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WWII - 1945, Documentary: Act And Fact - Fall Of Germany

Reel Number: 221513-06

Color: Black and White

Sound: SD

Year / Date: 1945

Country: Canada,Germany

Location: Duisburg,Essen,Hamburg,Lunenburg,Ruhr

TC Begins: 16:55:01

TC Ends: 17:05:53

Duration: 00:10:52

Ttles. 16:55:30 RAF fighter planes, bombers in flgiht. Daylight bombing of Hamburg. Low flight over Essen w/ destroyed factories & synthetic oil refineries of Duisburg. Ruhr. Thyssen steel works & destroyed railyard. Aerial over extremely heavy damaged buildings, sunken ships in canals. 16:56:47 Ground artillery firing as men hand up shells. Men out of trenches & move thru heavily destroyed woods. Across fields & alongside tanks. 16:57:30 Street fighting. German POWs & wounded watched by people. Sign: Bremen-Mitte. Shell pocked buildings. Belsen Concentration Camp w/ survivors eating & field of bodies. Burial pits. 16:58:20 Women SS (?) guards out of building. German SS & other male guards. 16:58:42 Tanks up road, troops marching & advancing w/ vehicles. 16:58:53 Destroyed submarine factories w/ prefabricated sections. Large V-2 rockets on railroad cars inspected by British troops. British on River Elbe prepare for crossing. Crossing in amphibious vehicles. Firing tanks after crossing river. Burning village & factories. German officers surrendering. 17:01:10 British troops greeting Russian soldiers. Shaking hands. Troops thru heavy destruction. German dead & German looting, sacking coal. 17:02:30 Allied military government & occupation rules posted. Last surrendering of Germans marching & interviewed. 04May45 Lunenburg Heath, Montgomery receiving surrender from Gen. Adm. Hans-George on Friedeburg & Gen. Hans Kinzel. 17:03:41 SOF inside tent British Field Marshal Montgomery speaks “We are assembled today to accept the surrender terms...all hostilities on land, sea & air to cease at 08:00 hrs...they will sign in order of seniority...” The End. WWII Formal Field Surrender; WW2 History; End of War;

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