Word: sudetenland
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...called any grant of concessions to Communists equal to the yielding of the Sudetenland in Czechoslovakia to Nazi Germany in the Munich Conference of 1938. "The loss of Quemoy and Matsu have both a military and a psychological...
...late Robert A. Taft pointed out that while the Security Council is charged with maintaining "peace and security," this is not synonymous with maintaining justice. As an example of keeping the peace at the expense of justice, Taft cited Neville Chamberlain's agreement to give the Sudetenland to Germany. Taft called for the principle of justice under law to be substituted for the U.N.'s method of peacekeeping by expediency...
...delegate to an international Fascist meeting in Malo, Sweden. Richter was prominent in the SRP, and was one of the first elected to the national legislature under its aegis. Not until February, 1952, did the government discover that Richter, who had been posing as an expellee from the Sudetenland was really a former Nazi official named Fritz Roesler. Richter-Roesler then lost his legislative immunity and went to jail for forgery of identity papers. The time it took Bonn to catch Roesler is amazing since in 1949 he was fired from his position as a grammar school teacher when...
...Place to Live In. During the war, SSman Sirsch was captured by the Russians, and his wife cared for little Ivan. At war's end, expelled from her home in the Sudetenland, Frau Sirsch took the boy to West Germany, where she made a precarious living as a seamstress. In 1949 Sirsch was released from his Russian P.W. camp, took up his old trade of house painting and built a new home. Herr and Frau Sirsch and little Ivan seemed happy...
Several months after Roessler's disappearance, a bumptious little man wearing sideburns turned up in the West Zone city of Hanover. He was, he said, Franz Richter, Ph.D., a schoolmaster who had been expelled from his home in the Sudetenland by the Czechs. His papers had got lost on the long journey from the Russian front. During the war, he said, he had served as a Wehrmacht paratrooper in a company commanded by Captain Fritz Roessler. As Dr. Richter told it, Roessler had been killed in the Ukraine. He had personally helped bury him, and had promised to take...