Animated map shows Germany and bordering states of Slovakia, the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia, and the area of Memel (Klaipeda) in Lithuania, during advent of World War 2, Under duress, Lithuania ceded Memel to Germany by a treaty, effective 23 March 1939. It was immediately reincorporated into East Prussia. Newspapers being thrown to people gathered in a square. They carry headline: "Memel is Free."Nazi flags flying. Banner reads "We are swept home."border gates are thrown open and people rush through. Trucks full of German troops are welcomed. Formation of German Heinkel He-51 biplane aircraft flies overhead. View from under triple 11 inch guns at stern of the German Cruiser ship Deutschland. Adolf Hitler standing behind canvas at railing on the deck with officers. A German destroyer coming into port. Hitler transferring from the Deutschland to a pier at Memel. He reviews troops in formation on the pier. The Deutschland in background with her crew lined up on deck. Hitler stands in an open car as it moves off the wharf to streets where people line the sidewalks to wave and salute him. He reviews German troops drawn up in a city square. Police control crowds. Hitler stands at a podium and exchanges Nazi salute with the crowd.
Representatives of Allied nations gathered for Potsdam Conference at Schloss Cecilienhof Palace (Im Neuen Garten, 14469 Potsdam, Germany) in Potsdam, Germany during World War II. Interiors of the conference room. United States Secretary of States James Francis Byrnes speaks with Minister of War, Anthony Eden of Great Britain. He shakes hands with other representatives. Byrnes takes his seat at conference table. Soviet People's Commissar for Foreign Affairs Vyacheslav Mikhailovich Molotov enters and shake hands with Byrnes and staff. Representatives take their seats around the conference table. Document files kept on the table in front of them.
European Cup final at Frankenstadion in Nuremberg, Germany. The soccer (football) match between Bayern Munich of West Germany and Glasgow Rangers of Scotland begins. Large number of spectators cheer the teams. Franz Roth scores a goal. West German wins the European Cup.
Mass burial at the site of the Gardelegen massacre, in Gardelegen, Germany, late in World War II. View of the barn on the Isenschnibbe estate in Gardelegen where 1016 prisoners had been barricaded by Nazi forces and civilian accomplices on April 13, 1945, and then died after the barn was set on fire. German civilians walking among dead bodies outside the barn. Germany civilians walk carrying stretchers. They place burned bodies of Nazi atrocity victims on the stretchers. They carry the bodies to burial grounds. (Many of the dead were concentration camp prisoners and slave laborers in transit from the Mittelbau-Dora Concentration Camp and the Hannover-Stöcken Concentration Camp. The massacre was discovered by the U.S. Army 102nd Infantry Division when they entered the area on April 14, 1945, finding corpses in the barn and in nearby hastily dug mass graves. The U.S. Army ordered German civilians in the area to transport the bodies and dig graves for proper burial, from April 21-25, 1945.)
A mass burial in Gardelegen, Germany during World War II, for victims of the Gardelegen massacre. German civilians wrap dead bodies in shrouds and place them in individual graves. They pour dirt in the graves with shovels. Burned barn building in background.. They are burying concentration camp and slave laborer victims of nazi atrocities who died after being locked in the barn that was then set on fire, in Gardelegen, Germany, on April 13, 1945. The atrocity was discovered by the U.S. Army 102nd Infantry Division on April 14, which directed the German civilians to properly bury the victims from April 21-25, 1945.
Rudolf Hess, Deputy to German Chancellor Adolf Hitler, in an appeal to all the world's leaders in the struggle for Nazi ideals, delivers a speech in Koenigsberg, Germany, stessing the peaceful intentions of Germany.
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