Demobilization at the end of World War Two. Servicemen being mustered out at a separation center and returning home to resume normal civilian lives following discharge. Servicemen going home on a train. Some servicemen decide to remain in the armed services. They interact with fellow soldiers. Peacetime soldiers playing baseball, during leisure time, while others watch them and drink cokes. U.S. National Guard men march on a field. Some soldiers join Army Reserve units where they keep up their ratings and skills. A reserve gun crew loads shells and fires artillery. Officer looks through binoculars.
The Parliamentary Election day in Prague, Czechoslovakia. A tramway with number 1 (Communist Party) on it passes the Communist Party headquarters and through a crowd of Czechoslovakian citizens. Czech citizens on a street read newspapers. A car with loudspeakers on its top passes through the crowd. The street littered with election literature.
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'.
A commemoration ceremony for the Lidice massacre by the Germans during World War II. A crowd gathered on the emplacement of Lidice which had been leveled by the Germans. The place is marked with a cross with a crown of thorns. Russian emblems surrounding the respective flags. An official tribune decorated with flags of Allied nations. The crowd listens to speeches given by dignitaries.
A cemetery in Terezin, Czechoslovakia, site of the Theresienstadt Ghetto. Terezin was a concentration camp for political prisoners in Bohemia during World War II. Graves at the cemetery. A rough cross made of a vertical piece of wood crossed with metal slabs with words '26,000 victims of German Nazism' in French, English, Czech and Russian.
Catholics attend mass in Prague, Czechoslovakia. Catholic churchgoers pray inside the St. Vitus Cathedral (III. nádvoří 48/2, 119 01 Praha 1-Hradčany, Czechia) of Prague. Children with flowers stand in front. An old woman worships. Worshipers pray near the tomb of the Kings of Bohemia. A procession leaves the Catholic church of St. Nicholas (Malostranské nám., 118 00 Malá Strana, Czechia) and proceeds along the streets of Prague. The procession passes in front of an arcade and arrive at a street altar. Girls in white veils and dresses walk in the procession. Nuns and priests in the parade.
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