Victory Day celebrations in Paris, France after World War II. American and French flag flies from top of a building. The Obelisk at Place de la Concorde in the background as seen from top of building. French civilians form a human chain on square. American soldiers pose with French women. Two American soldiers kissing a French woman. An American soldier kisses a WAC (Women's Army Corps).
Victory Day celebrations in Paris, France after World War II. Three children pose with an American flag. American soldiers and French civilians along a street. Soldiers and French women ride on military vehicles around Rue de la Paix. A soldier plunges into a fountain at Place de la Concorde. Two American officers talk to each other.
After lenthy period of slates in Korean, the first images appear at TC: 01:52, as camera pans down over ruins at the exterior front of the German Reich Chancellery building in Berlin, Germany. A plaque in German identifies it as the Kanzlei des Führers der NSDAP (Chancellery of the Führer of the Nazi Party). Camera moves through various rooms of the building showing wreckage. In one room a world globe, a table and some broken furniture are shown. Scene changes to an animated map of Europe centered on Germany that depicts the dramatic expansion of German conquest in beginning of World War 2. It then shows further expansion with German invasion of the Soviet Union. From then on It adds a line directed to India (labeled in Russian) and another pointed into North America.The map then sends more lines covering the Continent of Africa and the South and Central America. These represent a plan for world conquest. View of a German three engine twin tail seaplane being launched by a catapult. Closeups of the plane in flight. Scene changes to German paratroopers jumping from a Junkers 52, three engine transport plane. Aerial view from above of the paratroopers leaping from the aircraft and from below as they descend with their chutes billowing out above them. Ground view of them landing on sand in North Africa. German troops on motor cycles, half track personnel carriers ( Sd.Kfz. 250 ) and Panzer III tanks. German Field Marshal Erwin Rommel standing with his staff, directing elements of his Afrika Korps forces in North Africa. Smiling German troops riding in an open Sd.Kfz. 251 (Sonderkraftfahrzeug 251) half-track personnel carrier. A huge explosion and dense black smoke is seen. Then, a German Heinkel HE 111 bomber is seen maneuvering overhead. Brief glimpse from an aircraft strafing an armored vehicle on the ground. Suddenly a submarine's periscope is seen just above the water and a transport ship (or freighter) is seen as through the periscope. Next, inside a German submarine, the Captain lowers his periscope and scene shifts to bow of submarine surfacing and the ship is seen burning and exploding. A torpedo is launched from a surfaced submarine and it strikes a ship creating a huge explosion and fireball.
At film start, the city of Munich is seen decked out in swastika flags to welcome Italian dictator, Benito Mussolini, during his visit to Germany in 1941. Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini stand in an open automobile as it drives followed by other motorcade cars through the streets of Munich. Enthusiastic crowds line the sidewalks and cheer the axis leaders. They wave and render the Nazi salute. Scene shifts to views of Stalingrad during World War 2, from camera panning along the Volga River. Smoke is rising from several places. Destroyed and burning German Marder III Panzerjaegers (tank destroyers) are seen and heavy smoke rising behind a wrecked railroad marshaling yard. Destroyed German 7.5 cm Pak 40 artillery guns and other pieces of German artillery sitting in snow. View from boat (unseen) in the Volga river of fires burning in shore facilities and smoke clouds covering the sky. Dense black smoke rising behind apartment buildings near the shore. River is identified as the Volga (in Russian). Here begins views of advancing Soviet troops superimposed over a succession of roads and rivers marking their advance. The first river seen is the Don. The Dnieper is another. The superimposed Soviet forces advancing include cavalry, troops rowing boats and moving artillery field pieces. Tanks move approaching the Dvina river. Forces passing the Neman river. Film ends as Soviet advance reaches the Oder river.
Opening scene shows a number of bridges destroyed by retreating German forces on the Eastern front during World War 2. Momentary view of Soviet infantry wading through water in a swamp. Soviet army engineers Driving pilings from a pontoon bridge across a river. Soviet Marshal Aleksandr Mikhaylovich Vasilevsky, accompanied by a Major General and other staff officers, cross a bridge being reconstructed. A steam locomotive pulls a long train of flat cars carrying Soviet T-34 tanks. A soldier stands near a moving train of tank cars on a railroad. Trees overhead hide the view from above. Glimpse of several camouflage screens. View from moving train passing under camouflage in a forest. Fuel pipelines are seen in the forest. Workers pass hoses to men on tank cars who fill them. Soviet army tank trucks drive out of the area. Momentary view of Soviet trucks passing over a low bridge. T-34 tanks moving through woods. An ISU-152 self-propelled gun in the woods. Army trucks moving across a bridge. Soviet tanks and self-propelled guns maneuvering in a wooded area. Soldier tells driver of ISU-152 to stop his self-propelled gun. Armor moving through woods. More views of trucks on bridges and armor moving through wooded areas.
Animated map displays various paths by Soviet forces attacking in Battle of Berlin and in other parts of Germany, during late phase of World War 2. Closeup of a scale model of Berlin and environs. Soviet officers stand around a table holding the model. Soviet soldiers in the field look at maps depicting their areas of operation. Tank crews check maps for their operations. Aviators consult charts. View from underneath a Soviet aircraft of Ilyushin Il-2 aircraft parked on an airfield. Aerial view, from low overflying airplane, of rough field filled with parked aircraft. Heavy artillery hidden in woods. Personnel carriers and trucks parked in a field. Soldiers cleaning large artillery shells. Camouflaged tanks in readiness. A heavy siege gun opens fire and large explosion lifts huge amounts of earth into the air. Soldiers throw shells to artillery men manning a heavy gun. Many different views of artillery firing at night. Many Katyusha rockets being fired at night. Progress of soviet offensive is indicated on the animated map. More artillery firing.
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