People prepare costumes for pre-Lenten carnival celebrations in Europe. Seamstresses sewing and preparing costumes for carnival in Vienna, Austria. A woman tries out a tulle carnival dress. A hairdresser fixes the hair of a woman. A woman puts on a conical hat. A matron wears an elegant sequined dress with a fan made of peacock feathers. Men and women in costumes dancing. A man opens a bottle of champagne. Men and women in costumes and masks toast with their champagne glasses. Italian artisans display papier-mâché figures and floats during a carnival parade in the seaside town of Viareggio, Italy. A papier-mâché effigy head moves mechanically. Giant papier-mâché effigies are featured in the carnival. A papier-mâché effigy of a king with a long nose. Grotesque effigies on top of floats.
U.S. Army Colonel Keith K. Compton, commander of the 376th Bomb Group in Libya, North Africa briefs his Army Air Force aircraft crews for the first Allied bombing mission against the Nazi German ME-109 (Messerschmitt Bf 109) aircraft manufacturing plant south of Vienna at Wiener-Neustadt, Austria, in World War 2. The map that Colonel Compton is using shows the air routes to and from the target. The mission will commence early the next day, on 13 August 1943. An unrelated scene shows U.S. Army and Army Air Force men conversing with an Australian soldier in a summer uniform.
Austrian troops in the European Theater during World War I. Austrian cavalry parade on a field. Horse-drawn wagons move along the field. Charles I of Austria, on horseback, speaks to members of royal family in a carriage. Funeral service for Japanese Navy Admiral Heihachiro Togo, Tokyo, Japan. German troops marching to war in 1914. Newspapers announce outbreak of World War I. British troops standing by trenches, fix their bayonets on rifles and advance to take cover in a bomb crater. Gas shells explode near them as they advance across No Man's Land. Litter bearers pick up casualties from the battlefield.
German invasion of Russia during World War II. A map showing German invasion path in Russia until defeat at siege of Stalingrad. A map showing Soviet postwar expansion into Eastern Poland, East Prussia, portions of Finland and other areas. Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia are incorporated as Republics into the Soviet Union. Russian zones of occupation in Germany, Austria and North Korea. Map depicts an "Iron Curtain" encompassing the Soviet postwar territories. Soviet troops and tanks occupying countries. Soviet ZSU-57-2 self-propelled anti-aircraft guns traveling along a city street. Crowds cheering in a stadium in Soviet East Germany. President Wilhelm Pieck of the German Democratic Republic is among people seen applauding in the stands. . Soviet cargo ships in a harbor operating under trade agreements. Chinese Communist forces moving with guns and artillery and tanks to expel Chiang Kai-Shek and Chinese Nationalists from mainland China to Taiwan, in 1949. Chinese refugees flee an area, carrying an injured civilian on a stretcher. A refugee child is shown with the group of people.
A film on 1918 celebrations of independence as the Habsburg reign ends in Prague, Czechoslovakia. Czecho-Slovak troops look out from a railroad train window as they arrive in Prague. Troops stand holding their flag. The troops arrive from Austria. People cheer as troops march. People cover the statue of Joseph Radetzky von Radetz in front of the Radetzky Memorial at the Malostranské náměstí, the main square of Malá Strana (Lesser Town) at the foot of Prague Castle. Cartoons and caricatures of Kaiser and Crown Prince. Pictures of the cabinet members of Czechoslovakia. Troops depart from Slovakia to hold the Hungarian border on horse carts and horses. Battisti, the brother of the executed Italian deputy in a car. (World War I; World War 1; WWI; WW1)
Finger wrestling championship in Bavaria, Germany. Players pull the opponent over the table using finger. Competitors (wearing Lederhosen) from Bavaria and Austria engage in Fingerhakeln. Spectators cheer the players. Referee gives the judgment.
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