Vienna Today

Series

Series Name

World Pictorial News

Issue

Issue No.

246

Date Released

21 Jan 1946

Stories in this Issue:

1. 1India
2. 2England
3. 3Empire Pool, Wembley
4. 4Japan
5. 5Vienna Today

Story

Story No. within this Issue

5 / 5

Summary

Shots of St Stephen’s Cathedral, the Opera House, City Hall, Education Centre, People’s Theatre etc., in Vienna. Destroyed bridges over the Danube. Gestapo Headquarters Schönbrunn Castle. The gutted Hotel Interpol. Hitler’s epitaph in stone. Flashback to the rout of the Nazis from Vienna. Despite Hitler’s elaborate promises to the city Soviet troops enter Vienna. Austrian prisoners are liberated. Dr Karl Renner, the new president of Austria, enters the parliamentary building with his ministers. The task of clearing the débris in the city and getting the factories back to work.

Keywords

Politics and government; Buildings and structures; War damage; Occupied territories; Military

Credits:

Commentator

Robert Noble

This series is held by:

Film Archive

Name

Imperial War Museum Film and Video Archive

Email

film@iwm.org.uk

Web

http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/film

Phone

020 7416 5291

Fax

020 7416 5379

Address

Lambeth Road
London SE1 6HZ

Notes

The IWM also preserves the original nitrate film copies for the World War II period of British Paramount News, Gaumont British News and Universal News.

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