Hollywood director George Stevens turns his camera on the final collapse of Nazi Germany, and this episode builds its account almost entirely from the color footage he shot in May 1945. Crowds fill the streets on VE Day as church bells ring and strangers embrace, while American troops roll into Pilsen to scenes of Czech civilians climbing onto tanks to celebrate their liberation. The same reels turn somber over Hamburg, where block after block of the city lies in rubble, the human cost of the bombing campaign laid out in wide, static shots rather than narration. The episode moves between these registers, jubilation in the west and devastation on the ground, without smoothing over the contradiction between them. As the fourth installment in a series assembled from restored color archival material, it treats Stevens' footage as the primary document and lets the images of surrendered German officers, liberated towns, and ruined streets carry most of the story, with narration filling in dates and context rather than argument.