The signing of the Austrian Peace Treaty brings about the withdrawal of Soviet troops in Austria and the return of POW's from many years in Soviet prison camps, ten years after the end of World War 2. Shows repatriation of German Prisoners of War to Austria as the freed prisoners return in a railroad train. Families of prisoners wait for prisoners' arrival. Women hold hands of prisoners from train windows. A prisoner kisses his wife. A father hugs his son as the boy cries.
Austrian boy Gottfried Eder suffering from hemophilia in Innsbruck, Austria. The boy lying on hospital bed. The doctor comes nearby and talks to him. The boy is cured with anti-hemophiliae globulin brought from the United States thanks to a certain American Information Chief Roberts. A man, woman and the boy seated at a table. Anti-hemophiliae globulin brought to Austria by the United States Air Force. A doctor talks to the boy lying on the hospital bed.
Austro-Hungarian Emperor Karl I and wife, Empress Zita of Bourbon-Parma, meets military officials and commoners in Vienna shortly after their coronation. Empress Zita receives flowers, shakes hands with children. Austro-Hungarian citizens welcome the new emperor and his wife. Empress Zita and Emperor Karl receive more flowers from adoring children. Emperor Karl I meets Austro-Hungarian generals and infantry. Emperor Karl I speak to soldiers fighting for Austria-Hungary during World War 1, giving them reassuring pat on the back. Emperor Karl I rides a horse with retinue. View of Italian prisoners-of-war in Austria. Emperor Karl I onboard SMS Szent István, also known as His Majesty's Ship Saint Stephen (the last of four Tegetthoff-class dreadnought battleships built for the Austro-Hungarian Navy).
Funeral of the heir presumptive of the Austro-Hungarian throne, Archduke Franz Ferdinand, whose assassination was the immediate cause of World War 1. Arriving in Trieste (now in present-day Italy), Roman Catholic priests bless coffins of Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife, Countess Sophie Chotek von Chotkow und Wognin, the Duchess of Hohenburg. Austrian officers observe as priests fling holy water onto couple’s coffins. Austrian guards unload a coffin from a funeral horse-drawn carriage. Austrian guards of the 7th Uhlans and 4th Dragoons march alongside funeral carriages of Archduke Franz Ferdinand and Countess Sophie in Vienna, to be buried in their family crypt at Artstetten Castle in Artstetten-Pöbring, Lower Austria. Brief shot of Franz Joseph I of Austria.
Robert Kronfeld Austria's glider pilot crosses the English Channel in round trip glide. He is congratulated at by the people at St. Inglevert airfield near Calais, France, after winning the Annual Glider Meet. He handled a motor less aircraft from France to England and back again the same day. A French aircraft crashes while landing during the competition. 20 June 1931.
The Macedonian front during World War I. Street scene with merchant stalls that shows various nationalities, including Turks, and soldiers of Bulgaria and Austria-Hungary in Scopje, Macedonia during World war 1. Row of shops displaying wares, including butcher shop. Scene shifts to what slate describes as a new neighborhood district. Seen is the old stone bridge (Kameni Most) over the Vardar River in the city center, where local people are seen in everyday pursuits, moving wagons and carrying bundles on the street and over the bridge. Soldiers cluster around a striped booth at the foot of the bridge. Another scene shows troops entering a camp area along a river. Some are digging trenches. Smoke rises from camp fires. Wagons of military supplies being pulled by horses and oxen and gathering at a railroad siding (box cars in background). A staff car drives into the area, displaying a German flag on its hood and the German Eagle crest on its door. It skids about momentarily in the mud. Supplies being loaded into the railroad box cars under supervision of German officers. Troops marching into an encampment, where others are being served food from a German field kitchen. Rifles are stacked in a large mound. Soldiers line up and appear to be receiving their pay at a paymaster window in a building. Troops in full field gear march, in a loose column, out of the encampment. German infantry in pointed helmets (Pickelhauben) marching, out of camp, through mud toward the front lines.
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