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Memorandum
1965, director: Donald Brittain, John Spotton
The documentary Memorandum is an emotional journey with the...
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The Four Freedoms Address by Franklin D. Roosevelt
1947
On January 6, 1941, President Franklin D. Roosevelt...
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G. George Didn't Come Back
1946
The artist Miller Brittain served in the Royal Canadian Air...
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Night Target, Germany
1946
A landscape of devastation on the edge of pictorial...
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A Canadian Soldier Looks at a Portrait of Adolf Hitler
1945
A soldier of the 2nd Canadian Infantry Division contemplates...
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Royal Canadian Air Force Briefing Before Kiska
1945
On August 15, 1943, after three weeks of naval and air...
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Canadian Soldiers Display a German Flag
1945
Five Canadian soldiers display a German flag bearing the...
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Canadian Soldiers Display a German Flag
This photo was taken on March 9, 1945. It shows five Canadian soldiers, smiling and displaying a German flag bearing the Nazi swastika, which they've taken from a fortified house riddled with bullet holes in the town of Xanten, Germany.  Larger image
Lieut. Ken Bell, photographie, Xanten (Allemagne), 9 mars 1945

Five Canadian soldiers display a German flag bearing the Nazi swastika, taken from a ruined fortified house in Xanten, Germany. Almost totally destroyed by bombing, the town was taken by Canadian troops on March 8, 1945.

Lieut. Ken Bell / Canada. Dept. of National Defence / Library and Archives Canada / PA-137461