with water from a local resident's bucket.

The face of a German soldier.

A Wehrmacht unit moves along the road.

Wehrmacht units enter a populated area, a banner with a greeting in Ukrainian hangs above the road.

Residents of one of the Ukrainian villages greet the passing German troops.

A mechanically pulled artillery piece passes along the street with local residents standing on the sidewalk.

People on the market square in a city occupied by the Germans (panorama).

Local residents greet a German non-commissioned officer sitting on the armor of a tank.

Ukrainian women treat a German officer to homemade pies.

Faces of children and teenagers.

German soldiers demonstrate their weapons to children.

Faces of women and children.

Panorama of a part of a destroyed neighborhood (top).

Removal of Soviet posters and flags.

Demolition of Stalin's sculptures.

Map of the western part of the USSR. Panorama of the river bank with wrecked and abandoned Soviet automobile equipment.

Abandoned Soviet tanks and armored cars (panorama).

Panorama of a wrecked railway train.

Movement of a German motorcade.

A heavy Soviet artillery gun abandoned by its crew on the side of the road.

German soldiers take pictures of a KV-2 heavy tank abandoned by its crew; a cavalry column moves along the road.

An inscription on the turret of a Soviet tank informing about its capture as a trophy in the Battle of Dubno on June 29, 1941. Inspection of the tank by soldiers of the trophy team.

A Soviet BT tank abandoned at the crossroads of city streets.

German reconnaissance armored cars move through one of the Ukrainian villages.

Movement of German tank columns.

The crew of a reconnaissance armored car conducts surveillance.

German troops conduct military operations in Ukraine in the summer of 1941. Direct fire from various artillery systems.

Faces of German officers.

A machine gunner in a trench.

Red Army soldiers who have surrendered.

Faces of representatives of the peoples of Central Asia and other Soviet prisoners of war who have raised their hands.

The advance of German troops deep into the territory of the USSR, Soviet tanks burning on the road.

A view of part of a burning Soviet motorcade (panorama).

Burning houses.

A torn power line.

A destroyed Soviet horse-drawn wagon train.

The horse of a killed cavalryman.

The insignia of a Red Army senior lieutenant on the collar of an overcoat lying on the ground.

German soldiers pick wildflowers.

Planting flowers on the graves of fallen soldiers.

Map of the Byelorussian SSR. The movement of German mechanized columns along the roads of Byelorussia.

A tank overcomes a water obstacle.

A Wehrmacht unit on bicycles moves along the road.

German infantry on the march.

Movement of columns of German troops along the roads of Belarus.

Movement of troops off-road, soldiers pushing cars and motorcycles stuck in sand and mud.

Views of the destroyed bridge over the Berezina.

German sappers restore the crossing.

Movement of equipment across the crossing built by sappers.

Views of the crossing.

A German soldier eats.

Wagon drivers feed and water the horses.

Soldiers eat at a halt.

German soldiers doze off, leaning against the wall of a village house.

A soldier sleeps sitting on the running board of a car.

German soldiers sleeping on the grass.

A pig next to an armored car.

Soldiers pluck chickens in a village.

Cleaning fish and potatoes.

A soldier trims his comrade.

Soldiers wash cars.

Cavalrymen and wagon drivers bathe horses in the river.

Entertainment of German soldiers during rest.

An amateur military orchestra plays.

Soldiers fall from a log, laugh.

Movement of the Wehrmacht infantry unit on a pontoon bridge.

German infantry on the march, faces of passing soldiers.

Panorama of a destroyed industrial enterprise.

German troops on the street of one of the occupied cities of the Byelorussian SSR. Burning houses, extinguishing fires.

A German officer addresses soldiers from a platform with a swastika.

Soldiers' faces.

An officer shakes hands with a soldier.

Presenting soldiers with treats on the occasion of one of their birthdays.

German infantry on the march, faces of soldiers passing by.

Movement of a motorcade camouflaged by tree branches.

A camouflaged artillery piece in a firing position by the road.

German troops conduct combat operations on the approaches to Smolensk in July 1941. Artillery crews open fire.

A destroyed Soviet tank.

German artillery opens fire on Smolensk, views of the outskirts of Smolensk under fire.

Infantrymen advance.

Officers discuss the actions of their units, checking the map.

Movement of German armored vehicles on the approaches to Smolensk.

Self-propelled assault guns move into position.

General Guderian, commander of the 2nd Panzer Group, receives an officer's report and talks with him.

German tank crews near their vehicles before the attack on Smolensk.

Soviet aircraft in the sky.

German anti-aircraft gun crews take their positions on alert.

View of part of the firing position of an anti-aircraft battery near Smolensk.

German anti-aircraft gunners fire at Soviet aircraft, shells explode in the sky.

A burning aircraft falls.

Panorama of part of a village.

View of the firing position of one of the anti-aircraft guns.

Anti-aircraft guns fire at air targets.

Aircraft in the sky.

Observers at the firing position.

Observers at a German anti-aircraft battery firing position during the Battle of Smolensk in July-August 1941. The downed plane crashes into the ground, black smoke rises.

Map of the European part of the USSR. View of the central part of Smolensk with destroyed houses in September 1941.

View of the central part of Smolensk with destroyed houses in September 1941, trucks passing by.

Panorama of the walls of buildings with broken windows and destroyed ceilings on one of the streets of Smolensk.

View of one of the towers of the Smolensk Kremlin.

German soldiers on the streets of Smolensk.

View of the building of the Assumption Cathedral.

German soldiers service vehicles in the winter of 1941, checking the condition of the engines.

Drivers warm themselves by the fire.

Car repair in the field.

Repair of vehicles parked under a canopy during the German offensive on Leningrad in September 1941 (panorama).

Crankshaft repair in the field.

Blacksmith work in a field auto repair shop.

Welder repairing a car body.

Motorcycle repair.

Replacing a wheel on a motorcycle sidecar.

Soldiers eat sandwiches during a break.

Issuance of spare parts and materials for winter operation of vehicles.

A truck approaches a warehouse.

Loading ammunition.

A truck with machine gunners and guards leaves the warehouse.

Transportation of felled fir trees on sleds.

Captured Red Army soldiers build a fence from fir trees.

The movement of an army horse-drawn convoy along a winter road.

Horse legs and cart wheels.

Infantrymen walking behind a field kitchen.

A driver on the box.

Delivery of ammunition to a position in the forest.

Soldiers carry boxes of ammunition along a trench.

Soldiers dig and deepen a trench, equip positions.

Preparing stakes, making wire entanglements and "slingshots".

Loading a barbed wire "slingshot" onto a sled.

Transporting "slingshots" to the front line.

Views of the line of combat contact with a wire entanglement, a duty number at a gun in a trench.

An officer observes through a stereoscopic telescope.

Map of the western part of the USSR. The movement of a horse-drawn German convoy along corduroy roads in the direction of Gomel in August 1941. A cart and a cyclist get stuck in the mud.

The movement of German heavy horse-drawn guns, horses' hooves.

German artillery fires at a populated area, view of a populated area under fire.

Smoke from a fire over houses.

An observer looks through binoculars.

Burning railroad cars on the tracks.

Views of a burning train.

Installing a motor railcar on the rails.

German scouts set out on patrol along the railroad on a motor railcar.

The scouts get off the railcar.

Removing a mine from under a rail.

Inspecting the damage to a rail blown up by partisans.