Word: munich
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Repeatedy warned that resistance would be fatal, dazed by surprise, their spirit broken since Munich anyhow, 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...
...explained that the average Britisher until a short time ago could not recognize the Sudeten problem as one to worry about, "until the Munich awakening made the British feel that they would go to war for much less than they would have during the twenties. And today, England is infinitely more alive to the danger than she was a week ago, because, for one thing, the prospect of a man breaking his work--witness Hitler--shocks the Britisher deeply...
Hlinka Guardsmen reappeared (armed again) and beside their uniforms were seen those of Slovak Nazi Storm Troopers. Jewish shop windows began to crash. And just as before Munich, the German press reported atrocities: "The Czechs' blood terror against Germans and Slovaks creates an unbearable situation...
...pending further developments: "The return of Czecho-Slovakia to the German Reich would signify the restoration of ancient historical conditions. . . . An unambiguous situation in Czecho-Slovakia is indispensable to the security of Germany. . . ." Significant, too, were the remarks of a British Government "spokesman" who observed that while the four Munich powers had agreed to guarantee mutilated CzechoSlovakia's external borders, her internal divisions were no concern of Britain's. That did about all that was needed to make way for an "independent" Slovak State, should the Nazis wish it for a dependency...
...summer's developments in Czechoslovakia. Photographed by Alexander Hackenschmied, assembled by Herbert Kline, with an accompanying commentary written by Vincent Sheean and recited by Actor Leif Erikson, it examines from a frankly anti-Nazi point of view what happened between Hitler's invasion of Austria and the Munich conference. It sets out to show that the Czechs in their difficult predicament did much better than they were done by. Prime difficulties of recording history on film are that: 1) history neglects to follow a shooting schedule, and 2) that the most significant happenings are often the least pictorial...