International politics of fascism and the Munich Agreement (1935-1940)

Italian aviation bombs populated areas in Ethiopia (Abyssinia) during the Second Italo-Ethiopian War of 1935-1936. A villager runs away from a burning hut.

Faces of a man and a child.

Abyssinian militiamen with rifles over their shoulders walk down a city street.

A bomb explodes.

The face of a man injured during an air raid.

Mussolini attaches an order ribbon to the flagpole.

An order is at the top of the flag.

Mussolini presents an award to one of the officers.

Planes fly over one of the cities in Spain.

Burning houses.

A car with a Red Cross flag drives down the street.

Parents see off Spanish children to be evacuated.

A banner over the street with the slogan "No pasaran!".

Republicans see off a ship with evacuated children.

German bombers fly over.

Italian troops moving along the roads of Albania in April 1939. Faces of local residents.

A truck with Italian Bersaglieri in the back drives along a city street.

Litvinov M.M. speaks from the rostrum at a meeting of the League of Nations.

German troops crossing the Austro-German border during the Anschluss of 1938. German planes in the sky over Vienna.

The national flags of France and Great Britain on the sides of the entrance to a building in Munich.

British Prime Minister Chamberlain signs the Munich Agreement on September 30, 1938. Mussolini signs the agreement.

French Prime Minister E. Daladier signs the text of the agreement.

Hitler, Goering, Hess and the leaders of the Third Reich talk after the signing of the Munich Agreement.

German troops crossing the border of the Sudetenland in September 1938. People standing on the sidewalks greet the German troops.

Crying women.

German troops march through the streets and squares of Prague on March 15, 1939. The swastika flag over Prague.

SS officers salute the raising of the Nazi flag over Prague.

Bombing of Polish cities by the Nazi air force in September 1939. Hitler looks out the window of an airplane.

Ruins of London buildings after a German air raid.

London children are evacuated.

View of the Eiffel Tower in Paris.

Parents see their children off to be evacuated, a bus with children leaves.

Planting the swastika flag on the Eiffel Tower.

Hitler and his entourage at the Trocadero with the Eiffel Tower in the background on June 23, 1940. Mussolini sees Hitler off at the station near a train carriage.

Hitler boards the carriage.

Hitler meeting Admiral Horthy at the station on August 22, 1938. Horthy and Hitler inspect the guard of honor of naval sailors at the naval base in Heligoland.

The heavy cruiser Prinz Eugen before its launch.

Hitler, Horthy and their entourage climb to the ship's stem.

The traditional bottle of champagne before the launching ceremony.

Breaking a bottle of champagne on the ship's stem.

The name of the cruiser on board.

The launch of the cruiser, Hitler and Horthy during the ceremony.

Landing of the German Condor aircraft after a non-stop flight from Berlin to New York on August 11, 1938. The aircraft taxis to its parking lot.

View of the nose of the aircraft.

Reporters near the aircraft at Floyd Bennett Airfield.

The crew of the aircraft gives a short press conference.

Faces of children greeting Hitler.

Hitler rides standing in an open car.

German troops entering the Sudetenland in 1938. Women's faces greeting German troops.

Destruction of a Czechoslovak border sign.

French Prime Minister Daladier walks along the Wehrmacht honor guard after arriving in Munich in September 1938. Hitler, Mussolini, Ribbentrop, Chamberlain, Daladier before the talks in Munich.

SS officers at the table during a celebration.

Hitler greeting the military.

German troops and armored vehicles moving through the streets of Prague.

Hitler's arrival in Prague.

Hitler greeting the people of Prague from a palace window.

The swastika banner over Prague.

Views of the ceremonial procession along the Champs Elysees in Paris in 1938, dedicated to the anniversary of the end of World War I. Disabled war veterans during the procession.

Faces of Parisians.

French Prime Minister E. Daladier leads the procession.

Faces of Parisians.

Daladier shakes hands with veterans.

Daladier during the wreath-laying ceremony at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier in Paris under the Arc de Triomphe.

Daladier lights the eternal flame over the tomb.

Faces of veterans during the performance of the anthem.

The French flag under the Arc de Triomphe.

Daladier delivers a speech from the rostrum in parliament (synchronously).

The entry of German troops into the Sudetenland in September 1938, local residents greet the passing troops.

Hitler's motorcade crosses the border.

City residents greet Hitler.

Hitler's face as he drives through the city streets.

Hitler and Himmler at a banquet table in the open air.

The clock on the Town Hall building in Prague.

The interior of the Presidential Palace in Prague in 1938. Czechoslovak President Beneš working at his desk.

Military personnel on their way to see Beneš.

Pro-Nazi demonstrations in Slovakia.

Tiso J. speaking from the podium at one of the rallies.

Panorama and views of the rally.

Diplomatic reception in Berlin in 1939, foreign diplomats entering the hall, followed by Hitler.

Foreign diplomats during the reception.

Hitler shakes hands with each of the diplomats.

Hitler talks with foreign diplomats.

Hitler reviews a military parade.

Filling a syringe with medicine.

Meeting Czechoslovak President E. Hácha at the train station in Berlin in March 1939. Map of the absorption of Czechoslovakia by Germany (animation).

German troops marching on the outskirts of Prague on March 15, 1939.