Word: czech
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Adolf Hitler had snatched a few minutes' sleep on a train from Berlin to the border, had then driven in swirling snow and over icy roads through Sudeten villages and Czech towns to Prague. There he had an emperor's triumph exactly eight hours after the arrival of his vanguard, exactly 25 hours after having summoned Dr. Hacha to Berlin, exactly one year and a day to the hour after his triumphal entry into Vienna after Anschluss...
...gold in the Czecho-Slovak National Bank; 2) about $200,000,000 in foreign exchange and foreign assets held abroad by individuals and corporations; 3) an agricultural surplus in Moravia and Bohemia sufficient to feed the Sudetenland, and in Slovakia sufficient to feed Vienna; 4) about 1,200 Czech airplanes (200 of them first-line), 500 tanks, some good heavy artillery; 5) increased industrial and arms capacity...
...there are many moldy spots in his prize package. About $37,000,000 of Czech gold is held in London, and since London refuses to recognize the new status of Czecho-Slovakia it cannot now be redeemed by the Germans. Not much more than 60% of the foreign exchange and as sets can be liquidated and returned to Germany. The chances are that from gold and foreign exchange the Reich will be able to realize not more than $200,000,000, or about enough to smooth out things for the Nazis for another six months. Even Austria yielded more money...
...materials and export the finished product. Now that it is brought inside the closed Nazi economy of warfare, Czecho-Slovakia can no longer fulfill its economically useful purpose. The same thing happened after Anschluss, but fortunately for the Reich, Czecho-Slovakia, unlike Austria, can feed herself. Best hope for Czech as well as Austrian industry is that Dictator Hitler will soon grab some backward, goods-consuming neighbor States. Otherwise it goes without saying that the Czech standard of living will be lowered, for Germans, in general, far from expecting the Czechs to cost them money, hope to profit from them...
Although Adolf Hitler's German troops scarcely had to fire a gun for the rich prize of Bohemia and Moravia, the Carpathian mountains did not fall without a struggle. Czech soldiers in Carpatho-Ukraine, having learned that Bohemia was a German province, bee-lined for the Rumanian border, where they surrendered their arms and were interned. But the Ukrainian Nationalist Guards of Carpatho-Ukraine, armed at the last minute by Premier Augustin Volosin, long a Ukrainian nationalist leader, put up a stiff resistance. There was a pitched battle to take Chust, the capital. It took Hungary a full four...