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The Battle of Russia, 1943
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- Amazon Sales Rank: #166432 in DVD
- Released on: 2008-01-07
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Experience the American Journey through our country's visual heritage in this historical recording provided by the National Archives of the United States.
This motion picture film examines the war in Russia, 1941-1943. Dramatizes Russia's military history. Alexander Nevsky defeats the German knights in 1242. The Swedes are defeated in 1704 in a cavalry battle at Poltava. French troops retreat from Moscow in 1812. Kaiser Wilhelm inspects troops on the Eastern front in 1917. Shows mine operations, agricultural scenes, oil fields, and manufacturing scenes. People of many ethnic groups present native dances. Civilian and military units parade in Moscow. Maksim Litvinoff asks the League of Nations to aid Ethiopia in 1935. Maps Axis expansion into eastern Europe. Hungarian, Romanian, and Bulgarian troops parade prior to Nazi occupation. Adolf Hitler and Generals Wilheim Keitel and Alfred Jodl meet. Nazis march through Hungarian cities. Yugoslavian cities are bombed and Greece is occupied. Tanks roll from Russian assembly lines and troops are inducted. German panzer divisions invade Russia in June 1941. Maps the German advance in 1941 and analyzes Russian strategy. Hitler makes a victory speech in October. Houses, factories, and a large dam in the Ukraine are burned or dynamited before the advancing Nazis. Guerilla units draw arms and then dynamite Nazi installations. Joseph Stalin, Vyacheslav Molotov, and other leaders pose. Red troops parade in Moscow in Dec. 1941. Russian tanks, cavalry units, and ski troops advance beneath air support. Villages are liberated and refugees return. Dead and tortured Russian civilians are found. Leningrad is intensively bombed. Women remove rubble from streets.
An Orientation Film from the Office of the Chief Signal Officer.
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