Segment from Český zvukový týdeník Aktualita (Czech Aktualita Sound Newsreel) issue no. 50B from 1943 shows how, as part of mandatory service, girls aged 10 to 18 had to exercise for two hours a week under the supervision of trained instructors of the Board of Trustees for the Education of Youth.
Segment from Československý zvukový týdeník Aktualita (Czechoslovak Aktualita Sound Newsreel) 1942, issue no. 25, depicts a public demonstration on Cabbage Market Square (Zelný trh) in Brno on 12 June 1942, which was to vociferously condemn the assassination of Acting Reich Protector Reinhard Heydrich. The gathering was attended by 12,000 people. A grandstand in the middle of the crowded square is decorated with the Imperial Eagle and the national emblems of Bohemia and Moravia. The main speaker, Minister of Education and People´s Enlightenment Emanuel Moravec, encourages Czech people to take into account the past. The segment concludes with the Czech anthem (authentic sound and singing) with images of people with arms raised in the Nazi salute.
Segment from Československý zvukový týdeník Aktualita (Czechoslovak Aktualita Sound Newsreel) 1942, issue no. 27A, depicts a public manifestation held at the Chapel of Saint Anthony of Padua on Blatnická Mountain in Moravian Slovakia on 28 June 1942, which was to unequivocally condemn the assassination of Acting Reich Protector Reinhard Heydrich. The gathering was attended by 35,000 to 40,000 people. Footage of the participants in festive folk costumes. The main organizer of the event, Minister of Education and People´s Enlightenment Emanuel Moravec, delivers a speech from a grandstand (silent). People wearing Moravian-Slovakian folk costumes with arms raised in the Nazi salute.
Segment from Československý zvukový týdeník Aktualita (Czechoslovak Aktualita Sound Newsreel) 1942, issue no. 27A, captures a public manifestation held in Moravská Ostrava on 30 June 1942, which was to unequivocally condemn the assassination of Acting Reich Protector Reinhard Heydrich. The gathering was attended by more than 80,000 people. Footage of miners in their uniforms. Miner Karel Juříček and Minister of Education and People´s Enlightenment Emanuel Moravec (silent) speak from a grandstand. The segment concludes with the Czech anthem (authentic sound), supplemented with images of people with arms raised in the Nazi salute.
Segment from Československý zvukový týdeník Aktualita (Czechoslovak Aktualita Sound Newsreel) 1942, issue no. 25, captures a public manifestation held on Hlavní náměstí (present day náměstí Republiky) in Plzeň on 16 June 1942. The manifestation was to demonstrate condemnation of the assassination of Acting Reich Protector Reinhard Heydrich. The gathering was attended by approximately 60,000 people. The grandstand is decorated with the Reichsadler (Imperial Eagle) and the state emblems of Bohemia and Moravia. A speech by the Minister of Education and People's Enlightenment, Emanuel Moravec, follows. The segment concludes with the Czech anthem (authentic sound), supplemented with images of people with arms raised in the nazi salute.
Segment from Československý zvukový týdeník Aktualita (Czechoslovak Aktualita Sound Newsreel) 1942, issue no. 23, depicts the so-called Manifestation of the Czech People for the Reich, organised by the Protectorate Government on Old Town Square in Prague on 2 June 1942. The gathering of 65,000 people, whose attendance was "highly recommended", was to unequivocally condemn the assassination attempt on Acting Reich Protector, SS-Obergruppenführer Reinhard Heydrich as well as all of the activities of the Czechoslovak Government in Exile in Great Britain. Members of the Protectorate Government climb up a grandstand in front of Týn Church. High-angled shots of the crowded square. A speech by Prime Minister Jaroslav Krejčí. The footage shows Minister of Agriculture and Forestry Adolf Hrubý, Minister of Economic Affairs and Labour Walter Bertsch, Minister of the Interior Richard Bienert, Minister of Finance Josef Kalfus, Minister of Transport Jindřich Kamenický, and Minister of Education and People´s Enlightenment Emanuel Moravec. A speech by the General Secretary of the Board of Trustees for the Education of Youth in Bohemia and Moravia František Teuner, and concluding words by Minister of Education and People's Enlightenment Emanuel Moravec. A wide shot of the crowded square. The segment concludes with the Czech anthem (authentic sound and singing) with images showing people with arms raised in the Nazi salute.
Segment from Československý zvukový týdeník Aktualita (Czechoslovak Aktualita Sound Newsreel) 1942, issue no. 26, from a public demonstration held in Tábor on 20 June 1942, which was to unequivocally condemn the assassination of Acting Reich Protector Reinhard Heydrich. The gathering was attended by 30,000 people. A wide shot of the town of Tábor. A view of the crowded square. A grandstand in the middle of the crowded square is decorated with the Imperial Eagle and the national emblems of Bohemia and Moravia. The manifestation is opened by Minister of the Protectorate Government Jaroslav Krejčí. A member of the National Theatre´s drama company, actor Jiří Dohnal, delivers a manifesto of State President Emil Hácha, followed by a speech by Minister of Agriculture and Forestry Adolf Hrubý. The manifestation is concluded by Minister of Education and People´s Enlightenment Emanuel Moravec. The segment includes images of Tábor´s important monuments (the Town Hall Tower, Kotnov). The segment concludes with the Czech anthem (authentic sound) supplemented with images of people with arms raised in the Nazi salute.
Segment from Československý zvukový týdeník Aktualita (Czechoslovak Aktualita Sound Newsreel) 1942, issue no. 28, depicts a public manifestation held on Wenceslas Square in Prague on 3 July 1942, which was to unequivocally condemn the assassination of Acting Reich Protector Reinhard Heydrich. The gathering was attended by 200,000 people. Wenceslas Square is decorated with Protectorate and Nazi flags. Footage of the crowded square and onlookers in the windows and on the roofs of surrounding houses. State President Emil Hácha, Prime Minister of the Protectorate Government Jaroslav Krejčí, Minister of the Interior Rudolf Bienert, and Minister of Education and People´s Enlightenment Emanuel Moravec stand on a grandstand. Krejčí and Moravec deliver speeches on cancelling the state of emergency and the need for active collaboration with the Reich. The manifestation concludes with the Czech anthem and people performing the Nazi salute, among them Minister of Finance Josef Kalfus, Minister of the Interior Rudolf Bienert, Prime Minister Jaroslav Krejčí, and Minister of Transport Jindřich Kamenický.
Segment from Československý zvukový týdeník Aktualita (Czechoslovak Aktualita Sound Newsreel) 1942, issue no. 25, shows a meeting at the railway workshops in Pilsen held on 10 June 1942, at which the assassination of Acting Reich Protector Reinhard Heydrich was meant to be publicly and emphatically condemned. The meeting was attended by 12,000 people. Minister of Public Transport and Technology Jindřich Kamenický addresses employees in the public transport and technical services sector. Foreman Josef Fajfrlík expresses loyalty to the German Reich on behalf of railway and postal workers.
Segment from Český zvukový týdeník Aktualita (Czech Aktualita Sound Newsreel) issue no. 17A, B from 1944 was shot during a meeting of the leaders of the Board of Trustees for the Education of Youth with State Minister Karel Hermann Frank, which was held in the Great Hall of Czernin Palace on 17 April and attended by Minister of Education and People´s Enlightenment and Chairman of the Board Emanuel Moravec and General Secretary of the Board František Teuner. State Minister Frank addressed the participants and presented František Teuner with a sword of honour. The official event concluded with the participant paying homage to Adolf Hitler. The leaders of the Board of Trustees marched through the streets of Prague.