Synopsis
Prague gets young of Czechs for freedom with flags on trucks.
People give Munich signatures to protest the Russian invasion in the CSSR.
Bad Godesberg protest meeting with posters. Willy Brandt speaks actuality, big, on the situation in Czechoslovakia. "The dispute over the Czechoslovakia is a dispute within the Communist world any confrontation between East and West, but in the political core. On the other hand one must know that our security in any way is impaired, but that so he can feel those areas in the Western defense alliance that Atlantic Alliance, to include are, which is also in the past."
London protest meeting. Banners and posters.
Paris black armbands at the fence of the Czech Embassy in Paris. Students and workers demonstrate.
The Hague Dutch slung posters are in front of the Soviet Embassy.
Bucharest rally of hundreds of thousands. Clapping. Ceausecsu head of State mentions balcony original sound to the masses. Crowds of listeners, screen-filling.
Belgrade Czech vacationers on the campsite. They inhabit the crisis for railway wagons and tents. Output of food and medicines.
Rotterdam meet travellers from Czechoslovakia and Czechs working in the Netherlands. Weeping woman.
Munich of Czech holiday bus. Czech vacationers before returning home to their country. Two women weeping goodbye. Czechs give interviews prior to departure, quote: "that something like this can happen in the 20th century, is incredible. For the Russians, I didn't expect that from them. I can no more stop that we all stick together. This is the only thing you can do and keep quiet. "Powers like to stay here, but I have the children at home."
Prague I and II tanks in the streets of Prague. People abuse occupying soldiers. Swastikas on the tanks. People umdrängen tank and talk with soldiers. Armoured soldiers abuse young people. Russian soldiers to deal with stored guns by road and drive people to the site. Young men swing Czech flags. Gasoline canister at tanks are lit, great. Roadblocks. The rotating turret, large. People flee. Verwundeter carried off on stretcher. Blood-soaked flag. 2 dead among CSSR flags. Driven along bus. Traffic crossing from the top roadblocks, tram lines and tanks. Tank driving trees. Burning house. Burning truck. Shots. Explosion. Burning tanks. Memorial for dead on the road. Young woman lays down flowers under cross.
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Narration
Prague calls for freedom "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"
Disappointed and angered people in the Federal Republic on the occupation warned Foreign Minister Brandt Czechoslovakia but to reinterpret the conflict between Orthodox and reform-friendly Communists into a global crisis responded.
"The dispute over the Czechoslovakia is a dispute within the Communist world any confrontation between East and West, but in the political core. On the other hand you must know that our security in any way impaired, but that those areas which include to are in the Western defense Alliance, the Atlantic Alliance, feel so sure can as in the past."
In the main cities around the world, people still protesting the violent approach of the Soviet Union. In London, hundreds of demonstrators called for the withdrawal of the occupying forces.
A loop of grief at the gate of the Paris Embassy of CSSR expressed the sympathy of the French with the politics of Prague. Workers and employees protested with a five-minute work stoppage, the students Union demonstration against Soviet imperialism.
In the Hague, police had to protect the Russian Embassy against demonstrators. The Dutch for party leader Dubcek and against the old Stalinists Novotny agreed on posters.
Bucharest, advised even in the field of tension of Soviet threats, experienced the biggest rally. Before more than 100,000 Romanians, party leader Ceausescu condemned the invasion of the Russian Polish, Bulgarian, Hungarian and Central German troops as a violation of the sovereignty of a free Socialist state. The right to independence, so he demanded must remain basis of political cooperation for the countries of the Warsaw Pact. Insecure and clueless about 50,000 Czechs abroad are waiting for an end of the occupation. In Belgrade, Czechoslovak tourists, who does not want to return to their homes, be accommodated on campsites and in railway wagons. An information service medical care and the issue of food are obvious assistance for the Yugoslavs.
Rotterdam is the meeting place for the Czechs working in Holland or take a holiday. Dutch protesters offer moral, a Committee of material support.
In Munich, Czechoslovak tourists took leave of their German friends and relatives. Shortly before their return to the CSSR, we asked some of them according to their views on the events: "that something like this can happen in the 20th century, is incredible. For the Russians, I didn't expect that from them. I can no more 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."
An event that is - go as a disgrace to the socialism in the history of the called Radio Prague the invasion of Czechoslovakia. She confirmed only a few weeks previously in Cierna and Bratislava national independence and territorial integrity of turned out to be the emergence of the first tanks as the other, but voided formula of Soviet policy. For the Czechs, the invasion of the Soviet glicb the invasion of Hitler's Army 30 years ago. In contrast to at that time but the young Czechs and Slovaks fought this time almost exclusively according to the methods of passive resistance. Again and again they tried to realize the futility of their action and the importance of reform communism to the occupying forces.
In less than 2 3/4 hours, 250,000 men were occupying the nerve centers of Czechoslovakia. There were also two divisions from East Germany among the troops. Ulbricht, still be booed during his visit to Dubcek, took his revenge.
But already on the first day, the fronts were used: 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 yet another reminder 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
Belgrade ; Munich ; Bad Godesberg ; London ; Paris ; The Hague ; Bucharest ; Rotterdam ; Prague ; Bonn
Topics
Sachindex Wochenschauen ; Demonstrations ; Interviews ; Flags ; Unrest ; Weapons ; Unemployment, unemployment ; 14 find book new German newsreel slow motion
Type
Newsreel (G)
Genre
Weekly Newsreel
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