In September 1938, the Munich Agreement delivered the Sudetenland to Germany. Six months later, Hitler's troops marched unopposed into Prague and established the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia - the first non-German territory to be occupied by Nazi Germany. Although Czechs outnumbered Germans thirty to one, Nazi leaders were determined to make the region entirely German. Chad Bryant explores the origins and implementation of these plans as part of a wider history of Nazi rule and its consequences for the region. To make the Protectorate German, half the Czech population (and all Jews) would be expelled or killed, with the other half assimilated into a German national community with the correct racial and cultural composition. With the arrival of Reinhard Heydrich, Germanization measures accelerated. People faced mounting pressure from all sides. The Nazis required their subjects to act (and speak) German, while Czech patriots, and exiled leaders, pressed their countrymen to act as 'good Czechs'. By destroying democratic institutions, harnessing the economy, redefining citizenship, murdering the Jews, and creating a climate of terror, the Nazi occupation set the stage for the postwar expulsion of Czechoslovakia's three million Germans and for the Communists' rise to power in 1948. The region, Bryant shows, became entirely Czech, but not before Nazi rulers and their postwar successors had changed forever what it meant to be Czech, or German.
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非常好的一本書,對於我對戰爭的瞭解有瞭進一步的補充
評分非常好的一本書,對於我對戰爭的瞭解有瞭進一步的補充
評分substantial extending of his dissertation?read as recap; memorable analysis include: the role of jokes and rumor as form of resistence/Benes actively developing Odsun policy within the intl. arena; noticable facts: Gottawald party in interwar period; Polish govt in-exile
評分非常好的一本書,對於我對戰爭的瞭解有瞭進一步的補充
評分substantial extending of his dissertation?read as recap; memorable analysis include: the role of jokes and rumor as form of resistence/Benes actively developing Odsun policy within the intl. arena; noticable facts: Gottawald party in interwar period; Polish govt in-exile
Prague in Black 2024 pdf epub mobi 電子書 下載