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Jim Wald

@citizenwald.bsky.social

Historian, Hampshire College, Amherst MA Europe C18-20, book history, historic preservation Past service: SHARP sharpweb.org, Massachusetts Center for the Book www.massbook.org/ Co-editor, Routledge History of Antisemitism tiny.cc/k6rb

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JWcitizenwald.bsky.socialOct 2, 2024 4:05am

"endless 'heiling', saluting and cheering": After the Munich Conference, 30 Sept. 1938, Nazis enthusiastically applaud Neville Chamberlain. And why wouldn't they? He just betrayed a small ally and gave them territory that was not his to give away. #WWII #Czechoslovakia 3/4

all text: another excerpt from the Taunton MA Daily Gazette containing Associated Press reporting: here on Chamberlain's good mood and the enthusiastic welcome the Nazis gave him

JWcitizenwald.bsky.socialOct 2, 2024 4:05am

"The use of recriminating about the past is to enforce effective action at the present" --Winston #Churchill #Nazis #Czechoslovakia #WWII #appeasement #England #history 4/4

the "distracted" meme, i which a man walks down a street with one woman and turns around to stare admiringly at another woman passing by, whereupon the first woman stares at him, open-mouthed in disbelief

the man is labeled England
the first woman is labeled Czechoslovakia
the second woman is labeled Nazi Germany

World War II book

yellow dust jacket
series title in black: Victory Book No. 1
title (in purple): Guilty Men
by "Cato" (in black)
"The use of recriminating about the past is to enforce effective action at the present"
--Winston Churchill, May 29, 1936
43rd impression in purple

the book attacked the appeasement policy that led to the outbreak of war, as well as the British military collapse at the start of the conflict

The three anonymous authors were Michael Foot, Frank Owen, and Peter Howard

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guilty_Men

Jim Wald

@citizenwald.bsky.social

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