Czechoslovakia (1939-1954)

A panorama of a crowd of people gathered in one of Prague's squares (from above).

Construction plans for houses and factories.

Views of newly built apartment buildings.

A public elementary school.

Children playing volleyball and running along the path to school.

Boys taking a shower in the school shower room.

Girls doing gymnastics in the gym.

Girls playing volleyball.

Children running up the stairs during recess and running out of school.

Young people at their workplaces.

Young people in a chemistry lab.

Border guards near a lowering barrier.

A Czechoslovak border post.

An address by Rudolf Beran.

Newspaper issues from 1938 criticizing collaboration with Germany.

Demonstrations in Prague.

Czechoslovak military units moving along the road.

Peasants carrying belongings and furniture on a cart.

Loaded refugee carts on a city street and a country road.

Barbed wire stretched between the border posts.

A border guard at the barrier.

Women examine a new map of Czechoslovakia in a shop window.

Men hold subpoenas.

Emil Hácha at his desk in his office.

Views of Prague.

Hitler with officers in Prague.

A parade of German troops on Wenceslas Square.

Rudolf Beran and members of the government.