Zu den Kämpfen um Tarnopol

Map of the Battle of the Breakthrough in Eastern Galicia 1917. Act I: Reserve troops form up at the railway station in Zlodzow and march off; Prince Eitel Friedrich of Prussia rides past the camera; mounted column moves through the destroyed village; Field Marshal Prince Leopold of Bavaria, General Arnold v. Winckler, Colonel Max Hoffmann and others at a briefing. at a briefing; departure of resting Austrian troops; Austrian MG detachment on the march; resting German troops on the road to Tarnopol; soldiers' graves; inspection of destroyed armored vehicles and guns; wounded man being carried on stretcher through destroyed village; shell hole filled with water; Prince Eitel Friedrich at the command post of the 2. Russian prisoners are brought back; prisoner train on a country road; wounded Russian soldiers are brought to the dressing station on wooden racks; Field Marshal Prince Leopold of Bavaria greets passing troops; arrival of Kaiser Wilhelm II. at Zlodzow station and greeting by Prince Leopold of Bavaria and Colonel Max Hoffmann; Kaiser Wilhelm II. and Prince Leopold in front of waiting motorcars; Kaiser Wilhelm II. Arrival of Kaiser Wilhelm II. at Zlodzow railway station and greeting by Prince Leopold of Bavaria and Colonel Max Hoffmann; Wilhelm II. and Prince Leopold in front of the waiting motorcars; General Arnold v. Winckler explains the situation to the Kaiser; Wilhelm II. at the command post of the 2nd Guards Division outside Tarnopol; inspection of the 20th Turkish Division near Stolhocze. Act 2 Devastated village near Tarnopol; Austrian heavy mortar being brought into position; Tarnopol after its capture on 27 July 1917; panoramic view of the town; ruins of the station building: Destroyed bridges over the railroad tracks; Ammunition dump with heavy shells lying on the ground; Market place with mined houses; Devastated streets and ruins; Russian prisoners in the collection camp, partly eating; Departure of a group of captured officers; March of Russian prisoners from the collection camp; Fire-fighting by the population in the town, salvaged household goods on the street; Manned artillery on the march through Tarnopol; Two Russian soldiers being led away by Austrians; German troops; Advancing on the Zbruczi.