Aerial views of Berlin, Germany, 8 years after the end of World War II in Europe. Aerial views of wrecked buildings and cleared areas in Berlin. View of the Soviet War Memorial, the Reichstag, the Brandenburg Gate or Brandenburger Tor, the 1870 monument, a huge bunker, Berlin Victory Column (Siegessäule, Großer Stern, 10557 Berlin, Germany), the destroyed belltower of the Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Church (Breitscheidplatz, 10789 Berlin, Germany), the Funkturm Berlin in Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf (Hammarskjöldpl., 14055 Berlin, Germany), and the Olympic Stadium (Olympischer Platz 3, 14053 Berlin, Germany).
Allied leaders at the Yalta Conference in Crimea, Russia during World War II. The meeting was also codenamed the Argonaut Conference. British Prime Minister Winston Churchill in British uniform removes his hat as he enters the Livadia Palace. Soviet Premier Joseph Stalin in a uniform enters the palace along with Vyacheslav Molotov, Andrei Vyshinsky, Pavlov and Russian diplomat Andrei Gromyko. Allied leaders seated around a table at the conference, including: U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt, U.S. Secretary of State Edward Stettinius (on Roosevelt's right), Harry Hopkins (seated away from the table behind Roosevelt's right shoulder), Roosevelt's chief diplomatic advisor Alger Hiss (on Roosevelt's right), Roosevelt confidant James F. Byrnes, British Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden, Permanent Under Secretary to Foreign Secretary Alexander Cadogan, Prime Minister Winston Churchill, Soviet Premier Joseph Stalin, People's Commissar for Foreign Affairs Vyacheslav Molotov, Soviet Ambassador Pavalov (primary English translator for Stalin), Deputy Commissar for Foreign Affairs Andrey Vishinsky, Andrei Gromyko, Ivan Maisky, and Ambassador Gusiev. Also seen seated at a table: U.S. Army General George C. Marshall, U.S. Navy Admiral Ernest King, President Franklin Roosevelt, U.S. Ambassador to the Soviet Union W. Averell Harriman.
Allied leaders at the Yalta Conference in Crimea, Russia during World War II. Officials arrive for the conference. Three Allied leaders seated around a table at the conference. Soviet Premier Joseph Stalin at the desk. U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt, James F. Byrnes, Harry Hopkins and Alger Hiss seated at the table. The officials around the conference table. President Roosevelt and British Prime Minister Churchill discuss at the table. Stalin talks to People's Commissar for Foreign Affairs Vyacheslav Molotov and U.S. Ambassador to the Soviet Union W. Averell Harriman.
Preparations underway for the Yalta Conference in Crimea, Soviet Union during World War II. Trucks carrying Signal Corps equipment parked outside Livadia Palace (Baturina Street, 44A, Livadiya 29865). A truck backing. Russian laborers and United States Army personnel unload a crate from a truck. Men try to unload a crate from a truck. They pull ropes to pull crate. A crate is unloaded from a United States Army truck. Men pushing a Jeep. A man stands on the top of a crate. United States Signal Corps personnel setting up equipment.
The Grave of Soviet World War II hero, Major-General Ivan Vasilevich Panfilov. People gather around to honor him. A snow covered area. Civilians pay tribute at his grave. A statue to Major-General Ivan Vasilevich Panfilov, Hero of the Soviet Union, who died in the battle of Moscow, being unveiled at a ceremony. The inscription reads, among other things, (in Russian): Panfilov 1893-1941. Soldiers march past the statue.
Paris, France under Nazi German occupation during World War II. An automatic hand camera being laced into a basket. Bottles being placed in the basket to conceal the camera. A lens sticks out of a side of the basket. A cameraman on a bicycle rides away. While riding the bicycle the cameraman pulls a string attached to a spring on the camera. Another cyclist alongside the cameraman.
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