Allied leaders and Hitler at the turn of 1943
Delegates sign before a wall of flags, Adolf Hitler speaks at his microphones, and a smiling Stalin appears among the Allied flags.
Some twenty men in dark suits and summer whites stand round a long table where a few sit and sign, before a wall of national flags; Adolf Hitler in party uniform with a cross-strap raises his hand as he speaks at a rostrum crowded with microphones, uniformed men filling the stands behind him; inside a round frame set among a fan of flags, Josef Stalin laughs beneath his heavy moustache.
On 1 January 1942 twenty-six nations had signed the Declaration by United Nations in Washington, pledging not to make a separate peace. At the close of 1942 the American newsreel set their leaders against Hitler, whom it showed beside scenes of hostages shot in occupied Europe; the contrast was the newsreel's own. The newsreel, released by MGM as News of the Day, told the war as its American audience was meant to see it.
