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The Sudetenland in an economic crisis followed by the flight of Sudeten Czechs as Germany invades
Animated map shows shows areas of Czechoslovakia constituting the Sudetenland. Scenes of numerous idle industrial plants in the region. Some display chains and locks. Views of unemployed workers. More and more views of idle work places. Unhappy jobless persons. Scene shifts to hundreds of thousands of Czech people leaving their homes in the Sudetenland. Some are seen walking along a road carrying their belongings. Some use baby carriages and others use bicycles to carry their belongings. Some lead cattle on tethers. Others have carts. Views of weary refugee Czechs traveling and some at resting places. Many views of evacuees passing a Sudetenland border and moving across roads, fields, and in every imaginable manner as they leave and begin to seek new homes. Many are seen crying and weeping. Then suddenly, the film shifts to October 1, 1938, as German forces enter the Sudetenland and are happily cheered by German-speaking residents. Large formation of German troops marching along a street as spectators render Nazi salutes. A welcoming banner is stretched across the street. Many women wave and throw flowers at the rapidly passing German soldiers in vehicles. View from one of the German vehicles of the people crowding around them and cheering them. During a lull in traffic, a woman walks on the empty street (still surrounded by sidewalks full of spectators) and strews more flowers along the roadway. Crowds cheer with great enthusiasm as Adolf Hitler is seen riding in an open motorcar and entering the German occupied area at the Wildenau crossing on October 3, 1938. The car is mobbed by Sudeten Germans who shake hands with Hitler. A banner thanking Hitler for the occupation hangs across the roadway. Many views of Hitler saluting and waving to the enthusiastic population. At one point he stops the car and walks on the street, accompanied by Marshal Hermann Goering, who also meets and greets people in the crowd, including some children to whom he gives candy. Hitler also greets a small girl and gives her some candy.
Actions of Axis and Allied powers on brink of World War II in period 1937-1939.
Japanese troops parade for Emperor Hirohito, mounted upon a white horse. Italian troops goosestep and German troops goosestep on parade. View of an Austrian town with snow-covered Alps mountains in background as German troops enter Austria on March 13, 1938 during the Anschluss. Local citizens welcome them, displaying swastika flags and giving Nazi straight arm salutes. Troops, military vehicles, tanks, motorcycles, and horse-drawn artillery comprise the German invading force. Shifts to Spain, where war torn buildings reflect effects of German and Italian intervention during the Spanish Civil War. A donkey standing near field artillery piece. Artillery being fired from an urban park in Spain. Artilleryman using a range finder. German gun crew with heavy artillery piece. Soldiers wearing Adrian steel helmets, firing a two-wheeled water-cooled machine gun. Spanish carrying wounded on stretcher. Spanish civilians inadvertently slain during civil war conflict. Starving dog walking in street. Huge poster of Francisco Franco and view of him on reviewing stand saluting marching Nationalist troops. Repeat of Hirohito reviewing troops and Italian and German troops goosestep. Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini stand together in open car heading to Fuhrerbau in Munich, Germany, for signing of Agreement between Germany, Italy, Britain, and France in 1938. Neville Chamberlain, and Edouard Daladier riding in car to Fuhrerbau. Views of the principals signing the accords. First is Adolf Hitler, followed by Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain, Benito Mussolini, and Edouard Daladier. After the signing, the principals, plus Hermann Goering, mingle and converse. Change of scene to nighttime in Rome, Italy, where Benito Mussolini addresses a huge throng gathered near the Victor Emmanuel Memorial to cheer him after his return from Munich. Next, German troops are seen entering Sudetenland (Czechoslovakia) greeted by joyous ethnic German inhabitants. Banners are stretched across a street. One gives thanks to the Fuhrer. Several scenes of cheering population. A woman strews flowers in a roadway. Hitler arrives, standing in an open car, and is met with cheers of adulation. A military brass band plays from the open beds of two moving army trucks. Signpost points to Prag (Prague), Eger (Cheb), Joachimstal (Jáchymov), and Komotau (Chomutov) after German annexation. Scene shifts to Prague, where German troops are seen occupying the city. High ranking German officers in a car are seen coming through the gateway from the Court d´honneur of the Prague Castle into the Hradčany Square. The next sequence shows an Italian Freccia-Class destroyer in the Albanian Port of Durrës. An Italian L3/35 Tankette is driven off a large cargo ship. Italian troops on bicycles ride in a city street. A German 88mm antiaircraft (flak) gun is shown, mounted at a fort overlooking a river and city. Final scene shows Adolf Hitler addressing a meeting of the Bundestag in the Kroll Opera House (alternate meeting place after burning of the Reichstag). He reads, contemptuously from an April 14, 1939 letter sent to him by U.S. President Roosevelt, asking him to give "assurance that your armed forces will not attack or invade the territory or possessions of the following independent nations: Finland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Sweden, Norway, Denmark, The Netherlands, Belgium, Great Britain and Ireland, France, Portugal, Spain, Switzerland, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Poland, Hungary, Rumania, Yugoslavia, Russia, Bulgaria, Greece, Turkey, Iraq, the Arabias, Syria, Palestine, Egypt and Iran." As Hitler reads through the litany of nations, the Bundestag erupts in laughter.
German troops enter Liberec during the Nazi occupation of Sudetenland prior to WW2.
Map of Czechoslovakia showing the four sections of Sudetenland annexed by Nazi Germany as part of the Munich Agreement with arrows pointing towards Prague. Sudeten Germans perform the Nazi salute as the German Army enters a Liberec, Czechoslovakia prior to World War II. Girls performing the Hitler salute while holding Nazi Germany flags. Tanks, trucks, and various armored vehicles enter town. Civilians greet the Wehrmacht soldiers as they goose step march into town. Sudeten German women in the crowd cheer and hold bouquet of flowers. Liberec civilian men perform the Nazi salute. Wehrmacht soldiers marching with Nazi standards. A saluting cavalryman leads a parade of infantry troops. Military band plays music beside civilian crowds and young boys. Hand attaches a pin of the Sudeten German Party (Sudetendeutsche Partei or SdP). Standard of the Sudeten German Party in Czechoslovakia.
The Sudetenland Germans welcome Hitler and German occupying military forces
The occupation of Sudetenland, Czechoslovakia on 1st October, 1938. German Chancellor Adolf Hitler in a car. German troops and calvary units enter Sudetenland. Tanks pass through an arch expressing thanks for liberation. The citizens of Sudetenland greet the soldiers. Hitler in a car. The insignia of the Nazi Party in the background. A member of the local Nazi Party speaks to the people and turns to salute Hitler. Crowds are enthusiastic.
President Edvard Benes of Czechoslovakia with a dignitary.
Events prior to World War II. President Edvard Benes of Czechoslovakia along with a dignitary in a car during a reception ceremony in Czechoslovakia. The car drives past a large crowd and soldiers lined up for the reception of the dignitary. President Benes maintains firm stand on opposition to German annexation of Sudetenland territory.
Dr Emil Hacha, President of the High Court of Administration succeeds Edouard Benes as the third President of Czechoslovakia.
Dr Emil Hacha, President of the High Court of Administration succeeds Edouard Benes as the third President of Czechoslovakia. Dr Hacha at his office in Prague, smokes cigars and reads important papers. A leading jurist of the dismembered republic of Czechoslovakia, Dr Hacha replaces Edouard Benes, who resigned following the ill-faired Munich Pact.
