- Description
- Reel 1: 00:33:13 German transport vehicles lined up and being checked/worked on. Piles of wagon parts, wheels, skis/skids, snowshoes, sleds/sleighs. Horse-drawn cart struggles through a muddy field. Table with a crate of dynamite "Monachit", soldier prepares fuses, explosive devices. Soldiers use explosives to break up ice on a river. Views of destroyed bridges. German Field Marshal (Günther von Kluge?) leaving a building with other Generals, departing by car. 00:41:36 Close side view of handshake. FM flag on car, drives off. Soldiers cross a temporary wooden bridge. German soldiers use pickaxes to break up the ground (unclear why?). Soldiers make ammunition belts for machine guns. A soldier fires his gun towards shapes in the distance. A soldier has his shoulder bandaged. Two soldiers come running with a stretcher. CUs of soldiers in a trench, carry a wounded soldier off. German soldiers gather around a field kitchen.
Reel 2: 00:45:47 Camouflaged vehicles. Panning shot of a tree line. Russian men and women walking through the streets of a damaged city. CUs of some of the civilians, men on a wagon, a woman holding a baby, three men sitting on a step. An old Russian woman walks down the street, CU of her face. An old Russian man stands on a sidewalk. A large mass of dead Soviet soldiers lie in a trench. Panning shot of a battlefield, severed human leg, bunker. German soldiers work in a trench. CU of a soldier loading a machine gun. Different shots of a battlefield/debris. Smoke rises in a city with a domed church visible. CUs of burning city. Men and horses/wagons move through the destroyed city. German soldiers scavenge through a debris-filled train yard. CU of a burning factory. Soldiers delouse their uniforms using a barrel and fire. Different shots of soldiers moving through a trench; CU of a map. A plane (Russian?) flies over as German soldiers fire at it. Military vehicles struggling through mud.
- Duration
- 00:23:15
- Date
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Event:
1942
- Locale
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Soviet Union
- Credit
- Accessed at United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of Bundesarchiv Filmarchiv
- Contributor
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Producer:
Heeresfilmstelle
Subject:
Fedor von Bock
Subject:
Guenther von Kluge
- Biography
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Fedor von Bock was Commander-in-Chief of Army-Group Centre, 22 June 1941 - 19 Dec 1941, Fuehrer-Reserve OKH, 19 December 1941 - 16 January 1942, C-in-C of Army Group South, 16 January - 9 July 1942.
As of 19 Dec 1941, Günther von Kluge was C-in-C of Army Group Centre.
