U.S. Army exchange decorations with Russian Army in Protivin, Czechoslovakia during World War II. U.S. Commandant-General of 5th Division Major Albert E. Brown and Russian Commandant-General of 107th Infantry Division Bogdonov at banquet table. Russian officials at the banquet table.
Czechoslovakians fight for freedom in Prague uprising near the end of World War II. The Czechoslovakians revolt to liberate the city of Prague from German occupation. Civilians burn Nazi German flags. Police capture German ammunition. Armed civilians throw hand grenades and fire guns on streets at German forces. Explosions arise during the battle. Dead bodies of rebel civilians on streets. Czech police and citizens inspect the surrendered Germans. Civilians and defenders happily greet Soviet Army tanks as they enter the city following retreat of Germans. Men and women collaborators are marched through city streets toward incarceration in concentration camps. President of Czechoslovakia Edvard Benes disembarks a train. The President returns to Prague after 7 years of exile. An officer salutes the President. A large crowd of civilians gathered to greet the President. The President waves at the gathering from the balcony of a building.
Liberation of Prague from the German Occupation during World War II. Flags are raised atop buildings. People throw and smash German signs. Troops set gun position on streets. Civilians revolt against the German Occupation. German troops loaded in trucks and tanks advance through streets. They load and fire guns through streets. Dead bodies on street. People burn German flags. Trucks and tanks loaded with Czechoslovakian Army troop move through streets after liberation. President of Czechoslovakia Edvard Benes arrives Prague. Large crowd of civilians gather to greet the President. Benes. He waves at the gathering from the building window.
Evacuation of Czech Jews fleeing Nazi German persecution in Czechoslovakia early during World War 2. The Jewish refugees board a Koninklijke Luchtvaart Maatschappij or KLM (Dutch Airlines) airplane. Most passengers are women and small children. A woman, from the plane waves to her relatives standing at the airport terminal building. A large crowd gathered outside the terminal building and ticketing office. Boys and girls wave and smile as they enter the tarmac area and approach the parked aircraft. The Pilot of the plane looks from the cockpit. The same plane brought such a group to Croydon Airport (Airport House, Purley Way, Croydon CR0 0XZ, United Kingdom), London, United Kingdom, in January 1939.
Exhumation of Czech patriots, the victims of Nazi atrocities in World War 2, from Terezin (Theresienstadt Ghetto) and Karlovy Vary concentration camps in Czechoslovakia. German prisoners of war work in graves with shovels exhuming bodies of Czech patriots who were concentration camp victims. Dead bodies lifted on the litter by prisoners. Bodies taken for identification. Dead bodies kept on wooden platforms in a yard for doctors' identification.
Expulsion of Germans from Czechoslovakia after World War 2. The Germans outside buildings in the camp in Karlovy-Vary. German men and women seated outside a building. A line of German men, women and children waiting outside the Administrative office to get the number of the trucks in which they will be going back to Germany. All the men and the women wearing armbands for identification. Two men come out of the office wearing a tag, on their jacket, with the number of the truck. A few men and women inside the office. Two women officials in the office. One of them works on a typewriter. The other woman official pins the tag with the numbers of trucks on the jackets of the two women waiting. A man beside the two German women. The two women leave the office. Men coming out of the administrative building. A Czech official at the entrance of the office. The men hand over their armbands to the Czech official as they leave the office with the tags on their jackets. German children playing in a park in the camp behind a high wire fence. A young Czech boy beside a vehicle outside the wire fence watches the German children playing. A guard inside the fence patrols near the children playing.
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