1945 - You Were There - When History Was Made

Series

Series Name
Pathe Gazette

Issue

Issue No.
45/104
Date Released
27 Dec 1945
Stories in this Issue:
  1. 11945 - You Were There - When History Was Made

Story

Story No. within this Issue
1 / 1
Summary
Introducing Professor GM Trevelyan, OM, CBE. The German break through in the Ardennes. Yalta Conference. The crossing of the Rhine. Battles in Germany. Belsen. Luneberg. Russians take Berlin. VE Day. The Labour Government. The Atom Bomb. Japanese Surrender. Peace celebrations. Rogue’s Gallery Hitler, Goebbels, Himmler, Mussolini, Tojo, Quisling, Petain, Laval, Kramer, Grese, Joyce, Amery, Nuremberg Nazis. The Great Men Eisenhower, Zhukov, Stalin, Roosevelt, Churchill, The Servicemen, Montgomery, Truman. The Weapons of Victory Mulberry, Radar, Defence by fire, Fido, Pluto, Human Torpedo, Frogmen, Atom bomb. Climax building to children walking amid ruins and emerging into the future symbolised in country scenes.
Keywords
Politics and government; Weapons; Celebrations and festivals; Victory celebrations; War damage; Occupied territories; Engineering; Military
Length of story (in feet)
836
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