Nazi Germany at the beginning of World War II (1939-1941)

A passenger train approaches a platform.

Hitler A. stands on the platform waiting for the train to stop.

Hitler greets the President of Slovakia Jozef Tiso and Deputy Prime Minister Vojtech Tuka as they exit the carriage on March 13, 1939. Tiso shakes hands with Foreign Minister Ribbentrop J. and Field Marshal Keitel W. Goering H. says goodbye to Tiso and the Slovak military at a train carriage.

Tiso talks to Goering from the carriage window.

Tiso at the carriage window, Hernig's face.

Goering shakes hands with Tiso through the carriage window.

Map of the Soviet-Finnish front.

Captured Soviet tanks with Finnish symbols during the march.

Finnish horse artillery units on the march.

Movement of a military convoy.

Finnish infantry during the march.

Finnish anti-aircraft gun on the roof of a wood and earth defensive structure.

Finnish anti-aircraft gunners at the rangefinder.

An anti-aircraft gun crew and German instructors in position, the gun begins firing.

Anti-aircraft guns firing.

A downed plane falls.

Finnish soldiers on bicycles ride through a village.

Panorama of a destroyed settlement, a truck with soldiers passes along the road.

Representatives of the Schutzkor distribute gifts and food to soldiers.

A woman at a field kitchen.

The face of a female cook.

Distribution of food from a field kitchen.

Finnish soldiers eating.

The commander of the Karelian Isthmus army, General Henriks E., presents awards to German instructors.

The islands of Oesel and Dago on the map.

German artillery firing.

German warships on the march.

The crew of a deck gun firing.

Warships of the German fleet firing, officers on the commander's bridge.

Signals from soldiers.

Ships firing.

Landing craft approaching the shore, faces of soldiers on the boats.

Landing of troops in shallow water.

Unloading an anti-tank gun onto the shore.

Transportation of the gun to the firing position by the crew.

Movement of Wehrmacht units along the roads to Leningrad in the autumn of 1941. German troops are engaged in combat operations.

Panorama of destroyed and burning buildings in one of the settlements.

Movement of German columns along the roads.

Local residents greet German soldiers.

German soldiers cut down pine forest.

The process of wood processing at a sawmill.

Construction of wooden barracks by sappers.

Insulation of wooden walls with straw.

Types of construction of wooden barracks.

A dog at a kennel.

Movement of a German horse convoy in the direction of Leningrad.