Emperor Karl I (Charles I) of Austria-Hungary reviews Austrian or Austro-Hungarian troops during World War 1. Emperor Karl is in military uniform and converses with a contingent of Austrian Officers and soldiers in a field in Austria. A woman in apron and head scarf (probably a nurse) stands near the group of Austrian officers. One officer takes a photograph as the emperor converses with the group. Mountain in background.
German occupation of Austria prior to World War 2. Women and children gather along street side near border with Austria. A motorcade of German military equipment moves into the area as the citizens cheer them and hand them flowers.
The signing of the Austrian Peace Treaty brings about the withdrawal of Soviet troops in Austria and the return of POW's from many years in Soviet prison camps, ten years after the end of World War 2. Shows repatriation of German Prisoners of War to Austria as the freed prisoners return in a railroad train. Families of prisoners wait for prisoners' arrival. Women hold hands of prisoners from train windows. A prisoner kisses his wife. A father hugs his son as the boy cries.
Austrian boy Gottfried Eder suffering from hemophilia in Innsbruck, Austria. The boy lying on hospital bed. The doctor comes nearby and talks to him. The boy is cured with anti-hemophiliae globulin brought from the United States thanks to a certain American Information Chief Roberts. A man, woman and the boy seated at a table. Anti-hemophiliae globulin brought to Austria by the United States Air Force. A doctor talks to the boy lying on the hospital bed.
Austro-Hungarian Emperor Karl I and wife, Empress Zita of Bourbon-Parma, meets military officials and commoners in Vienna shortly after their coronation. Empress Zita receives flowers, shakes hands with children. Austro-Hungarian citizens welcome the new emperor and his wife. Empress Zita and Emperor Karl receive more flowers from adoring children. Emperor Karl I meets Austro-Hungarian generals and infantry. Emperor Karl I speak to soldiers fighting for Austria-Hungary during World War 1, giving them reassuring pat on the back. Emperor Karl I rides a horse with retinue. View of Italian prisoners-of-war in Austria. Emperor Karl I onboard SMS Szent István, also known as His Majesty's Ship Saint Stephen (the last of four Tegetthoff-class dreadnought battleships built for the Austro-Hungarian Navy).
Funeral of the heir presumptive of the Austro-Hungarian throne, Archduke Franz Ferdinand, whose assassination was the immediate cause of World War 1. Arriving in Trieste (now in present-day Italy), Roman Catholic priests bless coffins of Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife, Countess Sophie Chotek von Chotkow und Wognin, the Duchess of Hohenburg. Austrian officers observe as priests fling holy water onto couple’s coffins. Austrian guards unload a coffin from a funeral horse-drawn carriage. Austrian guards of the 7th Uhlans and 4th Dragoons march alongside funeral carriages of Archduke Franz Ferdinand and Countess Sophie in Vienna, to be buried in their family crypt at Artstetten Castle in Artstetten-Pöbring, Lower Austria. Brief shot of Franz Joseph I of Austria.
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