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.
Opening scenes show Czech soldiers in retreat and withdrawal in Czechoslovakia after Munich Agreement makes way for Czechoslovakia to cede Sudetenland regions to Nazi Germany. Czech soldiers on roads with horses and equipment. German leader Adolf Hitler and his troops inspect former Czechoslovakia bunker defenses. A huge crowd gathers in the streets in areas ceded to Germany and cheers German soldiers. Hermann Göring greets cheering citizens and gives a cookie or candy to a little girl. Food and drink is served to local citizens in the streets by German Army occupying forces.
Ending of World War II in Europe. A crowd of German civilians (including some families of German troops who have surrendered in Czechoslovakia) wait and rest in a field in Czechoslovakia. German civilians with luggage during expulsion from Czechoslovakia. A man pours water in cups from a water truck. They stand in line for bread. A German woman and baby. An elderly German woman and a man sit.
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.
Former President of Czechoslovakia Eduard Benes returns from Prague during Czech Army parade in Prague, Czechoslovakia. A crowd gathers around a jeep. A large crowd of Czech civilians. Buildings in the background. Views of Czech civilians, soldiers, officers and police. Former President of Czechoslovakia Eduard Benes gets into a car to return from Prague. A sign on a building reads 'Ambassador'. Civilians watch parade from windows of the building. Crowds cheer the former President Benes as he rides along the streets. Civilians stand on either side of the road and wave. (World War II period).
Opening scene shows British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain, at the airport, having just returned from the Munich conference where Britain and France acquiesed to Nazi Germany's annexation of the Sudetenlands and part of Czechoslovakia. He holds up copy of the agreement signed by Chancellor Adolf Hitler as symbolic of British and German determination never to wage war against each other again. Crowd cheers. Newspaper poster quotes Chamberlain's statement: "Peace in Our Time." Newspaper headlines about the Agreement. Map shows Nazi encrouchment on Czechoslovakia. In violation of the Munich agreement, German forces roll into Czechoslovakia, on March 14, 1939. Local residents give Nazi salute from sidewalks. Animated map shows area of German occupation with Poland next. Prime Minister Chamberlain telling an audience that a threat to Polish independence would start a general conflagration involving Britain. Hitler attending a formal occasion. Star shown atop a building in Moscow, Russia. British, French and German military missions arriving at airport to confer with Soviets. Soviet foreign minister Vyacheslav Molotov shakes hands wih German foreign minister Joachim von Ribbentrop. August 23, 1939 Newspaper headline reads: "Russo-German Pact Signed." German and Russian diplomats sit at a table. Joseph Stalin and Molotov reviewing troops on parade in Red Square.
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