Battle for Stalingrad
Battle for Stalingrad
Master 1480 - Tape 2 MS sign above outpost entrance (in German): "Immer einn in die Scheifle." MS haggard, war-weary German Army (Nazi) soldiers marching past cam -- no helmets, tunics unbuttoned, looking rather slovenly, indicating these are soliders have surrendered & are now prisoners of war (POWs). MCU older, balding, mustachioed German Army soldier posing, peering away from cam; CU very young German Army soldier with short-cropped blond hair -- a mere whelp of a boy that could pass easily for Hitler Youth (ignoring the GA uniform, natch). Quick sideview MCU old Russian woman wearing babushka standing on street with crowd of boys. MS young, well-dressed Russian woman cursing, spitting upon Nazi POWs marching through crowded Stalingrad street; note the Soviet Red Army soldier keeping the woman in line by pushing her back via rifle affixed with bayonet. Sideview MS Nazi Army POWs being marched through streets of Stalingrad. MS Soviet Red Army soldier wearing ushanka kneeling by seized (captured) German railroad car; MS writing on railroad car: "Deutsche Reichsbahn Ludwigshafen." Panning TLS snowy base camp, long row of looted and/or destroyed military lorries (trucks);panning MS two dead men (can't designate uniforms, if they're even wearing any) frozen in snow -- one of the dead men is barefoot; MS corpse wrapped in blanket laying on snow. Map featuring animated arrows depicting Nazi Germany advance & ultimate retreat from Stalingrad, Soviet Russia. TLSs Soviet artillery (howitzers, anti-aircraft capability) firing upon aircraft in sky, soldiers bundled from biting cold. Parts of this reel were shot in 1942 & early 1943.