Word: hitlers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Soon after, Herr Hitler issued two other proclamations. One officially mobilized the Army, which of course had got its real marching papers long before: "Wherever the march meets resistance, it shall be broken immediately and with every means. ..." A third manifesto announced the new triumph to the German people. They showed no emotion. Herr Hitler has never let them think for a minute that any of his adventures have the smallest chance of meeting defeat...
Meanwhile in Prague Germans began arrogant demonstrations. Storm Troopers in Henleinist uniforms posted themselves outside German schools. Squads of German students in jack boots and arm bands jostled their way through the bewildered crowds shouting "Heil Hitler! Sieg Heil!" When Czech policemen tried to shut up one obstreperous young Storm Trooper, he shouted "Let me alone! The time for all this is over...
...crowds greeted the first armored cars in Prague's streets in dumb despair. Later in the day they grew defiant. Whistles and jeers greeted each new squadron. Groups sang the Czech anthem and wept openly. Some shouted "Pfui! Pfui! go back home!" But the only physical resistance Herr Hitler's tanks met was a volley of snowballs. Down in Prague's Jewish district there was terror. Two lovers shot themselves, a couple jumped from their apartment window. By week's end suicides had mounted...
...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...
...dusk his car climbed the hill to ancient Hradschin Castle. Slowly he ascended its stairs to his suite, rooms used by Thomas Masaryk and Eduard Benes, founders of the republic. Adolf Hitler's personal gold-bordered swastika was unfurled overhead, he stepped to a window and looked down on the twinkling lights of another subject city...