UNITED NEWS [Series Title]

Edition of US-produced wartime newsreel, featuring a large May Day parade in Moscow, the trial of Norwegian collaborator Vidkun Quisling, the capture of senior Nazis and the suicide of Heinrich Himmler, the planned destruction by fire of the concentration camp at Belsen, an address by President Truman on the states of the war against Japan, and scenes of American forces in action on Okinawa.

'Gigantic parade marks May Day in Moscow'; Cyrillic hoarding 'Maya'. Troops assembled in Red Square, watched over by portraits of Lenin and Stalin. American military attaches. Stalin and his entourage. Stalin mounts the saluting base. Clock face showing 10am. A massed band marches past. Band passing. Various further shots of troops marching past. Stalin at the salute. Sailors march past. Troops march past with rifles and fixed bayonets at the 'en garde' position. A Japanese military observer. Vehicles drive past. A IS-2 heavy tank passes. ISU-122 self-propelled guns pass. Katyusha rocket launchers, mounted on American Lend-Lease trucks, drive past. High shot parade of vehicles.

'Nazi leaders meet justice'; scenes from a police court at Oslo, Norway, with the trial of Vidkun Quisling, former Nazi-sponsored Prime Minister of Norway, getting underway. At Flensburg, the docked ship Patria serving as Allied headquarters. German sailors and soldiers are interned. Germans stand with their hands behind their heads. View of Flensburg castle with British troops in the foreground. Interior; Admiral von Friedeburg lies dead after taking his own life. He lies below a portrait of Admiral Doenitz. General Alfred Jodl leaves his headquarters at Flensburg. A brick embrasure at the headquarter. Shots of Admiral Doenitz, with Albert Speer, after their arrest. At Lüneberg; the body of Heinrich Himmler lies on the floor following his suicide. Close-up of his face.

'Nazi death camp at Belsen is destroyed'; interior camp hut (a temporary hospital?) at Belsen with British medics treating liberated prisoners. Stretcher cases are carried away and put aboard ambulances. A woman is doused with insecticide powder. Women and children are put aboard a lorry and driven away. Commandant of Belsen, Josef Kramer, under arrest; a British soldier stands nearby with a Sten submachine gun at the ready. British Universal carriers fitted with flamethrowers incinerate a hut. Flames engulf the building. Wider shot; a crowd of spectators watches.

'President Truman -- message on Japanese war'; Truman addresses camera. He speaks of Japan's hope that America will tire of the necessary sacrifice to defeat them. Truman speaks of America's great military strength and its commitment to total victory. He pledges 'every ounce of our energy and strength' to the task.

'Tanks lead final assault on Okinawa'; wide shot near Naha, a Sherman medium tank with a few infantrymen following behind. An overturned US Marine Corps Sherman, apparently after hitting a presumably very large anti-tank mine. Other troops attempt to extinguish fires and rescue the crew. A man wanders towards the tank, apparently a crewmember thrown clear by the blast. The tank explodes. The burning wreck. Nearby a flamethrowing Sherman torches a cave entrance. Wide shot; the tank reverses from the resultant pall of smoke.

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