AP Historical Hard Drive 2009

A group of German Jewish refugees help with the washing up following a meal at the Dovercourt Bay holiday camp, near Harwich on Dec. 4, 1938. The chil...

Some of the first batch of young Jewish refgugees from Germany, cross the railway tracks at Parkeston Quay, Harwich, on Dec. 2, 1939, on their way to...

Some of the 130 refugees from Czechoslovakia, disembark near Tower Bridge, London on Nov. 28, 1938, after they arrived upon the S.S.Batrover. (AP Phot...

Two months after the accord of Munich, German army units continued their peace time maneuvers as shown in this picture of a crack tank regiment in act...

Two months after the accord of Munich, German army units continued their peacetime maneuvers as shown in this picture of a crack tank regiment in acti...

Green Bay Packers' Clark Hinkle, an All League fullback for the past two years (1937-1936) and leading scorer in the National League. Hinkle and th...

Photo shows construction of a house in Syria, on Oct. 10, 1938 is a simple and a cheap matter. Like these two fellows, you hitch up the mules and plou...

Jerusalem native girl wearing traditional clothes in October 1938. (AP Photo)

According to the treaty of Munich from Sept. 29, 1938 German troops began with the occupation of the Sudeten districts, Oct. 1, 1938. German infantry...

Herr Adolph Hitler leaves the conference hall at Munich, Germany on Sept. 29, 1938 during an interval in the negotiations, with the Union Jack flying...

While waiting for Herr Adolph Hitler's reply to his letter, Mr. Neville Chamberlain, the British Premier, spent some anxious time on the terrace of th...

The British premier Sir Neville Chamberlain arrived in Munich, on Sept. 15, 1938. He was welcomed by the German foreign Minister Joachim Von Ribben...

Preparations are going ahead in Berlin in September 14 for an air raid ?Black-out? drill to be held at an undisclosed time in Berlin. Here is a servic...

A mimic war with all implements of modern warfare rearing airplanes, milling tanks, booming guns and the rat-rat-rat of machine guns, were the farewel...

More than 12 hours before the doors of New York's Civil Service Commission were to open, this line had formed in New York to seek the 500 jobs as city...

This field of growing broom corn, August 26, 1938 in Colorado, represents a victory by man over the forces of drought which, five years ago, had turne...

With water as his principle weapon, this farmer is waging a successful fight against the death grip of sand as vegetation drives the boundaries of the...

The man at upper right is a war umpire trying to call a close play between a tank and an anti-tank squad at war play, August 20, 1938 near Gross-born,...

Here?s the crew of the giant German airliner ?Brandenburg? just before the pane took off from New York, August 13, 1938 on a return flight to Berlin....

Diesel plane hops Atlantic Lying in the bay at Port Washington; L.I., July 22, 1938 was the German 19-ton flying boat Nordmeer, after her 2397-mile ho...

Vaudeville and stage star Elsie Janis arrives in Washington to take part in a Mother's Day service of American war mothers to be held at Arlington, Va...

Horse-drawn carts and porters carry boxes of fish to and from Billingsgate Market, London, on April 14, 1938, on a normal market day. (AP Photo/Staff/...

Teddy Kennedy, center, and sister Jean attend the changing of the guard at Buckingham Palace as their father, the new American Ambassador Joseph Kenne...

Chief of the German Police and Minister of the Interior Heinrich Himmler, with his daughter Gudrun on his lap, watch an indoor sports display in Berli...

Cornelius Vanderbilt III and his daughter, Grace Vanderbilt Davis, are shown at Hialeah Park in Miami, March 5, 1938. (AP Photo)

Cornelius Vanderbilt III, grandson of the Commodore Vanderbilt who founded one of America's greatest industrial empires is shown with his daughter, Gr...

Santa Claras Raymond McCarthy, left, is shown as he caught a pass on the Louisiana State nine-yard-line to pave the way for the only score in the coas...

Japanese soldiers in China flying the Rising Sun battle flag near Hankow in 1938. (AP Photo)

All recruits of the garrison of the historic town Potsdam, once the domicile of king Frederic the Great, Solemnly were oathed in Potsdam, Germany, Nov...

Sir John Stuart Knill, right, shows an object to a member of the public at the Caledonian Market, London, on Oct. 11, 1937. (AP Photo)

Mussolini, who arrived, Sept. 25, 1937 in Munich, Germany on his official visit, this afternoon witnessed a march past of some 100,000 men of the vari...

These Berlin firemen are hard at work dispersing gas after part of Germany?s airforce went through its attack manoeuvres over the German capital in Be...

Daily life and business was blotted out for some time on September 20th and inhabitants were sent down to air protection cellars by the wailing sound...

A policeman stands on duty at a crossroads in Market Square, Norwich, on Sept. 14, 1937, during the weekly market. (AP Photo)

The Nazi convention at Nuremberg came to an end with a grand military parade and demonstration on the Zeppelin field in Germany, Sept. 13, 1937. Germa...

Cotton pickers in a Pratville, Alabama plantation on Sept. 2, 1937. They are shown on a lunch break on top of bales of cotton. (AP Photo/James N....

German anti-aircraft guns are shown in action during manouvers at the Baltic Sea resort, Ahlbeck, July 12, 1937 where infantry, air-force and anti-air...

E.W. Scripps, publisher of Seattle Star and head of Scripps League of Newspapers, turned editor and reporter in Seattle, July 10, 1937, when he reopen...

Nell Donnelly Reed is shown among her mill workers at her garment company plant in Kansas City, May 12, 1937. The textile plant is the target of Davi...

King Christian of Denmark, at his writing table in the Amalienborg Castle, Copenhagen on May 7, 1937. (AP Photo)

Bargain hunters crowd all the stalls in Petticoat Lane Market, London, on May 2, 1937, despite the new Sunday Trades Restriction Act. The new restrict...

If the conservationist had to depend upon enough horses to equal the horsepower of this tractor for pulling heavy instruments, cutting furrows in the...

Jean Pierre Wimille, the French motor racing ace, set a new record in his Bugatti car in Montlhery, France, April 12, 1937 when he covered 200 kms at...

A worker is shown in a cotton mill, April 8, 1937. (AP Photo/Horace Cort)

A worker is shown in a cotton mill, April 8, 1937. (AP Photo/Horace Cort)

A cotton mill worker is shown during a food break, April 8, 1937. (AP Photo/HWC)

In the spring of 1937 Floyd S. Moon of Pratt, Kan., tends a young tree. The trees are Chinese Elm, with pine and cedars in foreground. Pine were plant...

On the second anniversary of the reintroduction of conscription all units of the Germany army celebrated. As the spectacle ended in a impressive parad...

Passers-by read one of the pink posters on an advertising pillar announcing the execution of six political offenders in Berlin, Germany, on Feb. 15, 1...

The Bavarian Army Museum at Munich, Germany in 1937, boasts of possessing the first anti-aircraftgun which was used during the Word War. It is a rathe...