Canada at War, Part 12 : V Was for Victory

Collaborators : Brittain, Donald | Clish, Stanley | Jones, Peter | Office national du film du Canada

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April-August 1945. Hitler had said: "Whoever lights the torch of war in Europe can wish for nothing but chaos." By 1945, Germany is beaten. V-Day celebrations verge on the hysterical, but occupying armies uncover the staggering atrocities of Belsen, Auschwitz, and Buchenwald. Franklin D. Roosevelt dies. The world's first atomic bomb is dropped on Japan.

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