From D-Day to the horrors of Dachau and on to the fall of Berlin: Hollywood director's son unearths

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rare footage

On June 6, 1944, HMS Belfast fired the shots that launched the D-Day landings - heralding the liberation of Europe from Nazi Germany.

Aboard the flagship was Hollywood director George Stevens, who captured the historic event on one of the earliest 16mm color cameras for his own personal records.

He continued to film the war in kodachrome through the beaches of Normandy, onwards to the liberation of Paris, confronting the horrors of German concentration camps and finally, entering a war-ravaged Berlin.

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