HEARING BEFORE
SELECT COMMITTEE TO INVESTIGATE INCORPORATION OF THE
BALTIC STATES INTO THE
USSR -
National Archives and Records Administration -
ARC 43291, LI 233-KC-1270u -
DVD Copied by Ann
Galloway.
U.S. House of Representatives.
Select Committee to Investigate Communist
Aggression against
Poland and
Hungary. (ca. 1954 - ca. 1954). Partially-edited film report: The
Kersten Committee hears testimony on Communist aggression in the
Baltic States.
Reel 1,
James J. McTigue questions
Lucie Puzyna about economic conditions in
Lithuania in 1954.
Shows silent testimony of witness. Reel 2,
Patrick J. Hillings questions
King Michael of Romania on growth of communism.
Ray J. Madden comments on
Adam Treszka's testimony, and asks Puzyna how she escaped from Lithuania.
Fred E. Busbey questions Puzyna on
Lithuanian deportations to
Siberia and slave labor camps.
Madden makes comment on
Polish struggle against communism, thanks officers of the
Polish Home Army for their testimony and praises
Gen. Wladsyslaw
Anders for his testimony before the
Katyn Massacre Committee. Reel 3, a general states that his countrymen would follow
U.S. directions and that
U.S. soldiers do not understand their own leadership.
Shot of Anders and committee.
Witness testifies on Communists in
Polish government.
Polish general comments on
Russian offensive of July
1944. Committee member makes statement on freeing Poland from Russian domination. Reel 4, witness comments on Polish struggle against
Russia. Committee member asks witness question about stopping communism. Dr.
Joseph Mikus comments on Dr.
Edward Benes' policy toward
Communist Party in
Czechoslovakia as well as that of
Prime Minister Stanislau Mikolajczyk's policy in
Poland. Shows silent testimony of witness. Reel 5, committee member makes statement on
Western attitudes toward the Baltic States prior to
World War II and Dr. Mikus' conversations with Dr. Benes Dr. Mikus reads statement on a meeting in
Moscow. King Michael of Romania comments on his government after Communist takeover. Shows silent testimony of witness and committee members. Reel 6, silent segment shows two committee members. Kersten swears in Polish Home Army officers,
Generals T. Bor-Komorowski, T. Pelczynski and A. Monter-Chrusciel; Colonels K. Iranek-Osmecki and A. Pomian;
Mrs. Pronaszko;Majors M. Morski and T. Klimowski; and Captains F.
Rybka and A. Pilch. Committee member makes statement on uprising in
East Germany.
Shots of committee members. Reel 7, Hillings questions Puzyna on subjects she taught in Lithuania, what other teachers taught children about politics, and religious participation among students. Hillings questions Dr. Mikus about Dr. Benes reasons for going to Moscow in 1943. Shows silent speech of Kersten to audience. Gen.
Wladyslaw Anders responds to question on the 16 members of the
Polish Underground Government who went to Moscow.
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