Word: moravia
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Thursday he announced the previously devised organization of Bohemia and Moravia as a protectorate. Konrad Henlein, who did yeoman service as the whiplash of the Sudeten Germans, was named civil administrator of Bohemia; and Joseph Bürckel, Nazi deputy leader in Austria, of Moravia...
...paper, however, the booty looks impressive: 1) about $80,000,000 in gold in the Czecho-Slovak National Bank; 2) about $200,000,000 in foreign exchange and foreign assets held abroad by individuals and corporations; 3) an agricultural surplus in Moravia and Bohemia sufficient to feed the Sudetenland, and in Slovakia sufficient to feed Vienna; 4) about 1,200 Czech airplanes (200 of them first-line), 500 tanks, some good heavy artillery; 5) increased industrial and arms capacity...
...united Czechoslovakia. On his birthday (it would have been his 89th), thousands of Czechs, mostly peasants in national costume, trudged to his grave in a little country churchyard 20 miles from Prague. There they silently prayed that the four eggs he put into the CzechoSlovakian basket (Bohemia, Moravia, Slovakia, Carpatho-Ukraine) might not be any further broken...
...different story is the acquisition of Bohemia, Moravia, and Slovakia. Here, Hitler has increased his agricultural resources. In addition, he has gained sufficient equipment for 40 divisions of the army, some ninety to one hundred millions in gold, and a substantial number of airplanes. On the other hand, however, the new territory must be policed, and this will involve expenditure of money, dispersion of forces, and internal weakening in general. Moreover, Hitler now has 1200 miles of territory on the Polish and Hungarian border which must be completely fortified. The bulk of the evidence does not indicate that time...
...Moravia and Bohemia are swinging back into the German orbit, probably for a long period of time," commented John M. Potter '26, assistant professor of History and Literature on Hitler's latest move. "In one brief year the bases of the Holy Roman Empire, Saxony, Austria, and Bohemia have swung back under German sway, but what the eventual outcome will be it is now impossible accurately...