Sixty-nine years ago this week, on March 14 1939, the Czechoslovak President Emil Hácha spoke to the nation. He had just returned from Berlin, where Hitler had given him a simple ultimatum: face either occupation or destruction. Hácha chose occupation:
Emil Hácha and Adolf Hitler
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