British Prime Minister Winston Churchill addresses the Congress in Washington DC, United States, during World War 2. Winston Churchill speaks to the Congress about the coming peace. Dignitaries and several men witness the event. He says that the British and the Americans will work together in majesty, justice and peace. Two soldiers on a bridge at dusk. Men on a street. Soldiers with guns in war. British troops on a street. Two children watch the soldiers.
U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, Free French Forces leaders General Charles De Gaulle and General Henri Giraud and other military officers in Casablanca, Morocco during World War II. U.S. President Franklin Roosevelt and British Prime Minister Winston Churchill seated in chairs and several army personnel stand behind them on a lawn in front of a building. President Roosevelt and Prime Minister Churchill seated in chairs in a garden and talk. A French General Henri Giraud, U.S. President Franklin Roosevelt, French General Charles De Gaulle and British Prime Minister Winston Churchill seated in front of a building and talk among themselves. General Giraud and General De Gaulle rise from their chairs and shake hands and again sit down. A building in the back. A group of war correspondents, seated on the grass in the lawn, interview President Roosevelt and Winston Churchill. Both of them talk and smile. President Roosevelt and Prime Minister Churchill seated with other officers standing behind them.
French troops being reviewed by French and British military personalities in North Africa during World War II. Officials in a vehicle reviewing the French troops, tanks and soldiers arranged in a line. Two motor vehicles pass in front of the rows of French troops. Soldiers with guns stand in a row. Armored vehicles behind. French General Henri Giraud talks to an American military officer. General Charles De Gaulle, French General Henri Giraud and British Field Marshal Harold Alexander stand at attention. British Admiral Andrew Cunningham stands in front of them. Admiral Andrew Cunningham salutes. General De Gaulle, General Giraud and Admiral Cunningham salutes. They review the troops. General De Gaulle talks to General Alexander. An officer behind General De Gaulle. Trees in the background. A soldier beside a tree. Two French military personnels talk. General De Gaulle, General Giraud, General Alexander, Admiral Cunningham and other officers talk. A tent in the background. Admiral Cunningham and an officer shake hands. General Giraud, Admiral Cunningham and other officers salute. The officials talk to each other and walk.
British Conservative member of Parliament (MP) Mrs. Mavis C. Tate, arm of accompanying MP, as they walk through recently liberated Buchenwald Concentration Camp. She is obviously distressed, and sniffs some smelling salts from her purse. She and others look at a jumbled pile of human bodies on the ground, victims of atrocities by Nazi German forces. A flat body truck is piled with corpses, covered with pine boughs.Viewing members of the British Parliament delegation make notes in pads. Various views of the corpses and members of parliament and accompanying British and American officers. Member of Parliament being shown ovens in which corpses were incinerated. Members of the group look at pile of ashes from ovens and pick up human bones that did not burn. They examine a tall wooden gallows-like rack with hooks from which prisoners were suspended and tortured or hanged . An MP holds on to a rope or wire extending from one hook. Camp fence and guard tower in background.
Soviet and British officials hold discussions at the border between Russian and British zones of occupation in Germany, following World War II. Prisoners to be repatriated to the Soviet zone aboard several police vans. A prisoner displays a sandwich from the barred windows of a van. A guard raises the barricades on the British side and the vans proceed across a bridge into the Soviet zone.
Military recruitment efforts of Great Britain as it starts conscription in preparation for World War II. The Prime Minister of United Kingdom Neville Chamberlain at 10 Downing Street in London, England. London residents read posters and conscription advertisements on the sidewalk. Military conscription of youth between 20 and 21 for immediate military training. A crowd of young British recruits for the army leaves a building after joining military service. Closeup view of legs and feet of British troops marching. British troops march in the countryside. United Kingdom's King George VI and Queen Elizabeth arrive at a military station. They are accompanied by several military officers. The King and Queen inspect London's new barrage balloons, part of the defense against attack from the air. Two barrage balloons on display. The royal couple departs after the inspection.
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