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Czechoslovak coup with Communists coming to power; anti-Communist demonstrations in various European nations over 10 years
U.S. propaganda piece about threats by communists against various European countries. The Czechoslovak coup and demonstrations. Czech citizens moving on a street in Czechoslovakia during a strike forcing conservative elements to resign from the cabinet. Scenes of police brutality and beatings against strikers. Communists take over the police. Czech President Edvard Benes with conservative politicians in a government building. Huge crowd on a street. Police clashing with crowd. Czech Prime Minister Klement Gottwald with officials. President Edvard Benes, facing possible civil war or invasion by the Soviet Union, accepts a Communist cabinet. He is seen signing documents to that effect on February 25, 1948. Other officials beside President Benes during the signing. View of the first President of Czechoslovakia Tomas Masaryk's son, Jan Masaryk, who remained the Foreign Minister, and did not agree to the new government. Two days later Jan Masaryk is discovered dead. The body of Jan Masaryk in a coffin. Edvard Benes, who resigned in June 1948 after refusing to sign the communist constitution, is seen walking slowly outside the Parliament using a cane. A guard saluting Benes. View of the body of Edvard Benes, who died in September 1948, laying in a coffin. Mourning citizens offering flowers and cry. Officials bearing the coffin. Shift several years later to street strikes in East Germany in 1953. People during a strike and riot in Poland in 1956. Russian tanks moving on a street and Soviet soldiers are seen. Elevated view of panic and Polish citizens fleeing soldiers. October 1956: Student demonstrators on street in Budapest Hungary during the Hungarian Uprising of 1956. Soviet Russian red star is toppled by crowds from a building roof in a sign of defiance. Russian troops respond with tanks on the streets in Hungary. Crowd fights back. Russians retreat. Crowd overwhelms local police. Imre Nagy, Prime Minister of Hungary, ascends steps. Hungarian crowd on streets burn communist books and papers. Russian tanks invade Hungary to crush revolt. Tanks fire guns on Hungarian street. Imre Nagy's execution announced June 17, 1958.
Scenes of communist East German GDR rallies, then unrest in Uprising of 1953 and Hungarian Revolt of 1956
Civilians gather on streets of Berlin and celebrate the socialist DDR (GDR) government in East Germany around 1949 or soon after. Uniformed band plays during a ceremony in East Germany. The spectators and a group of uniformed party leaders stand, cheer, and clap. A east German teenage girl kisses the flag. Next scene shows unrest and protests with burning flags in the streets of Berlin, East Germany, during the Uprising of 1953. Crowd burns a flag and then tears at another flag to destroy it. Crowd marches in the street in protest. Scenes of Soviet tanks rolling. Next scene shows a protest rally during the Hungarian Revolution of 1956. Narrator mentions revolt in Poland also. Large number of civilians march on roads and cut the center emblem out of a East German flag during protest.
Refugees from the 1956 Hungarian Revolution fly out of Munich, Germany
View of Munich-Riem Airport building (now former Munich-Riem Airport 81829 Munich, Germany 81829 ) Building sign reads “München”. Four United States Army Douglas C–118 Liftmaster airplanes on the tarmac of Munich-Riem Airport. Hungarian refugees exit buses on the tarmac, including excited girls carrying dolls. Hungarian refugees wave at United States soldiers and journalists greeting them as they climb the airstair. A boy holding two “United States Escapee Program” bags. Airstair reads “München”. Airplane engine propeller starts up. A pilot waves from cockpit of aircraft (USAF BUAER- C 118A). A United States Army Douglas C–118 Liftmaster takes off from Munich-Riem airport. Hungarian refugees inside the flight to the United States. The Douglas C–118 Liftmaster interior refitted as a passenger plane. A woman and her daughter looking out a plane window. A United States Air Force flight stewardess kisses the cheeks of a sleeping child. A man talking to his granddaughter while in flight. A male United States Air Force flight attendant serves coffee. A man eating a meal served during flight. A girl dressing her doll. A sleeping elderly woman leans on adult son. A young boy asleep.
Scenes of insurrection in Budapest, Hungary during Hungarian Revolution of 1956; reactions throughout the world.
Hungarian Revolution of 1956 against the Stalinist government in Hungary. Civilians, police and military mingling amiably. Hungarian Communist Leader, Janos Kadar enters a car with an Army General. Civilians walk around a Soviet tank in a market. Hungarian soldiers stand on roads and talk to each other. Animated map shows flow of Soviet Forces surrounding Budapest to put down the insurrection. Soviet tanks firing point blank into buildings. Fires raging. A radio announcer is seen at a center from which multilingual broadcasts are being made about the events in Budapest. A technician in broadcast center. Speaker labeled "Hungarian." Brief view of UN meeting in New York. Revolutionaries fire on Soviets from remnants of destroyed buildings. Damaged Soviet tank. Hungarian National flags fly over abandoned litters in a small park. Dead revolutionary in a coffin being transported for burial in a cemetery. Some snow on the ground. People in various parts of the world express sympathy for the Hungarian insurrectionists. Black wreathes are hung. Youth in West Berlin, Germany, carry banner calling for Freedom for Hungary. Supportive demonstrations in Vietnam, France, and Italy. Black wreathes are placed in Poland.
Images pertaining to advance of communism during 20th century, especially in East Germany
Statue of Karl Marx on his grave stone in Highgate Cemetery, London. A picture of Karl Marx. Scenes in Russia around the time of the Russian Revolution circa 1917 and creation of the Soviet Union. Soviet soldiers walking slowly in loose formation. Bolsheviks standing with a large banner. Images spanning many years thereafter: Damaged shops on a street. "One way" street signs in several languages. Large gathering of people carrying signs reading: "Frieden" (Peace, in German). A sign reading: "HALT, Landesgrenze" marking a German provincial boundary. A sign in German, designating the customs border at Furth im Wald, Bavaria ("Zollgrenz-Bezirk, Furth i.Wald"). East German border guards setting obstacles and sentry paths at barbed wire barriers (constituting the Berlin Wall, early on). Picture of Günter Litfin, a twenty-four-year-old tailor, who swam across the Spree Canal to West Germany on 24 August 1961. View of him being fatally shot from across the border, by East German guards, as he is being pulled into West Germany (the first such fatality at the East West German border). Animated map of the world with label references to Berlin,1961; Havana, 1959; Budapest, 1956; Coyoacan, 1940; and Kronstadt, 1921.
U.S. President John F Kennedy arrives at the U.S. Military Hotel General Von Steuben in Wiesbaden Germany
A U.S. Army VH-3A helicopter lands on the lawn of the Hotel General von Steuben, in Wiesbaden, Germany. A crowd of spectators stands across the drive from the hotel lawn, constrained by German policemen. U.S. Air Force Military policemen stand guard on the nearer side of the drive. Soon the Presidential VH-3 helicopter, Marine One, lands on the lawn. It displays the Presidential seal and that of the Military District of Washington, DC. Next, President John F. Kennedy is seen walking past the Army helicopter and into the U.S. Military's Hotel General von Steuben. He is accompanied by German Chancellor, Ludwig Erhard, U.S. Secretary of State, Dean Rusk and U.S. Army Aide, Brigadier General Chester V. Clifton, along with a phalanx of Secret Service Agents. Other officials look out from a dining room window of the hotel as the Presidential party arrives. (Note: In the 1950s, the U.S. built three large military hotels in Wiesbaden. In 1951,a star-shaped Hotel [the American Arms] was built on Frankfurter Strasse. In 1955, the 9-story Amelia Earhart Hotel was opened. It was a utilitarian structure, with row after row of windows. President Nixon once stayed there. It closed in 1995. The General von Steuben Hotel, depicted in this film, was the newest, built in 1956, on Auguste Viktoria Strasse, near the train station. It is now a commercial hotel, "the Dorint Hotel Pallas Wiesbaden.")
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