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Director General opens second UNRRA meeting. Director General Herbert H. Lehman of the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration, the agency designed to aid millions of persons freed by the Allies from enemy domination, presides over the second session as it opens in Montreal, Canada, on Sept. 16, 1944. Mr. Lehman a former Governer of the eastern U.S. State of New York, hailed the liberation ...

Horrors of War. Ruins of a German Porder Village which was systematically destroyed by retiring French troops. Not even the snow could cover the tracks of destruction.

The rise and fall of the Nazi State. Part I: The growth of the Nazi Party. Youthful German enthusiasts smilingly participate in cultural destruction. Looking very pleased with themselves, young German enthusiasts gather up armfull of pictures and pamphlets, considered un-German in context by the party authorities, to add to the bonfires that consumed the works of hitherto honored authors. Stirred to ...

Italian church wrecked by German shells. An American sergeant stands reverently before the statute of St. Joseph and Child which escaped destruction when German artillery shells wrecked this Catholic church in Italy (September, 1943). Another statue, visible between the pillars, also remained intact amid the ruins caused by the enemy shelling.

U.S. combat engineers build bridge over the Ill River. U.S. combat engineering under fire push a section of a Bailey brdige into place, to spen the River III naar Niederehnheim, France. U.S. armor and infantry are waiting for the completion of the bridge in the last hours of the battle against the Golmer pocket, begun January 20, 1945, and finished February 9 at eight o'clock A.M. It was officially ...