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WARTIME MEMORIES FUEL A BITTER DISPUTE CZECHS AND NEIGHBORS SPAR OVER SUDETENLAND AND STIR RESENTMENTS
The Boston Globe; 5/8/2002; Brian Whitmore, Globe Correspondent; 787 words
; ... Adolf Hitler's ghost still haunts the Sudetenland. This crescent- shaped area stretching ... mysterious and ominous posters reading: "The Sudetenland was German and will be again." What ... German politician, was calling for the Sudetenland to join the Third Reich. In the 1938 ...
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Iraq, Sounds Like Sudetenland!
Sun Reporter, The; 2/6/2003; Fleming, Thomas C.; 726 words
; ... History easily informs us that the Sudetenland was once a section of Germany which ... language and other cultural pursuits, that Sudetenland was part of what was the Austria-Hungarian ... Czechs received some territory known as Sudetenland, which must have been taken away from ...
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Czechs sign Sudetenland declaration
The Independent - London; 1/22/1997; Adrian Bridge Central Europe Correspondent; 85 words
; ... bury decades of mutual antagonism by signing a joint declaration aimed at drawing a final line under the vexed issue of the Sudetenland. Under the terms of the declaration, which took more than two years to agree, Germany apologised for the suffering inflicted ...
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That lingering question of Sudetenland. (Germany's tense relations with the Czech republic could block the republic's admission to the European Union)(Brief Article)
The Economist (US); 6/1/1996; 322 words
; ... never-ending Sudeten question . Each year at Whitsun the representatives of 2.5m-3m ethnic Germans who were driven from the Czech Sudetenland in 1945 gather in Bavaria, where most now live, to demand that their expulsion should be formally recognised as a crime ...
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Nazis, Jews, Czechs in Sudetenland: A Memoir
Judaism; 1/1/2003; Eigner, Ruth; 787 words
; "CLEANING THAT TEAPOT AGAIN? HOW OFTEN DO I have to tell you not to touch it? It goes with the tea set. Don't you understand German?" "But, I thought," interrupted Alma - but she didn't get a chance to finish her sentence, for my mother went on. "This pot and the cups are kosher. Now I'll have to
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Dateline Sudetenland: hostages to history.
Foreign Policy; 12/22/1996; Ryback, Timothy W.; 787 words
; Ever since 1945, when Adolf Hitler's dream of European unity - under ein Volk, ein Reich, ein Fuhrer - collapsed amid gunfire and aerial bombardment, German political leaders have exercised notable discretion when dealing with their European neighbors. It thus came as something of a shock in May
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Is Taiwan Sudetenland?
Human Events; 3/26/1999; Jeffrey, Terence P; 787 words
; Old soldiers do die, but sometimes their wisdom never fades. That is the case with Gen. Douglas MacArthur, who addressed a joint session of Congress in 1951 and outlined a strategy for Asia that the United States should heed today. In World War II. MacArthur was the architect of the island-hopping
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Ethnic Germans hail Czech deal for Jews
The Independent - London; 1/20/1994; ADRIAN BRIDGE in Berlin; 514 words
; ... of ethnic Germans expelled from the Sudetenland at the end of the Second World War have ... compensate for the surrendering of the Sudetenland to Nazi Germany under the Munich Pact ... descendants have claims on properties in the Sudetenland. While the German government officially ...
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A study in appeasement
Human Events; 8/4/2003; Buchanan, Patrick J; 715 words
; ... agreed to the transfer of the Sudetenland to Germany, is known to history ... stop Hitler's seizure of the Sudetenland in any event. Chamberlain simply ... Prague's rule of a dissident Sudetenland was worth fighting a European ...
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ROLAND KREIBICH: 1922-2003 CHEMIST WAS WAR OPPONENT ALL HIS LIFE.(News)(Obituary)
Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Seattle, WA); 3/20/2003; Davidow, Julie; 464 words
; ... Kreibich, a Washington chemist from the Sudetenland who refused to serve as a German officer ... the European Allies agreed to cede the Sudetenland, a historically contested region of ... post-war purge of ethnic Germans from the Sudetenland. Mr. Kreibich persevered, and in 1949 ...
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