Surrender of the German Army in Berlin, Germany during World War II. Interior of headquarters where surrender papers are signed. German Field Marshal Wilhelm Keitel, Stumpf and Friedensburg sign surrender documents followed by Soviet Marshal Georgy Zhukov; Royal Air Force Marshal Arthur William Tedder and U.S. Army General Carl Andrew Spaatz. Soviet deputy Commissar for Foreign Affairs Andrey Vyshinsky and French Army General DeLattre de Tassigny present.
Representatives of nations gathered for Potsdam Conference at Schloss Cecilienhof Palace in Potsdam, Germany during World War II. Prime Minster of the United Kingdom Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill,President of the United States Harry S. Truman and General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin walk towards the conference building. Officers escort them. Representatives pose as the photographers take pictures. Trees seen in the background.
Representatives of Allied nations gathered for Potsdam Conference at Schloss Cecilienhof Palace in Potsdam, Germany during World War II. Prime Minster of the United Kingdom Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill,President of the United States Harry S Truman and Premier of the Soviet Union Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin seated at the Cecilienh of garden for the Potsdam Conference.
Representatives of Allied nations gathered for Potsdam Conference at Schloss Cecilienhof Palace in Potsdam, Germany during World War II. Soviet People's Commissar for Foreign Affairs Vyacheslav Mikhailovich Molotov and staff enter building. President of the United States Harry S. Truman ,Prime Minster of the United Kingdom Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill and Premier of the Soviet Union Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin shake hands as they pose for the photographers in front of the doorway. They enter the building.
Representatives of Allied nations gathered for Potsdam Conference at Schloss Cecilienhof Palace in Potsdam, Germany during World War II. Fleet Admiral of the United States Navy William Daniel Leahy,General of the United States Army George Catlett Marshall, Premier of the Soviet Union Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin,Marshal of the Soviet Union Georgy Konstantinovich Zhukov and staff arrive by car. Guards salute as they enter the building. President of the United States Harry S. Truman and United States Secretary of States James Francis Byrnes arrive by car. Prime Minster of the United Kingdom, Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill welcomes them. Photographers take photographs. Trees seen in the background.
German soldiers (prisoners of war) walk with hands on their heads, past U.S. M18 Tank Destroyers of 771st Tank Destroyer Battalion, attached to the 84th Infantry Division, a month before the end of World War 2, in Europe. An M4 Sherman tank makes way slowly through mud in a forested area of Lubbeck (Lübbecke) Germany. Scene shifts to a knocked out U.S. tank. A U.S. Army Lieutenant points to holes blown in the tank ( most likely by German panzerfausts). View looking into the tank reveals a dead U.S. crewman. Group of German soldier prisoners moves quickly along side of a dirt road, under guard by U.S. soldiers from the 334th Infantry Regiment. Another group of POWs moves on sidewalk past a cottage.
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