Francais
Deutsch
Italiano
Refine Your Search
Warsaw Poland 1950 stock footage and images
- Showing 13 to 18 of 1395 results
more
Hide
Delegates from France,United States,Great Britain make speeches at World Peace Congress in Warsaw,Poland
At the pro Soviet world peace congress in Warsaw bishop meets delegates from other countries. A reporter draws a sketch of a delegate with a beard and a head gear. Delegates interact with each other as photographers take pictures. A female reporter takes down some notes. Speakers from Great Britain,United States and France deliver speeches.
Czechoslovakia and Soviet relations after World War 2; Dubcek liberalization during Prague Spring; Soviet occupation in 1968
History of Czechoslovakia from 1919 to 1968 depicts lives of its people and various crisis. Clip shows combination of still images and moving images, with background of Czech musical soundtrack. A burning Nazi plane shot by Soviet military during World War II. Soviet Red Army marches in Prague, Poland in May 1945 to rescue from German occupation and atrocities. People destroy Nazi emblems and symbols from buildings. People assemble in large numbers on roads and cheer for the incoming Soviet troops and tanks. Civilians of Czechoslovakia during normal life after World War 2. Workers in mines, farmers in field and women work in houses. Spread of communism and communists make a star formation during a rally in Prague (sometimes called the Prague Spring). President Edvard Benes in 1948 signs pact with Soviet government. Photos of Soviet General Joseph Stalin and other Soviet leaders in his office. Various Presidents and leaders of Czechoslovakia during the 1950s. Military and civilian communist groups march on streets in 1956. Czech Skoda automobile production factory scenes in mid 1960s. Workers work in factories and shops till night hours. A Czech textile factory scene. Czech men and women in 1960s fashions enjoying mugs of beer. Several scenes with Alexander Dubček, (Alexander Dubcek), then Soviet leaders Nikita Khrushchev and Nikolai Brezhnev arrive for meeting with Dubček. Smiling Czech people walk in cities and at a cafe during liberalization measures. Soviet and Warsaw Pact tanks, armored vehicles, infantry and aircraft start their occupation ending the Prague Spring in Prague, Bratislave and other cities in August 1968. Civilians protest, demonstrate, and argue with Soviet troops and demonstrate in streets. Some approach tanks and attempt to damage the tanks. Large crowd of civilians watch the retreating Soviet forces from Czechoslovakia in 1968. Red Army met with agitation and resistance on streets by civilians. Soviet troops fire at some demonstrating civilians.
Youth march in Warsaw, Harry Truman and other political effigies paraded during the Cold War
Communist youth rally in Warsaw during the Cold War. Participants carry two large posters bearing the images of Joseph Stalin and Polish President Dr. Boleslaw Bierut. Polish drummers march. Polish flags are being waved. Polish people clap in unison as they watch the youth rally. Polish official wave with rose bouquet. North Korean youth delegates, wearing the North Korean Pioneer uniform, march in Warsaw Youth Rally with the North Korean flag and posters of Supreme Leader of North Korea and President Kim Il-Sung and Chinese Communist Leader Mao Zedong. North Korean youth delegates waving flowers and flags in the air during Youth Rally. Polish Youth Rally participants marching. Polish President Dr. Boleslaw Bierut claps during rally. Polish spectators clap in unison from building. Youth rally marching with Stalin’s poster in Warsaw. Polish youth rally participants carry large letters spelling “WROCLAW” and the coat of arms of Wroclaw, Poland. Polish youth rally participants carry letters spelling cities in Poland. Female polish youth carry flags during youth rally. Youth rally participants carry posters of communist figures and a model of the Warsaw Palace of Culture and Science. Polish couple, the woman wearing a floral headscarf and the man with sunglasses, watch the rally. An political effigy of United States President Harry Truman, depicted holding a Nazi Swastika wand, is being paraded during the youth rally. Effigies of rats with top hats, skeletons and Nazi Swastikas, are being paraded around Warsaw by Polish youth during rally. Polish officials watch from review platform. Polish youth rally marching.
Opening ceremony of Pro Soviet World Peace Congress in Warsaw, Poland
Delegates of different nations like China,United States exchange greetings. Priests and bishops are also seen meeting and greeting people. Delegates take their seats as convention begins. The congress' president,Fredric Joliet-Curie opens the ceremony and delegates rise from their seats to clap. In his speech he appeals for a world organization to control atom bomb. Another Italian representative Pietro Nenni in his speech criticizes the Atlantic pact and American action in Korea.
The invasion and siege of Warsaw, Poland by German forces during World War II
The German viewpoint of events during the Polish Campaign in Warsaw, Poland, during World War 2. Ostensibly to spare Warsaw from destruction, German soldiers, in a mobile communications center, issue an ultimatum from the German High Command, to the Commander of the city of Warsaw, demanding capitulation of defending forces within 12 hours. A German Junkers Ju-52 trimotor transport aircraft parked at a small airport. The aircraft takes off (to disperse handbills with this message.) A German Dornier DO-17 bomber takes off. Next, a German checkpoint is seen clogged with vehicles amd persons attempting to leave the city. Narrator states that only 870 members of the Diplomatic Corps and 1200 foreigners elected to leave. They are seen departing along a road set aside for that purpose by the German High Command. German officers supervise their departure. One,carrying Japanese diplomats, bears a large Japanese flag on its roof. Next, the siege of Warsaw begins, with German gunners loading and firing a 305mm siege mortar. They take refuge in a trench behind the weapon when it fires. Other German field artillery firing, including a 75mm field piece, a 15 cm sfh18 german heavy field howitzer and others not seen. German gunners using periscopic range finding equipment and looking through binoculars to direct artillery. A freight train hit by gunfire. More German 15cm sFH 18 guns firing. German troops watching the artillery barrages from a trench. Smoke rising in distance. More sfh18s firing. Smoke clouds forming above the city. Adolf Hitler observing the artillery siege through periscopic binoculars. Tops of the heads of his officer entourage (their uniform caps) as they crowd around Hitler. More smoke rising as the artillery barrages continue. Adolf Hitler holding binoculars as he stands in the company of army officers. He, and they, look up at sound of aircraft overhead. View of Ju-87 Stuka dive bombers low overhead. Aerial view of smoke on ground and formed into billowing clouds above the city. View from cockpit of observation plane, of smoke rising from Warsaw citadel.
The Fall of Warsaw, Poland, and continued struggle of Poles during occupation in World War II
Shows the fall and destruction of Warsaw, Poland during World War 2. Polish General Tadeusz Kutrzeba, deputy commander of Warsaw, walks to a bus in which German officers await to negotiate a cease fire. He is seen inside, through the window of the bus as they discuss disposition of forces using a map. Nazi occupation of the city and bombed ruins. Examples of Polish resistance in the city, such as man on his knees in a tunnel, firearms, printing pamphlets, man setting type and running press, distributing anti-Nazi pamphlets, German poster announcing executions in Lublin, Poland. Exact Warsaw locations unknown, but some possibly within the Warsaw Ghetto. Scene shows men pasting anti-Nazi posters, doing graffiti on wall, taking still photographs. Wrecked bridges and trains.
