President Harry S Truman arrives at Gatow Airport in Berlin. Various British officials at airport. Truman shakes hands and speaks to Military Police Honor Guard and boards C-54 plane. Truman waves goodbye from entrance platform of plane. MPs raise American flag from pole. American, British and Russian flags. President Truman and Prime Minister of UK, Clement R Attlee at Gatow airport bids officials farewell and boards planes. Cameramen take pictures.
Winston Churchill arrives in Berlin. He emerges from a plane in a military uniform. He walks down the steps of aircraft and shakes hands with Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery. Other military officials at the airport. Churchill and Montgomery walk away followed by other officials. They inspect British Honor Guard.
60,000 attendees, including many veterans of World War I, march to the Tannenberg battlefield for the dedication of the Tannenberg Monument. Tannenberg Monument dedication ceremony commemorates the German victory over Russian forces in August, 1914, and fallen German soldiers during World War I. German Field Marshal Paul Von Hindenburg, who officiates at the ceremony, also celebrates his 80th birthday.
French military police with motorcycles stand near a crowd of French civilians outside a church in France near the end of World War 2. U.S. Army personnel with handheld cameras take pictures of services. Parisian girl standing with a U.S. Army soldier. Military Police lined up in front of the cathedral entrance. Bishops emerge from the church. General de Gaulle leaves the church in a motorcade. French car with a military official seated inside and four stars on the pIate. French soldiers as they give rifle salutes. Church cleric talking to a French officer. Gendarmes standing among civilians and American officer standing with a WAC (Women's Army Corps) officer. British guards lined up as people emerge from the church. Guard of Honor in the fore ground. Elderly French woman and man leave the church. GIs enters the church. Russian Bishop emerges from the church and enters car. French civilians around the church including children and a young boy on the shoulders of a man.
Two trucks and a bus full of liberated French prisoners drive down an avenue in Paris. A large Parisian crowd including young girls watch their arrival. People wave out to welcome the prisoners as they wave back. Sign on bus stating 'Repatriated Prisoners'. Shots of French prisoners as a civilian offers them cigarettes. A Parisian volunteer nurse. Trucks of prisoners pull up before a building. Algerian prisoner as he drinks from a bottle of wine. A French soldier. (World War II period).
A large crowd including elderly women welcomes the liberated French prisoners to France. Truck of liberated French prisoners arrives amidst the waiting civilians. French girls wave to disembarking prisoners as the smiling prisoners wave back. Young girls hug and kiss the prisoners.Civilians cheer and applaud their return. Little girls wave in the crowd. Prisoners eat bread and drink from wine bottle. A prisoner holds the French flag. Liberated Senegalese prisoners. (World War II period).
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