A Communist party meeting held in Prague, Czechoslovakia after the parliamentary elections. Views in the lobby of the Communist Party headquarters shows people looking at photos of Vladimir Lenin and Czech personalities including Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk, Bedrich Smetana and others. A meeting of the Communist party after the elections. Members at long tables stand up and applaud. Party officials seated at a long table in the front beneath large hanging pictures of Stalin and Gottwald. Communist Interior minister Václav Nosek proposes Chairman of the meeting Klement Gottwald as their new Prime Minister. Closer view of the photos of Klement Gottwald and Soviet Premier Joseph Stalin with two sentences written in Czech: 'With Gottwald we won' and 'With Gottwald we must achieve our plan'.
Crowd gathered to hear speech in Prague, Czechoslovakia after death of Soviet Premier Joseph Stalin in March 5, 1953. Balcony and entrance way to the National Museum of Prague (Václavské nám. 68, 110 00 Nové Město, Czechia) as crowd gathers to listen to Czechoslovak Prime Minister Antonín Zápotocký's speech.
Foggy skyline of Prague, Czechoslovakia during the Cold War. Czechoslovakian people crowd the streets of Prague. Huge crowds of people in Wenceslas Square in the New Town quarter of Prague. Czechoslovakian Prime Minister Antonin Zapatocky addresses the crowd in Wenceslas Sqaure. Crowds listening to Zapatocky’s speech in Wenceslas Square. Czechoslovakian man listens to speech. Czechoslovakian woman, wearing headscarf, listens to speech. Huge crowds near King Wenceslas statue in Wenceslas Square. Czechoslovakian President Klement Gottwald addresses crowd.
A parade along Wencesclas Square in Prague, Czechoslovakia. Men march with flags. Men and women with berets hold large paper flowers while raising their fists. Men and women in Czech traditional folk attire march with flags. Czechoslovaks march in Prague. Czechoslovak girls in traditional folk attire march and raise their fists. Men in uniform carrying a bomber airplane model.
Luftwaffe Junkers Ju-52 transport planes land in Liberec, Sudetenland (Czechoslovakia) prior to World War II. German troops exit from the plane after landing. The empennage of the Junkers Ju-52 bears the Nazi Swastika. German soldiers running across the airfield. More Luftwaffe planes taxiing and landing at the airfield. A German aircraft marshaller making signals with flags. German Army march in a military parade in the city center of Reichenberg (today Liberec). Some of the soldiers are beating drums. Nazi Swastika banners adorn the buildings. Liberec civilians crowd Adolf-Hitler-Platz and watch German troop parade with warm reception. Sudeten German women hold small Nazi flags. A group of cheering civilians walk and perform the Hitler Salute in front of German troops. Young and old women in the crowd smiling. Café, pharmacy, and other storefronts are adorned with Swastikas. Liberec civilians cheer and throw flowers in front of the German Army. Luftwaffe Commander-in-Chief Hermann Göring inspects German troops in Liberec. Soldiers salute at Göring upon his arrival. Göring gives a military salute to troops. A Bohemian German girl mouths "Heil !". Göring shake hands and talks to soldiers and civilians while army photographer takes pictures. Adolf Hitler arrives in Liberec. Göring accompanies Hitler as they both review troops and civilians. Girls in the crowd perform the Nazi salute for Adolf Hitler. Hitler speaks to Göring. Hitler performs the Nazi salute to the people of Liberec during the motorcade.
Footage of nuclear explosion in the U.S. Trinity test of the first successful nuclear explosive device, in Alamogordo, New Mexico as part of the Manhattan Project. A mushroom cloud on the horizon. The smoke rises up into the air. Flames and black smoke from the atomic bomb explosion. Sun rays filter through the clouds. Explosion seen from a few different camera angles. (World War II period).
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