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Rabi Schnayerson, head of Orthodox Church, comes to New York from Latvia.
Head of Orthodox Church, Rabi Schnayerson is helped out of vehicle after arriving to New York. Rabi Schnayerson escorted by officials. He gets into a car. Car pulls away.
Latvian aviation volunteers parade in Luftwaffe ceremony during World War II
Latvian aviation volunteers, who serve with the German Luftwaffe, parade in a ceremony, following training, in Latvia, during World War 2. Opening scene shows the Latvian and German flags flanking a speaker's stand. An honor guard of helmeted Latvian soldiers, with rifles, is seen closeup. A German Luftwaffe (German Air Force) officer stands at the podium and speaks, as large number of young Latvian aviation volunteers listen. Then the Latvian volunteers march, passing in review before German and Latvian officers who render the Nazi salute. Closeup of the parading volunteers. (Not all wear wings, presumably, because many will be serving as mechanics, and in other aviation ground support roles.)
Aerial view of Riga from descending plane, a woman drops letters on air mailbox
Early civilian air travel with Junkers passenger aircraft in Northern Europe. A Junkers F 13 plane in flight. Aerial view of Riga as seen from an aircraft approaching for landing. Bridges, palaces, and lakes are also seen. Horse drawn carriage cross a bridge in Riga (present day capital of Latvia). Boats docked along Riga port. A Latvian mailbox for airmail reads “Gaisa pasts. Correspondence.”. A woman drops letters on the mailbox outside a building.
Soviet Minister Molotov welcomes a number of dignitaries in Moscow, Soviet Union
Molotov, Foreign Minister, welcomes a number of dignitaries at airport and railway station in Moscow, Soviet Union. Dignitaries including representatives of Estonia, Latvia and Czechoslovakia review honor guards and parades.
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.
Dead bodies at Leipzig Concentration Camp in Germany.
Nazi concentration camps in Germany during World War II. Animated map of Europe shows locations of concentration camps in Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, Danzig, Denmark, France, Germany, Isle of Jersey, Latvia, Netherlands, Poland and Yugoslavia. Dead bodies at Leipzig Concentration Camp. Living Russians, Czechoslovakian and French prisoners narrate horror stories. Bodies of prisoners who the Nazi German guards had placed in a building and then set on fire. Dead bodies of those who fled and escaped from the burning building, but were then either shot by the guards while fleeing, or electrocuted by live wire fence. Russian woman looks at dead bodies through a fence.
