Word: sudetens
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...Sudeten, those Germans who remained wore identifying armbands. In Berlin, Jews were entitled to extra rations. In the British zone, on behalf of Jews, the British commandeered clothes from Germans. Thanks to presidential demand, the first of many Jews in the American zone were removed from behind barbed wire and were installed in houses requisitioned from Germans. Into Germany, fleeing a new paroxysm of pogroms in New Poland, wandered still more Jews...
Mysteriously planted placards warned fraternizing Bavarian girls: "0 God, if it depends on us, you will pay for it!" Daily, the snowline crept a little farther down the mountains of Bavaria, hideout of SS men. A Sudeten German asked whether it was true that Americans were now fighting the Russians...
What the once internationalist Czechs do want: "Czechoslovakia for Czechoslovakians." The Sudeten treachery, the Munich agreement, German encroachment and finally six years of German occupation have "burned with corrosive fire into the Czech soul and turned . . . their European patriotism into flaming nationalism...
First to go was tall, flamboyant socialist Frank Owen, 39, a "Sudeten Welshman" and at 23 a Member of Parliament, who was drafted in the midst of arguing loudly for a Second Front. In Manhattan last week, now a major on Admiral Lord Louis Mountbatten's staff, he admitted what everyone long suspected, that he was through with the Standard...
...Corridor and the other annexed Polish territories of Poland. Austria would be separate and independent until a pledbiscite or an agreement should decide whether it should be reunited with Germany, remain independent, or find a new existence in some kind of a Danubian federation or new arrangement. The Sudeten Germans would remain with the Czechs within the natural mountain frontier of Czechoslovakia as in 1933, except such Sudeten Germans as preferred to migrate to the Reich...