Word: czech
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...first place, CzechoSlovakia's German protectors served notice beforehand that no celebration would be tolerated. When the day came, and the Czechs celebrated anyhow, the Nazis turned Czech police loose on them. The police did their work efficiently and quietly, giving no indication that it might be distasteful. Only one Czech policeman had to be arrested by Schutzstaffeln...
Citizens of Prague, on the whole, were not unruly. Small groups, chiefly students, ventured an occasional "Heil Benes!" or "Heil the Republic!," but most celebrants merely walked the streets silently, wearing black neckties and armbands, and occasionally Czech colors and Masaryk caps. Police ripped off these symbols of mourning and hope. Czechs made for Wenceslaus Square, for centuries their gathering place in times of emotion. They found it blocked off by mounted police and gendarmes...
...detachment of Schutzstafel flaunted their authority, marching with Nazi banners and a band. This was more than the Czechs could bear. They rushed the guards, tore down their banner, scattered their ranks. A number were injured before the dutiful Czech police scattered the crowd, arresting several. Later a band of students surrounded a earful of Schutzstaffel officers and threatened them. The officers drew their pistols and fired into the air. When the day was over reports seeped even through the censor's office that four were dead, scores injured, thousands arrested...
Gentlemen, the New England Repertory has really been kicking the gong around of late. With a flying swan dive off the deep end, they have produced "Adam the Creator" by the Czech "enfant terrible" of the theatre, Karel Capek. The general keynote of the script is that God made an awful mess of things during those first seven days--but then, again, is there anyone in the audience who thinks he could do a better...
...stories of Czech atrocities against its German minority were rehashed up almost verbatim in regard to the Poles. . . . How far Herr Hitler himself believed in the truth of these tales must be a matter for conjecture. Germans are prone in any case to convince themselves very readily of anything which they wish to believe...