Czech Prime Minister Klement Gottwald at an airfield in Prague, Czechoslovakia. Prime Minister Klement followed by military officials walks on the airfield. Prime Minister Gottwald shakes hands with Russian Ambassador to Czechoslovakia Valerian Zorin. Gottwald boards an aircraft for Moscow. Russia. The aircraft takes off.
The tomb of the first Czechoslovakian President's in Lana, Czechoslovakia. Two women and two children arrive at the tomb of Czechoslovakia's first President Thomas G. Masaryk and lay down flowers at the tomb. The tomb inside a fence. The women touch the land and cross themselves and pray. Views of the women and the children at the tomb. A wreath hangs beside the tomb.
During the Nazi leaders trial for war crimes in Nuremberg, Germany Nazi leaders Ribbentrop and Frick signs a document regarding the annexation of Czechoslovakia by Germany. Flashback views during World War 2 as Nazi German soldiers march in Czechoslovakia. A map shows expanding frontiers of Nazi Germany.
German citizens in Usti, Sudetenland, soon after end of World War 2. A few German citizens, wearing armbands as identification marks (during period of expulsion of Germans from Czechoslovakia), standing and talking on a street in Usti, Sudetenland. Two German citizens wearing armbands walking along the walkway of a street. Buildings on either side on the street. Czech civilians on the street.
A memorial of the Russian Army in Czechoslovakia. A few men at the monument erected in the memory of the Russian Army which liberated Zlin. The Russian emblem on the monument. The men reading the inscription on the monument. View of a building near the monument and the Russian emblem.
British Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery visits Prague, Czechoslovakia after World War II. An American Douglas DC-3 aircraft taxis on a Czechoslovakian aerodrome. British Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery alights from the aircraft. He is greeted by Czechoslovakian Foreign Minister Jan Masaryk and Commander-in Chief of the Czechoslovakian Army General Ludwig Svoboda. The gathered crowd greets Marshal Montgomery with cheers. He reviews members of Czechoslovakian 1st Armored Brigade which served under him. Marshal Montgomery in a convertible car which drives through the cheering Czechoslovakian crowd.