Anschluss, or German occupation of Austria prior to World War II. Soldiers and a large crowd of Austrian citizens gather on in the streets of Vienna Austria for a parade. JU 88 bomber aircraft of the German Luftwaffe in formation flight overhead. Men seated on branches of a tree. A band plays. The crowd cheers. German Army tanks and artillery move along the street. German Chancellor Adolf Hitler reviews the parade with officials. Cavalry units move past. People wave and cheer.
The Anschluss. German military occupation of Austria prior to World War II. Civilians march along a street, in Villach, Austria. People cheer and greet German troops as they march into the town to accompaniment of a band. They march in formation. People wave to the soldiers and cheer. Soldiers converse.
Austrian Chancellor Engelburt Dollfuss visits Innsbruck, Austria. Guardsmen of paramilitary group Heimwehr, defending the borders of Austria, stand in rows. The guardsmen march on a snow covered road. Engelburt Dollfuss with an official reviews the troops. Officials salute the Chancellor. Heimwehr guardsmen patrol the Austrian border. Guards on an ice covered road. Guns placed on the road. Two men walking on a snow covered road. One of the men carrying a baggage. The guardsmen search the men and the baggage at the border. Chancellor Dollfuss with officials. Horsemen and troops standing in formation to honor the Chancellor. He visits a monument. An official lays a wreath at the base of the monument. Chancellor Dollfuss stands beside the monument. The troops stand at attention at the side of the monument and salute.
Famous tourist destinations and architecture in Linz, Austria. View of the Danube River. Buildings and trees along the side of the river. A ship in the river. Smoke around the ship. It reaches the harbor. A bridge seen over the river. A view of the New Cathedral or the Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception (Neuer Dom Herrenstrasse 26, Linz 4020, Austria) at Linz. Alpine mountains in the background.
Opening scene shows Adolf Hitler with entourage of Nazi officers at a reviewing stand in Vienna, Austria following the Anschluss (German annexation of Austria in 1938). A local Nazi official introduces Hitler as their benefactor. Views of large enthusiastic crowd cheering and rendering Nazi salutes. Closeup of well-dressed spectators. The official shakes hands with Hitler. Closeups of the cheering crowds and Hitler making his way among them. Children presenting him with bouquets of flowers. Narrator refers to Hitler representing hope of Liberty, Peace, and work. Austrians in the streets chanting One People; One Nation; One Leader (Ein Volk; Ein Reich; Ein Fuhrer) and giving Nazi salutes as Hitler passes in a motorcade. Views from a leading car in the motorcade as People run to keep up with it and others line the way cheering and saluting. Closeups of enthusiastic men, women, and children. Hitler being inundated with flowers. A German military band (unseen) can be heard playing the German National Anthem in the background.
View from inside moving luxury railroad train, looking out through train passenger window, as it arrives in Vienna, Austria. As the train is slowing down and nearing the station, the Colonnade Gloriette at Schoenbrunn Palace is seen in the far distance. People board the Orient Express passenger train in Vienna, Austria. Steam locomotive starts up with a roar in smoke and steam, at railroad station, and then proceeds to depart, gradually gaining speed.
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