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Go to HomepageReel Number: 221748-02
Color: Black and White
Sound: SD
Year / Date: 1945
Country: Belgium,England,Germany,United Kingdom,USA
Location: Berlin
TC Begins: 08:11:18
TC Ends: 08:20:50
Duration: 00:09:32
WWII - USA: European Historical Compilation, 1944-1945 R9 of 9 Formation of planes, pilot. Fighting & advancing thru burning town. Thousands of Nazis standing. Troops & tanks thru burning village. POV on English tank w/ British infantry soldiers. US prisoners are liberated by British; greetings. Eating, reading Stars and Stripes headline of President Roosevelt / FDR death. Tanks moving ahead. Russian & other Displaced Persons / slave workers along roadside, some barefoot. CUs other people greeting. 08:12:56 Belsen prison camp is occupied; CUs captured guards, prisoners. Yard w/ dead & survivors; starved in rags. Dead into pits. Congressmen visit camp. MCU & CUs of prisoners; barbed wire fences. Medics. Fighting over wagon of potatoes. 08:14:41 Aerial over convoy on road; Army Air Force pilots & planes; tanks advancing. Map w/ Torgau & Berlin. 08:15:06 Montage: Conference room w/ officers & Germans signing surrender; Eagles Nest; Berlin & Russian tanks, Brandenburg Gate; map w/ Torgau & Berlin; convoy column; Allied officers at map; US & Russian troops meet at the Elbe & wave. Hugs, handshakes, posing, toasts, on platform w/ flags. 08:16:20 Montage: Line of tanks firing; British troops & street fighting; burning sign to Hamburg; civilians surrendering; troops across bridge; Montgomery taking surrender signing by General admiral Friedeburg & General Kinzel for forces in North West Germany, Denmark & the Netherlands. People thru debris in street; men watching British soldier putting up AEF Military Government Occupation Notice, MCU of English language posting of Law No. 5, Dissolution of Nazi Party. MCU people reading; people thru rubble; tanks & Allied column past. Allied officers. Long line of prisoners across field. 08:17:32 German officers into building for surrender signing at ?? General Alfred Jodl (?) signs surrender. Rocket barrage at night, stops. 08:18:11 Large conference room, General Keitel & others enter, signing surrender documents. Zhukov & other Allied officers shaking hands. 08:18:30 Wooden grave markers along trees at edge of field. Other large barren graves. Troops at military cemetery. Pan over many markers. 08:18:55 German officers surrendering outside Lufthansa building; CUs many Nazi officers. Goering gives up pistol. Bodies of German soldiers alongside road; GIs patrol empty streets w/ destruction. Illustration of barren Europe. The End. WW2 Surrenders; Fighting; Battles; Concentration Camps; NOTE: Narration as first-person American & English troops.