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Adolf Hitler announces the Anschluss (annexation of Austria) in Vienna, Austria.

The Anschluss or German annexation of Austria. A newspaper headline announces Hitler's proclamation. Hitler and his entourage enter the Heldenplatz (Heldenplatz, 1010 Vienna) in Vienna, Austria, by way of the Burgtor or Outer Castle Gate. Their motorcade drives between massed crowd of people. Adolf Hitler stands in his car as they proceed. He is cheered by the huge crowd. He stands and addresses the crowd from balcony of the Habsburg Palace. He announces the Anschluss (merger of Germany and Austria) and stresses the unity of the German people with one leader, and one homeland. Huge crowd cheers. Various landmarks in Heldenplatz are seen. People stand on the base of the equestrian statues of Archduke Charles and Prinz Eugen of Savoy. Adolf Hitler greets the crowd as he stands in his car. Nazi soldiers lined up along the street.

Date: 1938, March 15
Duration: 1 min 40 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: German
Clip: 65675041760
Adolf Hitler's plans and actions for conquest of Austria and Czech Sudetenland; events leading up to and through Munich Pact

Film opens showing Adolf Hitler ascending stairs to the Bergfhof, accompanied by Marshal Hermann Goering, and followed by other high ranking Nazi officers. Inside, General staff officers begin briefing Hitler about plans for German expansion Eastward. Finger points to Austria on map. Next, on March 12, 1938, Border Guards are seen dismantling barriers at the border as German troops march into Austria. German aircraft fly overhead. Hitler stands in his open touring car as it drives into Vienna, where local people line the sidewalk, and welcome him with the Nazi salute. Maps depict the fall of Austria and illustrate the anticipated conquest of Czechoslovakia. Brief overlay image of Bismark as narrator quotes him about Bohemia being key to control of Europe. German troops advancing up steep mountainous terrain. German soldiers on horseback and wagons passing road sign pointing to cities of Karlovy Vary and Cheb, in the west Bohemia region of Czechoslovakia. Czech troops marching in formation with shouldered arms. View of Czech Avia B-534 warplanes at an airfield. Interior of a Czech Skoda works munitions factory. President of Czechoslovakia, Edvard Beneš, signing papers at his desk. French lancers marching in formation, on parade. (Narrator comments on French military alliances with Czechoslovakia and Great Britain.) View of warships in British fleet. Hitler outdoors, surrounded by German military officers, looking over large maps. Animated map highlights the "Sudetenlands" bordering Germany, including districts of Bohemia, Moravia, and parts of Silesia inside Czechoslovakia, where use of German language was common. Street scene from that area showing some youths in uniforms, marching. Hitler giving speech about bringing the German people together again. The uniformed youth marching at a camp. Sign erected on stone wall at the camp reads: "Die Faune ist mehr als der..."(the flag is more than ...) Youth in Naval garb march on a street with a Nazi flags. Spectators give Nazi salutes. Young men in Khaki uniforms march with Nazi symbols. Scenes shift to similar parades in Norway, Sweden,China,and the United States. Back in Czechoslovakia, Hitler reaches down from his podium to shake hands with parading youth. Images of Admiral Chester Nimitz, Lieutenant General Walter Krueger, Senator Robert Wagner, Wendell Wilkie, Henry J. Kaiser, and American military members, superimposed on American flags. Sudentenland Nazi supporters marching. Konrad Ernst Eduard Henlein, Sudeten German politician, with a Nazi officer. More views of Sudeten Nazi supporters. Nazis in an office showing blackjacks. Hospitalized Czechs who suffered at hands of Nazi supporters in street fights. Hitler speaking before the Bundestag. Closeup of Joseph Goebbels.Foreign minister Maxine Lichtenhof speaking to League of Nations meeting announcing Russia's readiness to back action against Germany. Czech borders being closed. British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain arriving by plane in Munich. Benito Mussolini, Adolf Hitler, and Hermann Goering with Chamberlain, at the meeting to sign the Munich Agreement. View of protests by people in the streets of Czechoslovakia. French Prime Minister Edouard Daladier and Chamberlain, both being praised by countrymen upon their respective returns from Munich. (Chamberlain seen arriving just before giving famous "peace for our time" speech.)

Date: 1938, September
Duration: 5 min 37 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675043609
German troops parading along a street are cheered by the Austrians in Vienna during Nazi occupation early in World War II era.

The Nazi German occupation of Austria in 1938, also called Anschluss. German helmets sitting on top of packages, rifles standing in pyramid. A woman pours coffee for Nazi German soldiers. Nazi soldiers play with Austrian children on a street. A soldier carries a boy into a horse. The boy smiles as he sits on the horse while the soldier holds him. A soldier shows a child the artillery gun. The child is holding a flag with the Nazi Swastika. Nazi and Austrian soldiers exchange small talks. German soldiers in the balcony of Gasthof Schroll (Ulricusstraße 13, 6322 Kirchbichl, Austria) in Kirchbichl, in the Austrian state of Tyrol. Cheering Austrian civilians sit on top of a German tank. Nazi troops and tanks parade along a street in Vienna. A band plays. Nazi officers review the parade. An Austrian crowd cheers for the parading troops.

Date: 1938, March 12
Duration: 1 min 13 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: German
Clip: 65675061523
Nazi troops enter Austria (The Anschluss) in 1938

German troops enter Austria. Newspaper headlines about earlier discussions between Hitler and Kurt Schuschnigg, the Chancellor of Austria, who unsuccessfully resisted the Anschluss. A sign reads 'state border 65'. German troops along with artillery advance forward towards the city. They cross a bridge and enter. German Chancellor Adolf Hitler in a car. A flag of the Nazis. Civilians gather at Heldenplatz . Hitler addresses the people. People around the Statue of Archduke Charles of Austria on the Heldenplatz . The civilians listen to him. A close up of Hitler addressing people. The civilians cheer. An unidentified aircraft in flight. Hitler and his party members look up in the sky. The soldiers parade and Hitler reviews the parade.

Date: 1938, March
Duration: 3 min 29 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: German
Clip: 65675047328
The Orient Express passenger train takes on passengers in Vienna Austria and departs in steam and smoke

View from inside moving railroad train, looking out through train passenger window, as it arrives in Vienna, Austria. As the train is slowing down and nearing the station, the Colonnade Gloriette at Schoenbrunn Palace is seen in the far distance. People board the Orient Express passenger train in Vienna, Austria. Steam locomotive starts up with a roar in smoke and steam, at railroad station, and then proceeds to depart, gradually gaining speed.

Date: 1938
Duration: 1 min 54 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675061521
German troops march and Adolf Hitler addresses a large crowd during the Anschluss in Austria

German occupation of Austria, known as the Anschluss. An animated map shows Germany and bordering countries. Newspaper headlines of 'Berliner Illustrierte Nachtausgabe'. German troops march. Civilians give Nazi salutes. A man holds a Nazi flag. An official in a balcony. German troops on horses pass along Passau Bridge over the Danube River. German troops are greeted by cheering Austrian civilians. German Chancellor Adolf Hitler rides in a motorcade and waves at people in Vienna as his motorcade passes along the streets of the city. Sign reads 'Wien' (Austria). A large crowd gathers at the Heldenplatz (Heldenplatz, 1010 Vienna). Hitler exits the car and addresses the large crowd from a balcony. A woman looks through binoculars. Crowd watches Hitler's speech.

Date: 1938, March
Duration: 3 min 46 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: German
Clip: 65675072083