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.
Hungarian refugees arrive in Austria, fleeing violence in the Hungarian Revolution of 1956 (also called the Hungarian Uprising) against the Soviets. The Hungarian refugees cross a canal in night. A red Hungarian border guard crosses the canal. The Hungarian guard waves to them. The refugees hide in marshland. The refugees cross the marshland. An Austrian guard stand at the border signal them. The refugees enter in Austria. Several views of the Hungarian families entering Austria. The refugees crowd outside the swamp rescue agency. Several close up of the refugees. The refugees at the Austrian refugee camps.
Archduke Charles of Austria-Hungary marries Princess Zita of Bourbon-Parma on 21 October 1911 at Schwarzau Palace in Lower Austria. In attendance is Charles's 81-year-old great uncle, Emperor Franz Joseph I (or Francis Joseph) of Austria-Hungary. Archduke Charles and Princess Zita speaks to Emperor Franz Joseph. Prince Gaëtan of Bourbon-Parma, the 6-year-old younger brother of the bride, joins his sister. Bridesmaids follow Princess Zita. Wedding guests Archduke Franz Ferdinand (the heir to the throne), Infanta Maria Antónia of Portugal (mother of Princess Zita), and Emperor Franz Joseph, in the wedding party.
Northwest of Linz, Austria, the Gramastetten Church (Marktstraße 1, 4201 Gramastetten, Austria) is seen with smoke and buildings on fire in foreground, in market area near the church. U.S. Army forces battle against German forces in the Gramastetten market in the last days of World War II in Europe. Artillery shell bursts near the church. Buildings including a school on fire in front of the church. Smoke and flames visible in buildings near the church. Smoke rises. Trees in woods in the foreground.
German prisoners of war march in Austria at the end of World War 2, in Europe. They march in loose formation in the roadway, over the Nibelungen Bridge (Nibelungenbrücke, 4020 Linz, Austria), in Linz. Several women bring up the rear of the formation. Some German civilians are seen, carrying belongings, going the opposite direction, on a sidewalk on the other side of the bridge. The Danube River is in the background. The formation of surrendering German soldiers turns at end of the bridge and proceeds through the town. A convoy of trucks in the background. American soldiers follow the formation and others are seen along their path. Civilians watch as they pass.
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.
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