Surrender of Stalingrad

Surrender of Stalingrad Firing artillery in snow & panning over broad plains. Explosions. Old & new Russian artillery. Aerials of bombers in flight. Soldiers on ground w/ machine guns firing, troops advance. Many dead in snow near cemetery. Dead by guns. Wreckage. Soldiers pulling sleds. Fighting at edge of small town. 05:50:00 Russian military VIPs visit, into trenches; smoking cigarettes together. They iniclude Marshal Vozanov, Gen. Rakossovsky. Men firing artillery & hitting large water tower; moving into city, firing machine guns. Running past dead. Germans surrendering w/ white flag & hands up. Out of building. Large number captured, marched along snowy road as town burns in background. 05:52:23 31Jan43 German officers towards camera, past camera & bodies. Mass of POWs marching in snow. German generals in winter clothes, soldiers in mixed clothes. CU of General who fought in Stalingrad. Russian General interviews Germans some w/ Iron Crosses. 05:52:56 CU German Lt. Gen. Canne surrendering. 05:53:22 Commander & Gen. of 20th Grand Division, Dimitriou (sp?) gives up. 05:53:43 CU captured German Generals: Dimitriou, 14th Tank Div. Gen. Slemme (?), 297th German Div. Von Dreber (?); Rinoldi; Von Daniel. German salutes Russian General & go inside wooden house; others arise. Field Marshal Von Paulus & Lt. Gen. Schmitt (sp?) enter & sit. Paulus talking, explaining. CUs of prisoners & German officers. Fascist prisoners march past camera in long line, feet wrapped. High angle marching thru city ruins. Russian flag on pole raised above freed Stalingrad. 05:57:39 CU Soviet govt. order to Vovenov & Rokossovsky congratulating them for freeing the city from the enemy, signed by Stalin, 02Feb43. Destruction. The End. WWII; Horrors of War; Fighting; Battle; Winter; Weather;