Nazi rally in Nuremberg, Germany ca.1934. Massed Storm troopers and spectators salute Hitler. An artillery piece is fired. Hitler personally recognizing loyal Storm troopers. Animated map of Asia, showing Japanese occupation of Manchuria, and Italian occupation of Ethiopia. Newspaper headlines describe Britain and France hesitating to support League of Nations oil sanctions against Italy; and U.S. increasing its oil exports to Italy by 600% (ca. 1935). Hitler and Hermann Goering looking pleased in Hitler's private railroad car. Adolf Hitler at a planning table covered with maps. German citizens traveling abroad and Joachim von Ribbentrop visiting London, as ambassador to Great Britain, in 1936. View of Léon Degrelle and his Catholic-fascist, Rexist party in Belgium (ca. 1936). View of Colonel Francois de la Rocque speaking at a Cross of Fire (Croix-de-Feu) party night rally in France. Konrad Henlein, leader of the Sudeten German Party in Czechoslovakia. Arthur Seyss-Inquart, Austrian National Socialist official, seen in an automobile during a parade. Sir Oswald Mosley addressing followers and defending Hitler. Street scenes of public disorder attributed to Nazi sympathizers in France and Belgium. Mass meeting of the German American Bund in Madison Square Garden, New York City,1939. U.S. flags and picture of George Washington decorate stage. Fritz Julius Kuhn addresses the gathering and members rough up a protester. Views of heavy industry in Germany, especially steel manufacturing for remilitarization. Persons working at a German concentration camp. Dramatized execution by machine gun. View of Heinrich Himmler. German President Paul von Hindenburg. German national conscription of 1935 during military mobilization efforts. German youth training pilots with gliders. German paratroopers, Junkers 52 aircraft, German soldiers goosestep, views of German tanks. Ju 87 Stuka plane. German invasion of Rhineland, 1936. Construction of Siegfried Line. Antitank barriers, bunkers, dragons teeth. Hitler visiting Westwall. German military parade.
German invasion of Poland, September 1, 1939. German troops cross bridge. German artillery fires. German Ju 87 Stuka bomber aircraft in flight. Polish antiaircraft gunners on rooftop. street scenes in Warsaw. Poles run for cover in air raid. German Ju 88 aircraft bombing Warsaw. German soldier throwing hand grenade. Polish man driving team of horses flees bombing. Woman with new born baby. Polish victims of bombing laid out on ground. Americans and British citizens listening to radio broadcasts about the invasion. Houses of Parliament and Big Ben in London. Prime Minister Chamberlain at his desk. City of Westminster and 10 Downing street with Bobbie on guard. British men building a Anderson shelter (bomb shelter) and covering it with dirt. British civilians being fitted with gas masks. Barrage balloons aloft. Newly recruited and mobilized British troops marching on a street in England with children on bicycles riding next to them.
Scenes before and during German invasion of Poland in 1939 at start of World War 2. Adolf Hitler addresses the Reichstag in Kroll Opera House, Berlin, Germany. Italian soldiers marching. View of dragons teeth and soldiers marching into fortifications including a large bunker or fort with sign text "Scharnhorst werk 1238" partially visible. Large columns of German soldiers marching in goosestep. Airplanes flying in formation over a city. Scenery and landmarks of Polish city of Gdansk Poland (Danzig) before the invasion. People walking on the streets. Various church and other buildings. German sailors on destroyers underway at sea. German sailors manning 20mm antiaircraft deck gun mounted on submarine. Polish infantry and cavalry rally to the defense of their homeland. Polish soldiers driving tankettes (TK or TKS or TK-3) in shallow water and on land. German troops using flame throwers. Smoke arises due to bombardment. German troops firing 77mm field artillery at a bridge. Dragons Teeth seen on the Siegfried Line. Shot of Mussolini giving speech . (Note: Almost no sound .)
The 1939 National Cherry festival in Traverse City, Michigan. Trees of cherries covered with cherry flowers and fruit. Girls stand on ladder and pluck cherries. Cherries being put into boxes. Parade goes down a road. Women seated on a float at the parade. A model of a cherry made up of flowers placed on a float. A girl seated on a floral float holding harness. A young child seated on a toy car placed atop a float in the National Cherry Festival parade.
On 14th March, 1939 President Hacha of Czechoslovakia arrives in Berlin as a guest of Hitler. Emil Hacha is accompanied by High-ranking German officers as he walks past an honor guard and band, on a wet street after dark, in Berlin, Germany. Hacha enters an automobile.
The occupation of the remainder of Czechoslovakia on 15th March, 1939 by Nazi German forces in World War 2. Newspaper headlines announcing the occupation. Nazi soldiers on motorcycles and bicycles on a village road in a late Winter snowstorm. Officers converse. They arrive in Prague with military vehicles. German Chancellor Adolf Hitler's car exits the Prague Castle gates. The car moves through a crowded street. Hitler walks and talks with Nazi officials on the street and reviews wounded men. German military forces goose step in parade with flags and a band. German goosestepping troops march past equestrian statue of St. Wenceslas, in Wenceslas Square. Civilians watch. German Luftwaffe aircraft fly overhead in formation. German tanks parade through city streets.
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