March to the East (1942)

Germany.

Hitler in a plane on the way to the Eastern Front.

The plane lands at the airfield of one of the military units.

Soldiers run to the plane.

The general greets Hitler, they ride in a car, along the way the soldiers enthusiastically greet the Fuhrer.

At the headquarters of Field Marshal Leeba, a meeting near the map.

A map of Europe with the borders of Germany and the USSR. A view of new buildings in Moscow, wooden houses and sagging fences in the foreground.

A Russian village.

An old woman comes out of a hut, a dirty street, a squalid atmosphere in the house, a family sitting at the table.

A provincial town, a house that is propped up by pillars due to its dilapidation.

Dirty, peeling walls, residents near their houses.

Soviet posters depicting the happy childhood of Soviet children.

A children's hospital, rickety, dirty children on their beds, flies crawling over their bodies.

A naked child lies on straw on stones.

Against the backdrop of beautiful administrative buildings, miserable workers' slums, a prison building in Germany.

Map of Europe, border of the USSR. Parades of troops of Germany's allies who have risen to fight Bolshevism.

Volunteer units from Denmark, Romania, Hungary, Slovakia and other countries are marching.

Soldiers are running in ceremonial formation.

Soldiers are swearing allegiance at the flag of Denmark.

Croatia: volunteer soldiers are leaving for the front, residents are seeing them off.

A military echelon with the inscription: "Flanders", soldiers in the carriages, trains with weapons are coming.

A map showing the concentration of troops of Field Marshal Leeb on the border with the USSR. German troops are crossing the border, soldiers are knocking down a high fence, pillars, a barrier, removing border signs.

German troops near Kaunas, soldiers at the Lithuanian border sign, fighting on the outskirts of the city.

Orderlies are carrying a wounded man on a stretcher, dragging up ammunition.

The first captured Red Army soldiers, a soldier comes out of the building with his hands up.

German artillery is firing, German soldiers are running across the bridge.

Close-up of captured Red Army soldiers, a captured commander.

Troops are marching towards the city of Kovno, the Lithuanian population is greeting the Germans.

Crossing the river on a ferry.

View of the city, churches.

Soldiers are greeted with flowers.

Map of the Baltics with the cities of Kovno, Kalvarija, Vilnius

Germany.

Arrows on the map indicate the direction of the German attack on Kalvaria.

Motorcycles, artillery, and tanks are driving.

The population greets the Germans with flowers.

The highway to Yunava.

Soldiers take up defensive positions on the side of the road, awaiting an attack.

Close-up of German soldiers.

Burning Soviet tanks.

The surviving synagogue in the city, interior view.

Lithuanian civilians tortured and killed by GPU officers lie on the ground, women are crying, and the victims are being buried.

Fighting in Šaulen /Šiauliai/.

A German cameraman films street fighting.

German soldiers on the march, cavalry is advancing.

Artillery is firing at the city.

Through loudspeakers, the Germans offer the Red Army soldiers to surrender in Russian.

Fighting is underway in the city of Libau.

Germans with flamethrowers.

The cavalry enters the city.

Girls greet the soldiers with flowers.

Soviet prisoners, including a woman, Asian faces.

The road to Dunaburg and Riga.

Units of German troops are moving along the road, tank units, infantry.

From the edge of the forest, the Germans are looking at a farmstead defended by Soviet soldiers, the farmstead is being shelled from guns.

Prisoners are walking along the road with their hands raised.

Close-up of prisoners of different nationalities.

German troops 10 kilometers from Riga.

Crossing a river on boats and rafts.

Accumulation of German equipment by the river.

German troops are entering Riga, the population is greeting them, women are standing in national costumes, a detachment of nationalists is walking with the State Flag.

Map of the Baltic States, arrows show the direction of the further advance of German troops on Estonia.

A balloon in the air, German planes are flying.

German artillery is firing.

Tank units are fighting.

German infantry is using flamethrowers at bunkers of the so-called Stalinist line of defense.

The Germans are firing mortars and machine guns.

Crossing the lake on motorboats.

Anti-aircraft guns shoot at the planes.

The downed plane falls to the ground.

There are mountains of mangled equipment on the field

Germany.

German officers descend to the Luftwaffe headquarters.

Goering sits at a map, discussing the Luftwaffe's missions with the officers.

German planes are flying, bombing Soviet territory.

Air battle.

Map, Lake Ilmen.

Horse-drawn convoys and cyclists are traveling along the road.

Artillery is firing at the city, tanks and infantry are advancing.

View of Reval /Tallinn/ across the bridge.

Soldiers are walking through the ruins, through a destroyed barricade.

March to Narva.

German soldiers on the march.

A river with rapids, a waterfall, a destroyed bridge.

Panorama of Narva.

Ruins of the city, tongues of flame are bursting out of the windows.

Fortress on the river bank.

German soldiers are walking along the road.

The map shows Reval, Baltic Port.

The population of Reval joyfully greets the Germans.

Soldiers are joking with local girls.

A German soldier is being rocked in the arms of the USSR. The Baltics.

Map, arrows from Reval to the island of Ezel.

Crossing on motorboats, ships, ferries.

German artillery and cannons firing.

Fires and smoke from explosions.

The fortress city of Arensburg on the island.

Soldiers in the city, cyclists, motorcyclists, horse-drawn carts riding along the streets of the city.

Soldiers flirt with girls near the house.

The German squadron is heading to sea in Murmansk.

The ships' guns are firing.

Grand Admiral Raeder congratulates the sailors who have returned from the campaign, he walks around the line of sailors, shakes hands with the officers.

The Finnish front, Kirkenes.

General Dietl with officers at a map in the field.

A soldier looks at the sea through binoculars.

Military operations.

Map, Zalla.

Tanks go through the snow to the river, cross to the other bank.

Sign in Finnish: Zalla 142 km, Kemijärve, Kantojoki.

Germany.

General Dietl's troops are attacking.

Artillery is firing, automatic weapons are firing, tanks are advancing.

The well-fortified town of Zalla, the Germans are occupying it.

Tank offensive.

Map of the Finnish front, Kandalaksha, Lakes Onega and Ladoga.

Field Marshal von Mannerheim and his officers are walking toward the position, an artilleryman is saluting him.

Carrying shells to the gun, firing.

Soldiers are running along the communication routes abandoned by the Soviet troops, cutting barbed wire.

A cameraman is filming the battle.

Battles between Lake Ladoga and Lake Onega.

Soldiers are running in the smoke, flamethrowers flash among the trees.

Eastern Karelia, marching on the settlement of Petroski.

Cavalry, infantry in trucks are moving along muddy roads.

Anti-aircraft guns are firing into the sky.

Artillery is firing across the river at the city.

Ruins on the shore.

Finnish troops are entering the city of Petroski.

Sisters of mercy in the Finnish troops, girls at the field kitchen, they pour soup into the soldiers' pots, hand out bread.

General Heinrichs awards Finnish awards to German soldiers.

The siege of the city of Vyborg.

A detachment of German sappers forces the river in boats, landing of troops.

Finnish machine gunners in battle, close-up.

The outskirts of Vyborg, the inscription on the building: "Vyborg", "Viipuri".

Ruins of the city.

A soldier with a weapon on his shoulder against the background of a pole with a Finnish flag.

The direction is marked on the map - Leningrad.

German planes are flying, the pilot is in the cockpit, bombing of strategic objects and roads.

Tracer bullets in the air.

Air battle with enemy planes.

German officers examine Leningrad.

Infantry on the offensive.

Soldiers throw grenades, fire from a flamethrower.

Germany.

Hitler looks down on Minsk in an airplane.

Soldiers and officers meet him at the airfield.

The soldiers rejoice and shout.

Field Marshal von Bock meets Hitler.

They are at headquarters in front of a map on the wall.

A diagram of the advance of German troops from Bialystok to Minsk, then Smolensk.

German tanks move through a village, a cameraman films the advance of troops against the backdrop of burning houses.

German cavalry, soldiers walk past fires.

March on Grodno.

Artillery fires, tanks storm a Soviet bunker, infantry moves.

Soviet soldiers emerge from the bunker, surrendering.

Tanks move along the road, across the bridge.

Panorama of Grodno, troops enter the city.

Crossing the Bug River.

A local battle for the industrial part of the city.

A German tank division moves towards Minsk.

A burning farm, a field of wheat.

German troops fire on the outskirts of the village.

A column of prisoners runs along the road, trucks with troops are coming towards them.

A German soldier shows a prisoner where to go.

Thousands of prisoners sit on the ground, close-ups of faces, mostly Asian.

German planes fly, bombs are dropped.

Artillery fires at Soviet tanks.

A shell hits a house, it flies into fragments.

Burning houses, ruins.

German cavalry, tanks on the outskirts of Minsk.

German troops have come close to the so-called Stalinist line of defense.

Map, cities of Ulla Vitebsk.

Soviet bunkers disguised as buildings.

German soldiers remove barbed wire fences.

Soviet soldiers surrender, a Jew in glasses, Asians are walking.

A huge column of prisoners.

Ruins are visible.

Direction to Minsk and Smolensk.

German soldiers are walking

The road to Smolensk, smiling German soldiers are walking.

Guns camouflaged by branches are firing.

German troops are meeting fierce resistance.

A burning village.

July 16, 1941, German troops enter Smolensk.

Soldiers are moving in short dashes, a cameraman is running with a movie camera.

Destroyed buildings.

An inscription on a house: Smolensk.

Military Commandant's Office.

Soldiers are walking on wet ground.

A signal flare is fired.

Soldiers are moving a cannon against the background of burning trees.

Soldiers of Timoshenko's army surrender.

A column of prisoners is moving along the road near Smolensk.

Abandoned broken equipment and guns lie.

A railway junction.

A mangled railway platform with unloaded tanks.

A panorama of the station with broken trains, a top view of the station.

German sappers are restoring the railway tracks.

Departure of a freight train with German military equipment.

Builders on a bridge.

Tanks, trucks and other equipment are moving across a pontoon bridge across a river.

Germany.

Southern Front.

General von Rundstedt greets Hitler as he gets off the plane.

Jubilant soldiers raise their hands in a fascist salute.

Hitler is driving to one of the headquarters, and soldiers are greeting him along the way.

Map of the offensive on Kyiv, Uman, and Bessarabia.

March of German troops into Bessarabia.

Romanian troops on a march, they are moving through a village.

An old man is pouring water into the soldiers' mess tins.

Crossing the Kut River, sappers are building a bridge, and they are moving across it.

A banner reads: "Glory to Hitler!

Glory to Ukraine!" The population of Bessarabia is greeting German soldiers.

Germany.

Romanian King Mihai and General Antonescu in combat positions.

Heavy Romanian artillery fires, a soldier covers his ears.

Soldiers attack, fire flamethrowers, sappers make passages in obstacles.

Troops enter the town of Balti.

Soviet soldiers surrender.

View of the town from an airplane.

Corpses of GPU victims lie on the ground.

A church where vodka was made during the Soviet era.

Another church, adapted for an electrical workshop, a church-grain storage facility.

Bessarabia, troops march along rural roads.

Residents, especially old women, cross themselves and bless the troops with crosses.

Crossing a river in boats, a ferry, which is carried in people's arms to the water.

Map, town of Rudki.

Hungarian and Slovak troops attack.

Soviet soldiers emerge from a destroyed farm, surrender.

Ukraine.

German equipment advances along washed-out roads.

Soldiers push a car in the rain.

Meeting of German and Hungarian units, soldiers shake hands, discuss a plan for joint attacks.

Rundstedt's division moves forward, a column of Soviet prisoners of war moves towards the troops.

A German soldier points to the sky, German Stukas planes appear.

Air battle, a downed plane falls.

Battles near Uman, German tanks move.

A Soviet officer surrenders.

Tanks, infantry enter the city.

Abandoned Soviet equipment burns.

Soviet soldiers surrender, among them a woman.

A temporary open-air prisoner of war camp.

Map, movement to Odessa, Nikolaev, Krivoy Rog.

The population greets the Germans with flowers

View of the Dnieper, soldiers watching troops crossing the river on a pontoon bridge.

Combat operations near Nikolayev.

The advance of tank and motorized units.

Troops enter the city engulfed in flames.

City shipyard, unfinished ships are standing.

Waffen SS units attacking near the Dnieper.

Outskirts of Dneprodzerzhinsk, Germans set up artillery guns for firing.

Shelling of city streets.

Ruins of the plant, they go down into the coal face, lift coal up.

Map, direction of attack on Kherson and Odessa.

Germans look at Odessa through binoculars.

German warships approach the city, drop mines into the sea.

October 16 Romanian troops enter Odessa, march through the streets of the city.

The Romanian flag flutters.

Mountains of mangled equipment, a port with abandoned ships.

Advance to Dnepropetrovsk.

Artillery fires across the river at the city.

Forcing the Dnieper on boats.

Military equipment and troops are transported along the pontoon bridge.

On the map, a new "cauldron" near Kremenchug, the triangle Roslavl - Korosten - Kremenchug.

General Kleist's tank army meets troops of another German army near Kiev.

Map: the direction of the further attack is Gomel, where the Germans are fighting Timoshenko's army.

Battles near Gomel.

On August 19, the Germans enter the city.

Soviet prisoners are led along the street.

A temporary camp, prisoners in close-up.

Prisoners are peeling potatoes by the fire, among them a woman

Germany.

USSR. Artillery firing near Gomel.

Generals von Bock and von Kueffler look through binoculars, observing the fighting near Desna.

Attack of German infantry, crossing the river in boats.

Soldiers climb onto a high breastwork.

Dead soldiers lie in the trenches.

Soviet soldiers surrender.

Panorama of a well-defended field.

German troops prepare for an offensive.

Village, Germans comb houses, shoot at walls.

General Guderian's tanks move along a muddy road.

A soldier fires a flare gun.

General Guderian shakes hands with a tanker.

A map showing a "cauldron" in which the Red Army troops found themselves.

German soldiers follow the tanks.

Battle for the village.

German troops destroy the remnants of the Red Army in the "cauldron".

Fires, mangled equipment on the side of the road.

German tanks and infantry in a joint offensive.

Soldiers at a railway embankment.

Machine gun and anti-aircraft fire.

After two weeks of fighting: a panorama of the battlefield, mangled burning equipment.

A huge column of prisoners moves, a large detachment of Cossacks in papakhas.

View from an airplane of the Ukrainian city of Balti.

Germans in the city.

The population joyfully greets the troops.

Map.

Guderin's army goes to Bryansk, Vyazma, Orel, forming two "cauldrons".

Luftwaffe planes prepare for flight, bombing of Soviet territory.

Air battle, a downed plane falls.

Bombs fly down