Scenes from May 8, 1945 in London as England hears news of the surrender by Germany in World War II. Winston Churchill seated at desk and preparing to make a 3:00pm (15:00) radio broadcast about the German surrender. Churchill along with a British Naval officer greeted by Secretaries who clap and cheer as Churchill gets into a car and doffs his hat as he smokes a cigar. The car pulls away. View of Big Ben clock tower in London, showing the time of 3 o'clock pm, (15:00) which was the time of the broadcast by Churchill.
People carry British flags as they walk down a street to celebrate the Allied victory in World War II as news of surrender by Germany spreads. View of Big Ben in London showing time of 3:00pm or 15:00, when the radio broadcast by Churchill announced the German surrender. British citizens gather in large numbers to celebrate the end of war in Europe (VE Day).
Dr Harry F Ward of the Union Theological Seminary addresses large crowd gathered at Madison Square Garden in New York. Dr Ward condemns President Roosevelt's response to the Nazis in Germany, saying, "It is not enough!"
(Note: silent until TC: 2:06) Scenes of bright lights and decorations in Manhattan, New York City, during the Christmas season in 1966. Closeup of lights on the Christmas tree at Rockefeller Center. Lights and decorations on a fountain and building fronts. Christmas decorations in department store and shop windows. Elaborate toys and decorations including a carousel with decorative white horses carrying wrapped gift packages. Artificial animals, including an elephant that moves its trunk. Dancing stringed puppets in an Alpine setting. Miniature choir boys perched in front of organ pipes. An American boys' choir singing "Silent Night" inside a church. Panning closeups of the boys singing with open hymn books. At TC: 2:06, sound track starts being heard, as a pageant is being shown, possibly in Germany, with a choir of German boys and girls singing "Silent Night" in German. While they sing in the background, a group of children step from a building, carrying torches. They proceed down a snow covered hill. Children stand in snow by a bonfire and look at a fir tree covered in snow. Children carrying candles wave at an elderly woman looking out from a window. Pan to closeup of Virgin Mary and child decorating a Christmas tree.
Freight trains loaded with wheat and oil on their way to Germany from Russia during World War II. Workers load wheat in a train. Officers near a train. A man opens the lid of a tanker. Men put pipes in tankers of a freight train.
Dead bodies of victims of Hindenburg disaster in New York, United States. People lined up on the pier to attend the funeral ceremonies of victims who lost their lives in the explosion of German airship Hindenburg in New York, United States. Nazi flags fly at half mast after the Hindenburg disaster. A Nazi General salutes as caskets wrapped in Nazi flags lined up on the pier. United States military officers at the ceremony. A casket wrapped in Nazi flag being hoisted aboard the German ship Hamburg for shipment to Germany.
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