German Campaign in Russia Reel 2 · Part 1

Description

This moving image contains the following: Reel 1, Hitler and his Gens. confer. Units entrain for the front. Infantry, supported by artillery and armor, enter Russia, take POW's, and trudge through mud. Reel 2, Nazi troops, welcomed by the natives, build bridges, haul supplies with horses, enter Grodno with infantry, tanks, and artillery, destroy enemy equipment, and take prisoners. Reel 3, artillery-supported infantry and motorized units bypass Minsk and enter Baranowitschi. Anti-sniper squads restore order in the city, destroy enemy materiel, and take prisoners. German troops decorate a comrade's grave. Reel 4, German flak and fighter planes down enemy planes. Reel 5, a German column ferries supplies across a stream, enters Minsk (?), and takes POW's. Another army crosses the Finnish border near the Arctic Circle, is welcomed by peasants, and advances into Russia using machine guns, mortars, and artillery. A 3rd force, aided by native informers, moves through Kaunas, Lithuania, and Daugavpils, Latvia. Reel 6, occupation forces salvage materiel, repair telephone lines, build roads and bridges for cavalry and trucks, and greet friendly natives. German bombers attack advanced targets. Infantry advance with field artillery and machine gun units, destroy Russian positions, take prisoners, enter a town, and hold burial services. Reel 7, officers examine maps and congratulate their troops. German units enter Mogilev and Smolensk. Red Cross doctors treat the wounded while infantry capture Russian civilian and military POW's in street combat, destroy an airstrip, and seize enemy munitions and ordnance. Shows churches used for warehouses and factories, unsanitary slums, and emaciated infants. Reel 8, German bombers strike railheads and cities. Dive bombers and artillery support infantry and armor which destroy enemy defenses and enter a village. German troops question prisoners, converse, and help peasants clear rubble from a field.

Collection

National Archives Collection of Foreign Records Seized

Series

Motion Picture Films From G-2 Army Military Intelligence Division