News of the Day No 18

The trial of the executioners of the German fascist Majdanek concentration camp: the defendants Odal, Holen, Werner, Vogel and Herstmeier in the dock in the Lublin courtroom; the prosecutor speaks; those present in the hall and the accused listen to the verdict. The convoy is leading criminals along a street in Lublin (Poland) filled with people. Death penalty for criminals by hanging on the territory of Majdaneka camp. Fighting in Czechoslovakia. A reconnaissance group passes through a snow-covered forest in the Carpathians. The fighter transmits a report on the telephone. Tractors pull artillery pieces across a mountain river. The officers are monitoring the periscope. Shooting Soviet artillery pieces. Explosions in the forest. Production workshops of the First Model Printing House in Moscow, which prints the fourth edition of JV Stalin's book "The Great Patriotic War of the Soviet Union." Printing presses are in operation. Workers sort sheets and bind books. Stacks of copies of books in the finished goods workshop. Presentation of the banner of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR to pupils of the Suvorov School in Kuibyshev. Formation of pupils of the school on the parade ground. Standard bearers carry the banner. On the podium, officers and teachers of the school. Suvorovites at their desks in the classroom; the teacher leads the lesson. USA. Assembling the B-29 bomber at an American military plant. Ready aircraft on the airfield airfield. The mechanics are preparing the planes for departure. Takeoff. Air Marshal AA Novikov presents awards to members of the Normandie-Niemen squadron. The pilots are congratulated by the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Provisional Government of France J. Bidault.

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1944