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Review of the Austrian troops by Emperor Karl I of Austria-Hungary along a mountain side in Austria-Hungary.

Emperor Karl I (Emperor Charles I) of Austro-Hungarian empire reviews Austrian troops in Austria-Hungary during World War I. Soldiers stand in a line along the mountain side. Emperor Karl I discusses with them. A woman stands along with the soldiers.

Date: 1918
Duration: 13 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675028087
German troops are greeted by citizens as they enter Graz, Austria, during the annexation of Austria by Germany

The Anschluss. German military entry into Graz, Austria. German troops are welcomed by civilians. Civilians including women parade. They carry Nazi flags. Nazi flags hang from windows of buildings. People look out of the windows. A sign on a shop in the street reads 'Steirerfunk radio'

Date: 1938
Duration: 20 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: German
Clip: 65675041765
Jews flee Austria; Nazi official Arthur Seyss-Inquart addresses a crowd in Austria.

German occupation or Anschluss of Austria prior to World War II. German aircraft in flight overhead. Exterior of buildings. Sign at a Jewish business is destroyed and civilians look on and laugh. Narrator announces, "Juden fliehen." Jewish people flee to train station to escape anti-Jewish harrassment. Civilians gather in streets and cheer. Officials stand in the balcony of a building. People stand holding banners and flags. Nazi official Arthur Seyss-Inquart addresses a crowd as German politician Heinrich Luitpold Himmler looks on. Officials in a motorcade. Soldiers aboard a military vehicle. People cheer.

Date: 1938, March
Duration: 1 min 58 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: German
Clip: 65675050935
Scenes soon after liberation of Nazi concentration camp in Mauthausen, Austria.

View of the Mauthausen concentration camp in Mauthausen, Austria. Cremation ovens used to execute the prisoners. A German guard held at gun point by the American troops. Liberated American speaks, surrounded by a group of prisoners. He is U.S. Navy Lieutenant Jack H. Taylor of Hollywood, California. Filmed by Lt. Col. George C. Stevens, he says that in October 1944 he was the first allied officer to drop into Austria. He says he was captured December 1, 1944 by the Gestapo, and severely beaten. He details his imprisonment time in Austria and then at Mauthausen. He shows insignia and dog tags of two American soldiers who were executed in a gas chamber of the camp by the Germans. He details the multiple methods used by the Germans to kill prisoners, including shooting, gas chamber, beating, exposure in the snow for 48 hours with cold water thrown on them, starvation, dogs, and pushing off a hundred foot cliff. He thanks the American 11th Armored Division for rescuing them. (World War II period).

Date: 1945, May 11
Duration: 3 min 12 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675029084
German prisoners of war being assembled in Linz, Austria, near end of World War II in Europe.

German prisoners of war arrive at the town square or Hauptplatz (Hauptpl., 4020 Linz, Austria) in Linz, Austria during last few days of World War II. View of Dreifaltigkeitssäule or the Holy Trinity Column (Dreifaltigkeitssäule, Hauptplatz, 4020 Linz, Austria). Trucks bring more prisoners into the town. The prisoners climb off the trucks and stand in the town square. Trucks loaded with prisoners drive past on a road in the foreground. The prisoners unload from the trucks.

Date: 1945, May 4
Duration: 2 min 39 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675070991
Adolf Hitler arrives in Linz, Austria, during the Anschuss (annexation of Austria by Germany).

The Anschluss (Annexation of Austria by Germany) in Linz, Austria, 1938. Air is filled with falling paper swastika confetti. Several German warplane aircraft are seen overhead. Young men march in street past the Philipp Hotel. View of Dreifaltigkeitssäule or the Holy Trinity Column (Dreifaltigkeitssäule, Hauptplatz, 4020 Linz, Austria) honoring plague victims. German officers converse with local citizen in town square. People gather at base of an obelisk topped with an eagle. Adolf Hitler stands in an open car and acknowledges cheering crowds as he enters the Adolf Hitler Platz (Hauptpl., 4020 Linz, Austria). Later, at night, Hitler stands on a balcony in the din, looking over the tumultuous activities.

Date: 1938
Duration: 1 min 4 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: German
Clip: 65675041767