Operation Barbarossa - Invasion of USSR 221193 01 | Footage Farm

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Germany. CU clock at 5.27, early morning scenes of empty streets. Propaganda Ministry; night watchman, delivering milk. EXT Broadcasting House, INT technician at dials of radio equipment; radio antennas, CU clock ticking to 5:30. Goebbels into room in Ministry flanked by members from all three armed services, makes radio broadcast re invasion of Russia [MOS]. German citizens listen to car radios in street. Von Ribbentrop makes announcement at press conference of foreign journalists [not heard]. Newspapers delivered w/ headline ‘...Soldaten der Ostfront!’ read by soldier. 07:01:34 Map of Russia & Germany, border marked from Finland down to Romania. Night artillery barrage fired. Wooden border wall dismantled at East Prussian town of Eydtkuhnen or Eydtkau. German tanks & troops advance under fire.
07:03:22 Sign Kaunas / Kovno (Lithuania); German troops pose w/ Lithuanian crest. Street fighting scenes between German troops & Siberian snipers. German equipment advances, buildings burning. Wounded.
07:04:36 Russian POWs taken. German troops at border pontoon bridge. Troops firing small artillery from railroad tracks. Large railroad bridge & wooden planks laid on rails, convoy proceeds w/ trucks pulling heavy guns. German motorcycle troops past windmill. Roadside heavy guns firing on Brest-Litovsk across river.
07:07:58 Border sign at bridge over River Sann - Soviet border maker. Sign: Grenze.
07:08:23 German troops remove Russian explosive charges. Tanks across bridge w/ track on rail. Russian POWs many only in socks, hurried & marched across bridge & standing in crowd w/ hands up.
07:10:07 German Air Force preparations for first mission against Soviets, bombs carried & towed on carts; loaded. Luftwaffe Heinkel He-111 bombers take off; in flight above clouds; aerial views Russia; INT gunner & navigator in cabin; over river & fields. (GOOD).
07:12:04 Various shots from above of bombs drop out of planes; smoke over targets on ground. Burning factories or warehouses. More air to air shots Heinkel bombers in dropping bombs, explosions & formation. The End.WW2; Russia / USSR; Nazi Occupation; Military Aviation; Fighting; Invasion; Eastern Front; Barbarossa;
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