Word: czech
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...offset this unpleasant fact Dr. Goebbels denounced "intellectuals" who "constantly nagged" the Nazi Government during the Czech crisis and asked: What would have happened had Neville Chamberlain not come to Munich? Dr. Goebbels roared: "I say he came because he had to come. He came because we had him so cornered that he was-to use a chess term-in check...
...Czech Government officials jittered -though the population stayed calm - when Heinrich Himmler, dread chief of all Nazi police, suddenly appeared in Prague. Reasons given for Herr Himmler's visit were several and varied. Some said he was there to clean up the messy shooting at Kladno of a German policeman; others said that the Nazis were preparing to abolish the protectorate, at least take over its police. Nazis denied both rumors, said Police Chief Himmler was in Prague for "a brief inspection tour." By week's end Himmler was back in Berlin...
Such hair-raisers seemed a little out of plumb when 20,000 Czechs set out for the funeral of Czech Policeman Johann Mueller, killed by Germans last week. To his funeral the Czech Unity Party sent a crown of thorns. But when the jittery Czech Government (with concurrence of the Protector) called the rites off, the 20,000 Czechs went quietly home...
Whatever the truth, the Nazi machine went into action in Kladno in a big way. Next day virtual martial law was clamped down. Doors and windows of all houses had to be closed between 8 p.m. and 5 a.m. Theatres, schools and public halls were closed. The Czech police were mustered in the public square, stripped of their arms and imprisoned for "nonfulfillment of duty." Later they were released and sent to other parts of the country. Heavily armed German patrols roamed the streets with orders to fire^at open windows. Day later, 2,000 reinforcements with machine guns, armored...
Meanwhile, Nazis held a memorial service in Kladno for Sergeant Kniest, before giving him a martyr's funeral this week in Leipzig, his home city. Adolf Hitler sent a wreath. Kladno was first given 24 hours, later 48, to produce the killer or else suffer "further measures." The Czech Unity Party, only Czech political organization still existent in Bohemia and Moravia, declared such "acts of force are a crime against the entire Czech people," called upon Czechs to cooperate in apprehending the slayer. The Czechs wanted it understood that murder was not in their plans. While Kladno wondered what...