The Feldherrnhalle (Residenzstraße 1, 80333 München, Germany) in Munich, Germany shortly after end of World War II in Europe. Statues of emperors and warriors. White lettering in German, on side of the building saying 'Concentration Camp Dachau - Belsen - Buchenwald. I am ashamed that I am a German.' Nazi swastika symbol and a statue in front of a building destroyed by Allied bombers. Adolf Hitler's original Brown House (NS-Dokumentationszentrum München, Max-Mannheimer-Platz 1, 80333 München, Germany) in ruins from bombing of the Allied bombers. Damage done nearby Odeonsplatz (Odeonspl. 1, 80539 München, Germany). Women on bicycles pass by the Feldherrnhalle.
Filmed shortly before the Potsdam Conference in Berlin, Germany. A view of the devastated city of Berlin shortly after the end of World War 2 in Europe. Aerial views of bomb damaged Berlin and point of view shots from a moving car passing destruction, rubble, and skeletons of buildings from bomb damage. U.S. President Harry Truman surveying the damage from an open car, and view of his car approaching the Brandenburg Gate and driving on the Unter den Linden. Three flag towers each decorated at the base with an image of Truman, Stalin, and Churchill. U.S. President Harry S. Truman is riding through Berlin with General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union Joseph Stalin and Soviet Foreign Minister Vyacheslav Mikhailovich Molotov. Flashback shows German Fuhrer Adolf Hitler parading in Berlin. People crowd on either side of a street to cheer. Close up back and side profile view of Hitler as he stands in a moving car waving to the crowd. Hitler speaking at a Nazi Rally, forcefully and animated, about Germany wiping out inferior races, and decrying America's society of mixed people, saying that it has a ridiculous notion of equality and freedom that cannot stand up against Germany. The German people in the hall applaud. Truman speaks into a microphone in Germany after the war. U.S. delegates stand in the background. A radio tower. A U.S. military serviceman operating controls for the radio broadcast. People in the U.S. listen to President Truman speaking from a Berlin Radio Station. A hand on a typewriter. People of the United States in groups listening to radio: Men gathered at a city store listening to the radio speech; a woman typist listening to the radio beside her typewriter; men in a rural general store gathered around a radio near a wood stove; farmers listening to a radio; office workers gathered around a radio; a family in a living room listens to the radio; group of U.S. Army soldiers gathered to listen to the radio . Truman speaking on the grounds of the United States Group Control Council Headquarters in Berlin. He is in a courtyard that had been the home of the German Air Defense for Berlin. An honor guard from Company 'E' of the 41st Infantry is present, along with Secretary Stimpson, Assistant Secretary McCloy, and Generals Eisenhower, Patton, Clay, and Bradley. Soldiers stand in formation in the background. He speaks about peace in the world during the ceremony raising the United States flag over the U.S. controlled area of Berlin. His words included the statement, "Let's not forget that we are fighting for peace and for the welfare of mankind. We're not fighting for conquest."
United States President Harry S. Truman visits Berlin for the Potsdam Conference at the end of World War 2 in Europe. President Truman, Admiral William D. Leahy, Secretary of State James F. Byrnes, sit in open car to view Berlin in ruins. Berlin buildings and façade are destroyed from heavy bombing. Ruins of the Reich Chancellery (Wilhelmstraße 77 10117 Berlin Germany) is seen. President Truman’s car passes by the Berlin Victory Column or Siegessäule (Großer Stern, 10557 Berlin, Germany). Closer view of the Berlin Victory Column, featuring the Victoria statue on top. Large portraits of President Truman, Russian Premier Joseph Stalin and Prime Minister Winston Churchill on a Russian reviewing stand on Berlin’s Unter den Linden Avenue. President Truman’s convoy approaches the Brandenburg Gate (Brandenburger Tor Pariser Platz, 10117 Berlin, Germany), damaged by heavy bombing. Cars driving on the Unter den Linden Avenue. The Berliner Schloss (Schloßpl. 1, 10178 Berlin, Germany) with significant damage. The Secret Service stand on running boards of President Truman's car. President Truman greets a man from his car. President Truman, Admiral Leahy and Secretary of State Byrnes talking. A huge pile of rubble stands in front of a damaged building. Crowds of men and soldiers surround President Truman and his car. Soldiers with cameras take photographs. Secret Service men running alongside President Truman’s car. President Truman’s car passes by a Nazi-style building, driving into the Autobahn. A Military Police vehicle, which acts as guard, follows behind President Truman's car heading to Potsdam.
Allied air war over Germany and Japan in World War II. A map showing the Germany occupied areas in Europe and Japan occupied region in South Asia. Aerial views of Allied bomber aircraft flying over the city of Berlin, Germany. The target, Messerschmitt AG, a German aircraft manufacturer company, is bombed by the bombers. Bombs strike the target and huge explosion destroys the factory. Allied bombers drop bombs over targets in Tokyo, Japan. Bombs hit the ground and explosion smoke can be seen from the plane during saturation bombing of Tokyo, Japan.
Evidence of holocaust atrocities in Germany near end of World War 2 in Europe. German civilians in Gardelegen Germany carrying crosses for 1,100 fresh graves for victims of the holocaust at Gardelegen. The German citizens walking on the streets carrying the crosses. Buildings in view. Scenes from various liberated concentration camps in Germany. A crowd around a liberated concentration camp building. The Allied army soldiers enter a gate of a camp. Soldiers enter through gates of several different camps with sign "Arbeit Macht Frei" on Dachau Concentration Camp gate. Scenes of happy liberated inmates at various camps. Two men walk in front of a crowd entering a liberated camp. Liberated concentration camp inmates in striped prison uniforms smile and some wave. Some of them appear to be very young men or older boys. Men cheering. U.S. Army soldier leans head out of watch tower and looks down on concentration camp field and barracks. Freed inmates around and on top of a concentration camp barracks building. Allied soldiers escort horse drawn wagon with potatoes in it through camp as inmates scramble to gather food. Starved man on a street scraping spilled food of some kind from the ground and eating it. Soldiers bring out body of liberated prisoners from barracks and dungeons. A soldier carries an injured person in a stretcher. Men carry emaciated and injured victims into a vehicle. A victim man lying on the ground. Physicians provide medical aid to victims of Auschwitz Concentration Camp. Doctors examine a man, a woman, and several starving child victims.
Aerial views from U.S. warplane of daylight bombing raid over Germany. Bombs exploding on roads, buildings, and various targets in Germany near the end of World War 2, in Germany. Bombs away view from aicraft as air-to-ground munitions trail smoke and descend toward the ground. Brown smoke rising and obscuring area from munitions striking ground targets. Change of scene to higher altitude view of explosions on wooded area. Bombs bursting on ground targets raising white smoke and brown smoke in different areas. Flames beginning in brown smoke.
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