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British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain makes a speech at Heston Airport in London, England before leaving for Germany.
Scene of boats docked on the Thames River with Houses of Parliament in the background, in England. Scenes related to British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain's trip, September 15-16, 1938. to meet Adolf Hitler, at Berchtesgarden,Germany. Chamberlain steps from an airplane. Neville Chamberlain, on September 16, 1938, after returning from Bertchtesgarden. He is seen making his way through a crowd at Heston Airport in London, England, where he speaks into a microphone. Scenes from September 15, 1938, before leaving to meet German Chancellor Adolf Hitler,in Berchtesgarden. Crowds gather on top of the airport building. Cameramen record the event. Police officers and officials stand about waiting for Chamberiain to depart. A British Airways aircraft lands and taxis in at Heston Airport. German Charge d'Affaires, Herr Kordt, Lord Halifax and Prime Minister Chamberlain talk with each other. Chamberlain cuts open a letter, from the King, and reads it, privately. Chamberlain makes a speech , surrounded by microphones, as photographers take pictures. Chamberlain poses beside the airplane. Lord Halifax joins him. Chamberlain doffs his hat and looks about to enter the aircraft.
Munich agreement leading to invasion of Czechoslovakia by Germany signed under Adolf Hitler's rule
A memorandum expresses Adolf Hitler's desire to invade Czechoslovakia. Munich Pact discussed during the trial of Nazi leaders for war crimes in Nuremberg, Germany in 1946. Footage from 1938 as Adolf Hitler and other leaders from Britain, Italy and France sign Munich Agreement or Munich Pact that leads to annexation of Czechoslovakia by Nazi Germany. Czech President Emil Hacha arrives to meet the German leaders.
The Sudetenland in an economic crisis followed by the flight of Sudeten Czechs as Germany invades
Animated map shows shows areas of Czechoslovakia constituting the Sudetenland. Scenes of numerous idle industrial plants in the region during period of economic trouble, high unemployment and the Great Depression. Some idle factories and businesses with chains and locks. Views of unemployed workers. More and more views of idle work places. Unhappy jobless persons. Scene shifts to hundreds of thousands of Czech people leaving their homes in the Sudetenland. Some are seen walking along a road carrying their belongings. Some use baby carriages and others use bicycles to carry their belongings. Some lead cattle on tethers. Others have carts. Views of weary refugee Czechs traveling and some at resting places. Many views of evacuees passing a Sudetenland border and moving across roads, fields, and in every imaginable manner as they leave and begin to seek new homes. Many are seen crying and weeping. Then suddenly, the film shifts to October 1, 1938, as German forces enter the Sudetenland and are happily cheered by German-speaking residents. Large formation of German troops marching along a street as spectators render Nazi salutes. A welcoming banner is stretched across the street. Many women wave and throw flowers at the rapidly passing German soldiers in vehicles. View from one of the German vehicles of the people crowding around them and cheering them. During a lull in traffic, a woman walks on the empty street (still surrounded by sidewalks full of spectators) and strews more flowers along the roadway. Crowds cheer with great enthusiasm as Adolf Hitler is seen riding in an open motorcar and entering the German occupied area at the Wildenau crossing on October 3, 1938. The car is mobbed by Sudeten Germans who shake hands with Hitler. A banner thanking Hitler for the occupation hangs across the roadway. Many views of Hitler saluting and waving to the enthusiastic population. At one point he stops the car and walks on the street, accompanied by Marshal Hermann Goering, who also meets and greets people in the crowd, including some children to whom he gives candy. Hitler also greets a small girl and gives her some candy.
U.S. Army orientation film "Here is Germany" showing the contrast in life in Germany pre-war and during World War 2
U.S. Army training film titled 'Here is Germany'. Circa 1930 - 1938 views of pre-war German countryside, and German cities including Berlin and others before destruction in World War 2. Shots include famous German landmarks and buildings in major cities including Brandenburg Gate and Victory Column sculpture close-ups and other monuments all before bombing of World War II. Lifestyle of German people with families and children in their routine lives in the decade of 1930 before the war. Farmers working fields, mined coal transported by rail, potatoes poured from a full sack, a boy shepherd with geese; a farmer counting pigs descending a ramp at a farm. City port or harbor scene with ships and a modern looking railroad train arriving at a station, sign on side reads Deutsche Reichsbahn (German Reich Railway). High speed highway roads like the Autobahn. German cruise ship at sea. Aerial view of airport with "Berlin" sign on ground. German schools, offices, factories and markets. German woman braiding a girl's hair. German woman taking in washed clothing from a clothesline. German men, women, and children cleaning and polishing work areas and possessions. A German library with people studying and others at book shelves. German classroom with a teacher instructing children and writing on a blackboard. Scenes of German musicians and symphony orchestra and musical instruments, artisans, masons, cooks. Busy roads with cars. Narrator then presents a darker other side, showing an arms factory during rearmament of Germany, German soldiers escorting away a religious priest. German military officials. Scenes circa 1945 of victims of German armies and of the concentration camps. Lumps of dead bodies from massive public shootings, a man being tortured, burning chambers, prisoners of war, concentration camps, human ovens, gas chambers. Survivors of the German custody in relief camps of Red Cross. Evidence of atrocities committed by Nazi Germany. Articles made of human skin and bones. Daily utility items like toys and brushes made from human body parts. Scenes of survivors of concentration camps. Polish people dead from Nazi atrocities at Lublin Castle. Italians and Belgians murdered by Germans, American POWs murdered by Germans. Scenes return again to 1930s views of peaceful German citizens and German lifestyle juxtaposed with views of German soldiers and military actions in World War 2. Some famous Americans of German roots: Wendell Willkie, Admiral Chester Nimitz, Henry J. Kaiser. Narrator talking about American customs and values. View of two teenage American boy students viewing a housing area and taking notes. One of the teenage boys is African American. Some men gathered at a bar in an American town. A man holding a long fly fishing pole preparing to depart on a fishing trip. Woman neighbors in discussion. Young American women walking down a sidewalk in an American town as a group of American boys watch and admire them.
Some rocket motor designs of 1930s and speculation about future of rocketry
Liquid Rocket motor design drawings of various pioneers in the field, from the American Rocket Society, including: Constantin Paul van Lent (aka Constantin Tselentis,aka Constantin Lent, aka Dr. Constantin Paul van Lent) 1936; Alfred Africano, 1937; Reed,1937; Wild,1938; H.F. Pierce and Nathan Carver, 1938. Slates refer to the post World War I period through about 1938, as the beginnings of rocket flight, and the immediate subsequent period as the second phase of achievement that could lead to high altitude and long range rocket missiles and even manned spaceships. Slate suggests that future of rocketry is limited only by our imagination. Next are imaginary, science fiction scenes like a science fiction movie, showing a major city, in Germany, as a rocket ship travels away from it, and eventually showing Europe, and the earth from outer space, as the rocket travels into the blackness, beyond. Slate comments about eternal longings related to human flight.
German Chancellor Adolf Hitler addresses the Reichstag on the issue of rearmament in Germany.
On 20th February, 1938 Hitler addresses the Reichstag, meeting in the Kroll Opera House, in Berlin, Germany, on the issue of rearmament. Interspersed are various scenes: people standing in a city; The symbol of the RAD (Reichsarbeitdienst, or National Labor Service) and their members at work digging with shovels; German Army troops parading; Large formations of German Luftwaffe (Air force) aircraft in flight; German Naval operations, with depth charges exploding; Armaments factories; tanks maneuvering; soldiers in vehicles; and a formation of biplanes.