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Czechoslovak coup with Communists coming to power; anti-Communist demonstrations in various European nations over 10 years
U.S. propaganda piece about threats by communists against various European countries. The Czechoslovak coup and demonstrations. Czech citizens moving on a street in Czechoslovakia during a strike forcing conservative elements to resign from the cabinet. Scenes of police brutality and beatings against strikers. Communists take over the police. Czech President Edvard Benes with conservative politicians in a government building. Huge crowd on a street. Police clashing with crowd. Czech Prime Minister Klement Gottwald with officials. President Edvard Benes, facing possible civil war or invasion by the Soviet Union, accepts a Communist cabinet. He is seen signing documents to that effect on February 25, 1948. Other officials beside President Benes during the signing. View of the first President of Czechoslovakia Tomas Masaryk's son, Jan Masaryk, who remained the Foreign Minister, and did not agree to the new government. Two days later Jan Masaryk is discovered dead. The body of Jan Masaryk in a coffin. Edvard Benes, who resigned in June 1948 after refusing to sign the communist constitution, is seen walking slowly outside the Parliament using a cane. A guard saluting Benes. View of the body of Edvard Benes, who died in September 1948, laying in a coffin. Mourning citizens offering flowers and cry. Officials bearing the coffin. Shift several years later to street strikes in East Germany in 1953. People during a strike and riot in Poland in 1956. Russian tanks moving on a street and Soviet soldiers are seen. Elevated view of panic and Polish citizens fleeing soldiers. October 1956: Student demonstrators on street in Budapest Hungary during the Hungarian Uprising of 1956. Soviet Russian red star is toppled by crowds from a building roof in a sign of defiance. Russian troops respond with tanks on the streets in Hungary. Crowd fights back. Russians retreat. Crowd overwhelms local police. Imre Nagy, Prime Minister of Hungary, ascends steps. Hungarian crowd on streets burn communist books and papers. Russian tanks invade Hungary to crush revolt. Tanks fire guns on Hungarian street. Imre Nagy's execution announced June 17, 1958.
Aerial views from German aircraft flying over the Balkans during World War 2.
Film begins with map of the Balkan States including labels for Serbia, Crotia, Hungary, Romania. Next, a Junkers 88 bomber aircraft takes off from an airfield and climbs out close to the camera. It flies high between cloud layers above. View from pilot cockpit of the right engine as the aircraft flies above a solid cloud formation below. Rearward view of the aircraft's vertical stabilizer against backdrop of cumulus clouds. Aerial views of some roads, bridges, and rivers in rugged terrain below. View from low in the aircraft, of crewman silhouetted against canopy. A city seen below. Another view from copilot's seat of the right engine running. Final scene shows aerial view of the city of Sophia, capital of Bulgaria, below.
German and Hungarian troops fortify hills in the Carpathians.
German and Hungarian troops fortify hills in the Carpathians during World War 2. Map shows areas of conflict along the range. A soldier near an artillery on a hill. Soldiers digging. They put up barbed wire along the camp boundary. Tents in the camp area. Soldiers sitting on a tank. They wash military jeeps and half tracks in a stream. Soldiers in amphibious vehicles cross the stream. Soldiers cross a bridge. Tanks and military trucks on the road. A soldier looks through binoculars. Smoke due to bombardment. Russian troops and tanks advance towards the German s and Hungarians. They fire on and wreck Russian tanks. Soldiers load and fire artillery and machine guns. Soldiers in the field. The infantry advances through a burning village. Soldiers take cover.
Axis forces conquer Greece and Yugoslavia during World War II.
Film opens showing Adolf Hitler shaking hands with Benito Mussolini of Italy. Next Mussolini is seen addressing a large crowd from the balcony of the Palazzo Venezia in Rome, Italy announcing plans to invade Greece. Views of Greek troops marching during the Greco-Italian War between the kingdoms of Italy and Greece from 28 October 1940 to 23 April 1941. Animated map depicts Italian advances into Greece with subsequent withdrawal as the Greeks drive them back and then invade Albania. Closeup of Hitler enraged about this turn of events, delaying his military Operation Barbarossa against the Soviet Union. Glimpse of Mussolini visiting his troops in the field. Newspaper headline reads: "Jugoslavia Gets Hitler Terms." A sub headline reads: "Nazi move in Greece Seen." Another view of Greek troops marching. A Junkers JU-87 Stuka dive bomber in flight, enters a steep dive to bomb a target. Bombs exploding in forest. Another Stuka diving and dropping bombs on a city building. Closeup glimpse of a Stuka speeding past the camera. View of a bombed out Yugoslavian building from German air attack on April 6, 1941. Animated map shows German and Italian forces attack paths from their bases in Italy, Hungary, Romania, and Hungary, vanquishing Yugoslavia. Map extends to Greece, where German forces overwhelm three defending Greek Divisions (aided by some British forces). Aerial view of a German Junkers Ju 52 transport plane flying over the Parthenon in Athens.
Canadian troops occupy a German flying bomb launching site and describe launching apparatus in Flanders, France.
Canadian troops occupy a German flying bomb launching site in Flanders, France. Map of France. Long rocket launching ramp. View of pistons that propel buzz bomb during take off. Allied pilot takes photographs. Canadian troops inspect the ramp mounted with a 400 pound piston. Canadian troops carry V-2 bombs and load them on to piston. The operation of the V-2 and launching apparatus: Man operates remote control boxes for launching. Soldier handles jet nozzle assembly. Jet propulsion engine is used for fire piston set off explosives. Compressed air bottle supply power for gyro pilots. Servo motors moves radar and elevator. Unexploded head contains explosives for bomb. Diagram shows flying bomb and its parts. View of a bomb site. (World War II period).
British troops encamped in hills above Ypres, Flanders, Belgium during First World War
British troops near Ypres, Flanders, Belgium in World War One. Bunkers of soldiers and debris. Tin sheds of bunkers in a snow covered rocky land. Rocky terrain. Uniforms and clothes hanging to dry. Soldiers washing clothes and holding some over a fire to dry them. Views of utter destruction in Ypres, below, during World War I.
