[2banana]

He gets it...

[duckman]

The comeback yid.

[Izzy Dunne]

Those who would trade land for peace will get neither. (apologies to Ben Franklin).

[Sir Francis Dashwood]

Churchill wrote about how he tried and tried to warn everyone about this in “The Gathering Storm.”

Nobody listened...

[squarebarb]

I am just reading ‘Tomorrow
Will Be Better’. A personal account of a family living through the German invasion and occupation of Czechoslovakia. It is gripping reading. She writes about the phoney, made-up issue of the Germans in Czech.

One of the many personal accounts of living under the tyranny of the Germans and then the Soviets.

Published by some small company. One of the many riveting stories of those years which the mainstream publishers and Hollywood utterly ignore.

[agere_contra]

Our (UK/French) failure to come to Czechoslovakia’s defense was shameful. But it seemed so damn sensible at the time - why go to war to defend Sudetenland-Germans who wanted to be invaded? Why repeat the horrors of WWI for an effectless border?

Anyway, we were wrong. Stick by treaties, or it is “blood, blood and again blood”.

[Think free or die]

My father was part of that Czech army. He has often told us how they were ready to fight to defend their nation, and how they were betrayed by their allies. I've recently seen the remnants of some of the fortifications from WWII, which are in amazingly good shape after all these years. Bunkers are sprinkled around the countryside in the middle of farmers' fields.

During the Nazi occupation, my father was arrested by the Gestapo. His university was being closed down, and students rounded up and taken to a concentration camp. He was fortunate to be released - one of a handful. Apparently the Gestapo initially rounded up more Czechs than they could accommodate, and some were released. In Dad's case, it was because he was under the age of 20. He has never fully recovered from the emotional trauma. He and mom escaped in 1950, after the communist coup. They started over in America in freedom. My brother and I have been blessed with freedom, but for many years, had very little contact with our family left behind the iron curtain.

My maternal grandfather was a wealthy man before the war, owning a lumber mill and a resort on a nearby lake. He started with nothing, deciding to go into business for himself when his widowed mother couldn't afford higher education for him after WWI. The Nazis seized his business for the war effort, and the communists seized his resort, lands and home. In his 60's he was digging ditches and my uncle forced to mine uranium. My cousins were denied university admission because of Grandfather's business success. Our family was deemed an enemy of the state.

This is the price of appeasement - illustrated by just one family.

I fear for Israel, and I fear for our great nation. We live in very troubled times.

[G8 Diplomat]

He's a smart guy. He knows how to deal with threats.

If Bibi owned a search engine...

[SJackson]

Middle East and terrorism, occasional political and Jewish issues Ping List. High Volume

If you'd like to be on or off, please FR mail me.

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[Larry381]

When Hitler finally moved into Czechoslovakia in March 1939 the real crown jewel he obtained was the Skoda Works-probably the largest arms manufacturer in Europe at the time.
Some historians are mystified by Hitler's treatment of the Czechs because compared to other countries Germany overran he treated the Czechs rather well.

[gogogodzilla]

PING!