HEARING BEFORE SELECT COMMITTEE TO INVESTIGATE INCORPORATION OF THE BALTIC STATES INTO THE USSR

Creator: National Archives and Records Administration

Format: 16mm/video file

Description: National Archives and Records Administration - ARC 43291, LI 233-KC-1270u - HEARING BEFORE SELECT COMMITTEE TO INVESTIGATE INCORPORATION OF THE BALTIC STATES INTO THE USSR - 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.