3-023-527 - British Pathe Ltd/Heritage Images

German Soldiers in a Bomb-Damaged Town, 1941. Second World War. Operation Barbarossa was the invasion of the Soviet Union by Nazi Germany. '...the Hitler method was showing huge results. All along the front, powerful armoured wedges had thrust into the masses of the Red Army...During these first weeks, the Germans gathered in such a harvest [of Russian prisoners of war], it seemed the defeat of the Soviet Union was both certain and very near'. From "Time To Remember - Operation Barbarossa", 1941 (Reel 3); documentary film about events of 1941, on the Eastern Front and at Pearl Harbour.