German soldiers bring their equipment and bicycles as they leave an airfield in Germany for Liberec, Sudetenland (Czechoslovakia) prior to World War II.. German medics walk toward a Red Cross Ju-52 plane (with Swastika emblem on the empennage). A Ju-52 plane taxiing. German medics and soldiers crowd near the aircraft. Transport planes flying over an airfield and after landing. Aerial view of Liberec. A group of Ju-52 transport planes approach and then landing on airfield. German soldiers unload supplies and materiel from the aircraft. A group of German aircraft in flight over Liberec.
Soviet Forces battling in Berlin during 1945, in World War 2, employ tanks and heavy machine guns. A Soviet soldier herds two German prisoners from a building. Groups of German soldier prisoners struggle through rubble as they are led from buildings, under guard. Soviet tanks firing as they pass a church building. A Soviet heavy gun being fired point blank on a Berlin street during Battle of Berlin. Buildings on fire. Soviet soldiers firing artillery field pieces. Views of destroyed and damaged German military aircraft on and in hangars of an airfield. Soviet Ilyushin II aircraft land on the airfield. Closeup of distressed German General rubbing his eyes. Flashback in time to 1943, in World War II. Field Marshal Hermann Goering is seen reviewing flyers of a German Luftwaffe (Air Force) unit. A Junkers Ju 52 trimotor aircraft lands and parks on an airfield. Italian leader Benito Mussolini steps from the aircraft after his rescue from imprisonment by the Italian Government at the Hotel Campo Imperatore. He is personally welcomed by Adolf Hitler, who had ordered the mission to rescue him. Change of time, again, to 1945, when Berlin, Germany is attacked by Forces of the Soviet Union. Closeup of a despairing German General. Scenes of utter destruction as Soviet troops batter Berlin, Germany with artillery. Soviet soldier steps down from his tank and gives a Soviet General a handgun, which he pockets and then leads a group of Soviet officers into a building
German army enters Brno, Capital city of Moravia in Czechoslovakia, during World War Two. Mechanized columns of German troops with tanks,armored personnel carriers,field guns and motorbikes move along snowy streets of town, as thousands of local citizens watch.
A memorial of peace in South Moravia, Czechoslovakia. The memorial in a field. Mohyla míru or the The Cairn of Peace (K Mohyle míru 200, 664 58 Prace, Czechia) at Austerlitz. Four-woman statues on the memorial. Small bushes beside the memorial.
Russian officers and soldiers at Grand Hotel Pupp in Karlovy Vary in Czechoslovakia, a year after the end of World War II. The buildings in the city. A huge building in the city. The building of Grand Hotel Pupp (Mírové nám. 2, 360 01 Karlovy Vary, Czechia) in Karlovy Vary. The Soviet officers and soldiers, and customers in the front of the hotel. A man accompanies a few children. The officers and soldiers with their water ration. Several men and women with the officers. The customers, the officers and soldiers of the Red Army moving in a queue and taking their water ration. A girl distributing ration is sitting inside an enclosure. The officers taking the water ration from the girl. The customers, Russian officers and soldiers drinking water and walking along the front part of the hotel.
Opening scene shows British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain, at the airport, having just returned from the Munich conference where Britain and France acquiesed to Nazi Germany's annexation of the Sudetenlands and part of Czechoslovakia. He holds up copy of the agreement signed by Chancellor Adolf Hitler as symbolic of British and German determination never to wage war against each other again. Crowd cheers. Newspaper poster quotes Chamberlain's statement: "Peace in Our Time." Newspaper headlines about the Agreement. Map shows Nazi encrouchment on Czechoslovakia. In violation of the Munich agreement, German forces roll into Czechoslovakia, on March 14, 1939. Local residents give Nazi salute from sidewalks. Animated map shows area of German occupation with Poland next. Prime Minister Chamberlain telling an audience that a threat to Polish independence would start a general conflagration involving Britain. Hitler attending a formal occasion. Star shown atop a building in Moscow, Russia. British, French and German military missions arriving at airport to confer with Soviets. Soviet foreign minister Vyacheslav Molotov shakes hands wih German foreign minister Joachim von Ribbentrop. August 23, 1939 Newspaper headline reads: "Russo-German Pact Signed." German and Russian diplomats sit at a table. Joseph Stalin and Molotov reviewing troops on parade in Red Square.
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