Victory in Europe Day celebration in Wiesbaden, Germany at the end of World War II in Europe. Group of DPs (Displaced Persons) march away from the parade area. They hold Red flags,banners and portraits. Group of girls march. Buildings in the background. Girl carries a large Portrait of Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin,Premier of the Soviet Union. Red star over a building. The parade progresses. United States Army Air Forces B-17s Flying Fortress bomber aircraft fly overhead.
Unveiling of new Soviet War Memorial (Tiergarten) in Berlin Germany, during Russian Revolution anniversary celebrations (28th anniversary), in Berlin, Germany, soon after the end of World War II. Marshal of the Soviet Union Georgy Konstantinovich Zhukov inspects British, French, American and Russian units. Trees in the background. Zhukov and United States Army Major General James Maurice Gavin in a grandstand. A Russian officer speaks from the grandstand in front of the Soviet War Memorial (then also called Russian Victory Monument by Allied forces) on Charlottenburger-Chaussee. A Russian Army band plays. A statue of a Russian soldier atop the Victory Monument. Russian troops parade after unveiling of the Memorial. Honor company of United States Army 82nd Airborne Division marches past. Allied troops seen marching in formation on nearby streets of Berlin. Major General Gavin shakes hands with Soviet leader Marshal Zhukov. Officers place wreaths at the Soviet War Memorial. Russian artillery fires salute. Photographers take photographs. The officers salute in front of the War Memorial. Wreaths placed at the base of the Memorial.
May Day celebrations at a prisoner of war camp in Hemer, Germany during World War II. Russian prisoners of war (POWs) hold May Day celebrations in the camp "Stalag 6" after the liberation by United States Forces. Russian soldiers carry a banner in Russian and English which reads "long live Americans which liberated us from the Nazi captivity." Portraits of General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin, the President of the United States Harry S. Truman and the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom Winston Churchill. United States Major General Ray Edison Porter, Commanding General of the United States 75th Infantry Division ; Camp Commandant Major N. Mironof and other Russian officials on a speakers' platform. A large crowd of Russian prisoners gathered during the celebration..
National leaders of Great Britain, United States of America and Soviet Union meet during the Yalta Conference at Crimea in Ukraine. Foreign secretaries of the three Allied nations Stettinius, Eden and Molotov meet at Malta. General George C Marshal meets with the secretaries. Meeting of the secretaries at Montgomery house at Malta. British Prime Minister Winston Churchill disembarks from a plane for Yalta Conference. U.S. President Franklin D Roosevelt arrives with his daughter. The dignitaries review an honor guard. Soviet Premiere Joseph Stalin arrives and the Big Three during the meeting at conference hall in the summer palace of Czar Nicholas. Churchill, Roosevelt and Stalin pose for a group photograph and military generals stand behind them. (World War II period).
A court trial in session. Fascist Pietro Caruso of Italy in court. Norwegian Army officer Vidkun Quisling in court. General Henri-Philippe Petain of France. French politician Pierre Laval in court speaking forcefully. Prosecutors gesturing. Nazi Hermann Goering. Nazi generals being arrested at end of World War II including Field Marshal von Rundstedt. Germany's Kaiser Wilhlem II and General Staff during World War I. Henry Lloyd George of Britain, after World War I. Kaiser Wilhelm II, residing in Holland, after World War I. He smoke a cigarette and throws wood into a pile using his right hand. A post-war aerial view of bomb-damaged Nuremberg, Germany. The court house of Nuremberg. U.S. chief prosecutor Robert Houghwout Jackson on walk outside the Nuremberg courthouse. Enactment of British Courtroom scene. View from above of Red Square in Moscow, Russia, Soviet Union. View of a Soviet court in session.
Group of U.S. soldiers wave American flag to stop a U.S. Military Police jeep. A Sergeant gets out of the jeep and greets the GIs. He then gives each of them a carton of cigarettes. Remainder of the scenes show Soviet occupation forces and Berliners subject to Soviet authority. A Soviet woman soldier directing traffic. Russian soldiers pose for pictures in front of the Victory Column in Berlin. View of the golden winged victory statue on top of the column. Three pillars displaying pictures of Stalin and two other Soviet leaders. Soviet soldiers walking near the Brandenburg Gate. Several quiet streets. Elderly German citizens sitting on a bench in front of a granite memorial to Kaiser Wilhelm I. A street filled with destroyed cars, broken buildings and rubble everywhere. Several German citizens struggle to move a laden wooden wagon. A Russian woman soldier directs traffic. Local citizens queue up for water. They read a paper posted with a message from the Supreme Commander of the Armed Forces of the Soviet Union. A line of citizens passing bricks to help with rebuilding.