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er wwi and was the first czechoslovak president at the time that is during wwi in the 1920s czechoslovakia was in some ways the adopted child of the united states the u s was instrumental in helping guide czechoslovakia to democracy after wwi and the first czechoslovak constitution was signed in new york city the masaryk family had a number of connections to america including close relatives there during the 1940s the time during which much of the story in this takes place tomas masaryk was already revered as a great statesman and leader to the czechoslovaks he was and still is revered like george washington or abraham lincoln are revered in the u s his son jan however was an incorrigible playboy with seemingly none of the talents of his great father in jan s late teens he was sent by his family to america to make his own way in life and presumably teach him a few lessons jan lived 10 years in america working in menial clerk jobs in his late 20s jan returned home and was promptly drafted into wwi and served in austria after the war jan continued his playboy ways but began to assume some of the responsibilities foisted upon him by his lineage as the son of a national hero he took a position as a diplomat in the government of benes the 2nd czechoslovak president jan perhaps would have remained just the playboy son of tomas masaryk in the czechoslovak national memory if it were not for munich 1938 and its aftermath as it was he became the embodiment of the tragedy of czechoslovakia in wwii and his death murder became an allegory for the murder and betrayal of czechoslovakia munich 1938 in one of the 20th century s great betrayals william chamberlain the prime minister of britain at the time sacrificed britain s ally czechoslovakia to hitler in an attempt to appease hitler and preserve peace czechoslovakia s defenses along her western border were handed over to germany and the czechoslovaks were ordered not to resist once it became clear that czechoslovakia s allies those with whom she had mutual military assistance treaties england france and russia would not come to her aid she was quickly dismembered by her neighbors four months after munich she was an occupied country her resources were sent to germany her industry was serving germany and her population was enslaved to serve the reich one of the most industrialized countries before the war she would go on to become the arms factory for germany during the war jan masaryk s was serving as a diplomat in london at the time and he became the voice of czechoslovakia s tragedy he spoke english fluently and without accent and gave many radio speeches during that time from one of his radio addresses after munich text of the radio address in the video above you will see things happening in my little country diametrically opposed to everything my father stood for and i humbly but proudly stand for today and i beg of you to understand it my people were terribly hurt they were suddenly told with very little ceremony that they must shut up and give up otherwise it was a terrible otherwise this is another job for the historians i am not really complaining i am just trying to explain in simple words what went on in the heart of the simple czech and slovak man and woman who trusted their allies and their friends and quite suddenly found themselves alone bereft and destitute in a blizzard of harshness this book was fascinating to me because it told about the life of jan masaryk and the crucial pre and post wwii years involving czechoslovakia but it also tells a fascinating story about the czechoslovak mindset in the late 1960s and about how people processed the war and the post war betrayals and upheavals the thing that comes up repeatedly is how czechoslovaks who lived through the war and post war period were trying deal with their own feelings of complicity in their downfall the people she interviews have a sense that the czechoslovaks did not really resist the germans in the sense that there was no great partisan movement as in some other slavic countries e g poland and belarus this is not to say there weren t partisans and that there are not examples of courageous resistance but the czechs feel that they tended to take the easier and less lethal ways out upon invasion the government quickly aligned with germany true the alternative was terrible later it aligned with russia again the alternative was terrible but they czechs she interviews express a lurking sense that their country and they themselves were always making a faustian bargain with some devil or another on the other hand the czech republic was the only german annexed country that did not provide troops for the reich army every other annexed country did romania slovakia hungary austria and poland the czechoslovaks that the journalists interviews bring this up themselves and are obviously trying to process all these conflicting views of themselves they seem large unsuccessful in this attempt eeh may 19 2010 ________________________________________________ radio prague article about the 60th anniversary http www radio cz en article 101758 radio broadcasts http www radio cz en article 11875 http archiv radio cz english talking 16 11 99 html 1 change in the official verdict murder http www radio cz en article 49113 2 a sea change in public opinion about strict neutrality including no arms shipments to england occurred after the munich agreement this change in public opinion is reviewed from the perspective of late 1939 in the article influences of world events on u s neutrality opinion philip e jacob the public opinion quarterly vol 4 no 1 mar 1940 pp 48 65 in a short period of 8 weeks public opinion switched from high levels of support for complete neutrality to the opinion that the us should support england and ship weapons to england and france to resist germany this change in public opinion did not however extend to sending troops resistance to sending troops remained very high ca 95 against and ca 80 against even if england and france looked like they would lose after munich this erodes a bit to 84 and 54 if e and f are losing but by the end of 1939 opinion switched back to extremely high resistance to sending troops unless the us is attacked however the change in public opinion concerning arm shipments to england did have an effect the arms embargo that prevented weapons from being sold to england was lifted on november 4 1939 via modification of the neutrality act for reference germany invaded poland on sept 1 1939 and england declared war on germany on sept 3 1939 labels czech posted by eeh at 12 16 pm thursday july 03 2008 history of the german freikorps a brief history of the birth of the nazis at amazon the book begins at the end of wwi as civil unrest is spreading within germany due to widespread dissatisfaction with the war among the civilians and the soldiers during this time there was a strong communist revolutionary movement within the naval soldiers and within the working class as with the russian communist revolution the german communist revolution that wasn t started with mutinies aboard naval ships towards the end of wwi losing the war seemed inevitable and naval soldiers began to balk at dying for a lost cause the first large mutiny occurred at kiel on october 29 1918 when the navy ordered a last and at that point suicidal battle against the british blockade the red soldiers took over the ships and the port this revolt was put down by the kaiser but unrest continued to spread until the kaiser was forced into exile on november 9 1919 and the monarchy was replaced by a fragile republic the wiemar republic out of this chaos the friekorps were born the young republic was facing multiple uprising from various revolutionary groups the communists the spartacists the red naval soldiers and the workers parties these groups were engaging in mass revolts in berlin and were taking over government offices the regular army was ineffective and riddled with red sympathizers instead ex military officers formed their own scratch militia called freikorps or free corps these were made up of young hard men who had been tempered in the trenches of wwi these newly minted freikorps were sent to quell the civil unrest with a heavy hand the freikorps became famous for their violence and independence and their virulent disdain for the wiemar republic government at their height in 1920 there were about half a million freikorps soldiers in militia of various sizes up to battalion strength some of these only lasted a few months while others lasted to the versailles treaty after which they were eventually absorbed into the regular army a brief history of the birth of the nazis how the freikorps blazed a trail for hitler tell sthe history of the friekorps from their inception in 1919 to their official dissolution in 1920 by the versailles treaty through their change to illegal political terrorist militia in the 1920s and then to their final end in the summer of 1934 when the nazis carried out a purge known as the night of long knives the first half of the book is mostly about their various military actions up to 1920 from their military action in poland to mercilessly putting down the ruhr red revolts in the spring of 1920 the second half of the book concerns the post versailles treaty period the versailles treaty strictly limited the number of soldiers that germany was allowed to maintain and the wiemar government was certainly not inclined to turn a blind eye to the freikorps the friekorps were a threat to the government and had been involved in multiple putz attempts to overthrown the republican government and replace it with a fascist government by the early 1920s the majority of the freikorps had been disbanded or integrated into the wehrmacht however many freikorps evolved into illegal anti republican groups and some of these were terrorist right wing groups that that assassinated republican officials these illegal friekorps groups were important to the nascent national socialist party nazis specifically the bavarian freikorps were critical in the munich beerhaus putz in 1923 when adolf hitler attempted to seize power by force after this failed and hitler sent to prison hitler decided to seek power within the political system and distanced himself from the more unruly elements of the freikorps nonetheless many freikorps officers went on to become leaders in the nazi party and of the ss this book was a real eye opener for me i was not aware of the extent of civil unrest in germany at the end of wwi or of the communist revolts that occurred in 1919 and the early 1920s the history of these revolts gave me a very different image of pre wwii germans than i had before in berlin diary the memoir of a us journalist we see only the stereotypical view of german citizens fawning over hitler in mass assemblies and there is certainly no evidence of widespread resistance the history of the freikorps shows a completely different german citizenry for example in march 1920 in what is known as the kapp putz a freikorps militia tried to overthrow the republican government by force and succeeded in taking over the government headquarters in berlin and sending the leadership running however they were faced with massive passive resistance by government employees who stalled in carrying out their orders then a berlin wide strike was called and the city was shut down after a few days of civilian resistance the putz leaders were forced to leave on the other hand the image we see of the freikorps is striking similar to that seen later in the nazi party and ss lieutenant mann an officer of the freikorps leading the failed kapp putz said afterwards if we had only shot more people meaning civilians everything would have been alright it was a lesson they put to use in quelling the ruhr revolt a few weeks later and one that the nazis took to heart also eeh labels germany posted by eeh at 10 12 pm sunday june 01 2008 hanover street hanover street dvd on amazon what can i say i was overcome with indy nostalgia last week i went to see the new indy iv movie and so thoroughly enjoyed it that i decided to re watch indy i alas as i expected the local video store was out of it thus i found myself poking around on netflix instant viewing for a harrison ford movie to watch my choices were air force 1 seen it and hate it devil s own seen it and hate it or hanover street a 1979 movie wwii romance movie with harrison ford and christopher plummer that sounded kind of interesting reviews suggested it was lite romance fluff but entertaining to people who like that sort of stuff i wasn t sure if i was the sort of movie viewer who likes that sort of stuff but i decided to find out wow this was unbelievable horrible the sets and costumes were great but the the two leads ford and some woman delivered their lines like they were reading them there was negative charisma between them and they were supposed to be madly in love and the plot ok i can t criticize the plot inane sappy plots are part of the lite romance genre that said the plot was inane and sappy christopher plummer was alright or at least not painful to watch but one wonders why he would have taken such a role in 1979 after blockbuster roles such as in sound of music and pink panther so really avoid this one there are many other entertaining mindless romance movies for you to enjoy no need to revisit the late 1970s for that only see this if you are curious if you can see a glimmer of han solo 1977 two years later answer no oh wait there is a reason to see this i ve watched many of ford s movies over the years even the terrible ones like this and this one has the best snogging scene i know of he gets into it unlike later films where he fakes it posted by eeh at 8 34 am monday april 28 2008 idi i smotri come and see 1985 come and see link to dvd on amazon ethnic cleansing of the slavs living in the eastern european lands including poland the baltics ukraine belarus czechoslovakia and western russian to the urals was outlined in hilter s generalplan ost as part of his long term plan for creation of lebensraum for greater germany this plan involved removal of 70 90 of the existing slavic population in these areas much of this was to be carried out after the war after germany s presumed victory but pacification and elimination of certain areas was to be carried out during the war in particular in poland ukraine and belarus belarus was belarussia has the sad distinction of being the country where the generalplan ost and the genocide of slavs was most effectively implemented during wwii 25 33 of the population of belarus was killed in the war about 2 2 million killed the belarus intelligentsia and jewish segments of society were entirely eliminated every city was devastated and large portions of belarus were laid waste in a scorched earth policy belarus official website on the genocide in some of the worst war crimes commi...