Word: moravia
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...photographic establishments of Herr Professor Heinrich Hoffmann in Berlin, Munich and Vienna last week poured thousands of big & little pictures of big little Adolf Hitler, to adorn the walls of the new German subjects of Bohemia, Moravia and Memel. It is an unwritten law of Greater Germany that every household, office, factory and assembly room must show a picture of Der Führer, and Heinrich Hoffmann is Germany's official Reichsbildberichterstatter, or Photographic Reporter of the Reich...
...Majesty" ever be caught in Reich territory. Otto remained in Belgium, where he has lived with his mother, onetime Empress Zita, for the last nine years. Last week in Paris, after Führer Hitler had seized several more big slices of the Pretender's "empire" (Bohemia, Moravia, Slovakia), Archduke Otto was still more indignant. Said "His Most Apostolic Majesty": "I condemn with the utmost energy the violence with which Germany has subjugated Bohemia and Moravia. I condemn also the military occupation of Slovakia by a German Army. . . . More than ever I have the firm conviction that...
Last week, with the annexation of Bohemia, Moravia and Slovakia, Herr Hit ler's word proved as bad a prophet as ever. He grabbed 32,000 square miles, population of 9,250,000, new munitions (including the Skoda works), a large shoe industry, Pilsen breweries, gold reserve...
Last week while Germany was grabbing Bohemia and Moravia by the scruffs of their necks and whistling Slovakia home, the little Kingdom of Hungary was being allowed to make a grab of its own in the Carpatho-Ukraine, the easternmost prov ince of now extinct Czecho-Slovakia. Long have Poland and Hungary wanted a common border for protection against Germany. Last fall, when Czecho-Slovakia was amputated, they almost got it. Last week, when Adolf Hitler wiped Czechoslovakia off the map, they...
Although Adolf Hitler's German troops scarcely had to fire a gun for the rich prize of Bohemia and Moravia, the Carpathian mountains did not fall without a struggle. Czech soldiers in Carpatho-Ukraine, having learned that Bohemia was a German province, bee-lined for the Rumanian border, where they surrendered their arms and were interned. But the Ukrainian Nationalist Guards of Carpatho-Ukraine, armed at the last minute by Premier Augustin Volosin, long a Ukrainian nationalist leader, put up a stiff resistance. There was a pitched battle to take Chust, the capital. It took Hungary a full four...