Canadian troops in Giardini, Sant' Alessio Siculo, near Letojanni, Sicily, Italy during World War 2. A banner reads 'Welcome the liberators'. A truck moves down a road. Many trucks loaded with Canadian soldiers pass through a town. Military policeman of Canada wearing white armband, directs truck traffic in center of town. View of ancient Sant' Alessio Siculo Castle on top of hill overlooking the town, in the background. (Castello de Capo Sant'Alessio).
Victory over Japan Day (V-J Day) celebrations at Lafayette Park (Pennsylvania Ave NW &, 16th St NW, Washington, DC 20001, United States) in Washington DC, United States during World War II. Civilians walk down the sidewalk. Some of the civilians stand on the sidewalk. Soldiers near a vehicle. People sitting in a garden. Cars parked in the background. People sit near the statue of Lieutenant General Comte de Rochambeau. A man and a woman sitting. People gathered in Lafayette Park.
Former French officials in Augsburg, Germany after their liberation towards the end of World War II. Exteriors of a building shows U.S. 7th Army Commander General Alexander Patch talking to French officials liberated by his unit. The group includes French Generals Maxime Weygand and Maurice Gamelin, French politician Paul Reynaud, former French Prime Minister Édouard Daladier and Madame Caillan who is the sister of French General Charles de Gaulle.
Jewish orphans liberated from Nazi Buchenwald Concentration Camp leave Weimar, Germany in a train after World War II. Jewish orphans look out from the windows of the train. A Jewish flag hanging from a train window. A sign reads 'Buchenwald'. Signs hanging from the displaced persons train: "Orpheims Juifs de Buchenwald" (Orphaned youth of Buchenwald) and "Vive Truman, Stalin, Churchill".
The Bodleian Library,Oxford England. A librarian walks down the steps of the library and, using a ladder, removes a large map volume from a shelf filled with such books. He removes, and later returns, a tattered volume from a set of very old books entitled in French "Couris de Londres" (The Court of London). A shelf of books entitled "Oxford Chronicles" dating from 19th Century. Librarian replacing books into the stacks, in basement areas of the library. Librarian walking outside ancient walls of the building, carrying books. He uses keys to open heavy doors at sidewalk level and enters with the books.
After lenthy period of slates in Korean, the first images appear at TC: 01:52, as camera pans down over ruins at the front of the German chancellery 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.
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