John L. Lewis, President of the United Mine Workers of America, at an official function. Mr. Lewis listens as he is being introduced by an unseen person.
Atrocities against prisoners in Nazi camps at different places in Germany. Wounded and emaciated Americans are fed and given medical care by Yank Armies of Liberation in Grasleben, Germany. Masked grave diggers open graves in Hadamar, Germany. Around 35,000 political prisoners found buried. General Eisenhower, General Patton and General Bradley inspect Camp Ohrdruf (a Nazi Camp) in Germany. Heaps of human bodies and lime pits filled with corpses can be seen. 21,000 prisoners stumble around with their broken skulls in Buchenwald Concentration Camp (a Nazi camp in Germany). Corpses lie everywhere with large tattooed numbers on their stomachs. Two roast ovens were used as crematoria. Starved people loaded into ambulances for treatment. (World War II period).
First day of the San Francisco Conference of United Nations (United Nations Conference on International Organization). Representatives from 46 nations attended the conference, some can be seen entering the hall. Representatives seated inside the hall. Conference is officially opened by Secretary of States Edward Stettinius. President Harry S. Truman gives a speech.
The San Francisco Conference. U.S. Secretary of States Edward Stettinius addresses the other representatives of nations gathered for the United Nations Conference on International Organization. Foreign Commissioner Molotov of Russia addresses the gathering followed by T.V. Soong, Foreign Minister of China. Crowds on roads.
Debate about admission of Argentina during San Francisco Conference working toward United Nations Charter. Disabled and injured United States war veterans from World War 2 combat (mostly Navy in this image) enter the Veterans Memorial Opera House (War Memorial Opera House). View of interior of hall. Ezequiel Padilla, Secretary of Foreign Affairs, Mexico, addressing the gathering. Russian Foreign Commissar Molotov and an interpreter speaking, followed by secretary of States Edward Stettinius. Agenda of meeting is whether or not Argentina be invited for UN Security Conference. Chairman Anthony Eden calls for vote, Argentina is invited by a vote of 31 to 4. View of a parked Eastern Airlines silver liner parked at airfield in Washington DC, and new Ambassador Oscar Ibarra Garcia from Argentina emerges and is greeted by South American and United States officials. A person comes out of a U.S. aircraft and is received by authorities.
Russian attacks on Warsaw and Poznan in World War II. Soviet army using tanks, heavy artillery, machine guns and grenades advance forward. Marshal Zhukov and Marshal Rosokofskey inspecting Russian cossacks advancing on horses. A soldier is shot by a sniper while running through street intersection. A Russian machine gunner firing a Soviet DP-28 light machine gun shoots at building to take out a sniper's nest. Dead bodies of German snipers. Views of ruined city of Warsaw and Poznan. Concentration camp victims, including a woman who has been blinded in one eye. Interior of a Nazi concentration camp room loaded with torture equipment, including a guillotine. Piles of bodies of persons mass executed during German retreat. Women crying over bodies in coffins. A fat Nazi commander and his fellow officers.Soviet soldiers. Scenes of ruined Warsaw include a sign that reads, 'Adolf Hitler Platz.' A wrecked trolley with signs on it that read, ''Wierzeno' and 'Ein u. Ausstieg nur fur Deutsche' which translates to English as, 'On and off exit points only for Germans' The ruined home of Frederic Chopin in Warsaw. The Polish flag flying again after battle.
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