With the net tightening around Germany, on 4 February 1945 the Allied Leaders, Stalin, Churchill and Roosevelt, met in Yalta, on the Black Sea cost of the Crimea, to clarify their plans for the final offensive, the occupation policy for Germany and the establishment of the United Nations and its Security Council. A month later, in March 1945, the Germans were in retreat. The Allies were on the west bank of the Rhine, the traditional border of Germany that no foreign army had crossed in 140 years (since Napoleon on 1805). On 22-24 March, the Allies crossed the Rhine and entered enemy territory.On 30 April, Adolf Hitler committed suicide during the Battle of Berlin.

Friday 8 May 2015 was the anniversary of VE Day (Victory in Europe Day), marking seventy years since the end of the Second World War in Europe. The occasion was commemorated with a three-day weekend of remembrance and celebration, with events being held across the UK.

A collection of Winston Churchill's most famous quotes from the World War II period accompanied by a host of images, audio, video and suggested further reading.

See Churchill making his speech, and receiving a standing ovation from his audience, at County Hall here https://wwwyoutubecom/embed/cRBGfYVOELk copyright: British Pathé...

Buckingham Palace on VE Day: Despite the film slipping, and only partial sound, this clip still conveys the enormity of the crowds – and the occasion https://wwwyoutubecom/embed/_TDkwwkXqJY copyright: British...

Watch newsreel footage of the Conference, with some of Churchill’s speech, here Churchill stops his speech to take a drink and then says: ‘I don’t often do that’ After laughter and...

British Pathe film clip of ‘Some Chicken! Some Neck!’, 30 December 1941 Churchill made a brief trip to Canada to attend a meeting of the Canadian War Cabinet on 29 December,...

Churchill makes his speech at Westminster College, Fulton, Missouri, 5 March 1946 British Pathe label this speech as having been made in 1945 and while this clip doesn’t include the famous...

An unusual clip of Churchill making an informal speech to an enormous crowd outside Bradford Town Hall in 1942, during the Second World War, seemingly without notes and including one of...