The Orient Express stopping over at Nazi German-occupied Vienna (Anschluss). View of Vienna as seen from inside a moving railroad train. Train slowing down near its arrival at the train station. The Colonnade Gloriette of Schoenbrunn Palace (Schönbrunner Schloßstraße 47 1130 Vienna) is seen far in the distance. Passengers disembark and embark on the Orient Express train in Vienna. Conductor checks tickets of passengers before allowing them to board. The Orient Express train begins to move, departing from the station. An elevated view of a train at a station platform. Train number reads "01-089", identified as DRB - Deutsche Reichsbahn [D] locomotive "01 089". Conductors complete final preparations for departure and the Deutsche Reichbahn train pulls away from the station platform.
Germans enter into Vienna, Austria. A procession of cars and trucks enters Vienna. The Nazis cheered and saluted as they pass public buildings.The Austrian Parliament Building. Civilians parade. Children wave small Nazi flags. Adolf Hitler stands in his car. The car passes through the streets. Women smile. Nazi soldiers lined up along the street. Adolf Hitler gets out of his car and shakes hands with officials. He walks along an avenue crowded with soldiers and people. Adolf Hitler stands on a balcony and acknowledges the cheers. 'Sieg Heils' and 'Hitler ist Fuehrer' are heard. Ambient sound of crowd and parade is heard during the clip.
The Anschluss.German displays its military on parade in Vienna, Austria. German Luftwaffe Junkers JU 88 bombers fly overhead in formations. Huge crowds watch. Some spectators climb trees for a better view. Adolf Hitler looks up from reviewing stand to watch the planes. Hitler salutes units as they pass the reviewing stand in front of the art and natural history museums.. Parade around the Vienna Ring, includes armored cars, tanks, artillery and trucks filled with Nazi soldiers, motorcycles, cavalry, infantry and a goose stepping color guard. Crowd including an officer covered with medals watch the procession.
Archduke Francis Ferdinand's funeral in Vienna, Austria. His assassination led to the outbreak of World War I. The caisson bearing the coffin of Archduke Francis Ferdinand moves on the streets followed by royal guards. Pall bearers unload the coffin from the caisson. A large number of soldiers in the streets of Vienna.
German leader Adolf Hitler makes dramatic entry in Vienna, following the Anschluss, to celebrate the Osterreichs Befreiung (Austria's Liberation). View from above of Heldenplatz (Heldenplatz, 1010 Vienna), with crowd assembling. Crowds cheer as Hitler's motorcade proceeds into Heldenplatz. Huge crowd gathered around the equestrian statue of Prince Eugene of Savoy. Adolf Hitler gets out of open car and proceeds up steps of the Hofburg Palace. The crowd cheers. Nazi German flags hung from the building. A civilian official introduces Adolf Hitler, from balcony of the Hofburg Palace. Adolf Hitler, dressed in uniform with cap, addresses the crowd. The crowd shouts "Sieg Heil." Many spectators stand on the Prince Eugene of Savoy monument to get a better view.
Professor Archibald Cary Coolidge of Harvard University, special assistant to the Department of State, assigned to the American Commission to negotiate peace after World War 1. He is seen in this sequence, with members of his staff, headquartered in Vienna, Austria, from where they assessed postwar political conditions in Austria-Hungary and neighborhood countries, and made recommendations for the U.S. participants at the Paris Peace Conference, 1919. The sequence begins with staff members walking from the Hofburg (Hofburg, Michaelerkuppel 1010 Wien). It is January, and snow is on the ground. Professor Coolidge holds gloves in his left hand and warms his right hand inside his coat in Napoleonic manner, as he chats with others. Staff members are predominantly military officers and include both U.S. Army and Navy personnel.