Democracy Dies in Darkness
Putin’s attack on Ukraine echoes Hitler’s takeover of Czechoslovakia
The Nazi leader used similar tactics to dismember and devour Czechoslovakia before World War II
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By 1939, parts of Czechoslovakia had already been carved off and taken over by Nazi Germany, which claimed that millions of ethnic Germans were being persecuted there.
The previous September, European powers, seeking to avoid war, had acquiesced and done nothing.
