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).
German civilians in a field in Prague, Czechoslovakia. They climb into United States trucks. The trucks parked beside a street. A large crowd stands near the trucks. The civilians carry luggage. (During period of forced expulsion of German citizens from Czechoslovakia.)
Celebration of VJ Day (victory over Japan day) in Pilsen, Czechoslovakia at the end of World War II. Czech girls in native dresses dance in front of a reviewing stand. American, Russian and Czech troops parade through the streets. A Liaison plane drops pamphlets. U.S. Army Major General Ernest Nason Harmon speaks from the reviewing stand. American Ambassador to Czechoslovakia Laurence A. Steinhardt, Russian Colonel General Zhadou and other dignitaries in the background.
A memorial service for Czech people killed in Lidice, Czechoslovakia, by Nazi German forces as reprisal for the assassination of Reinhard Heydrich. People walk for the ceremony. People observe silence for the people killed by the Nazi Germans after the assassination of SS-Obergruppenfuhrer Reinhard Tristan Eugen Heydrich. President of Czechoslovakia Edvard Benes puts wreaths on graves at the site where the burned down village of Lidice had been. Officers salute. Wreaths placed on the graves. Children gathered at the ceremony. Soldiers stand at attention. (World War II period).
U.S. 4th Armored Division in Czechoslovakia during World War 2. Civilians gather on a street in the town of Susice. . Buildings in the area. Soldiers aboard military vehicles passing on the street of The civilians cheer. A high altitude view of the area.
U.S. 4th Armored Division in Czechoslovakia during World War II. Czech patriots rounding up traitors , spies, and alleged collaborationists who aided the German Nazis in World War 2. The patriots hit the accused men and women collaborationists, beat them, and take them to a waiting truck to take them to jail. Buildings along street sides. People gather on a street. A soldier giving a candy to a baby held by her mother.