The Malta Conference in Malta, United Kingdom during World War II. A guard opens the door of a car. U.S. Navy Fleet Admiral Ernest King gets off the car. Admiral King and Commander Bornin walk into Montgomery House for the Malta Conference. A guard at the entrance door salutes the officers. U.S. Ambassador to the Soviet Union William Averell Harriman arrives in a car at Montgomery House. A guard opens the door of a car and U.S. Army Chief of Staff General George Marshall gets off the car and walks into the building. U.S. Army Service Forces Commanding General Brehon Burke Somervell arriving with another officer for the conference. Several officers arriving for the conference. A large crowd gathered outside the building. U.S. and British officers leaving the Union Club after a luncheon. A crowd of civilians standing on either side of a street watching the officers. A few guards controlling the crowd as the officers walk towards vehicles. General Marshall comes out of the building holding documents. The General walking towards a car. An officer outside the building watches the General.
A film dramatizes the rise of Nazi party and corresponding life of civilians under German Chancellor Adolf Hitler's totalitarian government. A Nazi flag being hoisted. A German couple seated. Two men talk in a street. A Nazi brownshirt harangues civilians on a street. People listen to him and do not unite to object. Karl, a farmer, listens. He tills a piece of land. Nazi officers close down a shop. A man works in an ammunition factory as a war production worker. He returns home from work. His children are eating food. German equipment and troops on advance. The ammunition factory worker joins the German Army and leaves for the war front. He kisses his wife as he bids goodbye. German troops loaded onto a truck advance. Artillery is fired and infantry advances ahead. German troops fight against the Allies in Stalingrad, Soviet Union and Normandy, France.
The film 'Two Down and One to Go' talks about the activities of the Axis powers Italy, Germany and Japan during World War II. United States Secretary of War Henry Lewis Stimson at a desk. Animation shows a swastika being exploded over Germany. Caricatures of the late Duce of the Italian Social Republic Benito Amilcare Andrea Mussolini, the late Chancellor of Germany Adolf Hitler and Hideki Tojo. A cross being superimposed on the two dictators. The head of the Roman Catholic Church, Pope Pius XII blesses the crowds in St. Peter's Square. 1st Military Governor of the American Occupation Zone in Germany Dwight David Eisenhower, the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom Winston Leonard Spencer-Churchill, the General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union Joseph Stalin display festive moods in separate events. People cheer.
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."
The Potsdam Conference in Berlin, Germany. The delegates in a conference hall. A German officer after defeat signs a document. The officers shake hands with Generals. The ruins in Berlin. A damaged building. People stand on the ruins and debris . Men use shovels and fill the dirt in buckets. A close up of a German woman. A woman shows her anger. The delegates enter a hall for the Potsdam conference. Stalin meets a delegate. U.S. President Harry S. Truman, General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union Joseph Stalin and UK Prime Minister Winston Churchill stand together. Other stand in the background. The delegates meet each other. The conference begins. All delegates including Truman, Stalin and Churchill sit around a conference table.
Representatives of nations gathered for Potsdam Conference at Schloss Cecilienhof Palace in Potsdam, Germany during World War II. Prime Minster of the United Kingdom Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill,President of the United States Harry S. Truman and General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin walk towards the conference building. Officers escort them. Representatives pose as the photographers take pictures. Trees seen in the background.