American newsreel (1945)

Guests arrive for the funeral service in London for US President Roosevelt in April 1945. American officers attend the memorial service.

US Ambassador to the UK John Winant and the US Naval Attaché arrive for the funeral service.

Foreign military attachés arrive.

Guests are greeted by a car.

British Prime Minister Winant speaks with US Ambassador Winant.

King George VI of Great Britain arrives with his wife and Princess Elizabeth for the funeral service.

The King and Queen ascend the steps.

The King and Queen enter the cathedral.

View of Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris.

The US flag with a mourning ribbon hangs over one of the entrances to the cathedral.

French soldiers enter the cathedral.

Police cordon outside.

US Army honor guard.

The arrival of the US Ambassador to France, George Caffrey, at Notre Dame for the funeral service for the late US President Roosevelt.

The French honor guard stands at the entrance to the cathedral.

General de Gaulle arrives for the funeral mass.

Participants in the funeral mass inside the cathedral.

De Gaulle during the funeral service.

A US Army soldier with a lowered American flag during the funeral mass.

View of the funeral mass at Notre Dame Cathedral (above).

The exhumation of the remains of prisoners from a Nazi concentration camp in the spring of 1945. American doctors examine the bodies exhumed from the graves.

The camp cemetery.

American soldiers on the camp grounds.

American soldiers at the ashes with the burned bodies of prisoners.

Invited residents and leaders of a nearby settlement enter the barracks to witness the Nazi atrocities against prisoners.

Bodies of prisoners stacked inside a barracks.

Germans leaving the barracks.

Inspection of the bodies of murdered prisoners.

A street in a German town in the Ruhr region, occupied by American troops in April 1945. Residents of the town queue for food aid.

View of the queue (from above).

Residents collecting rubble into sacks.

Unloading American food aid and distributing it to local residents.

Two women fight over a sack of food.

A destroyed building.

People deprived of housing on the streets of the town.

People read a notice from the American military command pasted on the wall.

People in the town square.

Von Papen, arrested in the Ruhr by the US military administration.

The face of one of the arrested.

View of an American camp for German prisoners of war, a sentry with binoculars on a guard tower.

German prisoners of war behind barbed wire collect water in mess tins.

Map of the advance of Soviet and allied troops to Berlin and Berchtesgaden.

The movement of a column of American military trucks during the occupation of Japan.

View of a Japanese prisoner of war camp (top).

A new batch of prisoners of war arrives at the camp.

Japanese prisoners climb out of the back of a truck.

Prisoners enter the camp grounds.

View of the camp (top).

Japanese prisoners of war in the camp (panorama).

Views of the Japanese prisoner of war camp.

An American warship.

A view of part of the port.

US President Truman returns greetings from aboard an American warship.

US Ambassador Sawyer, General Eisenhower, and Admiral Stark, Commander-in-Chief of US Naval Forces in Europe, climb the gangplank aboard the ship in July 1945. Truman greets Sawyer, Eisenhower, and Stark aboard the ship.

Eisenhower talks with Truman.

Sawyer and Stark aboard the ship.

Truman, Ambassador Sawyer, and their entourage descend the gangway after arriving in Europe to participate in the Potsdam Conference.

Truman and members of the American delegation walk across the airfield to the plane.

Truman climbs the steps of the plane.

The plane begins taxiing to the runway.

The plane of the American delegation at the airport in Berlin after landing (top).

US Secretary of State Byrnes descends the steps of the plane.

Members of the American delegation are met at the plane; Byrnes greets those meeting them.

Truman descends the steps of the plane.

The motorcade of the American delegation passes along the edge of the airfield (top).

Truman's motorcade moves through the streets of Berlin, passing broken and ruined buildings.

Truman's car approaches the British residence.

Truman and Churchill on the threshold of the residence.

The faces of Stalin I.V. and Truman H. before a joint photo session.

Reporters at the round table in the conference hall.

Stalin greets Churchill and members of the British delegation - Eden A. and Attlee K. Stalin, Truman and Churchill before the start of the first session of the conference.

Members of the delegations before the start of the session.

Conference participants are seated at a round table.

Truman inspects a U.S. Army unit during his stay in Germany in July 1945; American tank crews line up in front of their combat vehicles.

Truman and his accompanying military personnel visit a U.S. military police unit.

Truman delivers a speech, standing before a microphone.

The American flag-raising ceremony.

Military personnel salute the flag, including Eisenhower and Truman.

The U.S. flag on the flagpole.