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With the costly success of D Day behind them, the Allies began their final push to Berlin and to victory in Europe. Recently located color footage follows British and American troops on their race to the Rhine, and documents AS NEVER BEFORE the massive outpouring of joy and relief among ordinary citizens as news of the German surrender spreads throughout Europe. For Allied troops there are still hardships to come as they search for fugitive Nazis and keep order on a continent devastated by six years of brutal war. Gripping color images document Winston Churchills stunning loss in the 1945 British general election, the victorious Allies uneasy postwar settlement at Potsdam, and the dawning of a new era, as millions of soldiers return to find their homelands forever changed. Additional bonus material features secretly filmed color footage that captures key events leading to the liberation of German occupied Guernsey in 1945.