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Adolf Hitler enters Sudetenland, Czechoslovakia, where crowds greet him enthusiastically
A motorcade of open cars carrying Adolf Hitler and his entourage along a street in the Sudetenland, Czechoslovakia. Next, Hitler is seen standing on a balcony overlooking the Marktplatz in downtown Cheb (German: Eger). Among those seen with him are Hermann Goering and Konrad Henlein (wearing glasses). Henlein is head of the Nazi Party in Czechoslovakia, and Reichskommissar for the Sudetenland. Crowds of noisy Sudeten Germans are gathered in the Marktplatz (Jatechni 476/2, Cheb 350 02, Czech Republic) to greet their liberator. Most of the footage focuses on Hitler.
German troops enter Liberec during the Nazi occupation of Sudetenland prior to WW2.
Map of Czechoslovakia showing the four sections of Sudetenland annexed by Nazi Germany as part of the Munich Agreement with arrows pointing towards Prague. Sudeten Germans perform the Nazi salute as the German Army enters a Liberec, Czechoslovakia prior to World War II. Girls performing the Hitler salute while holding Nazi Germany flags. Tanks, trucks, and various armored vehicles enter town. Civilians greet the Wehrmacht soldiers as they goose step march into town. Sudeten German women in the crowd cheer and hold bouquet of flowers. Liberec civilian men perform the Nazi salute. Wehrmacht soldiers marching with Nazi standards. A saluting cavalryman leads a parade of infantry troops. Military band plays music beside civilian crowds and young boys. Hand attaches a pin of the Sudeten German Party (Sudetendeutsche Partei or SdP). Standard of the Sudeten German Party in Czechoslovakia.
Reichsmarschall Hermann Göring inspects Luftwaffe and Wehrmacht troops in Sudetenland (Czechoslovakia) prior to WW2.
Sudeten Germans welcome Luftwaffe Commander-in-Chief and Reichsmarschall Hermann Göring and German troops into Reichenberg (today Liberec), Czechoslovakia prior to World War II. Liberec civilians crowd Adolf-Hitler-Platz (nám. Dr. E. Beneše 1/1, 460 59 Liberec, Czechia ?) and watch German troop parade with warm reception. Nazi Swastika banners adorn buildings in Liberec. Hermann Göring addresses the crowd on stage. The Nazi Germany Reichadler (Imperial Eagle) emblem is on display behind Göring. German troops stand at attention in front of the stage. German troops and band in military parade on the streets. Feet of Wehrmacht soldiers marching. Liberec civilians cheer and perform the Hitler salute. Hermann Göring and other military officials join the parade. Hermann Göring visits an airfield in the afternoon. Luftwaffe officers salute and talk to Göring. Göring with a bewildered expression. Ju-52 planes with Nazi Swastika markings landing and taxiing on airfield. Göring and other officials watch the planes. A group of Ju-52 planes on the ground. German soldiers run while pulling a wagon. They march in a single file in front of Göring. Civilian perform the Hitler salute to arriving troops. Göring nods and talks to Sudeten German boys and girls. A woman pins a corsage of flowers on a German soldier’s chest. A soldier speaks to Göring. German soldiers stand in front of bicycles in the airfield. Göring bids good-bye to a Sudetenland official and leaves in a staff car. Göring waves from departing car. Göring arrives in Karlovy Vary (Karlsbad/ Carlsbad), Czechoslovakia. Crowds gathered at the city center and the (likely Muehlbrunn) colonnade to welcome Göring. Karlsbad civilians perform the Nazi salute to welcome Göring. Göring’s guard clears out the way for Göring and other officials. Göring and other Nazi officials board a car. Göring inspects the Luftwaffe and airfield. Göring and a German soldier salute to each other. Göring holds his Luftwaffe Generalfeldmarschall baton while inspecting his troops. Göring speaks to the Luftwaffe and soldiers in attendance. Wehrmacht soldiers form a line.
Czech soldiers withdrawing; German leader Adolf Hitler and his troops take over areas ceded to Germany in Czechoslovakia
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.
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.
Refugees cross over from Sudetenland of Czechoslovakia to Germany due to threat of invasion.
Events prior to World War II. Deserted streets along the Czechoslovakian border in Germany. A vehicle loaded with civilian refugees from Sudetenland arrives and people exit vehicle. Bullet marks on a car. Damaged electric cables. Female refugees weep as they expect a German invasion on Sudetenland.
