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From the ArchivesCzechoslovakia’s Second Republic: a vain attempt to put the piecestogether
The six months leading up to the German occupation of Bohemia and Moravia
in March 1939 were a strange period. After Germany, Poland and Hungary had
annexed over a quarter of the country’s territory as a result of the
Munich Agreement in September 1938, it was hard to see how the rump
Czechoslovakia – the so-called “Second Republic” - could keep going.
But Radio Prague’s shortwave broadcasts continued, and not surprisingly
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country. Here is the famous Czech professor and scholar of English
literature, Otakar Vočadlo, talking in November 1938. More
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