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Battle of Russia, The R8 of 10 (Military Version - Part 2)

Reel Number: 220544-08

Color: Black and White

Sound: SD

Year / Date: 1941-1944,1943

Country: Germany,Russia,USSR

Location: Lake Ladoga,Leningrad

TC Begins: 03:52:31

TC Ends: 04:03:20

Duration: 00:10:49

re Siege of Leningrad Aftermath of blitz, clean up, wounded & dead; smoking buildings. Women remove rubble from streets. Dead children. Dead elephant in Leningrad zoo. Animated map. Winter siege begins: tanks, barrage balloon carried thru street. Aerial of city; snow & frozen lake; sleds pulled. Defenses are manned, trenches. People thru streets; locomotive sitting under snow. Electric buses stopped. 03:54:42 Food is rationed; people dig holes in street for water. Cutting bread, handing out. Women digging w/ shovels, picks clearing rubble & wreckage. Burning building, industry. 03:55:41 Enormous German Morser Karl Thor gun - mortar - raised. Shell moved into place, fired. Shelling of Leningrad w/ other artillery. Shell manufacture continues in roofless factory building, montage of firing & manufacturing. Casket pulled on street. Bodies pulled on sled. 03:57:19 Map of Lake Ladoga & Baltic w/ Leningrad & Nazi occupation. Supplies brought in by truck, tractor, & railroad across frozen Lake Ladoga. Winter snows blanket the city. Nazi planes bomb trucks on the lake. 04:00:29 Spring thaw. Children play in sunshine. Trams running; sailors entertained; Cossack dancing on stage. German prisoners marched thru the city. People march w/ rifles out of factory gates. WWII Why We Fight Series, Military Propaganda Film; Invasion; History; WW2;

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