A Gift of an Ambulance Train to the German Army

Title:

A Gift of an Ambulance Train to the German Army

Creator:

Aktualita

Publisher:

Národní filmový archiv

Identifier:

3900630-02
http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12801/3900630-02

Subject:

vlak sanitní, projev veřejný, automobil, nádraží slavnostně vyzdobené, kříže hákové, busta Hitler Adolf, důstojníci němečtí, vojáci němečtí nastoupení, orlice říšskoněmecká na vlaku, vlak sanitní část lůžková, vlak sanitní ošetřovna, vlak sanitní kuchyně, Heydrichiáda, Places::Praha::Nové Město::Hlavní nádraží, People::Hácha Emil (1872-1945), People::Heydrich Reinhard (1904-1942), People::Krejčí Jaroslav (1892-1956), People::Moravec Emanuel (1893-1945), People::Frank Karl Hermann (1898-1946), and Český zvukový týdeník Aktualita::1942/17

Type:

video and clip

Description:

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.

Language:

Czech

Rights:

http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
PUB
Creative Commons - Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0)

Harvested from:

LINDAT/CLARIAH-CZ repository

Metadata only:

false

Date:

1942