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| Preface |
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Shelling Begins on the Russo-German Border |
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3 | (1) |
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German Motorcyclists Surprise Russian Infantry Soldiers Still Undergoing Drill Instruction |
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4 | (1) |
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A Section of Horse-Drawn Field Artillery Crossing a Stream: Photograph |
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5 | (1) |
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General Dmitry Pavlov, at a Comedic Play in the Officers' Club in Minsk, Refuses to Believe the Invasion Has Begun |
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6 | (1) |
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German Soldiers Practicing Formations with Canvas Tanks: Photograph |
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7 | (1) |
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Panzer Grenadiers Rush to Open Fire on a Blazing Soviet Farmhouse Where Russian Sharpshooters Have Taken Refuge During the German Advance to Smolensk: Photograph |
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8 | (1) |
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A German Engineering Platoon, Wearing Russian Uniforms and Driving Four Captured Russian Trucks, Attempts to Secure the Dvinsk Road Bridge |
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9 | (1) |
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Expecting a Transmission with Information about the Invasion, Russian Soldiers Assemble and Instead Receive Agricultural Reports and Instructions for Daily Exercise |
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10 | (1) |
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Citizens in Minsk Seize a Bottle Factory to Construct Molotov Cocktails |
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11 | (1) |
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Russian General Ivan B. Boldin Observes a Wealthy Official Fleeing in a Limousine Just Before It Is Strafed by a German Plane |
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12 | (1) |
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A Polish Worker, on Seeing a Ditch Filled with Bodies Before He Is Shot, Remembers a River from His Childhood |
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13 | (1) |
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Writing in His Journal, Helmut Schreiber, a German Soldier in the Ukraine, Recalls Mistaking a Peasant's Manure Wagon for a Russian Tank |
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14 | (1) |
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Rumors Circulate among German Troops of Beautiful Russian Girls Found Dead after Battle, Their Automatic Weapons Still in Hand |
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15 | (1) |
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Captured by the Germans, Stalin's Oldest Son, Yakov Djugashvili, Speaks of His Father's Refusal to Negotiate His Release in Exchange for a German POW |
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16 | (1) |
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A 12-Piece German Band Performs in a Ukrainian Village Square Where Soldiers and Citizens Have Gathered: Photograph |
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17 | (1) |
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A Ukrainian Man and Woman Search for a Neighbor Among Corpses: Photograph |
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18 | (1) |
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Stalin, in a State of Depression and Psychic Collapse, Withdraws |
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19 | (4) |
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II Russian Resistance And The Fall Of The Luga Line |
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Russian Partisans Resist 1 |
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Russian Partisans Resist 2 |
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24 | (1) |
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Camouflage Nets Are Strung over Buildings on the Neva River |
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25 | (1) |
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Evacuating the Hermitage Museum |
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26 | (1) |
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A Russian Farmer Coming Upon German Paratroopers |
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27 | (1) |
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A Citizen Firefighter Surveys Leningrad from a Rooftop |
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28 | (1) |
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Paper Strips, Pasted on Windows to Help Prevent Shattering During the Bombings, Frequently Were Arranged into Elaborate Scenes |
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29 | (1) |
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A Worker Speaks of Transporting the White Bull Sculptures from the Leningrad Packing Plant |
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30 | (1) |
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Thirty Thousand Leningraders, Mostly Women, Attempt to Return on Foot After Helping to Fortify the Luga Line |
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31 | (1) |
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Colonel Bychevsky, Directing the Construction of the Luga Line, Discusses Where to Place Mines |
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32 | (1) |
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Colonel Bychevsky, on Being Presented with Paper-Mache Decoys of Guns and Tanks Constructed by the Scenic Artists at the Mariinski Theater |
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33 | (1) |
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A Russian Partisan, Running Through a Field, Removes a Machine Gun from Beside the Body of a Dead German: Photograph |
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34 | (1) |
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The German Offensive to Breach the Luga Line |
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35 | (1) |
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Zoya Kosmodemyanskaya Sets Fire to a German Stable |
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36 | (1) |
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One Russian Soldier from the People's Volunteer Army Discusses the Enclosing German Army |
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37 | (1) |
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The Evacuation of Children from Leningrad |
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38 | (1) |
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An Aerial View of the German Army Closing Around Leningrad |
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III The Battle For Leningrad |
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The Battle for Leningrad Begins |
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43 | (1) |
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44 | (1) |
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The Badayev Food Warehouses Burn |
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45 | (1) |
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46 | (1) |
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To Protect Their Belongings, Some Leningraders Wear Their Finest Clothes |
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47 | (1) |
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Taking Cover Under Railway Cars |
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48 | (1) |
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49 | (1) |
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50 | (1) |
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A Woman Travels Outside of Leningrad to Attempt to Exchange Vodka and Cigarettes for Food |
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51 | (1) |
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A Student Speaks of the Arrival of Winter |
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52 | (1) |
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53 | (1) |
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54 | (1) |
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A Pigskin Briefcase Is Converted into Pork Aspic |
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55 | (1) |
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To Barter for Food, a Girl Removes Her Deceased Father's Gold Teeth |
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56 | (1) |
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With Their Grandmother's Assistance, Two Children Hide the Bodies of Their Deceased Parents in the Attic |
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57 | (1) |
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One Man, Claiming that He Received an Extra Food Ration for Helping to Build Grenades, Gives His Daily Food Allowance to His Wife |
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58 | (1) |
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59 | (4) |
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The Ice Road across Lake Ladoga |
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64 | (1) |
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Parachute Flares Are Dropped above Russian Supply Trucks Crossing the Lake at Night: Photograph |
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66 | (1) |
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One Leningrader Discovers in a Snowdrift the Discarded Heads of a Man, Woman, and Young Girl |
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67 | (1) |
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68 | (1) |
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69 | (1) |
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Losing the Path on Lake Ladoga |
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A Reporter Is Dismissed from His Job at Leningradskaya Pravda and Expelled from the Communist Party for Using a Newspaper Car to Transport a Sick Colleague across Lake Ladoga |
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71 | (1) |
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72 | (1) |
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The Supply Chain Is Established |
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73 | (1) |
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Professor A.D. Bezzubov Creates a Cure for Scurvy By Extracting Vitamin C from Pine Needles |
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74 | (1) |
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75 | (1) |
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Russian Tank Crewmen Accept Chocolate from a First-Aid Worker: Photograph |
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76 | (1) |
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While Flying First-Aid Supplies from Moscow to Leningrad Over Nazi Lines, a Pilot Also Transports the Score of Dmitri Shostakovich's Symphony No. 7 |
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Russian Engineers Cut German Barbed-Wire Barricades to Clear the Way for Soviet Ski Troops and Cavalry: Photograph |
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78 | (1) |
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