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keywords: post-wwii, the potsdam conference, the berlin conference, united states, united kingdom, soviet union, president harry s. truman, british prime minister winston churchill, british prime minister clement attlee, soviet dictator joseph stalin, heavy cruiser uss augusta, air force one
Synopsis: With the Allies victorious in WWII, The Big Three - President Harry S. Truman, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill replaced by the new Prime Minister Clement Attlee and Soviet Dictator Joseph Stalin gather in Potsdam Germany to negotiate terms for a post-WWII World...(read more)
- Date: 1945
- Duration: 00:21:07
- Sound: Yes
- Color: Monochrome
- Type: Public Domain
- Language: English
- Location: Germany
Berlin-Potsdam Conference 1945
July 7, 1945 U.S. President Harry Truman departed for the Potsdam-Berlin Conference (Three-Power Berlin Peace Conference) aboard the heavy cruiser USS Augusta. Plus a Private SNAFU animated military cartoon titled "No Buddy Atoll".
Shot List:
00:00:45;13
Scenes of the heavy cruiser USS Augusta (CA-31) underway at sea with President Harry S.Truman and Secretary of State James F. Byrnes onboard. Scenes of President Truman as the ship arrives in the port city of Antwerp. President Truman disembarks in Antwerp, and with General Omar Bradley, reviews an honor guard from the U.S. Army 35th Division, the same Division in which Captain Harry Truman served in WWI.
President Truman boards Air Force One, the "Sacred Cow," a VC-54C aircraft (tail number: 2107451) at Brussels Airport, Belgium for flight to Berlin. Shows 1945 Air Force One in flight.
00:03:18;17
President Truman deplanes in Berlin, Germany with General George Marshall. President Truman reviews a British military parade and shook hands with Winston Churchill. Presidential motorcade in Berlin, on Unter Den Linden, and passing through the Brandenburg Gate. Portraits of Truman, Stalin, and Churchill, on stone pillars.
00:05:24;15
Inserted are flashback scenes of a Hitler standing in an automobile in a motorcade with Germans lining the street. Shows Hitler with hands waving giving an "animated speech" in Berlin.
00:06:00;16
In Berlin for the Potsdam (Berlin) conference, President Truman is shown speaking in an outdoor venue, with General Omar Bradley and other high ranking American officers standing behind him. His remarks are broadcast; various scenes of people listening to their radio in America.
00:07;46;06
Scenes of historic buildings and the Cecilienhof Palace in Potsdam, Brandenburg, Germany, the location of the Potsdam (Berlin) conference in 1945. Shows the courtyard of the Cecilienhof Palace with the Soviet red star in the foreground.
00:08:32;01
President Truman poses with Churchill and Stalin with a crossed arms handshake.
00:09:06;10
Inserted are flashback scenes and voice over of President Roosevelt referencing the Tehran Conference, a meeting between U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt, British Prime Minster Winston Churchill and Soviet Premier Joseph Stalin in Tehran, Iran November 28 and December 1, 1943. Shows Stalin, Roosevelt and Churchill seated on the veranda of the Soviet Embassy building where the Tehran Conference was held.
00:10:14;12
Scenes of the United Nations in San Francisco, California where the hands of many nations signed the Charter for permanent peace. Scenes as the Allied forces meet the Russians in Germany in the final days of WWII.
00:11:22;12
Various scenes of the Potsdam (Berlin) conference where it is decided Germany would be stripped of all of its war machinery, limit production to peace-time needs, smash the war related cartels, destroy the Nazi Party, remove all Nazi sympathizers from key government positions, speed the trials of Nazi war criminals, abolish all Nazi laws, and re-educate the German people toward a democratic way of life.
00:14:27;04
Newspaper headlines reads "Russia Declares War on Japan", shows the first Atomic bomb explosion, and the Japanese surrender. It is the promise of the United Nations to ensure world peace after two world wars.
