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Huge crowds of workers also poured into the streets of Bratislava, the east Slovak industrial center of Kosice, the mining center of Ostrava on the polish border, and Usti nad Labem, the heart of industrial north Bohemia...
...with photos, were devoted to a single topic: the daily routine at a Trappist monastery, the drama of a parachute jump. BIZ, London's Picture Post (edited by Stefan Lorant) and the elegant French magazine Vu drew upon a breed of independent artist-photographer, often with one foot in Bohemia, to capture the arresting aspect of the everyday. Among the foremost practitioners were the German emigre Tim Gidal and Hungarian-born Andre Kertesz, whose enigmatic views of the Eiffel Tower and Paris streets imbued any human presence with an ephemeral tension...
...them to sign, and Goring and Ribbentrop pursued them around the table, pushing documents and pens at them. Hacha fainted dead away. Hitler's personal doctor came and gave him an injection, and just before 4 a.m. he recovered sufficiently to sign away his country. The western provinces of Bohemia and Moravia became a German "protectorate"; Slovakia was granted a shadowy "independence...
There were the usual protests, with the usual results, but Hitler's seizure of Bohemia and Moravia had two important consequences. First, Chamberlain finally realized that appeasement would not suffice to restrain Hitler. So when Hitler began talking to the Poles in that same month about the Germans' need to regain the port of Danzig, plus free passage through the Polish Corridor, Chamberlain offered the Poles an unsolicited guarantee of British military support. It was that guarantee that Hitler flouted the following September...
...Again and again they had gone through brink-of-war crises over Hitler's insatiable and megalomaniacal demands, over his rearming of the Rhineland in 1936, his annexation of Austria in the spring of 1938, his claims on the Czech Sudetenland in the fall of 1938, his seizure of Bohemia and Moravia in the spring of 1939. In each crisis, the threat of war had reawakened the nightmarish memories of World War I, when tens of thousands of men had been slaughtered in meaningless offensives over a few miles of trenches and barbed wire; and each time the threat...