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Language of Description: English
Language of Description: Polish

  1. UN opens conference at San Francisco

    Issue 153, Part 1: Opening of first session of U.N. Secretary of State Stettinius introduces President Truman who speaks from Washington, D.C. Good CU. Architects of a "better future." Second day session, EXT, various delegations arrive. Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden of Great Britain with Soviet Foreign Commissar Molotov and Lord Halifax. Joined by Stettinius and Soviet Ambassador Andrei Gromyko. VS, delegates seated in auditorium. Shots of press coverage. China delegate Ambassador T.V. Soong, Molotov, and Eden speak (sync sound).

  2. Italian patriots execute Mussolini

    Issue 153, Part 2: Brief retrospective of Mussolini reign in Italy. Shows Mussolini and Hitler in 1943. Mussolini lies dead in Italy.

  3. German Atrocities

    Issue 153, Part 3: Assisting survivors of Ohrdruf. Inspected by Gens. Eisenhower, Patton, and Bradley. Exhumations at Arnstadt. Assistance given at Nordhausen, German townspeople required to view and assist in burial of dead.

  4. Nazi leaders meet justice

    Issue 159, Part 2: Trial of Vidkun Quisling. Arrest of post-Hitler Nazi government in Plainsberg, Germany. Death of Himmler by suicide in Luneberg, Germany.

  5. Nazi death camp at Belsen destroyed

    Issue 159, Part 3: Barracks of Belsen, survivors being given medical assistance. Women being deloused. Children loaded onto truck and being sent out of camp. Josef Kramer under arrest. British army uses flame throwers to torch barracks.

  6. Liberation in Prague

    Issue 163, Part 1: Prague liberated, street signs ripped down. Street fighting between civilians and SS units. Good shots of street battles. Czechs use rifles, grenades. Dead in street. Germans shell city, burning buildings. Trucks of Russian army enter city, units of first Czechoslovak army, tanks. Pres. Edvard Benes dismounts from train. Shot of him at balcony.

  7. US soldiers go directly to the Pacific from Europe

    Issue 166, Part 3: Good aerial shots of American staging area of tents, equipment. GIs loaded into transport, then board ship in Marseilles for war in Pacific. Served food by Red Cross worker. Men line rails of ship. LS, ship pulls out.

  8. Europe's stranded millions begin emigration

    Issue 166, Part 4: Refugees in Allied displaced persons camps, including Leipzig and Shanouw, are routed homeward.

  9. US carriers fight off enemy suicide attempts

    Issue 166, Part 5: Japanese kamikaze planes strike the battleship Nevada and the carrier Ticonderoga.

  10. UNRRA delivers food and clothes to needy

    Issue 194, Part 6: Displaced persons are greeted on their return to Czechoslovakia. The Army transports and distributes UNRRA supplies.

  11. Warsaw after bombing 1939, aerial views

    Low aerial shots of Warsaw after bombing.Warschau 1939 (in German print) Nor fur den Dienstgebruch! Diest ist ein geheimer Gegenstand im Sinnedes 88 Reichs, Strufges etzbuchs (04/24/34) Low aerial town, buildings some with smoke Augsgebrannte haufer and Gebaude blocks; thick black scratch; facade of big municipal buildings, interior bombed out, pan up wreckage of brick building, wrought iron balconies, twisted artfully in to sky; down an alley, bombed out buildings; MS and MLS QF, people and sidewalk, deserted rubbly courtyard; in front of palace only facades, pedestrians, down a humble str...

  12. UFA Anschluss footage; Parade; Hitler speaks

    Case XI, Ministries-Keppler, "German Entry into Austria", Vienna, Austria, 1938. German Narration. German army motorcade up country hill road, people salute from roadside (wearing swastika). POV car, into Vienna. A procession of cars and trucks enters Vienna. The Nazis are cheered and saluted as they pass public buildings. Crowds, HJ. Civilians parade also, chanting Ein Volk, Ein Reich, Ein Fuehrer. HAS crowds at city center, German soldiers control crowd, CUs, children wave small Nazi flags. Hitler rides in open car through the streets with Seyss-Inquart in some shots, in other shots Seyss...

  13. Jewish refugees arrive from Shanghai

    Jewish refugees from Shanghai arrive by ship in San Francisco, CA. CUs smiling passengers (women, men, children, well-dressed), babies, waving groups. Lots of joy. 01:02:41:17 Four adults from left, Paul Gordin, his mother Raisa (Sachin) Schwartzberg, an unknown woman, and William Schwartzberg (Raisa's husband). Speech to group from balcony (by Macky Gaberman?, escort leader of refugees).

  14. Jewish Lads Brigade Camp, Walmar

    MLS of spectators at Walmar camp. MS boys in uniform in line inspected by Field Marshall William Birdwood. MLS of boys marching in rank, 1400 boys in camp. MS of marching wearing caps and white diagonal buckle, eyes right, tents in BG. MS Field Marshall on review stand. (camp been in operation since 1894). MLS reverse angle as boys go by. Birdwood speaking, then boys raise caps in salute as seen from behind speaker at podium. Narrator ends piece "Shalom Alechem" humor?

  15. Female Austrian Jewish refugees at Czech-German border; England

    News of the Day: Czech-German Border. Jewish women refugees from Austria. Pan of tents on ridge, men and women; MS tents (loosely built) in rows. CU old women seated outside tents; CU old man. Piles of furniture, chairs, teapots. VLS: many people in field. England.

  16. Propaganda about Japan; troops preparing for Pacific

    Reel 1: "Japan" A cartoon shows Hirohito shoving Hitler aside and proclaiming himself the greatest conqueror, the operation of thought control in Japan, and US aid to Japan during the 1923 earthquake. "Here We Come" Shows troops from Europe showering, drawing new clothing, and preparing to embark for the Pacific theater.

  17. US Navy; music

    Reel 2: Bing Crosby sings accompanied by the 11th Naval District Coast Guard band.

  18. German Weeks Review

    CU, Hitler Youth applauding. LS, Heinrich Himmler enters hall, youth stand and salute him. CUs, faces of HJ. MCU, Himmler handing out medals. MSs, two boys pinning medals on. LS, Goebbels speaking (not heard). CUs, audience. LS, flags. CU, German soldiers and machine guns in foxholes. CU, machine gun fired. LS, explosions. German soldiers retreating. German engineers standing in depression. German soldiers on pontoon, drinking. LS, snow-covered mountains. CU, German mountain soldier climbing up mountain. LS, German soldiers descending from mountain. MS, men peeling potatoes. CU, German offi...

  19. Capture of Rotterdam

    Columns of smoke. Pan over river, showing destroyed Rotterdam. Explosion. CU, sniper, trees, smoke. Destruction, burning of Rotterdam. LS, Dutch troops walking toward camera waving white flags. Burning buildings, tanks, armored vehicles. CU, night shot: burning buildings in Rotterdam, troops. Civilians in FG, rubble. Aerial shots of Rotterdam. CU, government officials entering buildng. INT, Dutch surrendering Rotterdam to the Germans, officials seated at table. German plane as it turns over, three German planes taking off from airfield, more German planes in formation. Aerial shot, refugees...

  20. Military Advance in France; German soldiers in Paris

    MCU, horse-drawn artillery advancing through Chateau Thierry; French prisoners in FG. MCU, motor-drawn artillery advancing, infantry in BG. Drivers of horse-drawn artillery sleeping on wagons. MCU, tank panzer division crossing river on pontoon bridge. Armored vehicles on road. Infantry advancing in heavy rain. French POWs. Field kitchen. MS, Volkswagon passing by tanks. Buildings burning around oil refinery. Oil tanks on fire, black smoke. Nazi flag hoisted. Airplane landing in Paris, civilians and soldiers in FG. LS, Eiffel tower. MCU, anti-tank gun in streets of Paris. MCU, German troops...