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...safety behind American and British lines. The horror stories, told and retold and retold again, needed no Nazi propaganda to spread like wildfire. They certainly were heard in the town in which we lived: Gablonz to Germans, Jablonec nad Nisou to Czechs, in what was then known as the Sudetenland, a border territory with a mixed German-Czech population that Hitler had grabbed from Czechoslovakia...
...move into China, left most Americans unable to deal with anything beyond their own breadlines and Hoovervilles and, Brother, can you spare a dime? To the extent that they worried about foreign problems at all, they worried mainly about Adolf Hitler, who had seized Austria and the Czech Sudetenland in 1938, then demanded western Poland...
Some 3 million of Germany's expellees were uprooted from the Sudetenland, a region of Czechoslovakia seized by Hitler in 1938. The power of those old passions was demonstrated when Vaclav Havel, shortly before he was elected President of Czechoslovakia, observed that in a spirit of reconciliation the country might offer an apology to the ethnic Germans who were forced out of their Sudetenland homes after the war. Communist hard-liners in Czechoslovakia spotted the mischief potential in that comment and made sure everyone knew what Havel had said. Sure enough, outraged demonstrators marched in Prague demanding that no apology...
...seen as the sign of regaining German strength (after all, it is Mikhail Gorbachev, not Germany, who was largely responsible for the dramatic changes), but the reunion with relatives, old and new friends was celebrated. Contrast this, for example, to the Anschluss of Austria or the annexation of the Sudetenland in 1938, where people cheered at parading tanks and soldiers. I think the difference could hardly be more striking...
...problem in even starker terms. "All of Germany's neighbors have got to be against reunification," he says. "Once East and West Germany have been unified, what is to stop the Germans from wanting to get back all their old lands in the east, from Pomerania to Silesia and Sudetenland...