Victory in Europe Day during World War II. View of street corner as people walk to and fro at intersection of Pennsylvania Avenue and 15th Street Northwest in Washington DC, United States. People walk at the street corner with an American flag at half mast in the background. American citizens in typical dress of 1945. View of the street signs at the instersection '15th St" and "Penn Av" Newspaper headlines declare end of World War II in Europe. The Washington Afro American newspaper headling, "War Ends in Europe". Front page of the the Jewish Journal and Daily News with Hebrew text.
Scenes from May 8, 1945 in London as England hears news of the surrender by Germany in World War II. Winston Churchill seated at desk and preparing to make a 3:00pm (15:00) radio broadcast about the German surrender. Churchill along with a British Naval officer greeted by Secretaries who clap and cheer as Churchill gets into a car and doffs his hat as he smokes a cigar. The car pulls away. View of Big Ben clock tower in London, showing the time of 3 o'clock pm, (15:00) which was the time of the broadcast by Churchill.
Germany surrenders in World War II. British soldiers and citizens loaded in a horse drawn carriage ride down a street in London and wave during celebrations on news of German surrender that day. A man selling the May 7, 1945 London newspaper "The Evening News" with headline "Germany Surrenders". A number of men and women buy newspapers from him. Allied soldiers in a jeep with American flag on it. They shake hands. Men and women march down a road with a British flag as they celebrate Allied victory in Europe during World War II. They are also rolling a statue on a cart. Happy British citizens celebrate VE Day.
Film starts showing view from a hilltop of the port of Yalta, Crimea, during World War 2. A Soviet soldier stands behind barbed wire next to several street signs. One points toward Livadia (site of the Yalta Conference). A woman with a small child walks along a winding sidewalk overlooking the port. The Medved'-gora (Bear mountain) is seen in the background. A motorcycle with sidecar drives down a road. A Soviet soldier walks past destroyed structure. Camera pans over other destroyed buildings. Street scene showing three-story apartment buildings with porches, lining the road and pedestrians walking along the street and sidewalks. No motor vehicles are seen. Closeup of civilians standing in a group that includes several men, a woman, and some school age children. A boy in the group wears a military style cap. Children gather near a cartoon poster depicting Adolf Hitler with bandages on his head. Two Soviet men converse near the displays. Another cartoon poster with 1941 on it, shows Hitler and his cronies using periscopic artillery binoculars as they hungrily eye the Kremlin as a target. Below it in juxtaposition, with date 1945, is a cartoon showing Hitler in rubble, completely overwhelmed by Soviet military might. A woman with a boy and girl are seen at an open shop window where a woman is dispensing drinks. The boy is drinking one and the woman gets one too.
Images and testimony related to the Nuremberg Trials held at the Palace of Justice in Nuremberg, Germany in October 1946. Flashbacks of a variety of Nazi crimes against humanity during the years of World War II. Reference to testimony of Kenaris and Hans Frank in describing Nazi policies and methods for exterminating Poles and others. Pictures recording the implementation and results of Nazi policies; atrocities and murder of victims in Ouradour Sur Glane in France, in Bande in Belgium, in the Catacombe of San Callisto in Italy and in Czechoslovakia. Nazi German soldiers seen leveling and destroying the town of Lidice in Czechoslovakia in 1942, after massacre of many residents, in retaliation for the assassination of SS Reich Protector Reinhard Heydrich. Corpses of the victims of the Nazi concentration camps, including Auschwitz, in 1945. Bones of humans in crematory ovens. Cramped starved women camp victims inside barracks. Stacks of luggage and suitcases of victims at a concentration camp, along with locks of hair, stacks of toothbrushes. Shaving cream brushes, shoes, clothing, and finally, piles of bones of camp victims. Testimony of Rudolf Franz Ferdinand Höss (sometimes spelled Höß or Hoess or Hess) describes concentration camps at Auschwitz in Poland. As scenes of victims in hospitals are shown, testimony of Rudolf Hoess is read, describing medical experiments include lowering the body temperature, injecting the body with poisons and infectious diseases and subjecting the body to high altitude pressure chambers. Shows pile of mutilated corpses.The "Arbeit Macht Frei" sign over the camp entrance of Auschwitz. Scenes of dead victims of Nazi brutality in the concentration camps.
Japanese air attack on U.S. ships underway in the Pacific Ocean during World War II. USS Bunker Hill (CV-17) underway burning after an air attack on 11th May, 1945. Thick smoke rises from the burning ship. U.S. Navy sailors aboard a destroyer which is counter sailing.
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