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People in front of the Communist Party headquarters in Prague, Czechoslovak on the 1946 Parliamentary Election evening.

Election eve in Prague, Czechoslovakia. Pavements covered with election literature. Czech citizens voting on the election day. Several views of people reading results of the elections on posters placed in the streets. Facade of the Social Democratic Party Headquarters - number 3. Facade of the headquarters of the Communist Party - number 1 written on a large linen. A poster shows a child arising from a sickle and a hammer. A tramway decorated with the number 1 passes in front of the Communist Party headquarters and the oldest tower in Prague.

Date: 1946
Duration: 2 min 33 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675073940
Hungarian troops enter Uzhorod, Czechoslovakia after Hungary takes over the town as a result of the Munich Pact.

Hungary gains control over Uzhorod, Czechoslovakia after the First Vienna Award. Czech civilians load their belongings onto carriages and leave the town as they head towards the interiors of Czechoslovakia. Soldiers load equipment on to vehicles and move away on carts or on foot. Picture of Miklós Horthy, the Regent of Hungary. The Coat of Arms of the Kingdom of Hungary (1920–1946). Hungarian cavalry units enter the city.

Date: 1938, December 7
Duration: 40 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675049476
Munich agreement leading to invasion of Czechoslovakia by Germany signed under Adolf Hitler's rule

A memorandum expresses Adolf Hitler's desire to invade Czechoslovakia. Munich Pact discussed during the trial of Nazi leaders for war crimes in Nuremberg, Germany in 1946. Footage from 1938 as Adolf Hitler and other leaders from Britain, Italy and France sign Munich Agreement or Munich Pact that leads to annexation of Czechoslovakia by Nazi Germany. Czech President Emil Hacha arrives to meet the German leaders.

Date: 1938, September
Duration: 1 min 46 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675058656
View of the Nazi Concentration Camps and its victims, and other atrocities committed by Nazi forces in World War 2.

Images and testimony related to the Nuremberg Trials held at the Palace of Justice in Nuremberg, Germany in October 1946. Flashbacks of a variety of Nazi crimes against humanity during the years of World War II. Reference to testimony of Kenaris and Hans Frank in describing Nazi policies and methods for exterminating Poles and others. Pictures recording the implementation and results of Nazi policies; atrocities and murder of victims in Ouradour Sur Glane in France, in Bande in Belgium, in the Catacombe of San Callisto in Italy and in Czechoslovakia. Nazi German soldiers seen leveling and destroying the town of Lidice in Czechoslovakia in 1942 in retaliation for the assassination of SS Reich Protector Reinhard Heydrich. Corpses of the victims of the Nazi concentration camps, including Auschwitz, in 1945. Bones of humans in crematory ovens. Cramped starved camp victims in barracks. Stacks of luggage and suitcases of victims at a concentration camp, along with locks of hair, stacks of toothbrushes. Shaving cream brushes, shoes, clothing, and finally, piles of bones of camp victims. Testimony of Rudolf Franz Ferdinand Höss (sometimes spelled Höß or Hoess or Hess) describes concentration camps at Auschwitz in Poland. As scenes of victims in hospitals are shown, testimony of Rudolf Hoess is read, describing medical experiments include lowering the body temperature, injecting the body with poisons and infectious diseases and subjecting the body to high altitude pressure chambers. Shows pile of mutilated corpses.The "Arbeit Macht Frei" sign over the camp entrance of Auschwitz. Scenes of dead victims of Nazi brutality in the concentration camps.

Date: 1945
Duration: 4 min 51 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675050463
The Allied representatives' committee meet to decide the expulsion of Germans in Czechoslovakia.

Expulsion of Germans from Czechoslovakia soon after the end of World War 2. A committee of Allied representatives meet to decide the expulsion of Germans from Czechoslovakia. The members of the committee around a map on a table. Dr. Kuchera, plenipotentiary of the Czech Government, American Colonel J.H.Fye, Executive Officer of CAX in Berlin Lieutenant Colonel Messick, a Czech doctor and Czech Colonel Monzer from the Ministry of National Defense look at the map. Several views of the group looking at the map. Dr. Kuchera rounds with a pencil the areas in Czechoslovakia to be evacuated. Dr. Kuchera, Colonel Fye and Lieutenant Colonel Messick talking. Lieutenant Colonel Messick, wearing spectacles. A portrait hangs on the wall behind.

Date: 1946, October 3
Duration: 2 min 12 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675055067
The UNRRA provides food and clothing to concentration camp victims as they return in Czechoslovakia after WW2.

Refugees and concentration camp victims return to Czechoslovakia after the World War II. Destroyed buildings and houses in a village in Czechoslovakia. Woman concentration camp victims, probably most of them Jewish Holocaust victims, leaning out of the windows of a bus after arrival in town. Close up of chalk written sign on bus reads, "Ravensbrück" to denote it as containing women from Ravensbrück concentration camp. Woman are greeted by their family members, who help them out of the bus. Several of those gathered are still wearing their striped concentration camp uniforms. A woman tearfully hugs a man. A steam locomotive with coal car reading, "U.S.A." moving slowly on train track. A Czechoslovakian soldier with rifle inspects tamper evident wire latch on train car. A man opens the door of a railroad train car, revealing bags of grain inside. Hand of inspector examining grain from shipment. Another railroad car door opened to reveal cotton or wool batting. Hand inspects wool or cotton fibers. Truck convoy through city streets. Man carrying crate marked "UNRRA" into building. Crate marked "Czechoslovakia" is placed on table. Hand shows small box of penicillin. Man walking with crutches enters building and is given warm coats. External view of "LAMPLOTA" building with "UNRRA" signs in windows, now set up as an UNRRA distribution center. A smiling Czechoslovakian girl hands a ration ticket to a woman behind the counter at an UNRRA distribution center. The woman cuts a part of the ration ticket off with scissors. Close up of UNRRA food supplies. View of a large wall of "UNRRA" crates.

Date: 1946
Duration: 2 min 18 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675063135
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