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In accordance with the agreement reached at Munich between Britain, France, Germany and Italy, German troops began their preparations for the occupati...

Since the signature of the Four Power Pact in connection with Czechoslovakia on September 29, 1938 German troops have been moving towards the Czech Fr...

L-R: Air Vice-Marshall Nicholl, General Sir Edmund Ironside; and General Robert Gordon-Finlayson talking on the arrival of General Ironside in Cairo,...

Fritz Kuhn, leader of the German-American Bund debates with Congressman Samuel M. Dickstein in New York, Sept. 25, 1938. Kuhn denied that his organiza...

There was a great demonstration in Warsaw in connection with the Czech Polish minority demands being made for their separation from the Czech state. A...

A big demonstration by Poles urging immediate abolition of the present boundary between Poland and Czechoslovakia was held in the South West of Poland...

General Jan Syrovy, Commander in Chief of the Czech Army, in Prague, on Sept. 22, 1938. (AP Photo)

German Chancellor Adolph Hitler during the Nuremberg Party Rally, on Sept. 19, 1938. (AP Photo)

It is reported 20,000 Sudeten-Germans at least have fled from Czechoslovakia to Germany. Sudeten German refugees just after crossing the Czech border...

Britain's Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain, returned to London, after his spectacular air journey to Germany for a talk with Adolf Hitler on the Cze...

The airport at Cologne, Germany, on Sept. 12, 1938. (AP Photo)

The Crisis over Czechoslovakia was fully discussed at No. 10 Downing Street, London, England, by the British cabinet. Tension, still acute, will not b...

Steel helmeted black storm troopers in the Luitpold Arena, Nuremberg, Germany on Sept. 11, 1938 during the review by Herr Adolf Hitler. (AP Photo)

Banner bearing Hitler Youth marching past their Fuehrer at the Nuremberg Stadium on Sept. 10, 1938 during a giant demonstration. (AP Photo)

Hitler Youth salute their leader Herr Adolf Hitler at Nuremberg, Germany on Sept. 10, 1938. In the vast gathering were 52,000 members of the Hitler Yo...

Field Marshal Hermann Goering makes his dramatic speech at Nuremberg, Germany on Sept. 10, 1938. In a violent two-hour polemic at Nuremberg, Field Mar...

An impressive scene at the parade during the tenth annual Nazi Party Congress, inaugurated in Nuremberg, Germany on September 6, 1938. (AP Photo)

The Fuehrer Adolf Hitler of Germany answering welcome speeches in the Nuremberg town hall in Germany on Sept. 5, 1938, the day of the solemn opening o...

Bandsmen of the First Light Horse Regiment of Poland open a military review outside Warsaw, Poland with a bugle fanfare in September 1938. (AP Photo)

These polish frontier guards cleaning their guns in front of a guide to Soviet uniforms, charted on the wall behind them in September 1938. (AP Photo)

After having out the corn with a scythe the wheat is gathered together and transported to the beating machine. A young peasant on the left with scythe...

Under the hot and benefiting sun of Romania, the peasants are happily cutting the wheat with scythes, on August 24, 1938. (AP Photo)

More than one hundred tanks took part in manoeuvres on Salisbury Plain, under the direction of Brigadier General J.C. Tilly. He controlled operations...

One of Palestine's most revered Christian Shrines Church of the Holy Sepulcher in Jerusalem, where Christ is said to be buried, has shown dangerous s...

Alfred Duff Cooper, First Lord of the Admiralty and Lady Diana Cooper have arrived at Gdynia, Poland, where they are the guests of Colonel Jozef Beck,...

L-R: Ernst Kundt Chief Deputy of the Sudetic German Party; Konrad Henlein; and Adolf Hitler smiling as he gives the Nazi salute, during the huge march...

There were remarkable scenes of discover, when 200,000 athletes from all parts of Europe, marching in procession past German Chancellor Adolf Hitler,...

Fritz Kuhn, national leader of the German-American Bund, is (white suit) leads the way up a courthouse stairway at Riverhead, Long Island, July 11, 19...

Bill Tilden, American tennis star, setting new fashion for the courts with a trilby during his singles match with Frenchman Martin Plaa at the Ibrox S...

Fritz Kuhn, national leader of the German-American Bund, appeared before the New York State constitutional convention's committee on military affairs,...

The SS. Heimwehr, the Danzig Home Defence Corps on the march during training on the Polish border, on Jun 24, 1938. (AP Photo)

Professor Sigmund Freud, 82-years-old Jewish "inventor" of psycho-analysis, who added "inferiority complex" to the world's vocabulary, arriving at Vic...

Fritz Kuhn, leader of the German-American Bund and three lesser officials of the organization at a table at the Plattdutsche Volksfest Society Park ne...

Under the appreciative eye of a troop of scouts from Downsville, N.Y., Barney Ross, welterweight champ, tapers off workouts at Grossinger Lake, N.Y.,...

Boxer Barney Ross warms up in a Chicago gymnasium, April 19, 1938. (AP Photo/JP)

Boxer Barney Ross warms up in a Chicago gymnasium, April 19, 1938. (AP Photo/JP)

DC-4, big, four-motored transport plane being built by Douglas Aircraft Company for the nation's major planes, is shown in the plant at Santa Monica,...

Japanese chorus girls, learn a new routine, March 26, 1938. (AP Photo)

District Leader Joseph Buerckel, whom Adolf Hitler named to conduct the campaign for the Austrian plebiscite on April 1 and who fired the opening gun...

General Franco, leader of the insurgent forces in wartorn Spain, is shown with his daughter Maria del Carmen, and his wife Carmen Polo, Feb. 9, 1938....

Barcelona, Spain was shattered by two savage Franco air raids which ripped the city wide open, killed at least 350, wounded at least 700 more, and lai...

Charlie Paddock, who not so far back was burning up the cinder paths as the "world's fastest human," is shown in New York City on Jan. 11, 1938, to co...

After five days of almost continuous fighting, the Spanish republican forces are still holding this vital town, though the nationalists claimed to hav...

Italian leader Benito Mussolini smiles during a gymnastic display held in celebration of the anniversary of the founding of the Italian Metropolitan P...

The gateway from Syria into Palestine, in 1938. Owing to the secret entry of thousands of Arab Rebels from Syria and the Lebanon into the Holy land, s...

Greta Garbo, following the completion of her film on Dec. 3, 1937, "Marie Walewska," known in America as "Conquest." In her twenty-second Hollywood pi...

Greta Garbo following the completion of her film on Dec. 3, 1937, "Marie Walewska," known in America as "Conquest." In her twenty second Hollywood pic...

Portrait of President of Poland, Professor Ignacy Moscicki, who celebrated his 70th birthday,in Poland on Dec. 1, 1937. (AP Photo)

Petey Sarron, Birmingham, Ala., defending NBA featheweight champ, was on his way to the canvas from withering head-punching of Henry Armstrong of Los...

110,000 brown-shirted storm troopers and bodyguards as well as the party's motorized formations joined in a parade before Adolf Hitler in the streets...