Combat operations of German troops on the Eastern Front in the summer and autumn of 1941 (1941)

Faces of Soviet prisoners of war in the summer of 1941. A queue to enroll in a volunteer Latvian police battalion.

Volunteers undergoing the registration procedure.

Volunteers standing in formation.

Formed police battalions with banners march along the streets of Riga.

German troops and horse-drawn convoys move along the roads of the Baltic States.

Motorcyclists roll their motorcycles along the sleepers of a railway track.

A view of a blown-up railway bridge.

A view of the blown-up bridge from the inside, water flowing over the collapsed bridge.

German soldiers cross a rapid river on a makeshift bridge made of peasant carts.

A truck with an artillery piece in tow fords a water obstacle.

Faces of Lithuanian soldiers marching along the road.

A column of the Lithuanian police battalion moves along the road in July-August 1941. Faces of Lithuanian officers riding in a cart.

The movement of supply trains and columns of Lithuanian auxiliary units.

Map of Ukraine.

The movement of German troops along the roads of Ukraine.

The movement of columns of German armored vehicles.

Panorama of a section of the river with a crossing.

Soldiers cross to the other bank in inflatable boats.

Faces of soldiers and officers.

Map of the western part of the USSR. A German cavalry unit moves along the road to Vyazma in September 1941. The movement of an infantry column.

Units of German troops conduct combat operations in the Western direction.

Light field artillery fires, German machine-gun crews fire, a machine gunner's face.

German soldiers in an occupied village.

A signalman with a coil on his back, laying a field telephone line.

German soldiers during rest.

Machine-gun and artillery crews fire.

Heavy artillery fires at a populated area.

Explosions in the positions of the Red Army.

Movement of units on the battlefield, German infantry moving in a chain across the field.

Panorama of the outskirts of Polotsk, movement of German infantry.

Knocked out and abandoned anti-aircraft guns of the Red Army.

The body of a killed Soviet anti-aircraft gunner near a gun.

Views of burning Polotsk and the railway bridge.

German soldiers make their way through the ruins.

German troops on the streets of the city.

Burning tracked tractors.

German armored cars on the streets of the city.

Burning ruins of houses, tarpaulin trucks drive along the street.

View of burnt and destroyed houses.

Sappers launch a pontoon boat.

Restoration of a bridge across a river by a German engineering unit.

A column of petrol trucks stands on the road.

Wagon drivers water their horses.

Kneading dough in a field bakery.

Soldiers preparing to catch and slaughter a pig in the yard of one of the houses, soldiers' faces.

Processing a pig carcass.

Cooking over a fire.

Soldiers eating.

A German cavalry unit moves along a wooden crossing built by sappers.

German troops move along the roads of Belarus.

Motorcyclists pass Soviet prisoners of war.

German motorcyclists ride along the roads.

An artillery crew passes by.

A German patrol moves on a handcar along the rails, faces of the patrol soldiers.

The patrol dismounts, the soldiers run along the railway embankment.

A fight with partisans (staging).

The patrol inspects the station buildings.

The patrol on handcars continues on its way.

The destroyed building of the railway station (panorama).

Panorama of the broken echelon on the tracks and the destroyed railway station.

Panorama of the destroyed depot.

German soldiers restore the railway tracks.

Re-gauging the railway track according to the European standard.

Lubrication of the units and assemblies of the captured locomotive.

German locomotive crew on a captured Soviet locomotive.

Bodies of dead German soldiers loaded into an airplane.

The pilot's face.

Soldiers see off a seaplane taking off on the surface of the water.

Map of parts of Latvia and Estonia.

German bombers flying to bomb the Moon Archipelago in the Baltic Sea.

Dropping bombs on Soviet warships (top), crew in the cockpit.

German bomber in flight.

Explosion on board a Soviet ship (top).

Ships of the German landing flotilla moving toward the shore to land troops.

German ships on a combat mission.

Preparing to sweep mines.

Explosions of detected mines.

Signalman with flags.

Officer assigning tasks to the crew.

Packing grenades into the cap.

Deck gun crew firing.

Gun barrel.

Shell explosions on the shore (panorama).

Gunner at the sight.

Deck gun crew at work.

German stormboats with troops are moving at high speed toward the shore, soldiers are preparing to disembark.

Bombers are heading for targets on the Baltic Sea coast.

Crew members during a combat sortie.

Machine gun fire at ground targets, explosions in the terrain (above).

German planes bomb the Soviet coast of the Baltic Sea.

Fires after German bombing.

Landing and cargo ships with motor vehicles, horses, cargo and personnel are heading toward the shore.

A signalman with flags in his hands.

Soldiers on the deck before disembarking.

A ship with artillery is approaching the shoreline.

Artillery guns and motor vehicles are being unloaded onto the shore.

Soldiers manually pull a car onto the shore using a rope.

Cars slide into the water along ramps and drive out onto the shore.

A passenger car drives away along the road to the front lines.

A Soviet truck abandoned under a bridge.

A German truck is moving toward the front lines.

German artillerymen inspect a gun from one of the captured Soviet coastal batteries.

Soviet sailors captured by the Germans, faces of prisoners of war.

Soviet prisoners of war walk towards a landing craft leaving for the return voyage.

German dive bombers bomb Soviet territory, bombs exploding on targets (above), Ju-87 dive bombers approaching a target.

German troops and horse-drawn supply trains moving along roads.

A destroyed Soviet BA-6 armored car on the side of the road.

A heavy gun on the side of the road, abandoned by Soviet troops.

A column of German infantry moves along the side of the road.

Signalmen with backpack radios pass by.

The crew of an infantry support gun moves to a firing position.

A column of German troops stands on the road.

Flamethrowers burn out an ambush in the ruins.

Panorama of the fire.

German howitzers firing, shells exploding in a village, Wehrmacht units moving along the roads in cars and bicycles.

Views of burning villages.

German cavalry entering the streets of Riga in early July 1941. Girls and teenagers giving bouquets of flowers to passing German cavalrymen.

Newspapers being distributed to German soldiers on the march, soldiers reading on the move.

A war correspondent photographs a soldier distributing newspapers.

Faces of passing soldiers.

A crowd destroying Stalin's portrait.

A girl giving a German soldier a bouquet of flowers.

A man handing out packs of cigarettes to soldiers.

German infantry moving along the roads of the Baltics, faces of soldiers.

Artillery fire on a Red Army stronghold on one of the farms.

A shell hitting one of the buildings.

Panorama of part of the burning Libau quarter in June 1941. German troops at the half-destroyed pier in the port of Libau.

German troops on the streets of Libau.

An anti-aircraft gun crew takes up a position on a street in Riga to fire at buildings.

German troops during street fighting in Libau.

Laying out field loudspeaker lines during street fighting.

A German soldier offers Red Army soldiers to surrender over a loudspeaker.

A captured Red Army soldier is searched.

A sign at the entrance to the Libau city military registration and enlistment office.

Burning buildings on the streets of Libau, German troops pass by burning buildings.

The wheels of artillery guns and the tracks of tanks driving along the road, the legs of walking soldiers, a Wehrmacht infantry unit moving along the road.

German armored vehicles on the roads of the Baltic States, the movement of mechanized military columns.

Tanks with infantry on their armor are moving.

Oesel Island on the map.

View of part of the seashore.

Panorama of the bombed hangar of the Soviet seaplane base.

The aircraft engine is smashed.

Soviet ships and torpedo boats sunken near the shore.

Views of one of the towers of the destroyed coastal battery.

Arensburg Castle on the island of Oesel, local residents at the castle (panorama).

Carrying out the corpses of Red Army soldiers on stretchers.

The bodies of the dead Red Army soldiers laid out in a row (panorama).

Faces of captured Red Army soldiers.