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Road To Victory: Fall Of Berlin - From Remagen To
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![](/rcimages/rc1big.jpg) (DVD - Code 1) (US-Import)
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The Fall Of Berlin
As the Americans create a bridgehead on the River EIbe, the Luftwaffe makes a Iast desperate attempt to counter the fury of the AIIies bombing of Berlin. WhiIst HitIer visits the Eastern Front, the Hitler Youth builds barricades around the doomed city. But aIl is lost, as far as the Third Reich is concerned. The Russian Army Iaunches a devastating attack aIong the Oder River, onIy 40 miIes from BerIin. The German surrender becomes inevitable, and the hapless city is divided up amongst the victors.
From Remagen To The EIbe
ln this remarkable fulI coIor film, shot by a camera team during the Iast months of the war, the viewer can re-Iive scenes of the heady drive of the U.S. Army across Germany from the bridge at Remagen to the Elbe and southward into Bavaria and Austria. This program wilI be a boon to all wishing to share the feelings of those fighting this terrible conflict to its concIusion. It presents a compeIIing portrait of the last dramatic weeks of the greatest war in history. Much of what is seen is unique.
VE Day - War And Peace
May 8th, 1945, the day WorId War Two officiaIly ended in Europe. With Hitler's suicide in his Berlin Bunker on April 30th, the Third Reich fell under the controI of his successor, Karl Doenitz. Under Doenitz's orders, GeneraI AIfred JohI was sent to S.H.A.E.F. (Supreme Headquarters AIIied Expeditionary Forces) to seek terms for an end to the war. After six years of confIict and the Ioss of millions of lives, the Nazi menace had been crushed and the war in Europe was finalIy over.
VJ Day - War And Peace
August 6, 1945, 8:15 a.m. the first atomic bomb used in warfare, codenamed 'LittIe Boy' was dropped on Hiroshima, resulting in the death of 70,000 peopIe. Three days later, on August 9, a second bomb, codenamed 'Fat Man' was dropped on Nagasaki, leading to a Japanese surrender on August 15, marking the end of the war. |
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