Tonwoche №421 (1938)

Budapest, a message from September 21 is pasted onto an advertising pillar regarding the events in the Sudetenland.

People are reading newspapers.

A city street, demonstrators are marching with pro-fascist slogans.

A brass band and musicians in alpine costumes are ahead.

Columns of women and men with national flags and young people in uniform are marching.

A truck with people is driving through the crowd.

A rally in the square, people are holding posters with the slogan: "Heil, Hitler!", portraits of Hitler, Mussolini, Horthy.

Footage of the newsreel showing the unrest in Czechoslovakia: destroyed houses, an overturned cart in the yard.

The organization of volunteer units from Sudeten Germans.

The crowd welcomes a passing truck with men.

Barricades made of logs are being removed from the road.

Registration for the units, Sudeten Germans pass by the table, submitting applications.

A line of marching volunteers, issuance of weapons.

Volunteers cleaning rifles.

Distribution of dry rations.

Volunteers sitting in a clearing in the forest, with pyramids of rifles nearby.

Volunteer drills, soldiers lying with rifles in their hands.

Signalmen establishing communications, a signalman with a telephone near a tent.

Volunteers preparing for battle.

British Prime Minister Chamberlain arrives at Hitler's Berghof estate.

Ribbentrop meets him, Hitler comes down the stairs.

They discuss the attitude of England and France to the events in the Sudetenland.

In a "liberated" Sudeten town.

A sign on the road to Prague and Sasko.

Crowds of people in the street, Sudeten fascists in uniform pass through a barrier blocking the street, smiling at the camera.

A fascist flag is raised on the building.

A demonstration of Sudeten Germans, they carry a portrait of Hitler, chant slogans.

Close-ups of smiling faces of townspeople: children, women.

On the wall of the customs building in the city of Aš there is a sign with words in Czech painted over.

A rally is taking place, shouts of "Sieg Heil" can be heard.

Detachments with their hands raised in a fascist salute are marching along the street, girls, young people in uniform, soldiers are walking.

The camera moves through the crowd, a cart driven by a horse drives past, a flag with a swastika is tucked into its mane, loaders in leather aprons wave their hands.

A truck with young people is driving, shouting fascist slogans, raising their hands.

Berchtesgaden, where the negotiations with Chamberlain ended.

View of the estate from the river.

English and fascist flags are hanging, cars with English flags are parked.

Chamberlain and Ribbentrop leave the building.

Chamberlain approaches the microphone, makes a speech, then gets into the car.

Together with Ribbentrop, they go to the airfield, inspect the guard of honor.

Chamberlain gets on the plane.

Hitler leaves the building, a woman brings him flowers, the people greet the Fuhrer.

Hitler gets into the car and drives off.

A photograph of General Zerovy with a black patch over his eye, who announced mobilization and led the resistance.

The Czech army in the fight for the Sudetenland.

Czech soldiers are sitting by the fence, an armored car is driving, horse artillery is galloping, tanks are driving.

The artillerymen are turning the cannon and firing.

A broken bridge, burning houses, fires are visible.

Wounded Sudeten German volunteers in a German hospital.

A nurse is talking to a wounded man, he is talking about the events in his homeland.

The wounded are lying on the beds.

German refugees from the Sudetenland walk along the road with their belongings, infirm old people are being carried in carts, women with children are walking through the forest, cattle are tied to the carts.

Refugees are crossing the border of Germany.

The Berlin Sports Palace, where a rally is to take place on September 26, 1938, on the occasion of the National Day of the German People.

Hitler is heading to the Sports Palace in a car.

Listeners are in the hall.

Hitler is giving a speech.

Continuation.

Hitler on the platform, behind him rows of party leaders and comrades, standard-bearers.

Hitler speaks about the German nation.

The audience claps, shouts, raises their hands in a fascist salute.

View of an evening street, listeners at the loudspeakers.

Hitler's speech is listened to on the radio in cafes, at work, in the army.

Hitler on the balcony of the Reich Chancellery, a jubilant crowd below.

A military parade in front of the pantheon on Unter den Linden.

Hitler rides by in a car.

An airship hangs in the sky, planes fly by, tanks drive by.

Soldiers and sailors march along the street, tanks drive by, mechanized artillery, planes fly by.

The anthem plays.

Newspaper headlines and photographs: Hitler, Mussolini, Chamberlain and Daladier meet in Munich on the Sudetenland issue.

The police push back the crowd.

Mussolini and Hitler meet at the station, they pass by a line of troops and residents.

In Hitler's retinue: Goering, Hess, Himmler.

Driving through the streets of Munich, Hitler and Mussolini stand up and greet the jubilant residents.

At Oberwiesenfeld Airport near Munich, a plane with French President Daladier lands, Ribbentrop meets him, they travel in a car.

A plane with Chamberlain arrives, Ribbentrop meets him.

A motorcade of cars drives along the street.

In the city: Hitler arrives at the building, then Chamberlain and Daladier enter there.

Goering and Mussolini enter the entrance.

In the conference room, at the table, Hitler in front of the map, next to him Hess, Himmler, Goering, generals.

Goering rubs his hands contentedly.

Hitler talks with Mussolini, Goering is nearby.

Members of the Munich conference walk along the gallery.

Signing of the text of the agreement on the Sudetenland.