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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.)
Annexation of Austria (Anschluss) by Germany under Adolf Hitler.
Trial of Nazi leaders for war crimes at Nuremberg, Germany in 1946. Guido Schmidt, former Foreign Minister of Austria testifies regarding Adolf Hitler's decision to annex Austria. Footage of Adolf Hitler meeting Austrian Chancellor Kurt Schuschnigg and later Germans annex Austria in Anschluss.
Hungarian refugees escaping from 1956 Hungarian Revolution arrive in Camp Kilmer; President Eisenhower during his second inaugural speech.
Hungarian refugees from the October 1956 Hungarian Revolution (also called Hungarian Uprising) disembark from an American Airlines plane after landing safely in the United States. Entrance to Camp Kilmer, New Jersey, where the Hungarian refugees were resettled. Hungarian refugees get off a bus. A Hungarian man holds his infant daughter with a pacifier. The camera moves to another Hungarian man, wearing a black hat. A Hungarian girl smiles, some of her front teeth missing. United States Army Sergeant Stuart Queen speaks to the camera. United States President Dwight D. Eisenhower speaks during his Second Inaugural Address at the East Portico of the United States Capitol in Washington DC. View of a radio tower. Radio tower view from the inside. View of the top of the Chrysler Building in New York City. Cars pass by modern apartment blocks with antennas on top of building. Television antenna on house roof. Man adjusts television as his wife watches from their couch in living room. A man and his wife, holding their baby, watches the inauguration speech of United States President Dwight D. Eisenhower on television from their family living room. Two women and a child watch United States President Dwight D. Eisenhower’s speech on television. Family of a woman and her children listen to Eisenhower’s speech from a radio in their living room. Bombing on a street in Budapest during the 1956 Hungarian Revolution. Men firing in Budapest. A tank fires in a park. Apartments getting devastated from firing. Hungarian man aims his gun and fires at a car. Men fire on a Budapest street. Doctor and paramedics carry an injured on a stretcher behind a tank. “Budapest is no longer merely the name of a city, henceforth it is a new and shining symbol of man’s yearning to be free”, said United States President Dwight D. Eisenhower from his second inaugural speech.
First Atomic submarine USS Nautilus underway and at sea in 1956; also scenes of SSM-N-8 Regulus cruise missile
United states Navy submarine SSN-571, the USS Nautilus, introduced in 1956. The nuclear powered USS Nautilus submarine underway at sea in United States. Men at controls as the first nuclear submarine is tested. SSN-571 in New York Harbor with Manhattan Island skyline of New York City in background. Next scene shows the guided cruise missile SSM-N-8 Regulus, also introduced in 1956, being fired from a ship, and an aerial view is seen of the Regulus guided missile in flight.
President Eisenhower and family attend the 1956 Republican National Convention in San Francisco, California
Convention-goers at the 1956 Republican National Convention cheer for presidential candidate, incumbent President Dwight D. Eisenhower, wife First Lady Mamie Eisenhower, son John Eisenhower and John's wife Barbara Thompson. President Eisenhower waving at convention-goers in Cow Palace (2600 Geneva Ave, Daly City, CA 94014) in Daly City near San Francisco, California. Mamie Eisenhower laughs and smiles at John and Barbara. Vice President Richard M. Nixon and wife Pat Nixon leaves the podium. A Republican candidate delivers his support to President Eisenhower. First Lady Mamie Eisenhower stands beside official. He announces that President Eisenhower remains as “Honorary Chairman” of the Republican Party Convention of 1956.
Scenes of Germany during period from 1919 to 1938 showing military resurgence and territorial expansion
Germany's military resurgence from the end of World War I through its reoccupation of the Rhineland in 1936 and union with Austria in 1938. German war materiel piled up in scrap yards and aircraft engines being destroyed in accordance with the Treaty of Versailles after World War 1. Smoke stacks of war plants being toppled, aircraft hangars being destroyed, and warships being scuttled. German postwar armored cars for training. A soldier flexes the rubber gun barrel on one of them. French forces, including Colonials, occupying Coblenz (Koblenz) in accordance with the Treaty of Versailles, after World War I. French soldiers on guard at the railroad station as a train pulls in. French colonial troops tending to their horses. A British soldier standing guard in front of a building displaying a placard with the Union Jack and word:"General Headquarters, British Army of the Rhine, No.1 Building." French troops stationed in front of their headquarters and patrolling fences across railroad tracks at their occupational boundary. A large film slate announcing that the Rheinland is again free, followed by scenes of German troops re-occupying the Rhineland in 1936. Local citizens cheer the troops, who parade through a city and along the banks of the Rhein River. German sentries posted at The "Deutsche Eck" in Koblenz beside the monument of Kaiser Wilhelm I. Sign demarking boundary of Austria. Border guards opening the gates and German troops entering as crowds cheer. Adolf Hitler speaking before a huge crowd,immediately following the Anschluss (union of Germany with Austria) on 12 March 1938.
