us-005578-irn556025
type: RecordSet
date: June 2-12, 1942
has or had holder: us-005578
has or had identifier: 1
has or had identifier: 2
has or had some members with language: ces
has or had subject: 851
has record set type: Item
identifier: irn556025
scope and content: Official Czech newsreel folowing the assassination of Heydrich. The Czech government proclaims their loyalty to the Germans in a remembrance ceremony. “Cesky ZVUKOVÝ TÝDENÍK” “Prag-Praha” “KTULIA AKTUALITÀ” Church of Our Lady Before Tyn in Prague - a mass demonstration in Old Town Square on June 2, 1942. Stage with Czech coat of arms. Crowd. Astronomical Clock Tower. People stand and sit on the Jan Hus Memorial. The square is packed. German officials walk towards the grandstand. Around 60,000 people have gathered in the square (the German minority in Prague was significant). Aerial view. Dr. Krejči, chairman of the government, begins speaking. More views of the dense crowd, CUs. Spokesman of the youth, Dr. Teuner, at the podium. Polish coat of arms in BG. Uniformed officials stand at the front of the crowd.“ASTORCH SYA” on fresco in BG. Aerial view of the demonstration. Minister of War Emanuel Moravec takes the podium, three microphones in front of him. Faces of men and women in the crowd. WS of Moravec at the podium with German officials. Crowd applauds, Czech anthem. Men salute. Crowd responds. Intertitle, “Böhmen und Mähren Cechy a Morava.” INT, workers salute. Men walk through the crowd. Officers salute. Minister of transport and technology, Dr. Kaménický, on stage. View through the spokes of a wheel. ECU of men’s faces as they watch speaker. Crowd. Workers lean against the locomotive in work attire. Audience claps, some salute. Numbers on the arch above the speaker’s podium: “543051.” Work-master Faifrlik joins stage. Dr. Kaménický salutes the crowd. Men salute back. Cathedral of St. Peter and Paul in Brünn on June 12, 1942. “MÄHRISCHES LANDES-MUSEUM.” Crowd in the Zelný trh (Vegetable Market) square. Large stage with Nazi flags in middle of this crowd. Parnas fountain. Men, women and children watch from behind a rope. Minister Moravec begins his speech. Photographer. People surround the Parnas fountain. Old Town Hall Clock tower in Brno. Crowd watches and salu…
title: Remembrance ceremonies for Heydrich in Prague, Brno, Plzen, and Tabor