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He insisted that the province...
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...which was home
to over three million ethnic Germans ...
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...be allowed to secede and join the Reich.
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On October 1,
with international agreement...
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...German troops
marched into Sudetenland...
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...adding one-fifth of Czechoslovakia
to the Reich...
:13:19
...and opening the way
for further dismemberment of the country.
:13:24
From then on, people were wondering...
:13:27
...what would happen next.
:13:31
Father was an optimist because...
:13:33
...he did business with people in France
who wrote and said:
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´´lt´s going to be bad, get out. ´´
:13:39
But for Father, no,
things Iike that wouIdn´t happen.
:13:43
He had a greater faith in mankind.
:13:46
He used to say that he wouId rather
trust peopIe and be disappointed...
:13:50
...than go through Iife
not trusting anybody.
:13:56
Less than half a year later...
:13:58
...Hitler would destroy the Czech state.
:14:01
But now, the Nazis continued
their persecution of the Jews.
:14:05
ln November,
they orchestrated a vicious pogrom...
:14:08
...which they later called KristaIInacht:
:14:11
´´The Night of Broken Glass. ´´
:14:19
l had had a strange dream in the night...
:14:21
...that my father was being arrested.
:14:26
Our evening meaI that evening...
:14:28
...was the Iast meaI
I ever remember having with my father.
:14:31
I Iooked at him...
:14:32
...and l thought, well, l hadn´t really...
:14:35
...seen his features properly.
:14:38
You know
how you Iook at somebody intenseIy?
:14:41
And something toId me...
:14:43
...that I must imprint
that image of him in my mind.
:14:51
Before l went to bed...
:14:53
...my father, in a rather stern voice,
said to me:
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"´If you hear any strange noises
during the night...
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"´...immediateIy get out of bed...