President of Czechoslovakia Edvard Beneš addresses a crowd at the Náměstí Práce or Labour Square in Zlín, Czechoslovakia. Edvard Benes talks to his wife Hana Benešová. Aerial view of troops marching and gathered crowds. Aerial view of the cheering crowd. Edvard Beneš addresses the crowd.
Dignitaries in Prague, Czechoslovakia. Prime Minister of Czechoslovakia Milan Hodza gets out of a car at the Alcron hotel. Czechoslovak general Jan Syrovy,Major General Ludvik Krejci and Minister of Defense Frantisek Machnik look at a map. Officer opens shutter and looks at map. Officers enter a hall and sit while discussing a map. They stand in front of a map and discuss.
A memorial service for Czech people killed by Nazi Germany after Reinhard Tristan Eugen Heydrich's assassination in Lidice, Czechoslovakia. People walk for the ceremony. People observe silence for the people killed by the Germans after the assassination of SS-Obergruppenfuhrer Reinhard Tristan Eugen Heydrich. President of Czechoslovakia Edvard Benes puts wreaths on graves at the site where the burned down village of Lidice had been. Officers salute. Wreaths placed on the graves. Children gathered at the ceremony. Soldiers stand at attention. (World War II period).
German troops parade in Prague, Czechoslovakia during German occupation of Czechoslovakia in World War 2. German troops parade in Prague. German artillery and tanks roll through central Prague. Troops march at Wenceslas Square. Equestrian statue of Wenseslas, Duke of Bohemia, in armor, carrying a banner. Troops and tanks parade as German officers watch them. German Luftwaffe planes fly overhead.
German civilians in a field in Prague, Czechoslovakia. They climb into United States trucks. The trucks parked beside a street. A large crowd stands near the trucks. The civilians carry luggage. (During period of forced expulsion of German citizens from Czechoslovakia.)
Celebration of VJ Day (victory over Japan day) in Pilsen, Czechoslovakia at the end of World War II. Czech girls in native dresses dance in front of a reviewing stand. American, Russian and Czech troops parade through the streets. A Liaison plane drops pamphlets. U.S. Army Major General Ernest Nason Harmon speaks from the reviewing stand. American Ambassador to Czechoslovakia Laurence A. Steinhardt, Russian Colonel General Zhadou and other dignitaries in the background.