Rail War (1943)

Footage №194683,

Reel №1

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Central headquarters of the partisan movement, P.K. Ponomarenko, development of the "Rail War" plan.

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Central headquarters of the partisan movement, development of the "Rail War" plan.

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The partisans study maps, plant explosives on the railway, carry away dismantled rails, and mine the bridge.

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A series of explosions on the railway tracks, trains and carriages burning, falling off the embankments; burning carriages, dead Germans, an explosion in a tunnel, explosions on the tracks.

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Partisans in ambush.

Train cars fall off the embankment, partisans flee, explosions, German corpses.

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Destroyed railways, broken trains.

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