Eastern Front (1941-1945)

The face of Bolshevism.

Moscow, a sculpture of Lenin in front of the building.

Beggarly huts on the outskirts, large modern houses in the background.

The outskirts of Minsk, half-ruined shacks, an old woman coming out of one.

Dugouts, huts knocked together from plywood, thatched roofs.

Residents in rags, barefoot.

The beggarly furnishings of the hut, flies crawling over a sick child.

Rifty children.

German troops breaking down the barrier at the border.

Soldiers briskly marching under the road.

Dusty road.

Map, border of the USSR, Finland, Ladoga.

A cannon is firing.

A German looks into the sky through binoculars, planes are flying.

An alarm signal.

German soldiers are running, an anti-aircraft gun is firing, a panorama of the field, a burning forest.

Bombers are flying, an air battle, tracers of tracer bullets, a burning plane.

German tanks, trucks, and cannons are moving.

German warships at sea.

Airplane bombs ship from air.

USSR map, Latvia, Minsk.

Scheme of advance to Latvia, Leningrad, Moscow.

German bombers take off, panorama of terrain.

Road with cars visible from above, huge number of bombs flying.

Panorama of planes and guns parked on the ground.

German guns fire at Soviet bastions.

Panorama of town, fires.

Soviet soldiers surrender waving white rags.

German officers.

Supports of destroyed bridge, fires.

Germans attack, they are in Brest.

City residents return home with bundles.

Belarus, Brest, building of Brest regional executive committee, German sentry stands.

Germans march to Bialystok along muddy road.

They build pontoon bridge across river, soldiers wait and rest, cross.

Airplane bombs railway station.

After the battle, guns are firing, explosions.

Burning houses are visible.

A damaged factory chimney falls.

Wounded Germans.

Soviet prisoners

A huge column of Soviet prisoners is marching.

The Germans are entering a burning village.

Borystopol.

Huts behind fences.

German tanks are marching, horse-drawn guns, German cavalry.

Guns are firing, a city is visible on the horizon.

A German is crawling across a field, explosions.

The Germans are attacking a pillbox with Faustpatrone, Soviet soldiers are captured.

Broken pillbox reinforcement.

Funeral of a German soldier, a helmet on a cross, comrades say goodbye to the deceased.

A tank approaches a bridge.

Guns are firing, tanks are moving across a wheat field.

Attack of German tanks.

Broken Soviet tanks, Soviet soldiers are surrendering.

A city and a broken railway bridge are visible across the river.

A mortar is firing.

The Germans are looking at the bridge, the churches of Riga are visible in the distance.

The Germans are crossing the river in boats.

On the shore, a concentration of troops, tanks are being transported by ferry.

German troops in Riga, the population welcomes them.

Latvians with a national flag, smiling.

German soldiers are walking down the street, a boy is taking a picture of them.

Armored vehicles.

Latvian girls in national costumes.

German soldiers are resting, sleeping on the ground, on cars, in a field kitchen.

Horses are nibbling grass.

A soldier is writing a letter.

They are getting water with a well crane, washing themselves.

Lunch is being distributed into mess tins.

German planes are taking off.

A road with Soviet columns is visible.

The pilots are planning a route.

German cyclists, infantry, cars.

The soldiers are smiling, a march is playing.

Planes are in the air.

On the ground, a Soviet airfield with planes is being bombed.

German tanks are crossing the river

The Germans are moving towards Bialystok, artillery is firing.

The skeleton of a house, fires.

An assault with a banner, a soldier is cutting barbed wire.

They are running through a small forest, entering a village.

Wounded Germans, they are being bandaged.

Tanks are moving along the road, a machine gun is firing.

Soldiers are running across a field, a German with a machine gun belt around his neck.

The Germans are entering the village, burning houses, stone one-story houses, a cobblestone road.

The Germans are moving forward in dashes, killed.

Night photography, fires.

Tanks are moving, throwing up lights, a tree is burning.

Broken Soviet equipment.

Map, diagram of the German movement from Bialystok to Minsk.

German tanks are moving along a dusty road, the Germans are wearing protective glasses.

The infantry is waving their hands at the tankers.

Tanks in the field, a windmill is visible, houses are burning.

Wheat field, burning Soviet tanks.

German cannon firing.

Aerial panorama, terrain, roads.

German looks through a stereoscopic telescope.

Rifles, machine guns, mortars firing.

Soviet soldiers surrender.

A truck is burning.

Railroad crossing, tank is driving.

Tankers jump out with weapons.

Asian-type Soviet soldier surrenders

The Germans look at the surrendering Soviet soldiers.

German equipment on the road.

Minsk, German soldiers on the streets of the city, cyclists.

The ruins of the city, the skeletons of houses, a broken monument to some soldier, a huge fallen sculpture of Lenin.

Map.

The German army is moving from Minsk to Smolensk.

The Smolensk-Moscow road.

Trucks are moving, residents with scrub.

A German anti-aircraft gun on the side of the road.

The Derezina River, a bridge, small boats.

The Germans are restoring the broken bridge, cars and guns are moving.

The soldiers eat on the way, water the horses.

They rest by the porch, sleep in the cars, right on the ground.

A pig wanders near an armored car.

Soldiers are plucking chickens, peeling potatoes.

A soldier is shearing his comrade.

They are washing cars and horses.

Soldiers are walking along a pontoon bridge.

Artillery is shelling Vitebsk.

Top view, bombing.

Smolensk, ruins of the city, Germans walking along the cobblestone street.

The cameraman films with a hand-held camera how soldiers go behind the house.

Shooting in the streets, Germans sneaking along the bridge.

A German bomber is flying, top view, the pilot is looking at the map.

Night shooting, bombs exploding.

Rocket.

Map.

Direction to Kyiv, Uman, Odessa.

German soldiers in Gurzoviki, driving through a wheat field, over potholes.

Lemberg, German troops in the city, residents greet them.

Ukrainian nationalists wave their hands in greeting.

Ukrainian girls talk to German soldiers.

Battlefield.

A signalman lies with a reel, restoring telephone communication.

Guns are firing

A German plane with a kite emblem.

German soldiers enter a village, walk along a fence.

A Ukrainian town.

Horse-drawn carts with guns go along the road past the church.

The village stands along the road.

A local resident hangs a Nazi flag.

German troops pass by a field.

The Germans are restoring a bridge.

They are heading to Bessarabia.

A local resident pours water from a bucket into the Germans' flasks.

A slogan above the road: "Glory to Hitler - Glory to Ukraine!" Residents greet the Germans.

Germans and locals on the square, the Germans are treated to pies.

Girls with soldiers.

A panorama of the city.

German troops walk along the road past a sign to Morantsy.

Children and women by the road.

A soldier drinks water, a man talks to a German soldier.

They get water from a well, wash themselves.

Women catch a pig, soldiers help them.

A woman makes the sign of the cross over passing Germans, people cross themselves with the banner of the cross.

Local residents dig the earth under the supervision of the Germans.

The road, broken Soviet guns, prisoners.

On a German tank there is an inscription: 2nd Goering Regiment. 6/29/41. On a city street.

There is a Soviet tank.

An armored car on a dusty road.

German planes are bombing.

An air battle, the plane is burning, bombs are flying.

A shell hits the plane, it catches fire and falls.

A German cannon is firing.

Soviet soldiers surrender.

Prisoners, Asian faces, a Jew in glasses.

A tank is burning.

Troops enter a Ukrainian village.

Ruins of houses, torn wires, a dead horse lies, a horse without a rider, killed in the streets.

German soldiers collect poppies in the field, put them on the graves of their comrades.

Direction to Minsk.

Muddy roads, cars get stuck in the mud.

Construction crews level the road.

Soldiers drag a motorcycle through the mud by hand, a tractor pulls out cars, they drive over potholes

Aerial view, bombing.

A wrecked train, wrecked tracks.

Wrecked Soviet planes on the airfield.

Wrecked Soviet equipment: tanks, their parts, tracks.

Bomb craters.

The Germans inspect a Soviet tank, tanks in the water, near the shore, wrecked guns, trucks, buses, armored vehicles.

Tanks are driving along the road, tankers are looking at a column of Soviet prisoners, Asian faces.

Prisoners are being driven across a bridge.

A collection camp for Soviet prisoners, they are sitting on the ground.

Individuals of Caucasian and Asian descent, ugly faces.

Stalinsk, burning houses, fires.

The station is burning.

A church, the interior of the church, where a garage was arranged in Soviet times.

An orphanage, emaciated children are lying on the beds, rickety.

Flies are crawling on them.

A naked child on the ground.

Corpses of murdered residents are being carried out of the GPU building, women are crying.

Bullet marks on the prison walls.

Carrying out the bodies of victims of repression.

A long line of civilian corpses piled on the ground, women crying.

People beating up Bolshevik "agents", Jews.

Ugly underground types, Jews.

Map of Europe.

Shooters from Finland, Norway, Denmark, Belgium, France, Spain, Germany, Italy, Slovakia, Hungary, Romania are marching towards the Soviet Union, implying an upsurge in the fight against Bolshevism.

Volunteer enlistment in the fascist army in the occupied territory.

Volunteer enlistment office in Norway, in Belgium.

A congress is being held in Paris under the slogan of the fight against Bolshevism.

French legionnaires.

Anti-communist legionnaires in black uniforms are marching in Belgium.

Phalangists are marching in Spain with slogans "against Russia".

Legionnaires in Denmark, a train with legionnaires.

Boots of German soldiers are marching along a dusty road.

German soldiers are walking, cars are driving