Animated map shows shows areas of Czechoslovakia constituting the Sudetenland. Scenes of numerous idle industrial plants in the region during period of economic trouble, high unemployment and the Great Depression. Some idle factories and businesses with chains and locks. Views of unemployed workers. More and more views of idle work places. Unhappy jobless persons. Scene shifts to hundreds of thousands of Czech people leaving their homes in the Sudetenland. Some are seen walking along a road carrying their belongings. Some use baby carriages and others use bicycles to carry their belongings. Some lead cattle on tethers. Others have carts. Views of weary refugee Czechs traveling and some at resting places. Many views of evacuees passing a Sudetenland border and moving across roads, fields, and in every imaginable manner as they leave and begin to seek new homes. Many are seen crying and weeping. Then suddenly, the film shifts to October 1, 1938, as German forces enter the Sudetenland and are happily cheered by German-speaking residents. Large formation of German troops marching along a street as spectators render Nazi salutes. A welcoming banner is stretched across the street. Many women wave and throw flowers at the rapidly passing German soldiers in vehicles. View from one of the German vehicles of the people crowding around them and cheering them. During a lull in traffic, a woman walks on the empty street (still surrounded by sidewalks full of spectators) and strews more flowers along the roadway. Crowds cheer with great enthusiasm as Adolf Hitler is seen riding in an open motorcar and entering the German occupied area at the Wildenau crossing on October 3, 1938. The car is mobbed by Sudeten Germans who shake hands with Hitler. A banner thanking Hitler for the occupation hangs across the roadway. Many views of Hitler saluting and waving to the enthusiastic population. At one point he stops the car and walks on the street, accompanied by Marshal Hermann Goering, who also meets and greets people in the crowd, including some children to whom he gives candy. Hitler also greets a small girl and gives her some candy.
Activities at an air base on Diego Garcia Island, Indian Ocean. A K loader vehicle backs away from the United States Air Force C-141A Starlifter aircraft. A U.S. Navy P-3C Orion maritime patrol aircraft is parked on a flight line in the background. A sailor takes a fuel sample from a hose coupled to the C-141A Starlifter aircraft. He hands the fuel filled jar to an airman. The airman inspects the fuel sample and then hands the jet fuel card to the sailor. Then he signs the card for fuel. A crew chief with a headset stands on the flight line. Construction men work on the cement floor of a new building.
Buildings at a beach on Diego Garcia Island, Indian Ocean. Buildings amid palm trees on the beach. A directional sign to a tailor shop. U.S. airmen walk on the streets. A stylized cross on a chapel wall. The entrance to the medical dental complex. Quarters and new buildings under construction.
Pope Pius XII after his recovery from cerebral hemorrhage in Vatican City, Rome. Pope Pius XII greets and addresses group of pilgrims from a balcony in the Vatican. Archbishop of New York Francis Cardinal Spellman visits to greet Pope Pius XII. Papal Swiss Guards in uniform. After that Pope Pius XII falls due to cerebral hemorrhage.
First National Assembly Elections in France. Buildings. French civilians stands in rows to casts vote. They casts their votes in the ballot box. Media persons and reporters inform and file reports on telephones. Officials and leaders attend the assembly for enactment of a new constitution. Charles De Gaulle wins the election against the opposition party.
The use of walkie talkie hand held two way radios at a hospital in San Francisco, California. A man explains the functioning of the walkie talkie radios to the doctors and the nurses. Operator seated at the switch board. A doctor receives a reporting signal from the early model pager, via a beep, and can hear information from the switchboard operator and respond. A mother hears the wails of her new born baby through the walkie talkie as it serves the role of early baby monitor.
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