June 26, 1941. German intruders, supported by fire from armored personnel carriers, rushed into a burning Russian village.
Operation Barbarossa preceded a few days in the south of the Soviet Union. A German infantryman walked toward a dead Soviet corpse and a burning BT7 light tank.
July 2, 1941. The Soviet-German war had just begun. The Soviet prisoners of war on the left hold their heads in their hands and walk toward the rear of the German front, while a group of Nazi German troops marched to the front line.
July 7, 1941. German infantry observe Soviet movements from the trenches before they are about to enter Soviet territory.
Soviet prisoners of war captured by the Germans on July 10, 1941.
July 18, 1941. On the march into Russia, German soldiers were removing one of the many Soviet coats of arms.
July 21, 1941. During the German invasion of the Soviet Union, somewhere on the Soviet front. A half-track armored personnel carrier was parked in front of the German tank unit, which was preparing to launch an offensive.
July 26, 1941. Reindeer graze at an airport in Finland. In the background, a German warplane is taking off.
August 7, 1941. Adolf Hitler, together with the German commander-in-chief Brauchitsch and the German chief of the general staff, Admiral Halder, studied the Russian military map.
August 9, 1941. A Soviet family of three fled Minsk when they were confronted by a swarm of German troops. The man squatted on the ground holding a small child. Her wife was exhausted and collapsed on the sidewalk.
August 9, 1941. Somewhere in the Soviet Union, two captured Russian soldiers inspected a giant statue of Lenin, which was towed from the base and smashed by advancing German troops. The rope around the statue's neck was left there by the Germans for its symbolism.
August 10, 1941. Finnish troops stormed Soviet bunkers. A Soviet soldier in the bunker (left) raises his hand and surrenders.
August 1941. A German pilot in a half-track armored vehicle.
August 1941. The Germans marched towards Moscow. Passing through the central Soviet city of Smolensk, the burning buildings in the background are blazing high.
August 27, 1941. Somewhere in Russia, under the surveillance of Russian soldiers, Russian snipers came out of hiding in wheat fields.
In 1941, during the German invasion, the machine gunners of the Red Army in the Soviet Far East.
September 1, 1941. The Germans broke into a house where snipers were hiding, from which the Soviets had been firing on advancing Germans.
September 3, 1941. Ernst. Admiral Busch inspects an anti-aircraft artillery position.
September 3, 1941. Somewhere in Russia. Commander of the Second German Panzer Group, Heinz Guderian, chatted with the tankers.
September 3, 1941. A group of Russian prisoners of war captured in the recent war in Ukraine marched towards a Nazi prisoner-of-war camp.
Concealed site of the Russian front on September 15, 1941. The gunners operated a giant tracked cannon, most likely a 203mm M1931 howitzer.
September 19, 1941, somewhere in Russia. Red Army soldiers are inspecting the spoils of war captured in battle against the German invaders.
The rapidly advancing Germans were met with strong resistance from Soviet partisans at the rear of the line. Near a small village, four guerrillas armed with bayonet rifles and a light machine gun fought.
The Gestapo and the Waffen-SS chief Heinrich. Himmler, inspecting a Soviet prisoner-of-war camp.
Before capturing Kiev, the capital of Ukraine, German troops lay down in the bushes and took cover.
In 1941, a German sentry stood guard in the newly occupied city of Kiev, with a bridge burning in the background of the Dnieper Shop.
The German mechanized troops rested in Staliza, Russia, and then continued to engage in the fighting in Kiev. The Russians had just retreated from here. The remaining architectural framework in the background proves the thoroughness of the Russian scorched-earth policy.
October 1, 1941. The Germans besieging Leningrad photographed the city from a distance from the front. The black shadow in the air was a balloon intercepted by the Soviets. This was the place where the Germans raided the closest place to the city. The Germans then besieged Leningrad for many more years, but were still unable to capture it.
October 3, 1941. Experience scenes of destruction in the war-torn Latvian capital of Riga, where russian troops have retreated and the city has fallen into the hands of Nazi Germans.
October 3, 1941. These men on German trains were Soviet prisoners who were being transported to Germany. Millions of Soviet prisoners of war were transported to German prisoner-of-war camps, most of whom did not return alive.
October 1941. The northeastern region of Finland is near the Soviet-occupied Kola Peninsula. The Germans crossed a wetland, and soldiers pushed a carriage on a wooden road.
October 19, 1941. Finnish army trains passed through a place where an explosion had occurred, destroying a train and damaging rails and roadbeds.
On October 19, 1941, a large number of Russian armored vehicles advanced into the front line.
October 21, 1941, on the outskirts of Leningrad. Russian civilians are salvaging what little they have left from their houses on fire. It is said that the fire was set by the Russians themselves in the implementation of the scorched earth policy.
October 24, 1941. The officer on the right with a frustrated expression on his face was a captured Soviet colonel who was being interrogated by Nazi German officers.
During the German invasion of the Caucasus, the Germans crossed the Don River in landing craft.
In late 1941, the Germans entered the heavily besieged city of Rostov.
November 2, 1941. Part of a massive Amount of Soviet Troops captured by the Germans in Vyazma and Bryansk. They are waiting to be transported to a prisoner-of-war camp somewhere in Russia.
November 6, 1941. Formations of German Stuka dive bombers flew to Crimea, ready to attack coastal targets between the Dnieper and Crimea.
November 1941. The right engine of a German bomber over the Soviet-German battlefield is on fire and falling.
November 22, 1941. The Germans entered the Soviet stubbornly defended lower Don city of Rostov. The burning house ruins and wreckage illustrate the fierceness of the previous fighting.
In November 1941, German infantry in heavy winter clothes marched by a carriage through an area near Moscow. The harsh winter had tightened the Germans' fragile supply lines and forced them to halt their advance. This exposed the soldiers to the bitter cold and the Soviet counter-offensive, resulting in heavy casualties and a severely hampered offensive.
November 24, 1941. The Germans quickly crossed the burning outskirts of Leningrad