Segment from Český zvukový týdeník Aktualita (Czech Aktualita Sound Newsreel) 1942, issue no. 27A, captures the Pledge of Czech Theatre Professionals´ Allegiance to the Reich, a manifestation held at the National Theatre in Prague on 25 June 1942, which was to unequivocally condemn the assassination of Acting Reich Protector Reinhard Heydrich. Speeches are delivered by actor Rudolf Deyl Jr. and Minister of Education and People´s Enlightenment Emanuel Moravec (silent). Actress Růžena Nasková and actors Karel Höger, Ferenc Futurista, and Stanislav Neumann are seen among the participants. The segment concludes with everyone performing the Nazi salute.
Segment of the Český zvukový týdeník Aktualita (Czech Aktualita Sound Newsreel) 1942 No. 41 captures the funeral of Alexandr Commichau, head of the Reich Labour Service, held on 5 October 1942 in the Spanish Hall of Prague Castle, decorated with Nazi emblems for the occassion. The deceased´s military honours are on display next to a bier with the coffin. Mourners include the widow, a little girl and State Secretary Hermann Frank. Acting Reich Protector Kurt Daluege lays down a wreath from Adolf Hitler. The funeral speech is delivered by Deputy Chief General of RAD Wilhelm Decker (silent). The procession with the coffin, which will be transported to a crematorium in Prague, moves through the Matthias Gate.
Segment from Český zvukový týdeník Aktualita (Czech Aktualita Sound Newsreel) issue no. 38A from 1943 contains footage from the Days of Czech Youth event organised by the Board of Trustees for the Education of Youth from 11 to 12 September. A concert of three brass bands, led by Miloš Kuba, and the Kühn Children´s Choir was held on Peace Square at 5 pm on 11 September. A procession of the Board´s members set out from Peace Square and continued through the streets of Prague. The event culminated with a track and field championship at Strahov Stadium where the winners of district rounds competed against each other. The spectators were welcomed by General Secretary of the Board František Teuner. The programme included a dance performance by girls in folk costumes. The event concluded with a speech by Minister of Education and People´s Enlightenment and Chairman of the Board Emanuel Moravec, followed by a solemn oath "to the Führer and to the Fatherland".
Segment from Český zvukový týdeník Aktualita (Czech Aktualita Sound Newsreel) issue no. 35A from 1943 captures the mood of the District Youth Track and Field Championship for Ages 10-18, which was organised by the Board of Trustees for the Education of Youth in eighty towns of the Protectorate as part of the Days of Czech Youth event held from 28 to 29 August 1943. At the A. F. K. Stadium in Kolín nad Labem, approximately 1,500 athletes qualified for the Track and Field Championship of Bohemia and Moravia.
Segment from Československý zvukový týdeník Aktualita (Czechoslovak Aktualita Sound Newsreel) 1943, issue no. 11B, reports on a workers´ holiday organized by the Reinhard Heydrich Foundation for Workers´ Recuperation at the Gymnasion Health Resort in Jarov u Dolních Břežan. Workers are having a warm-up exercise and practise shot putting. Everyone gets an apple as a snack. Minister of Agriculture and Forestry Adolf Hrubý comes for a visit.
Segment from Czechoslovak Aktualita Sound Newsreel 1943, issue no. 24, depicts a memorial act in V Holešovičkách, the Prague street that was the scene of the assassination of Acting Reich Protector Heydrich. The event was held to commemorate the first anniversary of the assassination in June 1943. Footage from a ceremonial meeting held on 4 June 1943 in the Prague City Council´ reception hall in the Municipal Library building. Deputy Mayor of Prague, J. Pfitzner, presents historian Josef Kliment with the City of Prague Foundation´s Heydrich Memorial Award for spreading the ideas of the Reich. The event is attended by Prime Minister of the Protectorate Government J. Krejčí and Minister of Education and People´s Enlightenment E. Moravec. Illustrative footage from a workers´ holiday organized by the Heydrich Foundation for Workers´ Recuperation, where the Protector´s legacy is being commemorated. The speech is followed by holidaymakers performing the Nazi salute. A ceremony to honour Heydrich is held in the Spanish Hall of Prague Castle. Acting Reich Protector K. Daluege enters the hall with Heydrich´s widow Lina and her children. The event is attended by K. H. Frank, E. Hácha, J. Krejčí, E. Moravec and workers´ and peasants´ representatives. The German Philharmonic performs Ludwig van Beethoven´s symphonic work Coriolanus. The piece is followed by a speech by Daluege, which he symbolically concludes with "a greeting to my friend" Heydrich (authentic sound).
Segment of the Český zvukový týdeník Aktualita (Czech Aktualita Sound Newsreel) 1945 No. 13 captures the funeral of diplomat František Chvalkovský, who died on 25 February 1945 when hit by a ground-attack aircraft on a motorway near Berlin. The lavish funeral attended by prominent figures of public life was held in Strašnice Crematorium in Prague on 13 March 1945. Prime Minister of the Protectorate Government Richard Bienert and Reich Chancellor Augustin Popelka place a wreath from President Emil Hácha by the coffin. Karl Hermann Frank lays down a wreath from Adolf Hitler. The solemn ceremony is attended by Minister of Justice Jaroslav Krejčí, Minister of Education and National Enlightenment Emanuel Moravec and Chairman of the Supreme Administrative Court Josef Kliment. Funeral speeches are delivered by the parish priest of the Evangelical Church of Czech Brethren, Bedřich Jerie, and Prime Minister of the Protectorate Government Richard Bienert. A guard of honour by the coffin comprises boys from the Board of Trustees for the Education of Youth in Bohemia and Moravia.
Segment of the Český zvukový týdeník Aktualita (Czech Aktualita Sound Newsreel) 1945 No.10 captures the mass funeral of the victims of the air strike carried out over Prague on 14 February 1945, which was held on Peace Square in Prague-Vinohrady on 18 February 1945 and attended by members of the Protectorate Government and Reich Chancellor Augustin Popelka. 150 coffins with the victims are on display in the Church of St. Ludmila. (The air strike killed 701, and more than 80 people were missing.) A guard of honour with torches consisted of officials of the Board of Trustees for the Education of Youth. The funeral gathering is opened by the Mayor of Prague Alois Říha, who bids farewell to the victims on behalf of the City of Prague. Prime Minister of the Protectorate Government Richard Bienert speaks on behalf of President Emil Hácha. Minister of Economy and Labour Walter Bertsch lays down a wreath from Reich Protector Wilhelm Frick. Prime Minister of the Protectorate Government Richard Bienert and Reich Chancellor Augustin Popelka lay down a wreath on behalf of the Protectorate Government and President Emil Hácha. The Mayor of Prague Alois Říha and his Secretary Josef Pfitzner arrive to lay a wreath on behalf of the City of Prague.
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. 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.