Representatives of Allied 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 Premier of the Soviet Union Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin seated at the Cecilienh of garden for the Potsdam Conference.
Representatives of Allied nations gathered for Potsdam Conference at Schloss Cecilienhof Palace in Potsdam, Germany during World War II. Soviet People's Commissar for Foreign Affairs Vyacheslav Mikhailovich Molotov and staff enter building. President of the United States Harry S. Truman ,Prime Minster of the United Kingdom Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill and Premier of the Soviet Union Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin shake hands as they pose for the photographers in front of the doorway. They enter the building.
U.S. Secretary of State James F. Byrnes in the United States reports about a London meeting He speaks at his desk and says that the first session of the council of foreign ministers closed in a stalemate in London, England. But that need not and should not deprive them of a second and better chance to get on with peace. The foreign minister of the Soviet Union has not rejected proposal of the United States for a peace conference. Byrnes says that Soviet government will agree that the all the nations that fought the World War II shall have a chance to make world peace. This has been a people's war and it must be a people's peace.
After lenthy period of slates in Korean, the first images appear at TC: 01:52, as camera pans down over ruins at the exterior front of the German Reich Chancellery building in Berlin, Germany. A plaque in German identifies it as the Kanzlei des Führers der NSDAP (Chancellery of the Führer of the Nazi Party). Camera moves through various rooms of the building showing wreckage. In one room a world globe, a table and some broken furniture are shown. Scene changes to an animated map of Europe centered on Germany that depicts the dramatic expansion of German conquest in beginning of World War 2. It then shows further expansion with German invasion of the Soviet Union. From then on It adds a line directed to India (labeled in Russian) and another pointed into North America.The map then sends more lines covering the Continent of Africa and the South and Central America. These represent a plan for world conquest. View of a German three engine twin tail seaplane being launched by a catapult. Closeups of the plane in flight. Scene changes to German paratroopers jumping from a Junkers 52, three engine transport plane. Aerial view from above of the paratroopers leaping from the aircraft and from below as they descend with their chutes billowing out above them. Ground view of them landing on sand in North Africa. German troops on motor cycles, half track personnel carriers ( Sd.Kfz. 250 ) and Panzer III tanks. German Field Marshal Erwin Rommel standing with his staff, directing elements of his Afrika Korps forces in North Africa. Smiling German troops riding in an open Sd.Kfz. 251 (Sonderkraftfahrzeug 251) half-track personnel carrier. A huge explosion and dense black smoke is seen. Then, a German Heinkel HE 111 bomber is seen maneuvering overhead. Brief glimpse from an aircraft strafing an armored vehicle on the ground. Suddenly a submarine's periscope is seen just above the water and a transport ship (or freighter) is seen as through the periscope. Next, inside a German submarine, the Captain lowers his periscope and scene shifts to bow of submarine surfacing and the ship is seen burning and exploding. A torpedo is launched from a surfaced submarine and it strikes a ship creating a huge explosion and fireball.
Yalta Conference in Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic during World War II. Soviet Premier Joseph Stalin and Foreign Minister of Soviet Union Vyacheslav Molotov stand at doorway of Livadia Palace where Yalta Conference is held. U.S. President Franklin Roosevelt's daughter Anna Boettiger, Ambassador to the U.S.S.R. Averell Harriman's daughter Kathy Harriman, and British Prime Minister Winston Churchill's daughter Sarah Churchill talk together.
Demobilization of Red Army at the end of World War II. A view of a coast with a hill in the background. Men carry a flag. Red Army officers with medals decorated on their uniforms. Soviet flag waves. A memorial at the coast.