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People in the U.S. listen as President Truman speaks during the United States flag raising ceremony in Berlin at end of World War 2
Filmed shortly before the Potsdam Conference in Berlin, Germany. A view of the devastated city of Berlin shortly after the end of World War 2 in Europe. Aerial views of bomb damaged Berlin and point of view shots from a moving car passing destruction, rubble, and skeletons of buildings from bomb damage. U.S. President Harry Truman surveying the damage from an open car, and view of his car approaching the Brandenburg Gate and driving on the Unter den Linden. Three flag towers each decorated at the base with an image of Truman, Stalin, and Churchill. U.S. President Harry S. Truman is riding through Berlin with General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union Joseph Stalin and Soviet Foreign Minister Vyacheslav Mikhailovich Molotov. Flashback shows German Fuhrer Adolf Hitler parading in Berlin. People crowd on either side of a street to cheer. Close up back and side profile view of Hitler as he stands in a moving car waving to the crowd. Hitler speaking at a Nazi Rally, forcefully and animated, about Germany wiping out inferior races, and decrying America's society of mixed people, saying that it has a ridiculous notion of equality and freedom that cannot stand up against Germany. The German people in the hall applaud. Truman speaks into a microphone in Germany after the war. U.S. delegates stand in the background. A radio tower. A U.S. military serviceman operating controls for the radio broadcast. People in the U.S. listen to President Truman speaking from a Berlin Radio Station. A hand on a typewriter. People of the United States in groups listening to radio: Men gathered at a city store listening to the radio speech; a woman typist listening to the radio beside her typewriter; men in a rural general store gathered around a radio near a wood stove; farmers listening to a radio; office workers gathered around a radio; a family in a living room listens to the radio; group of U.S. Army soldiers gathered to listen to the radio . Truman speaking on the grounds of the United States Group Control Council Headquarters in Berlin. He is in a courtyard that had been the home of the German Air Defense for Berlin. An honor guard from Company 'E' of the 41st Infantry is present, along with Secretary Stimpson, Assistant Secretary McCloy, and Generals Eisenhower, Patton, Clay, and Bradley. Soldiers stand in formation in the background. He speaks about peace in the world during the ceremony raising the United States flag over the U.S. controlled area of Berlin. His words included the statement, "Let's not forget that we are fighting for peace and for the welfare of mankind. We're not fighting for conquest."
A large convoy of U.S. Army tanks drive past and infantry men advance across an open field in Germany.
U.S. Army tanks leaving a town in Germany during the last days of World War II in Europe. A large convoy of U.S. Army tanks drive past. U.S. soldiers throw bricks in the foreground on a muddy incline to provide traction for other military vehicles. A tank drives up and stops. Personnel carriers and trucks and jeeps follow through the mud on the road. Soldiers spread hay or straw on a muddy incline for traction. Tanks move on a rural road past a burning building. Infantry men advance across an open field.
Fire burns in market area in town of Gramastetten, Austria (WW2)
Northwest of Linz, Austria, the Gramastetten Church (Marktstraße 1, 4201 Gramastetten, Austria) is seen with smoke and buildings on fire in foreground, in market area near the church. U.S. Army forces battle against German forces in the Gramastetten market in the last days of World War II in Europe. Artillery shell bursts near the church. Buildings including a school on fire in front of the church. Smoke and flames visible in buildings near the church. Smoke rises. Trees in woods in the foreground.
German prisoners march over the Nibelungen bridge and through streets in Linz, Austria, at end of World War II.
German prisoners of war march in Austria at the end of World War 2, in Europe. They march in loose formation in the roadway, over the Nibelungen Bridge (Nibelungenbrücke, 4020 Linz, Austria), in Linz. Several women bring up the rear of the formation. Some German civilians are seen, carrying belongings, going the opposite direction, on a sidewalk on the other side of the bridge. The Danube River is in the background. The formation of surrendering German soldiers turns at end of the bridge and proceeds through the town. A convoy of trucks in the background. American soldiers follow the formation and others are seen along their path. Civilians watch as they pass.
The U.S. Army Ninth Armored Division arrives in Camp Patrick Henry, Virginia, to be deactivated following World War II
Troops coming home to America at the end of World War 2. An Army Sergeant just returned from Europe, at the end of World War 2, stands on a pier, beside the troop ship USS General J. C. Breckinridge (AP-176). With him is a woman who wearing a jacket emblazoned with many emblems of U.S. military units. The sergeant places the insignia of the 10th Armored Division on her back. They hug and laugh. Scene shifts completely to 9th Armored Division soldiers at Camp Patrick Henry, Newport News, Virginia, holding the large sign originally placed on the Ludendorff bridge in Germany, by C Company of the 9th Armored Engineer Battalion during the war. It reads:"Cross the Rhine with dry feet, courtesy of 9th Arm'd Div." The soldiers carry the sign past a wooden building at the camp. Change of scene shows Ninth Armored Division troops arriving by train at Camp Patrick Henry. They march in loose order on train platform, with troop transport railroad train pulled into station. The happy soldiers march through a Victory Arch bearing words, "Welcome Home" at an entrance to the camp. More views of the troops marching into Camp Patrick Henry, where the 9th Division is to be deactivated. In the camp grounds, Sergeant reaches into his dufflebag and takes out a small puppy. ( Note: Vehicles: seen in this clip include: MB GPW, and CCKW)
Russian troops cross bridge and Russian troops and 80th Division soldiers participate in ceremony in Liezen, Austria.
United States Army 80th Infantry Division meets Russian troops in Liezen, Austria, at end of World War II in Europe.. Russian troops walk down the Enns River bridge. They cross the bridge. Troops march over bridge. Formal ceremony participated in by formations of Russian 9th Tank Brigade, Russian 21st Infantry Division and U.S. 80th Infantry Division soldiers. Major General Horace L. McBride, Lt General Walton H Walker, Russian Major General Voskresenskii, and Russian Lt Colonel Tisachnee attend services . General McBride presents medals to Russian general.