Palace and gardens at Schönbrunn Palace. Three women pose for a photograph. A man poses with two women in the Schönbrunn Palace Park. Tourists walk around. High hedges and statuary seen in the gardens. Schönbrunn Palace garden gloriette seen in distance. (Amateur home movie.)
The Nazi Army enters Austria. Nazi soldiers on horses as they enter Innsbruck, Kufstein and Salzburg in Austria after crossing over its frontiers. People give the Nazi salute. Soldiers advance towards Austria. A convoy of German trucks on the move. German soldiers enter towns and villages. People welcome the troops as they wave Nazi flags. A Nazi band plays. Newly appointed Chancellor of Austria, Artur Seyys-Inquart in a balcony as he waves to the crowds. German troops loaded in trucks move towards Austria. A motorcade moves past a large crowd as people cheer.
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.
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'
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.
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.