AP Historical Hard Drive 2009

German standard bearers parade past Major General Fedor von Bock, commander of all armed forces in the Austrian territory, center, on grandstand, Marc...

Austrian youths wear Nazi armbands, carry guns and, as

Firm-faced, Richard Whitney, expelled member of the New York Stock Exchange who has pleaded quality to two grand larceny indictments, is shown as he w...

The Reichsfuehrer Adolf Hitler is shown, March 17, 1938, being saluted in the former Czechoslovakian town of Bruenn, which he visited following his ta...

As Adolf Hitler entered Vienna in triumph, these German bombers and pursuit planes wheeled overhead, their motors droning an accompaniment to the chee...

Here is the New York police file photograph of Richard Whitney, on March 14, 1938, five times President of the New York Exchange, who pleaded guilty t...

Center, with head bowed is Richard Whitney five times President of the New York stock exchange, after he had entered a plea of guilty, on March 14, 19...

German artillery moving into the Austrian border village of Bregenz is shown, March 12, 1938. (AP Photo)

Sympathizers of the Nazi regime crowd the streets of Vienna to welcome the conquering Adolf Hitler who merged Germany and Austria in a coup, March 11,...

Trucks cruise Vienna streets to develop interest for a national referendum on government policies, March 1938. Despite an ultimatum from Germany forc...

Frankly admitting the difficulties which led to the suspension of his from the New York Stock Exchange were his own fault, Richard Whitney (above), ph...

Britain's King Edward VIII, centre, walks towards his car, surrounded by workers, after a tour of inspection of the new liner Queen Mary, being built...

Photo shows Japanese occupation of Nanking leaves death in its wake at Shanghai, China, on Feb. 5, 1938. Chinese woman surveying remains of her family...

Close-up of Harry ??sBlackjack??? Smith, University of Southern California guard mentioned for Pacific coast honors shown in 1938. (AP Photo)

President Franklin D. Roosevelt arrives in New York from Washington to attend the dedication ceremonies of the new Triborough Bridge, and the wedding...

Mussolini witnessed a parade of some 100,000 members of the various Nazi organizations during his visit, Sept. 25, 1937. With Herr Hitler he took the...

These Chinese Elm seedlings in a Nursery at Noble, Okla., August 23, 1937 will be planted in the shelter-belt project. This is one step in the rehabil...

Water rushed down a ditch in the Dust Bowl at Liberal, Kansas, Aug 15, 1937 as a well, part of a proposed extensive well-irrigation project, was opene...

Emergency crop cover planting of cane and sudan grass, listed on the contour in cooperation with the Soil Conservation service, brought the first cont...

J. Edgar Hoover, left, chief of the Federal bureau of investigation has just completed 20 years of service with the justice department. Besides flower...

A group of several hundred coal miners in Wilsonville, Illiniois, on June 2, 1937 who returned to work today in nine No. 4 of the Superior Coal Co., w...

Oklahoma mother of five children, now picking cotton in California, near Fresno, on May 18, 1937. (AP Photo)

Refugees during soil Dust Bowl, May 8, 1937. (AP Photo)

A motorized army unit lining up on Unter den Linden in preparation of the big birthday parade before Adolf Hitler, April 20, 1937. (AP Photo)

The heavy anti aircraft detachments are rolling by the grand stand on Charlottenburger Chaussee, April 20, 1937 during the big birthday parade before...

Tanks lining up outside the Brandenburg Gate near the Statue of Victory (background) in Berlin, April 20, 1937 before the Big Parade past Adolf Hitler...

An infantry regiment parades before Adolf Hitler on the grand stand left, to the accompaniment of snappy military music in Germany, April 20, 1937. (A...

Mrs. Louise Thaden of Wichita, Kansas, received the Harmon trophy in New York, on April 1, 1937 as the outstanding woman flyer of 1936. She is shown w...

Jim Braddock, left, and Joe Louis struck these poses with good humor, Feb. 19, 1937 after signing to participate in a heavyweight title bout in Comisk...

J. Edger Hoover, Chief of the Federal Bureau of investigation, wearing hat & overcoat leaving White House in Washington, Feb. 5, 1937 after lunching w...

This is a badly windblown field planted to beans in past season (2-3-37). The land is irrigated and is a farmstead of a resettlement family. As this u...

West German tank Leopard II in Germany in an undated photo. (AP Photo)

Army parades and reviews in Germany in 1937. (AP Photo)

The German army demonstrated its might before more than a million peasants during the nationwide harvest festival at Bueckeberg, Oct. 4, 1936. Here ar...

Mrs. Louise Thaden, left, of Bentonville, Ark., won the Bendix Air Trophy race in Los Angeles, on Sept. 5, 1936 by flying here from New York in 14 hou...

The death of Vernor C. Omlie of Memphis in the crash of a Chicago and Southern Airliner near St. Louis last night separated one of the country???s mos...

A detachment of motorcyclists of the tank unit of the German Army taking their vehicles over artificial obstacles on their course during a training at...

Jim Braddock and Max Schmeling met today for a friendly chat. Mention possibly was made of Schmeling?s sensational victory over Joe Louis last night....

J. E. Hoover of the Federal Bureau of Investigation walks (at right) after nabbing Alvin Karpis in New Orleans, May 4, 1936. Man at left unidentified....

J. Edgar Hoover of the Federal Bureau of Investigation sits in the back seat of a car, May 2, 1936 after he made the first arrest of his career. He ha...

A view upon the heavy anti-air-craft guns in the parade. 489 officers, 13932 soldiers, 977 army horses and 1573 vehicles, among them several hundred a...

Photo shows Eugene L. Vidal, chief of the bureau of air commerce dept. of commerce in a pensive mood while listening to testimony in Washington, on Ma...

The whole world was Shaken, when German troops marched into the demilitarized zone of the Rhineland, Coblence March 21, 1936 and shattered an agreemen...

Germany created new fears for European peace, when some 10,000 troops with tanks and artillery marched into the demilitarised zone of the Rhineland in...

Photo shows Thomas Pryor Gore (above), 78, three-term senator and successful lawyer although he had been blind since childhood, died at his home in Wa...

German troops march along the bank of the Rhine, near the Skagerak Bridge, in Dusseldorf, on March 8, 1936, as the German army completes the re-occupa...

Former Colonial troops watch German Storm Troopers march through the streets of Dusseldorf, Germany on March 8, 1936, as part of the reoccupation of t...

Former Notre Dame athletes made a pilgrimage to Kansas to lay a wreath on the monument of Knute Rockne, in Bazaar, Kansas, on Wednesday, March 6, 1936...

Britain's King Edward VIII walks down the gangway after a tour of inspection of the new liner Queen Mary, being built at Clydebank, Scotland, on March...

Glimpse of a quiet at home in Roseville, California, Jan. 17, 1936 at Max Baer?s new ranchhouse. The ex-heavyweight champion, left, and ?Little Brothe...