The risk of democratic contagion became clear when students in Warsaw took to the streets and chanted their support for Czechoslovakia. Early on August 21, , around , soldiers, 2, tanks, and hundreds of aircraft from the Soviet Union, Bulgaria, Hungary, and Poland rumbled into Czechoslovakia.
Just 29 years after the nightmare of the Nazi invasion, Czechs and Slovaks once again awoke to foreign troops on their soil. Warsaw Pact troops stand guard outside Communist Party headquarters in downtown Prague on the first day of the invasion.
Within hours, First Secretary Dubcek had been seized from his Prague offices pictured in background and flown to Moscow for interrogation. Locals confront Soviet tanks and troops on Wenceslas Square in Prague. Bewildered Czechs and Slovaks erupted to challenge the invading soldiers -- many of whom were as uninformed as the locals -- on the streets. Warsaw Pact troops fire into the air as they patrol Prague, sending locals scurrying for cover.
Germany invaded the Czech provinces of Bohemia and Moravia on 15 March Unlike with the Sudetenland, these provinces were not incorporated directly into the German Reich.
They instead became known as the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia, and were placed under Nazi rule. Slovakia, a province of Czechoslovakia, just above the Hungarian annexed zone, became an independent Catholic state with close links to Nazi Germany. Despite breaking the Munich Pact almost immediately, Hitler did not face a military response from the Allies.
German troops riding through Poland following the invasion of By the 6 October , just over one month after invasion, Poland had been conquered by the Soviet Union and Germany. Following the annexation of Czechoslovakia, Poland was already partially surrounded by German controlled territories by As such, it was in a geographically weak situation.
The French supported this agreement. This became known as the Polish Guarantee. The two countries, which were ideological enemies, agreed to peace between each other for ten years. The pact also secretly divided up Poland between Germany and the Soviet Union. Poland was surrounded. Germany could now attack without worrying about a war with the Soviet Union. On the 1 September , Germany attacked Poland. Britain and France issued an ultimatum to Germany: to either withdraw troops from Poland or face a declaration of war from Britain and France.
The policy of appeasement that the British and French had been following for since the start of the Nazis aggressive foreign policy was over. Britain especially had began preparing for war following the German invasion of Czechoslovakia in March On 3 September , having received no reply and unwilling to accept further German expansion, Britain and France declared war on Germany. The Soviets demanded free passage for their troops through Poland.
However, Poland refused to agree to this clause. Britain was also hostile to agreeing to share intelligence with the Soviet Union. As a result of these hostilities, the talks with Britain, France and Poland broke down and the Soviet Union turned back towards Germany. Despite their ideological opposition, a pact between Germany and the Soviet Union suited both of their territorial aims. This became known as the Beer Hall Putsch.
The exhibition promoted antisemitic stereotypes. On 9 November , Kristallnacht took place. Throughout Germany, synagogues were burned and Jewish businesses were looted by the Nazis.
On 8 November , labourer Georg Elser attempted to assassinate Hitler. Elser was later murdered in Dachau concentration camp. On 20 November , the Nuremberg trials began. On May 5, the uprising in Prague began when Czech police officers burst into a radio station and began fighting with the SS troops occupying the building.
Upon hearing the noise, Czech broadcasters began calling for citizens to rise up against the Nazis. People gathered in the streets, Nazi flags were replaced with Czech flags, and barricades were constructed. German signage was replaced with Czech signs, and public transportation operators refused to accept Reichsmarks as payments. By May 6, over 1, barricades had been constructed by thousands of citizens overnight.
German reinforcements made their way to Prague and the fighting continued to escalate. The Luftwaffe began to bomb areas of the city, hitting the radio broadcasting building, barricades, and civilian apartments.
On May 7, while German leaders were signing their unconditional surrender to the Allied forces in France, German forces in Prague launched a massive attack on the city. Armored and artillery units pushed their way through the barricades, using civilians as human shields along the way. With a majority of the ROA gone, the ill-equipped resistance fighters suffered against the reinforced German units and lost much of the territory they gained over the first days of the uprising.
Though the Nazis surrendered on May 7, the fighting continued in Prague. On May 8, the Germans launched an air raid that was followed by an infantry attack. He got it. That same day, German troops poured into Bohemia and Moravia. The two provinces offered no resistance, and they were quickly made a protectorate of Germany. By evening, Hitler made a triumphant entry into Prague.
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