Paris ends four years of Nazi occupation as Gen. von Scholtitz surrenders the city after Allied victory

CU crowing rooster on weather vane flaps its wings / title cards: "RKO Pathe News," "Victory in Paris - After four years, the Nazis are forced to surrender Paris. Pictures made by French and American Newsreel cameramen, and the Signal Corps, show the spectacular celebration - Victory in Paris!"/ VS POV from resistance camera during German occupation: WS the Palais Garnier / VS street scenes, incl signposts in German / MPOV past the Hotel de Crillon, Nazi flag on EXT / driveby "Deutsches Soldatenkino" theater for German soldiers / [blank footage as camera is concealed] / MS German soldiers, French civilians at steps to Metro station / two boys sell flowers; German soldier passes by / VS German soldiers, French collaborationist officers at shrine of Eternal Light and at a ceremony with speeches / VS at Longchamp racetrack: German officers on the premises; French and German spectators watch horse race / VS Pierre Laval, flanked by German officers, shakes hands with other officers, gets into car // Allied victory in Paris: VS German officer walks across bridge waving flag of truce; other Germans with flags of truce / VS German POWs with hands on heads walk, one line with a US soldier, another with a French FFI guard with two grenades hanging around his neck / VS German officer/soldier POWs being escorted thru crowd of civilians; one civilian spits on a passing POW / (8/25/1944) VS Gen. Dietrich von Scholtitz climbs down from armored car / VS Scholtitz sits at table, Gen. Jacques Leclerc and other Allied soldiers nearby; clerk at Scholtitz's side takes papers as Scholtitz surrenders Paris / VS German POWs assemble, stand with hands over their heads under US guard; one POW crying / VS German soldier reading terms of surrender to passing soldiers / VS CUs individual POWs, hands over heads, barrel of a gun pointing upward / VS POWs walk along road with US guard, enter barbed-wire enclosure; civilians look on / WS POWs massed in camp / Note: exact month/day not known