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...expressed in the pastoral letter striking at Allied occupation policies which Catholic bishops had tried to circulate in the non-Bavarian sections of the U.S. zone, then withdrawn at the request of the U.S. Army. It had hit "the revolting proceedings in eastern Germany, especially in Silesia and the Sudeten region, where more than ten millions of Germans are most brutally driven from their ancestral homes without any investigation, whether personally guilty or not." The bishops turned to the west and denounced extreme denazification, "by the dismissal of thousands of officials ... by the arrest of thousands of others without judicial...
...give the devil his due: the picture was snapped by a German press photographer and first appeared in the National Socialist newspaper, Völkischer Beobachter, in the fall of 1938, shortly after the Sudeten "Anschluss." The Nazi explanation was that here were portrayed the intense emotions of joy which swept the Sudeten Germans as Hitler crossed the Czech border at Asch and drove through the streets of the nearby ancient city of Eger, 99% of whose inhabitants were ardently pro-Nazi Sudeten Germans at the time...
...appearance in TIME is the first instance I have seen wherein this photo has been depicted as showing the reception of Hitler in Prague six months after the Sudeten incident. I suspect that few if any arms were extended, either in joy or grief, on that calamitous...
From western Czechoslovakia, where the Elbe river bursts through the Sudeten mountains into the flat meadow lands bordering Germany, came a different story...
This generous outburst, a credit to British decency, swept Bevin and others of like mind into one historical error. When Bevin said of the Sudeten Germans and the Czechs that they "had lived together in perfect harmony until Hitler's stooges and agents broke up their democratic state," he was falling back on the old, dubious view that Hitler's' New Order had been the work of only a few Nazi gangsters. The 3,000,000 Sudeten Germans, now joining Europe's miserable displaced millions, had risen in a mass to betray the Czechs...