Pictorial map of Eastern Front in World War 2. German soldiers salute and one of them plays trumpet in front of the office. Flag of germany hoisted by a soldier. Field Marshal Busch, ending his military career, talks with an army General about some documents that seem to amuse them both. Busch's staff give him a candelabra as a gift. He says farewell to members of the staff.
View of Generals and Admirals seated around table for conference. General Dwight Eisenhower seated with General Bernard L Montgomerry and Air Marshal Arthur W Tedder. Other officers stand behind Generals seated. All Generals including Lieutenant General Omar Nelson Bradley, Admiral Ramsay, Air Chief Marshall Leigh Sir Trafford L Mallory and Lieutenant General Walter B Smith walks to large wall map of Europe where General Eisenhower points to central Germany area. View of large group of photographers taking pictures.
View General Dwight David Eisenhower with General Bernard Law Montgomerry and Air Marshall Arthur W Tedder seated around table. Air Chief Marshall Leigh Sir Trafford Leigh Mallory and Lieutenant General Walter B Smith seated on one side and Lieutenant General Omar Nelson Bradley , Admiral Ramsay on other side. Wall map of Germany behind the conference table. Discussion goes on.
Benjamin Winters as President of Federation of Polish Jews appeals to the members to raise funds to help Jews. He speaks about the bad condition of Jewish people and children in Poland under influence by Nazi Germany.
Animated map shows changes in borders and nations surrounding Poland up until 1937. A map with strategic importance city of Danzig in Poland. Map shows Czechoslovakia, Russia, Hungary, Ottoman Empire, and Germany.
Crowds in New York City celebrate end of World War 1 near time of Armistice. View from above of crowds on 5th Avenue, in Manhattan, gathered at Madison Square, around the Altar of Liberty designed by architect Thomas Hastings, to honor homecoming American soldiers. Camera pans across celebrants waving hats, hands, and flags. Scene shifts to the financial district, and the George Washington Statue at Federal Hall, Wall Street, which has been draped with American flag and signs reading: "Liberty cannot die." A clergyman standing below the statue, paces back and forth. Closeup of a bearded Jewish man, wrapped in a Yiddish newspaper announcing the armistice. He is blowing a horn and has an American flag and a blue and white Jewish flag fastened at his back. Camera pans over young women dressed in costumes as: soldiers, nurses, drum majorettes, the statue of liberty, red cross workers, and Uncle Sam. View shifts to an effigy of the German Kaiser suspended high above the street, between two buildings. Men ride on the outside of a car. One "chokes" an small effigy of the Kaiser while another pummels it. Another crowd raises an effigy of the Kaiser aloft holding a white flag of surrender. A man wearing a grotesque mask of the Kaiser, with Kammerad written across the forehead. He holds an American flag. Vehicles, including a horse-drawn carriage, move along a street surrounded by vast crowds. Confetti flies through the air. Jubilant crowd wave newspapers with headline: Germany Surrenders. A double-decker bus seen in background. (World War I; World War 1; WWI; WW1)
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