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Battle Of Russia
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keywords: wwii, european theater, russian front, eastern front, russia, german blitzkrieg, stalingrad, leningrad
Synopsis: Combat on the Russian Front against the German War Machine from early history of Russia to WWII and the successful Russian counter-attack....(read more)
- Date: 1945
- Duration: 01:22:18
- Sound: Yes
- Color: Monochrome
- Type: Public Domain
- Language: English
- Location: Russia
Battle Of Russia: Reel-1
History of Russia. In 1242 the German Order of Teutonic Knights invaded Russia and occupied the old city of Pskov and threatened to enslave the entire population including the capitol Novgorod. The Russian people turned to Prince Alexander Nevsky for leadership. On April 5, 1242 in the Battle of Lake Peipus the Russians met and defeated the might of the German forces. In 1704 Charles the Twelfth of Sweden marched into Russia. Lead by their Emperor, Peter The Great and after five years of war, the Swedes were defeated in the historic Battle of Poltava. 1812 Napoleon and his army blazed their way across Europe and marched toward Moscow. Again in 1914 a German army under Kaiser Wilhelm set out to conquer Russia. Footage of battles using medieval weapons and knights in armour.
Battle Of Russia: Reel-2
This film describes the size of Russia, it's vast resources, and the diversity of it's people. Shows underground and open pit mining, forest, coal, oil derricks, steel factories, farm land and farm products, cattle, and sheep. Shows Russian people parading to illustrate diversity of population. Cossacks on horseback, Cossack dance, Russian Mongols playing musical instruments. Moscow street scenes in 1930's, people, buildings, trolleys, factories, workers, school children, housewives, office workers, ballerina. 1934 Newspaper headline "Soviet Russia Inducted As Member Of League" (League of Nations). Brief scenes from League of Nations meeting.
Battle Of Russia: Reel-3
Map shows countries Germany occupied or invaded in the late 1930's. By March 1941 Germany occupied Hungary, Rumania, and Bulgaria. Map shows Italian invasion of Greece that failed. German dive bombers attack Yugoslavia, invades Yugoslavia and Greece. German conquest of the Balkans was complete. Shows Russian industry producing weapons of war. Russians inducted and trained as soldiers. On June 22, 1941 Hitler launched an all out assault on Russia using 200 Axis divisions (200 million men) driving toward Leningrad in the North, Moscow in the center and Ukraine in the South.
Battle Of Russia: Reel-4
Map shows the Russian cities overrun by the German blitzkrieg. Russian government moved to Kuibyshev as the Germany Army advanced on Moscow. By December the Germans had captured 500,000 square miles of Russia. Despite the destruction of Russian military weapons and capture of thousands of Russian soldiers, the Germany Blitz failed to work against the Russians as explained with use of maps. As one defense line was penetrated the total line fell back and consolidated with the next line. The results were the deeper the Germans advanced into Russia the more resistance they encountered. Street fighting in Russian cities. Odessa was the scene of a heroic siege of two months. Sevastopol an eight-month defense inch-by-inch, street-by-street, house-by-house and then room-by-room fighting. This heroic resistance and total devastation of cities forced the Germans to leave the safety of their tanks and battle in the rubble. German soldiers firing rifles and machine guns. Bodies of dead Germans. Shows grim faces of Russian people fighting the Germans. Shows total mobilization of Russia and Russian people to fight the Germans.
Battle Of Russia: Reel-5
Shows the scorched earth tactics of the Russians as they retreated, nothing of use was left for the invading German Army. Shows destruction of huge dam, burning factories and buildings. Shows members of Russian guerrilla army destroying German communication lines, supplies, buildings, and German soldiers. The Russians stopped the Germans at the gates of Moscow.
Battle Of Russia: Reel-6
December 1941. The German Army had been stopped at the gates of Moscow and the Russian Army, with the help of "old man winter", was given orders for a massive offense against the Germans. The Russian Army attacked on all fronts with fighter planes, bombers, artillery, tanks, calvary, and infantry. The Russian Army swept through villages and towns, Volokolamsk, Yepifan, Tarussa, Yasnaya-Polyana, Venev, Rogachev, Klin, Mozhaisk, Borodino, Kaluga, as the German Army retreated. The Russian people came out of hiding to find towns and villages destroyed by the retreating German Army.
Battle Of Russia: Reel-7
Shows destruction of home of Tchaikowsky and home of author Leo Tolstoy. Russian women weeping over the frozen bodies of Russian civilians killed by Nazi soldiers, some by hanging. By Spring 1942 the Russian counterattack had pushed the Germans back on all fronts and For the first time the legend of German invincibility was shattered. Scenes of the city of Leningrad, former name Petrograd prior to WWII. The people of Leningrad dig trenches, build barricades, and prepare fortifications against the German attack. Russian anti-aircraft guns firing, German planes dropping bombs. Shows bomb damaged buildings, fires, and bodies of Russians killed. Map showing city of Leningrad surrounded by the Germans and the German Commander sent the city an ultimatum demanding surrender. He is still waiting for an answer. Image of German helmet with bullet hole in side.
Battle Of Russia: Reel-8
The siege of Leningrad or the Leningrad blockade. Shows living conditions in Leningrad during the bitter winter of 1941 with no fuel and very little food. With their offensive to capture the city stopped the Germans resorted to artillery bombardment beginning in August 1941. Shows German artillery firing and explosions in Leningrad. Map shows Russian plan to move food and supplies to Leningrad across frozen Lake Lodoga. Shows equipment carving a road across the frozen lake and truck loads of supplies moving across the frozen lake. Trucks under attack by German planes. The Russians laid a rail line across the ice to deliver train loads of supplies to the besieged city of Leningrad. With these supplies and coming of spring Leningrad comes to life. Shows captured Germans.
Battle Of Russia: Reel-9
Summer 1942. Allied supplies was reaching Russian ports. Map shows German plan to capture Stalingrad and oil fields of Baku. Shows people of the Caucasus joining the Army to stop the German drive toward Baku. The German Army was ordered to capture Stalingrad at all cost. Battle of Stalingrad. Intense combat and street by street, building by building fighting. Point of view of Russian sniper shoots German soldiers.
Battle Of Russia: Reel-10
Newspaper headlines "Yanks Land In Africa" and 2nf front on Atlantic, Mediterranean open. Russians open big offensive on all fronts. Siege of Leningrad broken. Fresh troops from Siberia arrive to help defend Stalingrad. Map shows Russian plans to entrap the German Army threatening Stalingrad. Shows Christmas celebrations in Stalingrad. Russians use latest equipment in attack on Germans, flamethrowers, ice gliders, rocket guns. Russian tanks and infantry move across snow covered battlefield to crush the German Army. Shows destruction in Stalingrad as last shot is fired. German Generals surrender along with 22 divisions of German troops. Long lines of surrendered German troops. Shows German equipment destroyed and men loss in attempt to conquer Russia.
- Related Titles:
- Our Russian Front
- Moscow Strikes Back
- Nazi Defeat At Stalingrad
