East Meets West in Germany during World War II. U.S. Major General Emil F. Reinhardt, Commander of the U.S. 69th Infantry Division and Russian officer Major General Rusakov, Commander of the 58th Guard Division meet with their respective forces. They shake hands with each other.
First Jewish religious services on grounds of Dachau Concentration Camp in Germany after the camp's liberation. A European civilian speaks at the ceremony honoring those who died under Nazi persecution. Liberated prisoners and other people gather to listen to his speech. People stand holding flags.
Burial of dead concentration camp victims from the Wöbbelin Concentration Camp in Ludwigslust, Germany during World War II. German civilians and officers look at the bodies before the burial. People walk past the dead bodies from the Wobbelin camp. Some women place flowers on a grave. A few women cry. A group of U.S. and German officers stand at attention during burial ceremonies. Gathered civilians. Officers and soldiers salute. German civilians bury the dead.
The Berlin Potsdam Conference in Berlin, Germany. USS Augusta underway. U.S. President Harry S. Truman aboard ship USS Augusta. The cruiser underway. Truman stands on a bridge of USS Augusta. Another dignitary stands beside him looks through a binocular. U.S. sailors aboard the cruiser. The sailors salute. Truman climbs down a ladder. People on a dock wave to Truman aboard USS Augusta. A close up Truman seated on a deck with other officials. Truman disembarks in Antwerp with U.S. Secretary of State James F. Byrnes. Truman gets in a car. People crowd on either side of a street and greet him. Cars drive on an airfield. Aircraft parked at the airfield. Truman shakes hands with an officer. The soldiers stand in formation. President Truman boards an aircraft. Other U.S. officials board after Truman. A man looks out from a window of the aircraft. The aircraft taxis. An officer salutes. The aircraft takes off. The aircraft in flight over clouds. The propeller of the aircraft rotates. President Truman and other U.S. officials deplanes in Berlin. They are greeted by an officer in Berlin. The officers stand under a wing of the aircraft in the background. Truman with U.S. officials walks and shakes hands with a delegate. General Marshall reviews a British military parade. The delegates seated at a conference table. The British soldiers parade. Tanks advance during the parade. The military soldiers fire field guns. Harry S. Truman shakes hands with UK Prime Minister Winston Churchill. The field guns in formation and soldiers fire the guns together. (World War II period).
The Potsdam Conference in Berlin, Germany. The delegates in a conference hall. A German officer after defeat signs a document. The officers shake hands with Generals. The ruins in Berlin. A damaged building. People stand on the ruins and debris . Men use shovels and fill the dirt in buckets. A close up of a German woman. A woman shows her anger. The delegates enter a hall for the Potsdam conference. Stalin meets a delegate. U.S. President Harry S. Truman, General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union Joseph Stalin and UK Prime Minister Winston Churchill stand together. Other stand in the background. The delegates meet each other. The conference begins. All delegates including Truman, Stalin and Churchill sit around a conference table.
Freed Allied prisoners of war at OFLAG XIII-B, known as Camp Hammelburg, outside of Gemünden, Germany during World War II. A group of United States, Czech, Russian, Yugoslav prisoners of war standing together along with the liberating 14th U.S. Armored Division soldiers. Two prisoners talk to each other. The prisoners cheering, waving and laughing. Two prisoners walk down the road smiling; one waving a copy of Yank Magazine, the other a chunk of bread. U.S. Amry M-4 tank crashes through barbed wire fence of Camp Hammelburg. A group of freed prisoners gathers. Several prisoners stand and pose. Mass gathering of elated former prisoners. Freed prisoners of war dash toward U.S. soldiers and embrace them. (Note: This was the conclusion of the originally failed "Operation Hammelburg", initially attempted by "Task Force Baum," under Captain Abraham Baum, ten days prior. Inmates at the camp included the recently injured and captured Captain Baum, and Lieutenant Colonel John K. Waters, son in law of U.S. Army General George Patton. LTC John Waters was injured during the initial rescue attempt 10 days prior and was hospitalized and not seen in this film.)
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