keywords: battle of the bulge, kamikaze planes, german surrender, japanese surrender, war crime trials, fdr
Synopsis: Scenes From The Battle Of The Bulge, President Franklin D. Roosevelt Funeral, Vice President Harry S. Truman Sworn In As President, Kamikaze Planes Attack Ships, Invasion Of Okinawa, Japanese Sign Surrender Aboard USS Missouri, Evidence Of Atrocities In Manila, Nazi Concentration Camps, Dictator Benito Mussolini Is Killed, War Crime Trials In Nuremberg, Delegates Sign UN Charter... (read more)
German films of the Battle of the Bulge in Belgium.
Franklin D. Roosevelt is inaugurated at the White House and poses at Yalta with Prime Minister Winston Churchill and Soviet Dictator Joseph Stalin. Shows President Roosevelt's funeral in Washington.
Vice President Harry S. Truman is sworn in as President. Generals Jodl and W.B. Smith sign the German surrender at Reims, France. Shows General Dwight D. Eisenhower.
Kamikaze planes attack ships in the Pacific. Shows the invasion of Okinawa. An atom bomb is exploded. Shigemitsu and MacArthur sign the Japanese surrender aboard the Battleship USS Missouri.
Shows atrocity evidence in Manila. General Tojo in a hospital; various Japanese generals are shown.
Scenes of Nazi concentration camps. Mob scenes in Milan, Italy as Dictator Benito Mussolini and Facist leaders are killed. Adolf Hitler visits a German hospital.
Shows war crime trials in Nuremberg.
Delegates sign the UN Charter at San Francisco, California.