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Men digging ground and disarming the personnel mines buried during the Russian occupation in Austria.
A documentary titled 'Red Legacy, Leave Rail Line Mined In Austria' in Austria. A building with a name board that reads ' Wolfsthal'. A train running on a rail track. View of a rail track, overgrown with bushes, running from the interior of Austria to Czechoslovakian frontier. Abandoned buildings beside the rail track. View of a wire fence and a danger signboard indicating mines. Small flags on the ground showing the position of mines. Two men beside the flags. One of them digging ground and taking a personnel mine and disarming it. The men disarming the personnel mines buried in the ground during the Russian occupation. View of the pile of personnel mines dug out. An explosion due to mine blast and smoke rises.
People cheer as German Chancellor Adolf Hitler arrives in a motorcade in Linz Austria during Anschluss in World War 2
German occupation of Austria, or Anschluss, prior to World War II. Swastika shaped paper confetti falling from the sky. Austrian people gather on a street in Linz and cheer German military forces. Dreifaltigkeitssäule or Holy Trinity Column (Hauptpl., 4020 Linz, Austria) in foreground with German bomber aircraft in formation flight behind. Boys march. Civilians gather in a large number on the street and cheer. German soldiers and officers gather. German Chancellor Adolf Hitler in a motorcade moving along a street. The crowd cheers and waves. Hitler stands with other officials. Buildings along street sides. Hitler seen at night on a balcony waving to the crowd in Austria.
Nazi troops enter Austria (The Anschluss) in 1938
German troops enter Austria. Newspaper headlines about earlier discussions between Hitler and Kurt Schuschnigg, the Chancellor of Austria, who unsuccessfully resisted the Anschluss. A sign reads 'state border 65'. German troops along with artillery advance forward towards the city. They cross a bridge and enter. German Chancellor Adolf Hitler in a car. A flag of the Nazis. Civilians gather at Heldenplatz . Hitler addresses the people. People around the Statue of Archduke Charles of Austria on the Heldenplatz . The civilians listen to him. A close up of Hitler addressing people. The civilians cheer. An unidentified aircraft in flight. Hitler and his party members look up in the sky. The soldiers parade and Hitler reviews the parade.
People sing the famous carol 'Silent Night' at a Church in Oberndorf, Austria.
People sing the famous Christmas carol ' Silent Night ' at a Church in Austria. People enter the Silent Night Chapel (Stille Nacht-Platz 1, 5110 Oberndorf bei Salzburg, Austria) in Oberndorf, Austria where the famous Christmas carol ' Silent Night' was composed. Children sing the carol Silent Night, in German, as other parishioners look on. A sculpture of Mother Mary with Jesus Christ. A man playing a guitar accompanies the singing. A Christmas Tree with lighted white candles on it. Close up views of boys and girls singing the carol.
President of United States Richard Nixon and First Lady Pat Nixon during their visit to Salzburg in Austria.
President of United States Richard Nixon and First Lady Pat Nixon are guests of Chancellor Bruno Kreisky, of the Federal Republic of Austria, for luncheon at the Kobenzl-Gaisberg Hotel (Kobenzl Hotel Salzburg, Am Gaisberg 11, A-5020 Salzburg, Austria, Salzburg, Austria). They mingle informally on the porch of the hotel. Chancellor Kreisky introduces them to several Austrian dignitaries, who greet and welcome the President and First Lady. Nixon shakes hands and talks. Austrian women hotel employees, dressed in traditional Tracht costumes, watch from an upper balcony of the hotel as the dignitaries pose for photographs. President and First Lady Nixon having drinks with Chancellor Kreisky and other guests. Press photographers take photos from behind.
Scenes soon after liberation of Nazi concentration camp in Mauthausen, Austria.
View of the Mauthausen concentration camp in Mauthausen, Austria. Cremation ovens used to execute the prisoners. A German guard held at gun point by the American troops. Liberated American speaks, surrounded by a group of prisoners. He is U.S. Navy Lieutenant Jack H. Taylor of Hollywood, California. Filmed by Lt. Col. George C. Stevens, he says that in October 1944 he was the first allied officer to drop into Austria. He says he was captured December 1, 1944 by the Gestapo, and severely beaten. He details his imprisonment time in Austria and then at Mauthausen. He shows insignia and dog tags of two American soldiers who were executed in a gas chamber of the camp by the Germans. He details the multiple methods used by the Germans to kill prisoners, including shooting, gas chamber, beating, exposure in the snow for 48 hours with cold water thrown on them, starvation, dogs, and pushing off a hundred foot cliff. He thanks the American 11th Armored Division for rescuing them. (World War II period).
