



Seeing off to the front near the train carriages.
1941




Text of the "Barbarossa" plan.
Map of the capture of the USSR by German troops.
German soldiers await the order to attack on June 22, 1941. German planes fly and dive, bombs fall.
A railway bridge collapses.
Explosions on the ground - filmed from an airplane.
Trains explode and burn.
German soldiers run along the street of an occupied settlement, motorcyclists ride by.
A destroyed railway junction.
German tanks drive by.
A column of German soldiers passes along the road.
German tanks move across the field.
The attack of Nazi Germany on the USSR
1941




Katyushas are firing.
An officer gives the command: Fire!
Explosions.
A machine gun in the forest.
A plane is flying.
A tank is moving.
Telegraph poles - filmed through binoculars.
Destruction.
Repairmen on a pole.
Women are standing, officers are writing something nearby.
A sign: Yelnya Museum of Local History.
Destroyed halls of the museum.
Captured Germans on the street.
Broken German equipment.
1941
USSR
Summer




Military airfield; planes taking off.
Pilots landing planes - different shots; pilots in the cockpit; propeller spinning.
A soldier in camouflage suit is hiding in the snow; the soldier is looking through binoculars.
The commander is looking through binoculars.
Soldiers in camouflage suits on the outskirts of a village.
Cavalry detachment commanders are standing on the edge of the forest.
Launching a hot air balloon.
Soldiers in camouflage suits at a large-caliber gun.
The muzzle of the howitzer rises.
Guns firing; explosions.
The commander gives the command "Fire!"; guns firing.
Soldiers loading the guns - different shots.
Guns firing; explosions.
Soldiers, camouflaged tanks on the edge of the forest.
Tankers boarding tanks.
General K.K. Rokossovsky with members of the staff at a combat position in the forest.
T-34 tanks moving across a snow-covered field.
Counteroffensive of Soviet troops near Moscow, Aviation during the war years
Rokossovsky K.K. -- Soviet military leader
December 1941
Winter




A German soldier smokes.
German soldiers walk through the tall grass at dawn.
Soldiers float on a raft.
German planes stand at the airfield.
German soldiers on a tank, looking at the sky.
German air force planes in the sky.
Germans drive by in a car.
German tanks move across the field.
Planes drop bombs.
A village is burning.
A fire.
The beginning of the war
06.1941
German army




Soviet prisoners of war pass by.
Russian Liberation Army (ROA) - soldiers with a portrait of Hitler - photo. 07.1941: Distribution of food to German prisoners on the territory of the USSR. A wheat field is burning.
A village is burning.
1941
USSR
German prisoners of war, Soviet prisoners of war, Vlasov's army
Summer