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  1. Cairo Conference

    "UN Leaders Meet in Middle East" President Roosevelt meets with Churchill and Chiang Kai-Shek in Cairo. Shows Madame Chiang. According to UN contents sheet: "The leaders of China, Great Britain and the United States...meet face to face for the first time...The High Commands of the United Nations powers mapping the blows that will strip Japan of the vast empire gained through fifty years of terror and aggression. Three great Allies pledged to a common cause: The unconditional surrender of Japan."

  2. Teheran Conference

    President Roosevelt meets with Churchill and Joseph Stalin at Teheran. Churchill's daughter Sarah is introduced to Stalin. According to UN contents sheet: "Backed by the greatest concentration of military power in history, the Teheran Conference broadcasts its official communique to the world: "We, the President of the Unites States of America, the Prime Minister of Great Britain, and the Premier of the Soviet Union, have met and expressed our determination that our nations shall work together in the war and in the peace that will follow. The common understanding which we have here reached ...

  3. With Tito in Yugoslavia

    shows Marshall Tito and Yugoslav patriots. According to UN contents sheet: "At his secret mountain headquarters, somewhere in Yugolsavia, is the leader of the embattled Yugolsav Army of Liberation, Marshal Tito. Tito is shown here with the first Allied war correspondents to reach his headquarters.....As United Nations Armies close in on Nazi Germany...they owe much to a small but gallant people and their valiant leader...Marshal Tito."

  4. Dumbarton Oaks Conference, Allies Study Post-war Security

    Part 1: Cordell Hull, Edward Stettinus, Alexander Cadogan, and Andrei Gromyko attend the Dumbarton Oaks Conference in Washington, DC. According to UN contents sheet: "To conferences in Washington came Soviet Ambassdor Andrei Gromyko and a Russian delegation. Wth United States Under Secretary of State Stettinus and representatives of Great Britain, the three Allied nations are meeting here, at Dumbarton Oaks, to study world security and formulate a tentative United Nations proposal."

  5. Pacific Islands Campaign

    Part 4: Japanese planes attack ships off Saipan. US troops land on islands off New Guinea. Troops fight and supplies are dropped on Guam. Women and children are fed and treated at field hospitals.

  6. War Crimes Trial: The Belsen Case

    Part 5: Courtroom scenes of the trial by a British military tribunal at Lueneberg, Germany, of Nazis who served at the Belsen prison camp. Includes scenes of atrocities at Belsen. According to UN contents sheet: "To a British military tribunal at Luneburg [sic] is brought a sordid assortment of Nazi war criminals...headed by the notorious Josef Kramer, charged with responsibility for torture and mass murder of 50,000 prisoners, at the German death camp at Belsen. Belsen's women -- as savage as any of the men. Kramer's chief assistant -- 21 years old and a veteran of five years of atrocities...

  7. May 1934 Jubilee

    "1 May 1934, Jubilee" Members of the Krupp family attend a Nazi rally in Berlin.

  8. Nazis visit Krupp firm

    "Nazi officials visiting the Krupp Firm" Soldiers marching, holding flags with swastikas, delivering speech, distributing Hitler's book, "Mein Kampf."

  9. Dedication of Hitler portrait

    "Dedication of Hitler painting at Krupp's Institute for Physical Research" Unveiling of portrait of Bismark and bust of Hitler in a meeting room. Shots of officials talking, Krupp leaving. Chamber music group playing, audience members and speakers salute both pieces.

  10. Goebbels visiting Krupp works

    "Goebbels visiting the Krupp Works" Automobile with Goebbels. CUs, Goebbels. Crowd.

  11. VE Day in US

    United News. Crowds in Times Square celebrate news of VE Day and people pray in churches.

  12. Truman speaks on end of war

    President Truman announces the German surrender.

  13. Nuremberg stadium, swastika blown up by US troops

    US and Russian troops meet at the Elbe. Shows General Emil Reinhardt. Shows scenes of Nazi headquarters in Nuremberg. Huge US flag is raised over the giant swastika atop the Nuremberg stadium. Swastika is later blown up - the actual explosion and flying debris.

  14. UNRRA Council plans belief of world's needy

    Delegates and the UNRRA meeting in Jersey City, NJ. Herbert Lehman speaks on international understanding.

  15. UN Security Council meets

    Delegates arrive at Hunter College, New York for a meeting of the UN Security Council. Shows scenes of the meeting as Sec. Byrnes speaks on international cooperation.

  16. Gateway to Victory: D-day invasion

    Aerial and amphibious assault on the beaches of Normandy.

  17. Gateway to Victory: Rome taken

    US troops enter Rome under the supervision of Gen. Clark. A mob attacks collaborationists. Pope Pius XII addresses the populace.

  18. Gateway to Victory: Normandy beach

    Allied convoys land on the Normandy beaches. Gens. Eisenhower and Montgomery and Adm. Sir Bertram Ramsey shown.

  19. Western front

    Universal Newsreel, Vol. 18, No. 371. Soldiers. Civilians with luggage. Headlines, "Vive la France". Aerial views of bomb damage.

  20. Bitter War on West Front (Malmedy)

    Universal Newsreel, Vol. 18, No. 371.