AP Historical Hard Drive 2009

As a protest against Hitler's attitude towards Czechoslovakia, a number of women wearing gas masks and carrying placards started a 48-hour vigil, Sept...

British Premier Neville Chamberlain and the British Ambassador Neville Henderson in front of the Fuehrer house of Adolf Hitler in Munich, Germany on...

Until the German troops enter the Sudeten districts according to the new treaty, German Special SS troops protect German property and frontier against...

These machine gun nests, manned by German SS troops, were stationed along the German-Czech frontier during the war crisis before the Munich peace parl...

This friendly display of British and Nazi flags decorate the streets of Godesberg as Adolf Hitler awaited the arrival of Prime Minister Neville Chambe...

Demonstrators protesting against Germany's position in the present European crisis march through the throngs of Times Square tourists in midtown Manha...

While the New York Times building's news zipper in Times Square flashed out news of the deepening crisis in England, these pickets marched through the...

A soldier takes leave of his son at Dennis Station, in Prague, Czechoslovakia, on Sept. 26, 1938, as many troops are sent to the frontier as part of t...

Thousands of refugees from Sudeten Germany have fled to Prague, Czechoslovakia, as shown in this striking view of a hastily-prepared refugee camp, Sep...

A soldier carries his son, and his wife walks beside him, as he marches in the ranks of reservists to Dennis Station, in Prague, Czechoslovakia, on Se...

Confident that their delivery was at hand, these Sudeten Germans are shown plastering a Nazi swastika over a Czech emblem on a tax office in Breitenfu...

Sudeten Germans against the Czech army are shown behind sandbags in Asch, Czechoslovakia, Sept. 25, 1938. (AP Photo)

A Sudeten German of Asch, Czechoslovakia is shown, Sept. 25, 1938, sitting in a trench waiting to defend his town against Czech troops. (AP Photo)

Police had a busy time keeping a measure of order in London's Whitehall district, Sept. 25, 1938, when huge crowds gathered for the arrival of Prime M...

Anxious Parisians read the mobilization notice posted outside a police station, announcing the immediate recall of certain classes of reservists to th...

The internation peace campaign is distributing millions of leaflets this weekend in Britain in connection with the Czech crisis, Sept. 23, 1938. They...

Swastikas fly from every window along the main street of Asch, Henlein's hometown in the Sudetenland, Sept. 23, 1938, although official occupation by...

Members of the Sudeten German Free Corps organized by Konrad Henlein and now numbering 10,000 are shown Sept. 19, 1938 at an undisclosed point along t...

A Czech mother watches her children have a meal at the Masaryk stadium in Prague, Sept. 18, 1938, following their flight to the Czech capitol from Sud...

Thousands of refugees from the Sudetenland have fled to Prague, Czechoslovakia, as this refugee mother and her children, shown Sept. 18, 1938. (AP Pho...

A farmer and his cart pass through the barrier, after having his papers checked at the frontier at Carlsbad, Czechoslovakia, on Sept. 18, 1938. (AP Ph...

A young Czech boy sleeps at the Masaryk stadium in Prague, Sept. 18, 1938 with his doll beside him. This boy fled from Sudetenland with his family onl...

Czech soldiers examine the nationality papers of a motorist passing through Tasovice, Czechoslovakia, Sept. 18, 1938, as the German-Czech border regul...

Members of the American League for Peace and Democracy wore gas masks in Philadelphia while picketing the German Consulate, Sept. 16, 1938. The picket...

Britain's Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain, left, is greeted by German Foreign Minister Joachim Von Ribbentrop, when he arrived at Munich Airport, o...

Refugees prepare to leave Eger, Huingary, on Sept. 14, 1938, following Sudeten-Czech clashes on the German frontier. (AP Photo/Staff/Putnam)

A barge is towed past pill-boxes that are been built on the banks of the Rhine River, at Kehl, on Sept. 14, 1938, as part of the national defence prog...

New German airship LZ103, sister ship of the Hindenburg, has been named Graf Zeppelin on its first flight at Friedrichshafen, Germany, on Sept. 14, 19...

American Ambassador to London Joseph P. Kennedy leaves No. 10 Downing Street, London, on Sept. 14, 1938, after the Cabinet meeting on the zech crisis....

Ireland's President of the Assembly of the League, Eamon De Valera, left, is met at Victoria Station, London, on Sept. 8, 1938, by Britain's Colonial...

Dorothy Wrinch of Oxford University, right, applies pure mathematics predicting the unknown structure of living tissue, Sept. 7, 1938. X-rays have co...

A sample of the latest type of hand-machine gun, allegedly from a German source, is shown in Prague, Sept. 1938. Czech authorities said they have gat...

Battle lines are sharply drawn, where the forces of man and nature meet in the land between bust bowl waste and growing fields, August 26, 1938 in Bac...

German troops- 16,000 of them?paraded, August 25, 1938 in Berlin, on the occasion of the visit of Admiral Nicholas Horthy, regent of Hungary, seen her...

The facade of the Mission Santa Barbara, showing Father Augustine Hobrecht, O.F.M , shown Aug. 5, 1938 in Santa Barbara, Cal. . (AP Photo/Frank Filan...

The facade of the Mission Santa Barbara, showing Father Augustine Hobrecht, O.F.M , shown Aug. 5, 1938 in Santa Barbara, Cal. . (AP Photo/Frank Filan...

These shelterbelt trees, June 14, 1938 are three years old, part of the planting of 1935, which saw 200,000,000 trees set out in the straggling, 100-m...

Here?s graphic evidence of what trees can do to help a field, in the background as a field of flourishing wheat, sheltered by a line of 50-year-old tr...

Thousands upon thousands of Sudeten Germans are shown at a rally in Reichenberg, Czechoslovakia, May 9, 1938, as they salute the Sudeten German party...

Konrad Henlein, leader of the Sudeten German Party in Czechoslovakia, is driven through Asch as he is welcomed by townspeople, May 7, 1938. (AP Photo)

Kicking over all the dope that said the Derby distance was too long, Lawrin the Herbert M. Woolf farm is shown here winning the Kentucky Derby, May 7,...

Czechoslovakia's Sudeten Germans cling to German customs and culture, and their children are sent to private German-financed schools such as this one,...

Hitler in first car driving down the regiments squared up on the Lustgarten for the birthday parade, April 20, 1938 when the Reich celebrated the 49th...

Handcuffed to another prisoner and surrounded by officers, Richard Whitney, once a Wall Street power, mounted the steps leading to Sing Sing Prison an...

Everywhere in Vienna during these pre-election days, residents are faced with such signs as these with typographical emphasis on

Huge pictures of Reichsfuehrer Adolf Hitler and slogans reading

Richard Whitney, twice-indicted Wall Street Broker, is shown (right) as he was called before a federal investigator in New York, on April 8, 1938. Sam...

The statue of Chancellor Engelbert Dollfuss of Austria, slain when he put down a Nazi putsch in 1934, was the object of Nazi vengeance when the nation...

Austrian Nazis torch Wallersdorf concentration camp, and Joseph Buerckel, Nazi leader and the most powerful man in Austria, center right, is seen duri...

Plebicite Nazi placards in Vienna are shown in the front of a building, April 1, 1938. (AP Photo)