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Czechoslovak coup with Communists coming to power; anti-Communist demonstrations in various European nations over 10 years
U.S. propaganda piece about threats by communists against various European countries. The Czechoslovak coup and demonstrations. Czech citizens moving on a street in Czechoslovakia during a strike forcing conservative elements to resign from the cabinet. Scenes of police brutality and beatings against strikers. Communists take over the police. Czech President Edvard Benes with conservative politicians in a government building. Huge crowd on a street. Police clashing with crowd. Czech Prime Minister Klement Gottwald with officials. President Edvard Benes, facing possible civil war or invasion by the Soviet Union, accepts a Communist cabinet. He is seen signing documents to that effect on February 25, 1948. Other officials beside President Benes during the signing. View of the first President of Czechoslovakia Tomas Masaryk's son, Jan Masaryk, who remained the Foreign Minister, and did not agree to the new government. Two days later Jan Masaryk is discovered dead. The body of Jan Masaryk in a coffin. Edvard Benes, who resigned in June 1948 after refusing to sign the communist constitution, is seen walking slowly outside the Parliament using a cane. A guard saluting Benes. View of the body of Edvard Benes, who died in September 1948, laying in a coffin. Mourning citizens offering flowers and cry. Officials bearing the coffin. Shift several years later to street strikes in East Germany in 1953. People during a strike and riot in Poland in 1956. Russian tanks moving on a street and Soviet soldiers are seen. Elevated view of panic and Polish citizens fleeing soldiers. October 1956: Student demonstrators on street in Budapest Hungary during the Hungarian Uprising of 1956. Soviet Russian red star is toppled by crowds from a building roof in a sign of defiance. Russian troops respond with tanks on the streets in Hungary. Crowd fights back. Russians retreat. Crowd overwhelms local police. Imre Nagy, Prime Minister of Hungary, ascends steps. Hungarian crowd on streets burn communist books and papers. Russian tanks invade Hungary to crush revolt. Tanks fire guns on Hungarian street. Imre Nagy's execution announced June 17, 1958.
U.S. Information Agency informs people abroad about American life and culture through radio, libraries, concerts, and exhibits
Worlwide activities of the U.S. Information Agency. Four men in a bar in Italy. Narrator refers to European apprehension right after the war about America and the atom. The Italian men are polled and now understand about peaceful uses of atomic energy. Maps showing 200 U.S. Information Agency posts in 80 countries. An "Amerika Haus"in a major German city. Germans enter and peruse books and newspapers. An "Amerika Hause" book mobile (autobucherei) drives into a German village. Local people enter and browse the bookshelves. A boy selects a book entitled "Christoph Kolumbus" (Christopher Columbus). A german policeman perusing a book. A man walking out with several books. A discussion group, under auspices of USIA, gathered around a table. A concert with orchestra and chorus (Conductor appears to be Wilhelm Furtwängler, of the Berlin Philharmonic, who died in 1954, so this is likely a shot from 1953-1954 range). A sign on building in Berlin reads: "RIAS" (Radio in American Sector). A German speaking radio announcer in RIAS broadcasting. People visiting the "Family of Man" exhibit which originated in the Museum of Modern Art in New York City and shown in 37 countries abroad, under USIA sponsorship.
Czech men, women and children arrive in West Germany in a home-made armored car.
From East Germany a group of Czechs arrives in West Germany. People including men, women and children arrive in an armored car. They come to West Germany from Soviet occupied East Germany. People get off the armored car.
Aerial views of important monuments and buildings in Berlin, Germany, eight years after end of World War 2.
Aerial views of Berlin, Germany, 8 years after the end of World War II in Europe. Aerial views of wrecked buildings and cleared areas in Berlin. View of the Soviet War Memorial, the Reichstag, the Brandenburg Gate or Brandenburger Tor, the 1870 monument, a huge bunker, Berlin Victory Column (Siegessäule, Großer Stern, 10557 Berlin, Germany), the destroyed belltower of the Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Church (Breitscheidplatz, 10789 Berlin, Germany), the Funkturm Berlin in Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf (Hammarskjöldpl., 14055 Berlin, Germany), and the Olympic Stadium (Olympischer Platz 3, 14053 Berlin, Germany).
Operation Kinderlift , run by U.S. Air Forces Europe and Red Cross, flies children from Berlin to West Germany for vacations
Operation Kinderlift, of United States Air Forces Europe (USAFE) and the Red Cross, that flies German children from Berlin for summer vacations in West Germany (Federal Republic of Germany). U.S. military buses arrive at Tempelhof airdrome, Berlin, carrying children and their parents. They leave buses and assemble to hear remarks from John J. McCloy, United States High Commissioner for Germany, and from USAF Colonel Joseph G. Manyo, Director of Kinderlift II. Each child wears an identification tag reading: "Kinderluftbrucke." They are escorted to C-47 transport aircraft by U.S. Air Force and Red Cross personnel. Their parents and relatives wave goodbye to them. View showing children seated inside a C-47 airplane. The aircraft arriving at Rhein Main Air field, Frankfurt, and Red Cross personnel and U.S. airmen, helping children off the airplane. Children running from a bus, and then in a dining hall, having a snack, including Pepsi Cola, in bottles. Children walking into a camp, carrying their luggage. A sign at the entrance reads: " JUGENDLAGER, KLEIN-BERLIN, HERZUCH WILLKOMMEN." Children eating dinner in dining hall at the camp.
Thousands of Eastern Germans cross the border to enter Berlin in West Germany and fed at the refugee camps by policemen.
Thousands of refugees cross the borders and flee Eastern Germany to Berlin in West Germany. A registration center in West Germany with long lines of refugees at registration center. The refugees checked for disposition for West Germany. Refugees kept at a refugee camp in an exhibition center. Men, women and children during their daily activities at the refugee camp. West German police officers supply milk and ration to the refugees. Women feed their children at the refugee camp.