Civilians provide assistance to Soviet soldiers and officers. Trophies.




Residents of a liberated village in the Kalinin region load scrap metal and soldiers' helmets, abandoned by the Nazi occupiers during their retreat, into a sled.
A sign with a slogan hangs by the sled.
Girls bring a car tire rim.
Villagers drag a German motorcycle sidecar through the snow to a scrap metal collection point.
A boy throws piston cups from a bucket.
Children and adults attend a rally.
January 1942
Kalinin Oblast
Winter




Children throw German helmets out of the windows of a wooden house.
The children play, throwing the German helmets through the empty windows, and then begin carrying the helmets to the scrap metal collection point.
The children run into the barn.
January 1942
Kalinin Oblast
Winter




Village children running through the snow.
German helmets discarded in the snow.
Children throw German helmets out of the empty window frames of a wooden house.
Girls outside collect German helmets discarded in the snow from the house.
January 1942
Kalinin Oblast
Winter




German helmets discarded in the snow.
Children throw German helmets out of the empty window frames of a wooden house.
Girls outside collect and carry away the German helmets discarded in the snow.
January 1942
Kalinin Oblast
Winter