Records of the Office of War Information. 1926 - 1951. Motion Picture Films from "United News" Newsreels. 1942 - 1945. A GERMAN IS TRIED FOR MURDER [ETC.]

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Records of the Office of War Information. 1926 - 1951. Motion Picture Films from "United News" Newsreels. 1942 - 1945. A GERMAN IS TRIED FOR MURDER [ETC.]

1945

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Part 1 shows courtroom scenes at Dachau, Germany, where a Nazi is adjudged guilty of murdering a prisoner of war. Part 2, General de Gaulle reviews a parade in Brussels. Part 3 shows scenes of the trial of Pierre Laval in Paris. Part 4, a U.S. submarine sinks Japanese ships in the Pacific. Sec. of the Navy Forrestal decorates the submarine commander.

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Forrestal, James, 1892-1949

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James Vincent Forrestal (February 15, 1892 – May 22, 1949) was the last Cabinet-level United States Secretary of the Navy and the first United States Secretary of Defense. Forrestal came from a very strict middle class Irish Catholic family. He was a successful financier on Wall Street before becoming Undersecretary of the Navy in 1940, shortly before the United States entered the Second World War. He became Secretary of the Navy in May 1944 upon the death of his superior, Frank Knox. Preside...

Laval, Pierre, 1883-1945

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Laval was a French lawyer and politician who served in the Vichy government during the Nazi occupation of France. From the description of The state versus Pierre Laval, 1945. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 612367744 ...

Gaulle, Charles de, 1890-1970

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Charles Gaulle (b. November 22, 1890, Lille, France-d. November 9, 1970, Colombey-les-Deux-Églises, France) was a French general, statesman, and veteran of World War I and World War II. He led the Free French Forces during World War II and later served as France's President, 1944-1945; Prime Minister, 1958-1959; and Minister of Defense, 1958-1959, before founding the French Fifth Republic and serving as its first president, 1959-1969. ...