BATTLE OF STALINGRAD Reel 8 · Part 2

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SUMMARY: Re-enacted Russian dramatic feature on Battle of Stalingrad. Actors portray famous personalities. Reel 1: Scenes of Moscow during World War II with barrage balloons over city. Russian soldiers marching on street of Moscow alongside river. Stalin in Kremlin. Montage through map of the German advance across Russia with tanks. German soldiers in trunks, planes on way to Stalingrad on map. Stalin in Kremlin talks to Military Aide. Aide hands Stalin plan of defense of Stalingrad. Aide leaves. Map again, Germans advance across Russia. German infantry. Germans in half-tracks, German tanks. Map. Hitler with staff of German officers with maps on table discussing the position of the German forces. Reel 2: Hitler discusses German advance to Stalingrad with officers. German Infantry advance around Don River Area. Scenes of large scale warfare, explosions, tanks advancing. German soldiers advancing across shelled terrain. President Franklin D. Roosevelt discusses German campaign in Russia with U.S. Army Captain in White House. Map of area around Stalingrad. German soldiers marching near front lines. German soldiers cross Don River in force on foot, with tanks, trucks, planes overhead cover crossing. They cross over in Military bridge. These are the forces of General Von Paulus. Crossing is an major scale. Stalin, in Kremlin communications room, dictates message to aide. German tanks advance at night amid shell bursts and flames of battle. Russian officer reads ticker tape coming off machine. Reel 3: Averell Harriman, Winston Churchill, Stalin and Molotov discuss allied operations in room in Leningrad. Stalin and Molotov alone discuss the conference they had with allied leaders. Scenes of Stalingrad before war overran it. German planes over Stalingrad. Russian anti-aircraft guns fire away at German planes. Stalingrad in flames. Russian mother holds limp child as buildings burn around her and people run about.Buildings bombed and burning. City in flames. People run through flaming streets. Shell-hit building trembles, walls fall, German planes continue bombing. Bomb bursts on city; German tanks advance Underground Russian Headquarters Post. Bombing and shelling of the city continues. Russian civilians run to the fields toward river bordering city, railroad train going through the flames of the bombings and explosions. Overhead scene of the burning city. Civilians running about in the city. German plane crashes in flames into side of building. Russian firemen fighting flaming buildings. Civilians try to clean up debris and rubble amid flames of buildings and shell bursts. Civilians carrying wounded in streets. City in flames at night. Ruined and shell- torn buildings. Russian officers survey ruins. Reel 4: German tanks and infantry advance at night and shell bursts. Russian civilians armed with rifles walk through shelled buildings. Russian civilian gathering and marching armed with rifles. As civilians assemble to ward off the enemy, ambulances go about the task of getting wounded away. Russian civilians marching from all parts of city. Masses of civilians gathering for the defense of the city. Russian military vehicle pool lined with armored cars and half-tracks. Russian civilians on tanks, Russian civilians loaded on trains all preparing for the enemy. Russian civilians digging gun emplacements. Russian officers give pep talk to civilians that Stalin is with them all the way. Russian planes overhead. Russian civilians marching to take their places outside the city to ward off oncoming enemy. Civilians fighting Germans on outskirts of city near banks of rivers. German tanks aid men advance at night as shells burst all about. Russian-worded tape superimposed over action. Stalin in Kremlin communications room watches ticker tape, goes over to map and dictates message to be sent to his generals. Germaninfantry advancing in trucks at front. Germans crossing the Don River. Germans and Russian in close hand-to-hand combat at front. Stalingrad in flames. Russian General Shtikov Headquarters. Frontlines at dusk. Reel 5: Russian General Headquarters underground beneath Stalingrad. German General Von Paulus in car along road. German plane overhead. General Von Paulus explains to Hitler and staff why Stalingrad was not yet taken. Hitler harangues Von Paulus. Hitler yells order to General Keitel to take Stalingrad. Bombs bursting. German planes overhead. German tanks advance. Stalingrad being shelled. Russian machine gunners firing. Tanks advance. Russian machine gunners fire from behind ruined and shell-torn buildings. City in flames. German infantry advance. Shells bursting at night. Fighting at night. Tanks advance through rubble of burning city. Scene of Moscow. Stalin in Kremlin. Stalin at phone. Map of Stalingrad. Russian soldiers, trucks of men, guns, and equipment of Russian 13th Division prepare to go to Stalingrad Area. Russian soldiers march along road. Russian soldiers advance across fields to water's edge. Russian soldiers go aboard barges and ferries. Closeups of the faces of Russian soldiers. Russian General Tshvikov speaking to his staff aboard ship. Reel 6: Russian Naval Officer orders raising of anchors. Anchors go up. Soldiers packed on board ferries and barges. All kinds of small ships loaded with men begin to cross river. Germans advance with tanks on battlefield. German infantry charging. German planes overhead. German troops cross pontoon bridge. Tanks advance through city. Russian troops in boats crossing river. German planes bomb Russian troopships. Russian anti-aircraft gunners on ships fire at German planes. Ships are hit by bombs, Russian soldiers go overboard. Russian soldiers and debris in water, Russian soldiers swimming and making way to beaches. Russian soldiers charge the beachand go inland. Scenes of Moscow. Kremlin buildings. Stalin and Vasileski discuss campaign. Searchlight beams over Kremlin. Stalin, Molotov, Kalinin and others around table of war maps. Stalingrad railroad station at night being shelled and bombed. Russian machine gunners at positions about the railway yards fire at oncoming enemy. Station yards in flames. German tanks advance across yards amid shell bursts. Russians overlooking yards. Fire down at Germans. Reel 7: Night scene of German soldiers advancing across railway station tracks. Russian soldiers firing machine guns. German tanks advance across railway yards. Russian soldiers creeps along ground and when close to oncoming German tank, throws hand grenade; tank explodes in flames. Germans continue advance across railway yards amid shell bursts and explosions. Russian machine gunners fire at Germans. German soldiers creeping across railway tracks. Germans are mowed down by Russian machine gunners. Hordes of German soldiers continue creeping across railway yards as Russian soldiers man their machine guns. Germans advance into shell-torn station building. Russian soldier hurls hand grenade at onrushing Germans, killing many. Dead and wounded soldiers stream about yards and station. Burning rubble and remains of yards and station. Russian officer receives report that entire Russian regiment defending station has been wiped out. Searchlight over Kremlin. Stalin and Aide in Kremlin. Stalin on phone. Reel 8: Stalin alone at night in his office in Kreinlin going over books on structures and designs of some sort. Stalin reads mail. Kremlin at dawn. Stalin and friend at home having food and drink. Stalin reads passage from book to friend. Reel 9: Map of Kalachi. Stalin and military aide Vasileski. Stalin on phone. Stalingrad in flames at night. Searchlights, city bombed. Explosions, buildings burning. Russian officer at underground post. Russian soldiers advance through rubble ofbombed buildings amid explosions and shelling. Russian and German soldiers in hand-to-hand combat in shelled buildings. Russian soldiers advancing. Terrific fighting scenes in and around torn buildings, shell bursts, explosions. Russian soldiers finally kill out all Germans in a torn and shelled building and take it. Reel 10: Russian soldier playing phonograph amid rubble of shelled building and listens to Russian opera. Stalin listening to radio alone at night in his office in Kremlin. Stalin greets General Rokossovsky. Dissolve to Stalin listening to radio. Kremlin at night. Kremlin clock tower. Molotov and various members of committee (possibly Politburo) go up steps to large meeting room. Meeting of this committee around large table as Stalin paces floor in same room and occasionally stops to add his thoughts to that which is being discussed by committee chairman and committee.

Collection

National Archives Collection of Foreign Records Seized

Series

Motion Picture Films From G-2 Army Military Intelligence Division