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A U.S. soldier gives some candies to twin babies in a stroller on a street in Pilsen, Czechoslovakia.

U.S. soldiers in Pilsen, Czechoslovakia during World War II. Vehicles parked on a street. Soldiers and civilians gather. Twin babies in a stroller on the street. A soldier plays with the babies and gives candies to them. A soldier talks to two women. Buildings in the background. A soldier talks to a woman and hugs her.

Date: 1945, May 6
Duration: 1 min 4 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675077027
Czech peasant girls rides on American vehicles and civilians welcome U.S. Army into Pilsen (WW2)

Czech civilians welcome the arrival of United States Army troops into Pilsen, Czechoslovakia during World War II. Czech peasant girls in folk costumes rides on American vehicles. Crowds gather along either side of the streets. Czech citizens cheer and greet United States soldiers and vehicles as they pass by. Buildings seen in the background.

Date: 1945, April 7
Duration: 1 min 6 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675055603
Czech partisans and U.S. soldiers round up German soldiers and civilians in Pilsen, at the end of World War II

A U.S. Army jeep rolls slowly in front of a group of civilians with their hands raised in Pilsen, Czechoslovakia, at the end of World War 2, in Europe. They are guarded by Czech partisans and Czech citizens. (The civilians are likely German civilians during expulsion of Germans from Czechoslovia at the end of the war. They may also include Czech civilians accused of collaboration with the Germans.) Two U.S. soldiers walk on sidewalk with a Czech policeman. The soldiers stand in front of a group of civilians on the sidewalk, looking upward. An elderly Czech civilian man with a rifle looks upward from edge of a building. A German officer is seen in window of a building. A white cloth (as flag of surrender) hangs from adjacent window. Armed U.S. soldiers escort high-ranking German officers, from their local headquarters, to a vehicle, as local citizens watch. U.S. soldiers and Czech partisans in a backyard, look for snipers in building nearby. German military prisoners, guarded by Czech partisans, stand with hands raised on a sidewalk. The partisans search German soldiers as they come out of a building. Some civilian women are held with the German soldiers.

Date: 1945, May 6
Duration: 2 min 6 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675062819
German soldiers, killed by Czechs, lying on roads and fields.Several surviving German soldiers wait to be made POWs

Dead German soldiers, killed by Czechs, are seen on roads and fields in Pilsen,Czechoslovakia, a month before the end of World War II in Europe. One soldier is still alive and moving. Bucolic Czech countryside seen. American soldiers and Czech civilians moving about on roads. Several surviving German soldiers sits on a fence in a field expecting to be made Prisoners of War (POWs) by the American troops. Wounded Germans are carried on American jeeps. A Czech civilian man turns over a dead German soldier's body to identify it, and makes a notation in a pad.

Date: 1945, April 8
Duration: 3 min 20 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675055606
U.S. Army Major General Harmon and Czech President Benes review troops at the 4th July celebrations in Pilsen, Czechoslovakia.

Celebrations on 4th July, Independence Day of the United States, in Pilsen, Czechoslovakia. U.S. troops and a band march. U.S. Army Major General Ernest N. Harmon at the 4th July celebrations. Czech President Edvard Benes and others on a reviewing stand. The troops march. American mechanized vehicles pass in review.

Date: 1946, July 4
Duration: 1 min 18 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675073989
Czechoslovakia and Soviet relations after World War 2; Dubcek liberalization during Prague Spring; Soviet occupation in 1968

History of Czechoslovakia from 1919 to 1968 depicts lives of its people and various crisis. Clip shows combination of still images and moving images, with background of Czech musical soundtrack. A burning Nazi plane shot by Soviet military during World War II. Soviet Red Army marches in Prague, Poland in May 1945 to rescue from German occupation and atrocities. People destroy Nazi emblems and symbols from buildings. People assemble in large numbers on roads and cheer for the incoming Soviet troops and tanks. Civilians of Czechoslovakia during normal life after World War 2. Workers in mines, farmers in field and women work in houses. Spread of communism and communists make a star formation during a rally in Prague (sometimes called the Prague Spring). President Edvard Benes in 1948 signs pact with Soviet government. Photos of Soviet General Joseph Stalin and other Soviet leaders in his office. Various Presidents and leaders of Czechoslovakia during the 1950s. Military and civilian communist groups march on streets in 1956. Czech Skoda automobile production factory scenes in mid 1960s. Workers work in factories and shops till night hours. A Czech textile factory scene. Czech men and women in 1960s fashions enjoying mugs of beer. Several scenes with Alexander Dubček, (Alexander Dubcek), then Soviet leaders Nikita Khrushchev and Nikolai Brezhnev arrive for meeting with Dubček. Smiling Czech people walk in cities and at a cafe during liberalization measures. Soviet and Warsaw Pact tanks, armored vehicles, infantry and aircraft start their occupation ending the Prague Spring in Prague, Bratislave and other cities in August 1968. Civilians protest, demonstrate, and argue with Soviet troops and demonstrate in streets. Some approach tanks and attempt to damage the tanks. Large crowd of civilians watch the retreating Soviet forces from Czechoslovakia in 1968. Red Army met with agitation and resistance on streets by civilians. Soviet troops fire at some demonstrating civilians.

Date: 1968
Duration: 7 min 49 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675056629