August, 1939 (1988)

Tank on the pedestal of a monument in Poland.

View of part of the Gdansk port.

Newsreel: everyday life and work of Polish peasants in the late 1930s.

Members of the Hitler Youth jump out of a boat near the shore.

Babies in cribs.

Views of the streets of Berlin filled with citizens greeting Hitler.

Hitler A. goes out onto the balcony, responds to greetings.

Photographs of Goering's estate "Karinhalle", interiors.

Newsreel: Goering examines the sabre and hunting axe given to him, the face of a guest.

Stormtroopers carry standards during another procession.

Hitler's face.

Procession of stormtroopers.

Hitler takes a parade in Vienna after the Anschluss of Austria in August 1938. Hitler drives through the streets of Vienna, children with flowers in their hands are brought to Hitler's car.

Hitler, Mussolini B., Goering during the signing of the Munich Agreement in 1938. British Prime Minister N. Chamberlain and French Prime Minister E. Daladier approach reporters after the signing of the Munich Agreement.

Hitler's face.

Chamberlain gives a speech at the airport after returning to Britain.

Daladier's face.

Daladier's arrival from Munich to Paris, Daladier gets into his car.

Daladier's car cannot pass through the crowd.

A sign with the name of Prague.

The entry of Wehrmacht units into Prague in March 1939. Hitler greets the troops.

View of the stern of a German warship.

Hitler greets the crews of the ships from on board.

The entry of German troops into Klaipeda (Memel) on March 23, 1939. Hitler gives a speech.

Stormtroopers with standards in formation.

A parade of Wehrmacht units.

A military orchestra plays, drummers beat the drums.

Stormtroopers with banners pass by, rally participants raise their hands in a Nazi salute.

Artists perform on the stage of the Moulin Rouge cabaret in Paris, fireworks over the Eiffel Tower.

Demonstration of new styles of evening dresses and hats.

The curtain closes the stage.

Views of the port in Danzig.

Loading ships.

Tourists get off the bus.

Girls relax on the beach.

Vacationers take pictures on the beach with a crocodile.

An entertainer in a bear costume.

View of an outdoor cafe with a dance floor (from above).

The roulette wheel spins, players in a casino at the roulette table.

A German intelligence unit makes its way through the reeds.

Ships on the Thames.

Views of London streets, passers-by and public transport on the streets.

People relax, sitting on the lawn.

View of one of the buildings.

Panorama and views of a rally in Moscow in the 1930s.

Participants in the May Day demonstration pass by.

Lenin monument in front of the Central Party Archives building.

Engineer in the locomotive cabin.

View of the front part of the locomotive "Joseph Stalin".

Holidays on a collective farm.

Motocross competition.

People run to swim in the sea.

Pioneers rowing.

Cultural events and recreation of Soviet citizens.

Conductor in a Berlin theater.

Crowd scene of one of the performances, fragments of performances, ready-made artillery ammunition in warehouses.

Crews take their places in tanks.

Launch of a new submarine, interspersed with fragments of theatrical performances.

Airplanes under camouflage nets in combat readiness at the airfield.

German fighters take off.

Rally participants walk.

A Japanese machine gunner fires during a howl in the area of the Khalkhin-Gol River in 1939. Soviet tanks go on the attack.

Combat operations of Soviet troops and aviation.

View of the Moscow Kremlin.

Newspaper reports on the arrival of the British and French military missions in Moscow, photographs of the mission members.

Newsreel: Voroshilov K.E. speaks from the rostrum (synchronously).

The conference participants applaud Voroshilov.

Horse races at the London Hippodrome.

Manoeuvres of Polish cavalry and horse artillery units.

Polish Foreign Minister Beck J. gets out of his car and greets reporters.

Newsreel of Wehrmacht combat operations on the screens of French cinemas.

Hitler and Goering watch the progress of the maneuvers.

A formation of planes in the shape of a swastika.

Parade of Wehrmacht units.

People on the streets of Paris in 1939. View of the Sacre-Coeur Basilica.

Faces of the Archbishop.

Parishioners during mass, interior views of the Catholic church.

Volunteers on the streets of London.

Churchill W. leaves the building, responds to greetings.

People on the streets of London.

Visitors to a pub playing darts and cards and drinking beer.

Flags of the USSR, France and Great Britain.

Map of Poland.

Portraits of Voroshilov.

Newsreel: people on the streets of Berlin in August 1939. Long-distance telephone switchboard.

Airplanes in the sky above the airfield in Tushino during the air parade in Tushino on August 18, 1939, the leaders of the USSR watch the flights.

Spectators on one of the stands.

Molotov V.M. and Kalinin M.I. on the stand.

Formation of planes in the shape of a five-pointed star.

Airborne assault.

Molotov on the stand.

Airplanes and parachute canopies in the sky.

People on the streets of Warsaw.

View of the parade formation of the Polish cavalry unit (above).

The regiment's brass band plays, the musicians' faces.

Lancers in formation on horseback.

Military parade in Warsaw, people greet the troops.

Foreign Minister Beck among the military.

Polish officers during mass.

Uhlans in formation.

Archbishop blessing troops.

View of the Catholic cathedral building.

German soldier sneaks through a chisel past reeds.

Views of historical buildings and monuments of Berlin in August 1939. Views of the Nazi military-historical procession in Berlin.

Animals in the London Zoo.

Bears in enclosures.

View of the Spasskaya Tower in Moscow.

View of part of Red Square during the physical culture parade.

Molotov walks along the territory of the Kremlin.

Stalin I.V. gets out of the car.

Views of the columns of the physical culture parade, Molotov, Stalin, Kaganovich L.M., Dimitrov G.M., Voroshilov on the tribune of the mausoleum.

Stalin and Molotov greet the parade participants, Voroshilov, Andreyev A.A., Budyonny S.M. stand nearby on the tribune.

Views of the streets of Berlin in the evening.

Hitler on the tribune.

Hitler's face.

Stalin at his desk in his office.

German scouts make their way through a swamp.

Panorama of a concentration of German automobile and armored vehicles.

Columns of tanks move to assembly areas, recruits try on steel helmets.

Portrait of the head of the French military mission, General Doumenque.

Portraits of Voroshilov.

A smoking cigarette butt in an ashtray in front of the national flags of the USSR, France, and Great Britain.

Newsreel: sending a letter by pneumatic tube.

Residents of Berlin listen to a report about Ribbentrop's trip to Moscow to sign the Non-Aggression Pact.

Faces of Berliners.

Ribbentrop being met in Moscow at the steps of the plane.

Surits greets Ribbentrop.

The motorcade of the German delegation leaves the airfield.

Molotov meets Ribbentrop in the Kremlin.

Photographs of Stalin, Molotov, and Ribbentrop during the signing of the Non-Aggression Pact.

Newsreel: Molotov and Ribbentrop shake hands.

Hitler's portrait on the wall of the hall.

Hitler returns greetings, gets into the car.

Hitler and Ribbentrop in Berchtesgaden.

Hitler plays with a dog.

View of part of the Westerplatte area.

A German battleship fires at Westerplatte on September 1, 1939. German bombers fly.

Landing of German airborne troops on Polish territory.

A German soldier breaks off the coat of arms of Poland from the barrier.

German planes bomb refugees on the road.

Soldiers run across the bridge, the bridge explodes.

German reconnaissance armored cars move.

Residents of Warsaw flee from raids by Hitler's aircraft, German planes bomb Polish cities.

Faces of Poles who have lost their homes, refugees pass by.

Attack of the Polish cavalry.

Articles in Soviet newspapers about the ratification of the Soviet-German Non-Aggression Pact.

Newsreel: Red Army rifle and cavalry units cross the Soviet-Polish border on September 17, 1939. Polish soldiers and officers captured by the Red Army.

Faces of prisoners of war.

Red Army units parade in Lvov.

Khrushchev N.S. on the stand.

A military orchestra plays.

VKKA commanders on the streets of Lvov.

Red Army motorized units at the parade in Lvov.

Khrushchev and Timoshenko S.K. on the stand.

An orchestra plays.

Tanks at the parade.

Publications in Soviet newspapers about the improvement of Soviet-German relations and the treaty of friendship and borders.

Photographs of Hitler and Goering during meetings with Soviet military and diplomats.

Map of the new Soviet-German border.

Newsreel: German troops entering Paris in 1940. German troops in Greece.

Parade of Wehrmacht units.

Faces of German soldiers.

German planes are flying.

The face of the pilot.

Hitler's aviation bombs Soviet territory in June 1941. Falling bombs.

Results of the bombing.

Transportation of German tanks on platforms.

The face of a German soldier.

German troops in the occupied Soviet territory.

Portraits of the leaders of the USSR, dumped in a pile.

Stalin and Molotov during the signing of the agreement on joint actions between the USSR and England on July 12, 1941. Chamberlain and Daladier leave the building after signing the Munich Agreement.

The face of the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Poland Beck.

Stalin on the podium.

Faces of the rally participants in Paris.

Molotov, Stalin, Marshal Shaposhnikov B.M. during the signing of the Soviet-English agreement.

Bomb explosions, air battles, burning armored vehicles, columns of Soviet prisoners of war, concentration camp prisoners, soldiers' cemeteries, people's faces through the frame.

Memorial lamps are burning.

Dead end of an old railway track.

People at a memorial to victims of World War II in Poland, views of the memorial.

Children play on a playground near old artillery guns.