AP Historical Hard Drive 2009

Salzburg was the last warning for the democracies of the world. Published on the front page of the Berlin newspaper,

The close up of the two Indians in war bonnets shows Jules Sioui (left) and Arigene Sioui, as they posed with the ancient Indian dress they wore when...

Italy's Minister of Foreign Affairs Count Gian Ciano, centre, accompanied by the Commander of the Berlin Garrison Lieutenant General Seiffert, left, r...

From left to right, David Brandt, typewriter salesman and Morris Bolber shown before magistrate Thomas A. O'Hara, May 11, 1939. (AP Photo)

Britain's King George VI and his wife Queen Elizabeth stand outside the Jasper Park Lodge, Alberta, Canada, May 1939, during their journey through The...

A white dog walks through a field filled with the bodies of

American Presidential Envoy Sumner Wells, second left, arrived in London for talks with British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain, second right, at N...

Seven of the nine children of Ambassador and Mrs. Joseph Kennedy are shown (above) as they prepared to leave London, March 8, 1939 for Rome to witness...

President Franklin D. Roosevelt addresses Congress with the Supreme Court in front row, March 4, 1939. (AP Photo)

Fritz Kuhn, second from left, national leader of the German-American Bund, and Gustave Elmer, third from left, national director of Organization for t...

Plans for their national encampment to be held were talked over when officers of the Grand Army of the Republic met with President Franklin D. Rooseve...

After cleaning the street, a victim of the Nazis was compelled to push this cart filled with materials through the streets, Jan. 27, 1939 in Germany....

These two men participant in a southeast Missouri sharecroppers??? demonstration rigged up a rude tent over their bed and huddled together for warmth...

Snow, coupled with icy winds, added to the discomfort on Jan. 13, 1939 of Missouri sharecropping families encamped on a road near New Madrid, Mo., in...

Sharecropper families unload belongings along U.S. highway #61 south of Hayti, Mo. on Jan. 11, 1939 to make camp, after joining with Hundreds of other...

More than a thousand sharecroppers of south-east Missouri, mostly African American marched to the highways protesting their economic plight on Jan. 1...

The German pocket battleship Admiral Scheer leaves a harbour, somewhere in Germany, in 1939, to start raiding Allied shipping,

Stephen Chadwick, left, American legion commander, called upon Congress to appropriate more money to continue the life of the Dies Committee investiga...

Harry Smith, The good natured, but hard playing left guard of the University of Southern California football team, is shown practicing for the game wi...

A flowery greeting for Adolf Hitler is shown when he arrived, Oct. 6, 1938, Friedland, Germany. (AP Photo)

German Chancellor Adolf Hitler reviews German troops in Karlsbad, Germany, Oct. 4, 1938. These are the German troops which had occupied the well know...

This is the scene at the old Czech frontier post at Grottrau, in the No. 2 Zone when German troops arrived, Oct. 2, 1938. Note the slogan between the...

The Czech crisis is resulting in foreigners exiled to the Czech capital, and citizens of the capital, leaving Prague for the shelter of the countrysid...

German artillery rumbles into Klein-Phillippsreuth, near Passau, Germany, Oct. 2, 1938, to the accompaniment of shouts and Nazi salutes from the popul...

Officers of the vanguard of the German Army are shown while marching too far into Czech territory near Untermoldau meeting by surprise officers of the...

Under the threat of a possible war, a mass fitting of gas masks for civilians in Lambeth Town Hall, London, Sept. 26, 1938. (AP Photo)

Before returning to England following his Godesberg meeting with Adolph Hitler, Neville Chamberlain, British Prime Minister, with Joachim Von Ribbentr...

British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain, centre carrying umbrella, with German Foreign Minister Joachim Von Ribbentrop, right, walk from the plane...

A truckload of Czech police going off duty for good in Eger, Czechoslovakia, Sept. 22, 1938, following occupation by Sudeten Germans. The next week w...

Although the Czech government has forbidden uniforms, the Sudeten German Nazis have managed to get around the ban by donning clothes of a military cut...

Although these Sudeten Germans live in the Karlovy Vary districts of Czechoslovakia, they show their political allegiance in this typical Nazi salute...

The militant discipline that ultimately swept the German Nazis to power is strictly maintained by the Sudeten German Nazis despite Czechoslovakian ban...

Here???s Babe Ruth, sliding into his Brooklyn Dodgers uniform at Ebbets Field in New York to take up his duties as the new Dodgers coach, June 19, 193...

A Sudeten peasant shows a neighbor his family tree, shown April 27, 1938. Czechs call Sudeten Germans

The barred gates of Sing Sing prison swung open, in Ossining, New York, on April 12, 1938 for Richard Whitney, once President of the New York Stock Ex...

Viennese chimney sweeps turned out, soot and all, to vote out the plebiscite in which Austria game an almost unanimous approval of union with Germany,...

Under huge posters which proclaim the union of Austria and Germany under Adolf Hitler, this German soldier stands on a Vienna street corner shaking hi...

Germany's SS Reichsfuehrer and Chief of the German Police Heinrich Himmler, left, stands with Austrian officers during a ceremony at the War Ministry,...

This rambling country place is the home of Richard Whitney, former stock exchange President, who was indicted on a grand larceny charge in connection...

View of part of the famous food market Les Halles in Paris on March 3, 1938. (AP Photo)

Byron ??sWhizzer??? White, Colorado University and all-America back, one of the grid stars who will see action in the New Year???s Day Game with Rice...

In Boston for a preview and to star in the new musical ??sI???d rather be right??? which opens the night of October 11. These luminaries in the show w...

President Franklin D. Roosevelt gets an engineer?s idea of enormous Grand Coulee dam from a model of the structure, Oct. 2, 1937. His grandchildren, S...

One of the water motor pumps put into action during the air maneuvers in Berlin, Germany, Sept. 20, 1937. (AP Photo)

Tom Tyler, cowboy screen actor, right, and Jeanne Martel, actress, are shown following their marriage at the Little Church of the Flowers, Sept. 3, 19...

Bobby Riggs, sensational young Hollywood, Calif., Tennis Star, is shown holding the cup he won by copping the eastern grass courts singles title at Ry...

Former ambassador to Turkey Henry Morgenthau sen. at an unknown location on July 7, 1934. (AP Photo)

Mary Pickford and her fianc?? Buddy Rogers in Hollywood, Los Angeles on May 15, 1937, as they greeted fans upon their arrival to the premier showing o...

Mrs. Betty Perrin of Stockton, California, on May 13, 1937, displays the shawl worn by Abraham Lincoln the night of his assassination. (Note: a da...

King George VI, wearing the crown of state, and the Queen Elizabeth wearing her crown, in the State coach as they passed through Trafalgar Square on t...