German 5th and 6th grade boys perform a gymnastic (turnen) exhibition in Austria. One boy performs on the high horizontal bar. Girls in audience applaud. View from above as the boys run and use springboard to leap to a table. Audience applauds. Next the boys demonstrate boxing techniques. Two boys compete in boxing match. Girls in the audience watch intently. The boys compete as teams carrying one another across the activity ring and playing athletic games, which the girls in the audience applaud.
The Anschluss, German occupation of Austria, prior to World War II. Huge crowds gather and cheer in the streets of Salzburg and Graz, as German troops enter. German flags flutter on flag poles. Soldiers march along the streets and receive enthusiastic welcome.
Italian prisoners are marched in Tyrol Sector (Alps) of Austria during World War I. Italian prisoners in a field. Column of prisoners along field. Prisoners run forward as an explosion occurs in the background.
Amateur home movie showing a rural wooden house in Austria. A woman holds a baby chicken, as man smokes a cigarette. Exteriors of wooden house showing woven wooden fence and implements. A bearded elderly man poses with two young girls, possibly granddaughters. Two women look out of window. Group of neighbor men pose by an automobile outside the house. Two women smile through open window. Man and woman pull stubborn calf by a rope. Family poses with calf in front of house. Local men pose in a group. Birds graze in yard. Stork flies overhead. Woman feeds chickens in yard. Men walk by dust-covered automobile.
The funeral of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria. Emperor Franz Joseph I of Austria arrives in a horse drawn carriage. Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany with entourage. The German Emperor reviews German troops on parade. A newspaper headline "Kaiser defies Czar. Hands off or War!'. Nicholas II of Russia walks down steps followed by his wife and two daughters. People stand on steps and salute. The Czar and family are seated in an open carriage. Russian Soldiers parade. Another headline, 'France enters War'. French Cavalry and troops parade in open fields. A newspaper headline 'England prepares for War, German armies sweep France'. British King George V , in military uniform, and Queen Mary, standing at a window. British troops march and a soldier drives a motorbike.
British Royal Air Force operations early in World War 2, during deployments of British Expeditionary Force to France. Whitley bomber takes off from France for a raid on Austria. Harrow bomber parked in a field and British airmen around it. Close up of two British airmen The airmen board the bomber. The bomber taxis and takes off for a raid on Austria. The bomber in flight and two bombers parked in the foreground.
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