Segment from Československý zvukový týdeník Aktualita (Czechoslovak Aktualita Sound Newsreel) 1942, issue no. 17, captures the presentation of a gift Ï Ambulance Train no. 751 Ï from the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia to Adolf Hitler and the German army. The train handover took place at Prague Main Railway Station on 20 April 1942, the birthday of Adolf Hitler. Cars arrive in front of Prague Main Railway Station. Acting Reich Protector Reinhard Heydrich enters the train station. State President Emil Hácha gives a speech in the festively decorated railway hall. In response, Heydrich shakes his hand. The event is witnessed by a delegation of railway workers. The train crew lines up on the station platform. Heydrich enters the train with his entourage and inspects the sleeping cars, the operating carriage, the kitchen, and the sick bay. The inspection of the ambulance train is attended by Protectorate Prime Minister Jaroslav Krejčí and Minister of Education and People´s Enlightenment Emanuel Moravec. According to the voiceover, the train was made in a railway workshop in Prague-Bubny in record time. It consisted of 28 carriages and 20 hospital carriages, was 410 metres long, weighed 545 tons and had capacity for 280 wounded.
Segment from Československý zvukový týdeník Aktualita (Czechoslovak Aktualita Sound Newsreel) 1942, issue no. 12, captures the Memorial Day of Heroes events held as part of the celebration of the 3rd anniversary of the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia at the German Opera in Prague on 15 March 1942. The gathering was to commemorate the alleged affiliation of the Czech Crown lands to the German Empire. In his speech, Acting Reich Protector Reinhard Heydrich highlights the political significance of 15 March (silent). The event is attended by Reich Secretary Karl Hermann Frank, Reich Commissioner for the Sudetenland Konrad Henlein, Reich Gauleiter Hugo Jury, and the chief of the Wehrmacht troops in Prague, General Rudolf Toussaint.