Synopsis
Czechoslovakia. The world looks to Prague. Young Czechs with flags on trucks (title background) Munich: people To give signatures as a protest against the Russian invasion in the CSSR.
(8 m)
Bad Godesberg: protest meeting with posters.
(5 m)
London: protest meeting. Banners and posters.
(7 m)
Paris: black armbands at the fence of the Czech Embassy in Paris. Students and workers demonstrate.
(8 m)
The Hague: Dutch are slung posters outside the Soviet Embassy.
(10 m)
Bucharest: Rally of hundreds of thousands. Clapping. Leader Ceausescu speaks original sound to the masses. Crowds of listeners, screen-filling.
(11 m)
Rotterdam: Vacationers from Czechoslovakia and Czech workers in Holland meet and keep track of crisis in the country.
(11 m)
Munich: Czech holiday bus. Czech vacationers before returning home to their country. Two women weeping goodbye. Czechs To give interviews interview: "that something like this can happen in the 20th century, is incredible. For the Russians, I didn't expect that from you. I can nothing stop that we all stick together. This is the only thing you can do and keep quiet. "Would prefer remain here, but I have the children at home."
(15 m)
Prague. Russian tanks occupied Prague. Painted swastikas on the tanks. Young Czechs berate occupying soldiers. Russian soldiers to deal with guns held by road and drive people to the page. Residents are threatening and spitting on tanks.
(35 m)
Willy Brandt speaks on the situation in Czechoslovakia: "For US Germans it is very depressing that even the sons of our people were involved in the Soviet action, i.e., that troops from the other part of Germany on this brutal action against the freedom and the independence aspirations of the Czechoslovak neighbors have to take part."
(12 m)
DEFA: DDR Army: title eyewitness 35. parade of the Eastern army. Training of the soldiers. Tanks in maneuvers. Firing of rockets. Pilot runs to aircraft. Pilot in airplane cockpit. Rotating radar screen. Moving tanks. Tanks drive through water.
(24 m)
Prague II. Russian tanks in the streets of Prague. Boy people infected gasoline canisters on tanks, large. Young people wave flags. Turret swivels, great. People flee. Verwundeter is carried on stretcher. 2 dead below CSSR flag. Driven along bus. Traffic crossing, from above, with roadblocks, street cars and tanks. Errant tank bypasses trees. Burning house. Wounded on a stretcher. Burning truck. Burning tanks. Gunshots, fires. Young girl lay flowers at the Memorial of fallen. Cross and flowers on the road.
(77 m)
Origin / Type of content
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Narration
the world looks to Prague "protest against the invasion of the CSSR with your signature. Judge. the methods that have worked with Moscow, East Berlin and her friends here in the CSSR"
Collected 15,000 signatures in Munich - against five invaders who invited the wrath and the disdain of world public opinion to. Her tentative return - negotiated at Moscow Conference tables - is hardly suited to recoup the loss of prestige. The protest, which drastically and spontaneously beating against them from all over the world, is to appreciate how hard the aggressors will have to win back its credibility.
The black armbands to fence of the Czechoslovak Embassy in Paris is expression for the disappointed hopes of French policy of detente in Eastern Europe at the same time. Gaullists and left students were United in their outrage. Restrained and disciplined - but clearly demonstrated in their language - the Dutch outside the Soviet Embassy in the Hague.
Under increasing pressure from their opponents in the Socialist camp, more than 100,000 Romanians celebrated their leader Ceausescu accusatory speech as yet unsurpassed commitment to national self-confidence.
The citizens of Czechoslovakia but, we met on holiday or business trips in Western European cities, gathered in silent protest and tense expectation. For them, it is of course, to return to their homes.
From Munich, the last buses headed back with Czechoslovakian visitors in the CSSR, the communiqué from Moscow was Not yet known. The uncertainty about whether the free travel with the Federal Republic will remain, mingled in the pain of parting.
"That something like this can happen in the 20th century, is incredible. For the Russians, I didn't expect that them by I. I can no more stop, that we all keep together. This is the only thing you can do and keep quiet. "Would prefer remain here, but I have the children at home."
The cohesion, the unity of the Czechoslovak people, was hardly bigger than in this first week of occupation. The occupying forces could even those not on track, of which they claimed to be called.
The Prague reviled the Soviets as fascists and repeatedly asked the embarrassing question: why you're here Pochemu,?
In the discussions with young Prague, who knew the law on their side, shattered the pride of Red Army soldiers. Shoot and they had learned fighting; the challenge to think, they had to surrender.
The invasion was a quarter of a million Warsaw Pact troops in Czechoslovakia to the gauntlet against the freedom. Humiliated by the population, from their leaders in the lurch left, ignorant, what they do and where they are. Some Soviet soldiers believed to be in Poland.
Demeaning and shameful that German soldiers will participate in the Act of violence - the judgments in Germany's capital city were consistent.
"For US Germans it is very depressing that even the sons of our people were involved in the Soviet action, i.e., that troops from the other part of Germany on this brutal action against the freedom and the independence aspirations of the Czechoslovak neighbors have to take part."
The East German weekly news published a report which we reflected To give in original clips immediately prior to the invasion.
"Not always characterize our soldiers so clearly the image of the streets and places, your leisure or your responsible service covered by large public demonstrations in the rarest of cases. The experiences of history, especially the most recent, say you not can prevent imperialist warmongers friendly slogans and appeals to the murders, but by visible and measurable militärischeBarrieren. Our national people's army in the association with the Soviet army and all States of the Warsaw Pact demonstrate so. their superiority, which is based on the love of peace"
In Prague, turned out to be the love of peace as lying cynicism. The invasion culminated in a hunt on defenseless. But already on the first day, the fronts were: the hunted Hunter, were from the endangered - master of passive resistance.
Reserve tanks were ignited.
Tank lost a battle.
When the first shots were fired, the scenery suddenly reminded of 1953 and 1956, in the uprising against the violence in East Berlin and Hungary. These scenes from the 1968 Prague have gone around the world. They are renewed evidence that Soviet tolerance there stops, where she begins to touch Soviet power politics.
The days of the resistance will certainly more shape as the forced compromises on the Moscow Conference awareness of citizens in the CSSR. A communique may not break the courage to resist, the will to freedom is difficult reglementierbar.
Persons in the Film
Brandt, Willy ; Ceausescu
Places
Munich ; Bad Godesberg ; London ; Paris ; The Hague ; Bucharest ; Belgrade ; Rotterdam ; Prague ; DDR ; East zone ; Bonn
Topics
Sachindex Wochenschauen ; DDR ; Demonstrations ; Interviews ; Flags ; Parades ; Radar ; Unrest ; Maneuver ; Military ; Weapons ; Flugzeugwesen, Flugwesen ; Military ; transport
Type
Newsreel (G)
Genre
Weekly Newsreel
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