For documentation of the facts cited herein, see the full version of the book. In this abbreviated version of that account nearly all the footnotes have been omitted. This account is found in pages 165-249 of his book: 1939 – The War That Had Many Fathers: the Long Run-Up to the Second World War, available online at Lulu. But is this assumption correct? I doubt that it is and have therefore undertaken to make available free online an abbreviated version of Gerd Schultze-Rhonhof’s detailed account of the events leading up to Germany’s Anschluss of the Sudeten Regions in 1938. It is only thus that the comparison might help them to understand what is taking place in Ukraine today. They do so obviously on the assumption that people today well know what took place in Czechoslovakia seventy-six years ago. Translator’s PrefaceĮvery day recently pundits in the media compare Putin’s invasion of Ukraine to Hitler’s invasion of Czechoslovakia. In 1995 he drew the media’s attention when he openly criticized the Federal Constitutional Court because of its so-called Soldiers Are Murderers decision. Gerd Schultze-Rhonhof was a soldier in the Bundeswehr (German army) for 37 years, lastly as Major General and Territorial Commander for Niedersachsen and Bremen. The Anschluss of the Sudeten Regions and the Subjugation of Czechia
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