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The victors of Crete: paratroopers and Gebirgsjager return to their home towns
Here a reception for a Fallschirmjager battalion in a central German garrison city
These men have accomplished amazing deeds in combat
Arriving out of the air, and against overwhelming enemy numbers, they managed to take key English positions in the eastern Mediterranean after hard fighting.
The people greet their soldiers with enthusiastic joy
and thank them for their brave and selfless service
The battalion commander reminds his men once again about their accomplishments in the hard battles
for Crete and calls on them to be ready for new missions
The world-front against Bolshevism grows ever stronger
In every European country, more and more volunteers sign up for the fight
Here, a recruitment center in Belgium for the Flanders Regiment
And here is one of the eighty recruitment centers in Paris
It has been opened up in the former Soviet national travel office
and is being sponsored and run by a row of French organizations
Units of the Spanish Blue Division on the way to the East
Among the volunteers are many men who have already fought against the Bolsheviks in the Spanish Civil War
The arrival in Germany: a heartfelt reception is prepared for the Spanish comrades
Part of the Italian contingent, who have been called upon by Il Duce to take part in the struggle against the Soviet Union
and who are now traveling through Vienna on the way to the East
In the south of Finland, as the Wehrmacht communiques report,
German and Finnish troops have advanced to the northern shores of Lake Ladoga after overcoming bitter resistance from the enemy.
In the south of the mighty front:
our fliers have managed to quickly set up operations on a conquered, Soviet airbase
Fighter planes of the type JU88 attack strong Soviet formations, which are on the march east of the Prut River
Hits on Soviet train stations and troop accommodations
Preparation for a dive-bomber attack: the plane's brakes are applied
That's the results of one German airplane bomb!
The Bolsheviks are fatally struck at by our Luftwaffe everywhere
In rolling attacks, our Luftwaffe strikes further and further east every day
and carry death and destruction into the enemy's military camps
The battle for Bessarabia
Our advancing troops stand before Balti,
north of Kishinev, and have come upon heavy enemy resistance
The soldiers prepare for the attack
Communications troops bind the most forward lines with their bases
Rumanian batteries
While the artillery does its job, the infantry prepares for the attack on Balti
The enemy defensive positions are beaten down
From different sides, the infantry advances on Balti
which suffered greatly in the heavy battles fought for it
Here, too, the Bolsheviks carried out their scorched earth policy as ordered by Stalin
without any consideration for the needs of the civil population
Shortly before abandoning the city, these murderous hordes blew up whole streets
Our soldiers advanced only to find ruins
And here: Slovakian units on their advance through the Ukraine
In Rutki, the population erected triumphal arches for their liberators
These streets lead the way to Kiew (Kyiv)
Lemberg (Lwow): in this hard-hit city, they are discovering more secret prisons and burial sites of the GPU beasts
These innocent people were tortured and martyred in the most horrible ways
then mowed down by Bolshevik machine guns
or torn to pieces by hand grenades
The Red murder-beasts, overwhelmingly Jews, knew no bounds when it came to their murderous deeds
In the interim, most of these subhumans have been led to their just punishment
Waffen-SS in an attack on a village
which lays on the advance road to Kyiv and is being bitterly defended by the Bolsheviks
While filming this sequence, the SS war correspondent, Hans Loser, found his heroic death with the camera in his hands.
The march to the east is continued through swamp and morass
These are the Soviet country roads, which one runs into everywhere
Advance troops, halt! Our troops have run into another strong bunker line before Sviahel
which is blocking one of the most important roads towards Kyiv
Our troops fire on these bunkers, which are joined together by underground passages, and overcome them.
Stosstrupps go into action! They carry signs in Russian, demanding the bunkers' crews surrender.
The demand to surrender remains ignored
The Soviet soldiers must continue to fight in a completely hopeless situation, watched over threatening commissars with loaded pistols
Now, the bunkers are being attacked by our Sturmpioniere and will be destroyed
Distribution of orders at a Panzer unit
This unit destroyed over 200 Soviet tanks in just one engagement
Advance on the Dnepr. With the infantry advancing on a broad front, the tanks take the lead.
A battle with Bolshevik tanks, which try in vain to halt the German advance
In a brave and surprising attack, our troops destroyed this Bolshevik armored train, which was blocking the road to Kyiv.
On the roads leading to Kyiv.
Soviet tanks have tried again and again to halt the German advance
Now these rolling fortresses lay shot up on the side of the road
Ukrainian farmers, who were only able to escape the GPU executioners at the very last moment, return back to their villages
Under the protection of the German Wehrmacht, they now feel safe
Stuka attack on enemy formations and defensive structures in the region near Smolensk
Against the German storm, the Soviets throw more and more new regiments into the battle
They have no intention of simply giving up the important traffic junctions near Smolensk
But on 16 July, this city ended up firmly in German hands, too.
Here, too, bomb after bomb hits its target
These pictures show the effectiveness of our Stukas on the road leading to Minsk
on which the encircled Soviet troops tried in vain to break out of the German trap
A gathering point for POWs near Minsk
These hordes, among them countless numbers of Jews,
were to march on German cities and towns and make ashes and ruins out of them
They would have let loose a bloodbath among our people unequaled in history
It is thanks only to our Fuhrer and his brave soldiers, that Germany has been spared the onslaught of these wild hordes
The faces of these beasts are marked by a lust for pillage and murder
In fact, very worthy allies of Churchill and his war mongering plutocrats
Now, they have to march into imprisonment
They most probably imagined they would be arriving in Germany in a totally different manner
And here, we are in Minsk once again
In the foreground are the miserable living quarters of the local populace
in the background, the pompous exterior of the headquarters for the Bolshevik party
The Soviet star had to make room for the SS runes, however
The toppled Lenin statue
A rare picture in the Soviet paradise: a fully undamaged church
But here is the reason why:
The church was not used as a house of God, but rather as a garage
Where the altar should be, there are now lubrication works for the garage
While they made the church here into a garage
they prayed for the victory of the Bolsheviks in English cathedrals
From Minsk, our troops advanced further to the east
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Those are typical Soviet streets: they give a pretty accurate picture of the cultural level of the state for workers and peasants
The Organization Todt has to help out. The roads have to be constantly repaired
On the way to Smolensk: there has been heavy fighting for every little town
There is constant, heavy street fighting with the Bolsheviks
And here, too, we see the hand of destruction by order of Stalin
Whole cities and towns are put to the torch
Consideration for the innocent populace is not a trait associated with Bolshevism
And here, we are on the highway from Smolensk to Moscow.
It had been built for the strategic purpose of pushing rapidly into the Reich
German fighter planes on the attack
A Bolshevik unit is attacked: most of the Soviet planes are destroyed
Time loop films made by an on board camera: the fighter's shots hit their target dead on
An attack on a bomber
The Soviets are discarding their entire load of bombs
The plane's fate is sealed. The plane dives to the ground in flames
That is a victory for the German Luftwaffe, which supposedly won't go into battle --- at least, as reported by Radio Moscow
Lieutenant Colonel Molders returns from a successful mission against the enemy
The best pilot in the world has been able to shoot down 115 planes to date
In recognition of his outstanding achievements in the fight of our fatherland for its freedom, the Fuhrer awarded him the highest medal for bravery: the Oak Leaves with Swords and Diamonds to the Ritterkreuz for the Iron Cross
Our troops have penetrated into Soviet territory from Estonia and Latvia
Before storming the Stalin Line, a pause for rest and refreshment is ordered after a long march of many days. The future holds difficult days of battle for them.
A review of tactics before the attack on the Stalin Line
The endlessly long march columns of the German Army are once more advancing
The tanks gather together for the attack
Artillery shoots at the first bunkers in the Stalin Line, which have been disguised as peasant huts
Light infantry cannons take on nests of enemy resistance and machine gun emplacements
The material used to camouflage the bunkers goes up in flames
After the artillery completes its firing, the Sturmpioniere fight their way to the bunkers
to destroy them and remove barbed wire and other obstacles
Immediately in front of the first line of defenses for the Stalin Line
The Soviets are putting up bitter resistance, but bunker after bunker is taken thanks to the close cooperation of artillery and infantry
The enemy comes out and is taken prisoner
Our wounded are immediately recovered and brought to medical attention
This is one of the bunkers which was camouflaged as a harmless peasant's house
A battle at Ular, on the way to Vitebsk
The Bolsheviks left behind only ruins of Ular
Leaving the city, the attack is pressed forward in the direction of Vitebsk
which, as a key position of the Stalin Line, is strongly defended
The bridges are checked for hidden explosive charges
The infantry fights its way further forward
Another wing of the attack heads north towards Ostrov
Here, too, the road of retreat for the Bolsheviks —- who pull back only a step at a time after heavy fighting —- is nothing but a scene of devastation
The many rivers, which are to be found here, are overcome with the help of inflatable rafts
On the other side of the river are destroyed bunkers of the Stalin Line
which were almost invisible among the thick camouflage of weeds and undergrowth
A ferry assists in the crossing of the river by armored vehicles
The railway station in Ostrov is taken
Our Stukas did a good job here
A road of retreat for the Soviets in Ostrov
In the region of Lake Peipus, on the flank of the Stalin Line
The goal of the advancing troops is Pleskau (Pskov)
A barrage balloon: the eye of the artillery
A view of Lake Peipus
Artillery opens up on Pskov, which is bitterly defended by the Bolsheviks
Panzer and Sturmgeschutze are the first to enter into Pskov
The advanced units of the infantry have reached Pskov, too
The city is systematically cleared of the last remaining enemy troops
Pskov, too, fell victim to the destructive lust of the Bolsheviks: almost no house remained spared
Our pioneers go right to work here
They have done excellent work on the battlefields in the East
With unbelievable speed, they repair the bridges and roads which were destroyed by the Bolsheviks
The advance of the troops is thus maintained
In the evening hours, our tanks left Pskov in the direction of Petersburg (Leningrad)
Large units of Soviet tanks attempt to halt the advance
Bitter night fighting took place
The Stalin Line, considered impenetrable, has been penetrated
Our troops move unstoppably forward
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