The Soviet winter offensive of 1942-43

On a dark map a white line encloses Axis Europe under a large swastika, with British, American and Soviet flags pressing in; beyond a barbed-wire fence a tank crosses a snowfield as a shell bursts; three steel helmets lie half buried in the snow; soldiers in greatcoats and fur caps stand in ranks on a square before an ornate facade resembling Moscow's GUM; a second map traces the front from Murmansk through Leningrad, Moscow and Voronezh to Stalingrad and Grozny.

In November 1942 the Red Army encircled the German Sixth Army at Stalingrad; its winter offensive drove the Germans back from the Volga and the Caucasus, and on 2 February 1943 the last German troops in Stalingrad surrendered. The newsreel, released by MGM as News of the Day, told the war as its American audience was meant to see it.