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...people of Czecho-Slovakia stuck to sabotage. Arriving in Manhattan, Foreign Minister Jan Masaryk of Czecho-Slovakia explained why most of Europe's governments-in-exile encourage sabotage rather than bloody revolution. Said he: "The Nazis have already killed 2,000 of our people. My message to the Czechs, when I speak every week by short wave from London, is telling them to slow down production in the factories. Take the Skoda works with, say, 40,000 workers. If every one of those men" dawdles and takes an extra two minutes when he goes to the rest room...
...Austria in 1938 Adolf Hitler had gambled with all he had, and won. In Czecho-Slovakia, in Poland, in the Low Countries and France he had gambled with all he had; each time he had won. He was gambling with all he had in Russia, and again he seemed to be winning. But if Hitler had lost a single one of these gambles, that would have meant the end of Hitler...
...Czecho-Slovakia the Nazi "protector," Reinhard Heydrich, kept hustling trussed-up Czechs to the execution walls. Near Oslo 500 Norwegians fought a pitched battle with Nazi troops. While Leader Eugène Deloncle of the pro-Nazi French Cagoulards was in training to fight with the Germans in Russia, someone murdered his secretary in Paris. The Nazis were said to have shot twelve Rumanian Generals who were unwilling to continue fighting Russia. In Yugoslavia open warfare continued between Nazi mechanized divisions and the Chetnik guerrillas. (Reports told of a Serbian "Joan of Arc" who led an attack on the town...
...Czecho-Slovalcia. Firing squads moved with equal celerity against the saboteurs of the Skoda munitions works and other Czech industries. Hitler's chief executioner, cold, bloody Reinhard Heydrich, was in Berlin reporting his accomplishments. Berlin admitted that his assistants accomplished 123 executions during the week. Among those rushed to the wall of death were Czech Generals Josef Bily, Hugo Votja and Franz Horacek, retired Generals Michael Dolezal and Josef Svatek, bald, pale Otokar Klapka, whom the Nazis had appointed Mayor of Prague. Deputy Premier Jaroslav Krejci was arrested, as were Minister of the Interior General Joseph Jezek and former...
Significance. Europe's revolt against Adolf Hitler was not one movement, but many. In Yugoslavia it was hot, open civil war, abetted by traditional Balkan Pan-Slavic sympathies. Soviet Russia even spared "a certain number" of bombers to aid the insurgents. In Czecho-Slovakia it was the discovered sabotage of highly organized underground rebels as the high rank of many of the condemned suggested. Widespread in Europe were examples of that single zealotry of which Paul Collette was the prime symbol...