Allied troops advance towards Cologne in World War II, Germany. Map depicts Allied invasion of Western Europe and advance towards Germany. U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt, Prime Minister of UK Winston Churchill, and Soviet President Joseph Stalin meet at Yalta conference in Livadia Palace, Crimea, Russia. British Marshal Bernard Montgomery is seen consulting with General Dwight D. Eisenhower and Lieutenant General Omar Bradley. A group of American Sherman tanks firing their guns from a field. A building collapsing from shellfire. American troops firing truck-mounted machine guns equipped with huge enclosed drums of ammunition Glimpse of surrendering German soldiers running toward the camera. Barrages from rocket launchers. British soldiers running into a town with shells bursting and fires burning. An American soldier running behind two German soldiers he is taking as prisoners. US Army Air Forces P-47 aircraft diving to attack. View from cockpit of an aircraft flies through an explosion and fireball. Tanks and infantry advancing and firing. A U.S. P-51 fighter plane with white striped wings flies overhead. American troops riding in an M3 half-track. British soldiers manning a gun. Bombardier in a U.S. bomber bent over his bomb sight. View from aircraft of bombs bursting on the ground raising huge smoke clouds. More German soldiers running forward to surrender. Canadian soldiers moving forward through flooding waters. Canadian Commanding General Henry Crerar is seen with an aide. Canadian troops descending a hill into a town and fighting in the streets. Canadian troops firing mortars and artillery. American armor and infantry occupying a German suburb of Cologne. A woman hangs a large white flag from upper window of her house. Destroyed houses and German soldiers running with their hands held up. U.S. troops entering city of Cologne, with Cathedral in the background. Sherman tank moving toward the Cologne Cathedral.
Russian and American officers and soldiers meet togeher in Torgau, Germany during World War II. Group of Russians and Americans gathered around tank which was driven from Stalingrad. American Major General Emil F. Reinhardt, Commanding General of the U.S. Army 69th Division, seen with his Russian counterpart, Major General Vladimir V. Rusakov, Commanding Officer of the 58th Guards Division near the Elbe River and the town of Torgau, Germany. Rusakov and Reinhardt inspect a tank. Russian and American officers talk. Russian male and female soldiers dance. Russian and American officers, including Rusakov and Reinhardt, and their staffs, watch the dancers.
German Chancellor Adolf Hitler's companion Eva Braun in Berchtesgaden, Germany. Tigers seated on rocks at a zoo near Berchtesgaden Germany. A squirrel climbs onto Eva Braun and she feeds the squirrel. Various animals at the zoo like elephant, duck, rams, walrus, baboons, giraffe, and seals swimming.
Crowds gather in Potsdam, Germany, where most of the newly elected members of the Reichstag (Parliament) hold their first meeting in the Garrison church. Views of the street, crowds, and the Garrison Church. Banner in street says, " We greet the new Germany." President Hindenburg steps from the church, holding his Field Marshal's baton, and greets two clergymen. Sturmabteilung (SA) Stormtroopers struggle to hold crowds back. Members of the Reichstag exit the church, wearing top hats.
Slate at start of sequence says the people came from all parts of Thuringer and the Thuringian Forest, to number 120 thousand in Erfurt . Scene shows massive crowd assembled in open stadium in Erfurt, Germany. Erfurt, where they attend a Nazi rally and hear Adolf Hitler speak. Hitler speaks into a microphone suspended above him. Many Sturmabteilung (SA) Stormtroopers line the stadium and stand in formations. The stands are filled with spectators. Hitler exhorts farmers to combine intelligence and hard work to ensure a bright future for Germany.
United States Army troops in Germany during World War II. Dead bodies lying on ground at Buchenwald Concentration Camp in Thuringia, Germany; victims of atrocities by Nazi German forces. American soldiers stand around on a field where dead bodies were cremated.
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