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Canada at War, Part 12: V Was for Victory

1962 27 min
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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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Canada at War, Part 12: V Was for Victory
  • Canada at War
    Canada at War
    1962 13 films
    From the depressed thirties to the war-torn forties -- a time of testing and trial, of strength discovered and victory won. Here is Canada's story of World War II, as experienced by Canadians at home and on the battlefronts of the world. In thirteen half-hour films you re-live a vital era that changed the nation and the world.

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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.

History - Canada - 1920-1945 Foreign Countries War, Conflict and Peace All subjects
  • producer
    Stanley Clish
    Donald Brittain
  • executive producer
    Peter Jones
  • script
    Donald Brittain
  • sound
    Don Wellington
  • editing
    Tony Lower
  • sound editing
    Kenneth Heeley-Ray
    Michael McKennirey
  • re-recording
    George Croll
    Ted Haley
  • narrator
    Budd Knapp
  • music
    Robert Fleming
    Eldon Rathburn
    Maurice Blackburn
    Ken Campbell

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Ages 14 to 17
School subjects
History - Canada 1946-1991 History - World War II Social Studies - Canada in the World Today
Students will create a timeline of major events of WWII. This film shows Canada’s postwar evolution as a “middle power” and her participation in the United Nations; also can be used as part of a study on the role of the UN in world affairs, and students can compare the idealism of the League of Nations with the realism that accompanied the creation of the UN, with the establishment of the Security Council and veto powers.
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