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Events of World War 2, and creation of United Nations Organization following the surrender of Germany and Japan

Summary of World War II events and formation of the United Nations Organization. Soviet troops on Eastern Front of Europe fire artillery on German positions in 1944. Russian troops advance. German soldiers come out of buildings and surrender. Allied Forces land in France on D-Day. Allied troops and tanks fight Germans on streets in towns and villages of France. U.S. Army tanks fire at German positions. Various groups of German prisoners of war march along roads and are herded into prison camps operated by American and British forces. In 1945, the Allied leaders meet at Yalta on the Crimean Peninsula to discuss Allied military strategy in the final months of WWII. Leaders included British PM Winston Churchill, U.S. President Franklin D Roosevelt and Soviet Premier Joseph Stalin. The meeting of U.S. and Soviet Russian troops at the Elbe River. German Nazi Swastika symbol blown up in explosion atop Zeppelinfeld Nazi party rally grounds in Nuremberg. Aerial view of Berlin in ruins, as seen from low-flying aircraft flying directly over the Unter den Linden boulevard and the Brandenburg Gate. Wrecked and bombed German buildings seen everywhere. German officials signing surrender instrument at Rheims. U.S. President Harry S Truman, Winston Churchill and Joseph Stalin at Potsdam Conference. U.S. Marines battling on beaches of Pacific Islands. Iconic shot of U.S. Marines raising the American flag on Mount Suribachi at Iwo Jima. Aerial view of bombed and ruined city of Tokyo, Japan. The Japanese surrender to MacArthur aboard the battleship USS Missouri. General MacArthur speaks aboard Missouri. Victory celebrations all across the world, with some scenes from earlier V-E Day (Victory in Europe) day in May 1945, including crowds celebrating in Paris, France, and some scenes on V-J Day (Victory over Japan day) in August 1945. Crowds on streets celebrate. Happy crowds jam streets. Delegates of Nations, among them Andrei Gromyko and Vyascheslav Molotov meet in San Francisco and create a United Nations organization. Truman arrives at signing of UN charter. Various delegates sign charter. U.S. troops disembark troop carrier ships at U.S. ports and are discharged after completing military service in World War 2. Group of U.S. Army soldiers exits a church (the Chapel at Fort Dix, New Jersey), waving their discharge papers in hand.

Date: 1945
Duration: 7 min 19 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675053066
Montage of scenes reflecting worldwide civil unrest at end of World War I following armistice.

Russian Cossacks on horseback. Mounted Soviet cavalry officers ride past marching troops. More Cossacks on horseback. Scene changes to a protest gathering and parade in Britain. Crowd involved in civil unrest demonstrating in Chicago, Illinois, United States, and demonstration somewhere in China during the May Fourth movement, with a mass of Chinese people in the streets. Soldiers in an armored personnel carrier putting down unrest in streets. Germans raising Imperial German flag at park on Unter Den Linden in Berlin, Germany. More scenes of unrest in European streets.

Date: 1919
Duration: 1 min 18 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675054353
The street sign on subway entrance and the bomb damage to Anhalter Bahnhof Station in Berlin, Germany after World War II.

Destroyed infrastructure in Berlin after World War II. A sign reads Unter Den Linden (station presently known as Brandenburger Tor) on the S-Bahn entrance in Berlin. Bomb damage to roof and interior of the Anhalter Bahnhof Station (Askanischer Pl. 6, 10963 Berlin, Germany). German civilians walk on foot and ride vehicles on the streets.

Date: 1945, July
Duration: 54 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675055530
Beginning of the official Anti-Semitic campaign in Nazi Germany.

1 April 1933, the opening of the official Anti-Semitic campaign in Germany. People crowd on the street and shout Nazi salute of Sieg Heil. A few hold posters. German Propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels speaks to people and stirs them up, and leads them in a chant hailing the Nazi party and its leader. A car loaded with Nazi brownshirts (Sturmabteilung, or SA, or Stormtroopers) and people riding bicycles behind it. A poster on the back of the car reads (in German): "Germans! Defend yourselves! Do not buy from Jews" The Stormtroopers interrupt business at Jewish establishments along the commercial section of Unter den Linden. They post signs calling for boycott of Jewish businesses and other signs such as " Attention Jews" accompanied by a threatening skull and cross bones image. They lead people on the street in anti-Jewish chant.

Date: 1933, April 1
Duration: 2 min 43 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: German
Clip: 65675047290
Adolf Hitler addresses youth rally at Poststadion in Berlin, Germany. Military maneuvers. Hitler receives ceremonial sword.

German Chancellor Adolf Hitler stands in an open car driving along Unter den Linden on the way to Post Stadium or Poststadion (Lehrter Str. 59, 10557 Berlin, Germany) in Berlin, Germany. Sidewalks are filled with cheering people. Hitler waves to them. Hitler at the podium addresses the assembled Hitler Youth. People listen to him and applaud. Insignia of the Nazi party. A band plays music. Afterwards, the youth sing their anthem, Gahnenlied (Banner Song). Hitler embraces one of the youth as he and Nazi Party national youth leader Baldur Benedikt von Schirach and other Nazi leaders walk amongst them following the speech. In unrelated sequence, German military maneuvers are on display. twin engine aircraft in formation flight over a field. Tanks advance forward. Artificial buildings burn. Soldiers march holding guns. Mounted Calvary unit parades. Troops drive in half-tracks. Hitler watches. Yet, another unrelated sequence shows a solemn ceremony attended by Hitler and Rudolf Hess, in which Hitler receives a large sword in a scabbard. Nazi party members attend this intimate ceremony. Hitler holds the sword.

Date: 1934
Duration: 3 min 25 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: German
Clip: 65675047313
Germans raise the Nazi flag and put flags on the buildings to celebrate Hitler's 55th Birthday in Germany.

55th Birthday of Hitler on 20 April 1944. The Nazi flag being raised. A monument topped by German Eagle with motto engraved on its side reading (in German): Our walls are broken but not our hearts. A small celebratory parade along Unter den Linden in Berlin passes under the Brandenburg Gate. A band plays music. A woman puts the Nazi flag on a wall. Berliners place small swastika flags all about in the city, including some in the rubble of Allied bombing. A flag on a damaged building. A woman holds a banner with the slogan: Our walls are broken but not our hearts. People read newspaper. German Chancellor Adolf Hitler in a motorcade stops on a road and he is greeted by Hermann Goering. They chat in the road in front of his car. Hitler walks with Goering to Greet members of the German military high command, including: General Wilhelm Keitel; Grand Admiral Karl Doenitz; and other flag officers. Hitler then walks with the officers to review an honor guard. (World War II period).

Date: 1944, April 20
Duration: 1 min 53 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: German
Clip: 65675047366