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Merckle was born in 1934, and in 1945 fled with his family from Sudetenland, a region near the German-Czech border that was inhabited by ethnic Germans and occupied by Hitler's forces in 1938. His family settled in Blaubeuren, a small town in southern Germany located between Stuttgart...
...single out the Benes Decrees?" Czech Foreign Minister Jan Kavan told Time. "They belong to the past and should stay in the past. Many current members of the E.U. had similar laws." German Chancellor Gerhard Schröder admitted that "in this heated debate, a rational discussion of such questions is much more difficult," but also doubted there would be any long-term damage to German-Czech relations...
...German heartland. Some 4 million refugees from the eastern regions of the country were on the move toward the west. Terrified by the tales of rape and pillage that had accompanied the advance of Soviet forces, they were trying to find safety behind American and British lines. The horror stories, told and retold and retold again, needed no Nazi propaganda to spread like wildfire. They certainly were heard in the town in which we lived: Gablonz to Germans, Jablonec nad Nisou to Czechs, in what was then known as the Sudetenland, a border territory with a mixed German-Czech population...
Next morning on the German-Czech border, Vishinsky stepped out of the comfortable Orient Express, went aboard a dingy second-class Czech train decorated with a huge red star. A German border official noted that Mrs. Vishinsky's hair, described as black in her passport, had become a coppery red in Paris...
Then the President proceeded to draft his second appeal to Adolf Hitler, urging not only continued negotiation of the German-Czech issues but also a broad discussion, among all the powers directly interested, of questions correlated with those issues. Said President to Fuhrer: "Hundreds of millions throughout the world would recognize your action as an outstanding historic service to all humanity...