Population celebrates independence of Czechoslovakia, October 28, 1918, with the fall of the Hapsburg Empire, near the end of World War 1. Streets of Prague are seen filled with marching throngs and cheering spectators. View of new national flag flying from tall building overlooking Wenceslas Square.Statue of St. Wenceslas visible below. Animated map outlines general area to encompass the new Czecho-Slovak Republic. (World War I; World War 1; WWI; WW1)
U.S. Senator Hiram Warren Johnson silhouetted against sky, as he stands in a car (unseen) waving to supporters, whose heads and waving hats are seen in foreground. Senator Johnson has announced his intention to seek the Republican nomination for President, at the Party's National Convention in Chicago. Scene shifts to Senator Johnson seated in the car, next to an older gentleman, who appears to be wearing his convention delegate credentials. Finally, Johnson and his silver-haired companion, are seen standing in the car.
A huge crowd mills around as people gather to watch a solemn funeral procession in a major European city after World War 1. Spectators line the sidewalks. Some persons in the procession carry dark flags. The focus of the procession, along a major thorofare, is what appears to be a giant coffin float, draped in bicolor or tricolor bunting. The float has a flame in an open bowl, at each corner, and is escorted by hundreds of persons, who surround it, as it moves along the avenue. Three groups of persons carry flower arrangements at shoulder height, in in the midst of the crowded procession behind the float. The participants and float, move past a large colonnade building draped in white fabric and displaying a large flower wreath laid flat on a structure above its steps.
In response to an uprising of Polish miners and sympathizers in Upper Silesia, German police are seen taking large numbers into custody, in Kattowitz (Katowice). One Polish-Silesian resident being arrested by a German policeman.
Spectators are gathered on the steps at the left side of the Propyläen in Königsplatz, Munich. Quartermaster General (Generalquartiermeister) Erich Ludendorff, and several army officers walk forward, from the nearby doorway. Next, a procession of Sturm Abteilung (Storm troopers) is seen, wearing Nazi armbands. They parade in the streets of Munich, carrying Nazi flags. Several thousand assemble in Königsplatz. Next, General Ludendorff is seen on the steps of the Glyptothek (in Königsplatz) surrounded by civilians.
During the period of the Weimar Republic, following World War 1, an officer on horseback reviews German soldiers on parade on a tree-lined dirt road.They are led by a brass band mounted on horseback, followed by a contingent of mounted German Lancers. A brass band stands and plays opposite the reviewing officer, as a unit of infantry with shouldered rifles and fixed bayonets marches past, led by a goosestepping unit. Numerous flags are carried by marchers at the rear. Scene shifts to a railway platform, where German Army and Navy officers accompany Friedrich Ebert, the first President of Germany, as he reviews an honor guard drawn up in precise formation. President Ebert is introduced to other German officers.
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