Occupation regimes in France and Czechoslovakia (1939-1940)

The French greet Marshal Petain after the armistice, children bring flowers to Petain.

Ministers of the Vichy government at the entrance to the palace in October 1940. Women and children bring bouquets of flowers to Petain at the entrance to the Hotel Majestic.

Petain accepts the flowers.

Petain signing a decree.

Petain's signature on the decree.

A unit of French fascists marching through the streets of the city.

View of the parade ground of a military unit, the slogan "Long live Petain" in French, composed of soldiers.

A unit of French fascists marching through the streets of the city, people on the sidewalks greet them, raising their right hands.

A military unit of the Vichy government in formation.

A patch on the sleeve of a soldier's uniform.

The face of a collaborationist soldier.

Arrested communists and anti-fascists are led out of the building.

The arrested are led down the street under escort.

People on the street reading the text of the Vichy government's announcement of cooperation with Nazi Germany.

Farewell at the train station for French volunteers who joined the Wehrmacht.

Graffiti on the walls of passing carriages.

German troops crossing the border of Czechoslovakia on March 14, 1939, local residents greeting the Germans.

People standing on the sidewalks with their right hands raised, German troops moving along the streets of the city.

People's faces.

Women wiping away tears, faces of marching German soldiers.

German soldiers with machine guns on their shoulders.

Czechoslovakian President Benes sits down at the table to sign the decree on his resignation.

Newspaper reports on Benes's resignation.

Covers of books banned in Czechoslovakia by the occupation authorities.

Faces of people looking at a shop window on the street.

Photographs of Hitler on a shop window.

The cover of Hitler's book "Mein Kampf".

German soldiers on a street in Prague.

A photograph of the new President of Czechoslovakia Emil Hacha published in a newspaper.

Hacha smokes a cigar.

Faces of Slovak politicians Tiso and Tuka, who collaborated with the Nazi authorities.

A column of buses loaded with looted goods drives down the street.

Eviction of the Czech population from homes and neighborhoods.

People subject to eviction load things onto a truck.

Faces of Czech refugees.

Evicted people leave the city with things in their hands.

Map of the transformation of Czechoslovakia into the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia (animation).

Parade of German troops on the streets of Prague.

German troops enter Prague on March 15, 1939. German armored vehicles on one of the streets of Prague.

Raising the flag with a swastika over Hradcany.

German soldiers salute the Nazi flag.

Czech officials during the presentation to the appointed Reich Protector Konstantin von Neurath.

The Nazi flag over Hradcany.

Residents of Prague swimming in an open-air swimming pool.

Girls sunbathing in bathing suits.

Diving from a diving board into a pool.

Girls sunbathing in deck chairs (panorama).

Faces of girls.

Passers-by on a street in pre-war Prague.

Czech peasants harvesting and threshing grain.