Newsreel footage from the Second World War (1939-1945)

German armored vehicles in a populated area in Germany in the winter of 1945. Soldiers armed with panzerfausts and machine guns are sent to the front line.

The face of a German soldier.

German armored vehicles are moving along the road.

Officers with binoculars are watching the battle.

A German tank is firing.

A German anti-aircraft gun crew is firing direct fire, infantrymen are at a brick fence.

A German machine gunner and soldiers with a panzerfaust in position.

Corpses of soldiers in the mud.

Destroyed Soviet tanks.

German armored personnel carriers with soldiers on the march.

Wounded German soldiers at a dressing station.

A tank is moving into position, German infantry is taking cover behind a brick fence.

German anti-aircraft gun crews are firing direct fire.

German six-barreled mortars are firing.

Assault guns and armored personnel carriers being transferred to a dangerous section of the front.

German self-propelled guns firing.

A Wehrmacht infantry unit marching, faces of passing soldiers.

Wehrmacht units fighting at night, buildings burning after an air raid.

Panorama of part of a burning block, German soldiers walking past a burning building.

View of the ruins of a destroyed block.

Goebbels speaking from the podium at a rally calling for total war in 1943. Rally participants applaud and stand up.

View of the rally hall (from above).

Panorama and views of the rally, rally participants raising their hands in a Nazi salute, faces of rally participants.

Goebbels continues his speech, rally participants raising their hands in a Nazi salute.

A banner with the slogan of total war on the balcony barrier (panorama).

Wehrmacht units marching past the ruins.

The banner group of one of the Wehrmacht units marches at the head of the formation along the city streets.

Cavalry and infantry units of the Wehrmacht march in parade formation along the streets of Warsaw on October 5, 1939. Soldiers marching in formation.

Hitler takes the parade.

Hitler greets the passing troops, the faces of soldiers marching in parade formation.

Unloading a new German light machine gun from a train car.

German soldiers test the unmanned mine tankette "Goliath".

Wehrmacht units march along the streets of German cities to the front lines.

Installation of a German artillery piece in a firing position.

Panorama of the front line.

Movement of trains with military equipment.

Military personnel and diplomats before the trilateral conference.

View of the conference room.

Participants in the conference from the British and Soviet sides at the table.

American military personnel and diplomats during the conference.

Faces of the diplomats.

View of the Monte Cassino monastery in Italy.

Italian mountain landscape.

Panorama of part of the dilapidated quarters of the city of Cassino (from above).

View of the monastery on the top of a hill.

American bombers fly.

Bombs explode around the monastery walls, clouds of smoke rise into the air during an air raid on February 15, 1944. View of the Monte Cassino monastery after the first air strike.

Bombs explode after hitting the monastery building, clouds of smoke cover the sky.

The monastery in smoke and bomb explosions.

Contrails in the sky from planes.

Bombs explode on a hill around the monastery walls during a sighting bombing, bombs hit the monastery building.

Contrails of passing planes in the sky.

Bomb explosions on the hillside and on the monastery wall, smoke from the explosions covers everything around.

Views of the hill and monastery during the aerial bombardment.

Incendiary bomb explosions around the monastery ruins.

The half-destroyed monastery building.

Clouds of smoke rise upward.

Contrails from the planes.

The Monte Cassino monastery in the explosions of aerial bombs.

View of the half-destroyed monastery building.

View of the hall during the signing of an agreement between Japan and one of the countries that joined the Tripartite Pact.

Participants in the ceremony sit at tables.

Members of the Japanese delegation at the table.

The heads of the delegations put their signatures.

Japanese Foreign Minister Matsuoka puts his signature.

Signatures of the parties under the agreement.

Matsuoka makes a speech.

Faces of the delegation members during Matsuoka's speech.

Journalists in the hall.

Matsuoka continues his speech, reads the written text.

Members of the delegations raise their glasses and congratulate each other.

Commander of the Afrika Korps General Rommel inspects a defensive position.

Rommel responds to greetings from soldiers and officers while inspecting the fortifications.

Armored personnel carriers of Rommel's headquarters.

Rommel in one of the armored personnel carriers.

Rommel's coffin in the funeral hall, an honor guard at the coffin in October 1944. One of the officers makes a funeral speech.

An honor guard at Rommel's coffin.

One of the soldiers holds a pillow with Rommel's awards.

Rommel's awards.

The faces of the military present in the funeral hall.

Laying a funeral wreath at Rommel's coffin.

Carrying out the coffin with Rommel's body from the funeral hall.

The honor guard company in formation.

Placing the coffin with Rommel's body on an artillery carriage.

The funeral procession moving through the streets of the city.

The coffin with Rommel's body on an artillery carriage towed by an armored personnel carrier.

City residents stand on the sidewalks along the route of the funeral procession, raising their hands in a Nazi salute.

Finnish armored vehicles moving along the road.

Finnish refugees driving cattle along the roads.

Train cars loaded with things and household goods at the Kemijärvi station.

The movement of a Finnish railway echelon with things and household goods on platforms.

Panorama of the funeral hall during the funeral of Bruno Mussolini in August 1941. Participants in the funeral ceremony in the hall.

Faces of the funeral participants.

The unveiling ceremony of the bust of Bruno Mussolini.

Bust of Bruno Mussolini.

Consecration of the bust and sprinkling with holy water.

Views of the hall where the ceremony is taking place.

Head of the bust (close up).

Passenger plane taking off from the airfield.

Shadows from flying planes.

Map of Manila Bay with the Bataan Peninsula and the Corregidor fortress during its bombing by Japanese aircraft in 1942 (animation).

The crew of a Japanese bomber during the flight.

A Japanese bomber drops bombs.

Japanese artillery fires.

Japanese bombers approach the target.

The face of a Japanese pilot.

View of the target during the attack.

Japanese aircraft bomb and attack ground targets.

German and Italian soldiers build defensive lines in Tunisia in 1942, dig trenches.

Installing wire entanglement.

When the alarm sounds, soldiers leave their entrenching tools and take up their weapons.

Italian soldiers take up positions in the trench.

Machine gun and mortar crews fire.

Preparing flamethrower cylinders for an attack.

Italian mortarmen fire.

A recoilless rifle in a firing position.

Soldiers climb out of the trench to attack.

Italian infantry attacks up the slope with flamethrowers.

Flamethrowers burn out enemy positions.

Italian infantry attacks the enemy up the slope of a hill.

Italian tanks move to the attack line, view from the tank's observation slit.

German tanks during combat operations in North Africa.

Views of the battlefield.

A destroyed British tank is burning.

Knocked out and burning American tanks.

British soldiers captured.

A column of British prisoners of war passes.

The face of a British pilot.

The pilots leave their living quarters, equipped for alert.

Members of one of the crews board the aircraft.

The bombers taxi to the runway.

Bombers on the airfield during engine warm-up before takeoff (panorama).

British and US Air Force bombers taking off.

A squadron in flight.

Members of the German air defense staff at work.

A night bomber is hit.

The pilot's hand throws back the clamp on the control stick, presses the trigger.

A burst of tracers hits an enemy aircraft.

Bombs exploding on a target during a night air raid (top).

Burning buildings in a German city, photographs of victims of Allied air raids.

A German tank camouflaged by branches.

An anti-aircraft gun crew fires direct fire.

A German machine gunner fires.

A German artillery crew fires.

Shells exploding behind the railroad.

German mortar men firing.

German artillery firing.

German motorcyclists and an artillery piece on the platform of a moving train.

Wehrmacht infantry on the march.

German troops moving along roads after the invasion of the USSR in the summer of 1941. German infantry in a trench, artillerymen setting up a gun for firing.

German infantry engaged in combat.

The shadow of a flying bomber.

German bombs being dropped on Soviet territory.

Bombs exploding on targets.

German planes in the sky.

Bombs exploding.

A Wehrmacht unit passes through a destroyed railway track.

A German liaison plane flies over Soviet prisoners of war sitting on the ground.

Soviet prisoners of war gathered in one place (top).

Soviet prisoners of war walk along the road in columns.

Members of the Hitler Youth line up at a stadium during a ceremonial event in the mid-1930s.

Members of the Todt Military Construction Organization parade.

Members of the Hitler Youth pass under the arch above the gates of a summer camp.

Raising the Nazi flag in the Alps at a camp of the League of German Girls.

Members of the Hitler Youth during summer recreation and sports.

A detachment of Hitler Youth members prepares to set up camp at a rest stop.

Destruction of St.

Hedwig's Cathedral in Berlin after an Allied air raid in 1943. The pediment of the cathedral.

Surviving bas-reliefs on the pediment of the cathedral.

The entrance to the cathedral.

Faces of firefighters inspecting the aftermath of the fire in the cathedral.

A woman with a child leaves a burnt-out house.

Firefighters help a man carry a sewing machine out of a burnt-out house.

People carry things across the street that survived the fire.

Residents of the house carry out surviving things, members of the Hitler Youth help them.

Firefighters with a hose and a fire nozzle.

Smoking ruins of houses in Berlin.

Women stand by things carried out of a burnt house, talking.

The face of an elderly woman.

Meat carcasses and food products carried out onto the sidewalk from a bombed and burnt store.

Smoking ruins.

The interior of the destroyed and burnt St.

Hedwig's Cathedral.

Goebbels gets out of the car, greets those who meet him, and climbs the steps of the cathedral.

Goebbels and his entourage inspect the destruction of the cathedral.

Goebbels's face.

Goebbels listens to one of the clergy.

Destruction inside the cathedral.

Goebbels and his entourage leave the destroyed and burnt cathedral.

Goebbels says goodbye to the priest and representatives of the municipality, gets into the car.

The surviving statue of St.

Hedwig in clouds of smoke.