One of the most devastating confrontations of World Ward 2 is captured in this original German newsreel. In May 1942, when three Soviet armies collided with Field Marshal von Bock's German force preparing its own eastward offensive at Kharkov, Russia, the ensuing battle cost the Red Army nearly a quarter-million men in less than two weeks. In addition to film of the massed attacks of Soviet armor and infantry, this classic newsreel includes spectacular footage of German aerial bombardments and the meeting between Marshal Mannerheim and Adolf Hitler in Finland.