The Year 1945 Part 2

Description

This film shows German films of the Battle of the Bulge in Belgium. Roosevelt is inaugurated at the White House and poses at Yalta with Churchill and Stalin. It also shows his funeral in Washington. Truman is sworn in. Gens. Jodl and W.B. Smith sign the German surrender at Reims, France. and shows General Eisenhower. Kamikaze planes attack ships in the Pacific as well as the invasion of Okinawa. An atom bomb is exploded. Shigemitsu and MacArthur sign the Japanese. surrender aboard the Missouri. Shows atrocity evidence in Manila; General Tojo in a hospital; various Japanese generals; scenes of Nazi concentration camps; and mob scenes in Milan, Italy, as Mussolini and Fascist leaders are killed. Hitler visits a German hospital and shows war crime trials in Nuremberg. Delegates sign the United Nations Charter at San Francisco.

Collection

Records of the Office of War Information

Series

Motion Picture Films from United News Newsreels