104 Czech Rebellion

"Look at those Germans, it's also an economic crisis. Anyway, they still have some potatoes and vegetable leaves to eat. How are they like us? They work hungry all day long." A worker sighed while sitting by the cold machine, fiddling with his toes. A large iron pliers dropped on the ground.

"Are you sure?" A worker next to him sneered: "We haven't started work for several days! Are we still working hungry? If there is work to do, there is still a little bit of hope. If we don't start work now, We'll just starve to death!"

The complaining worker said helplessly: "We are also Germans, the most outstanding nation that Mr. Rudolph said. Why do we have to starve, while those compatriots in the motherland have food?"

"Mr. Rudolph is now the Chancellor of Germany. He has a way to save the Germans in Germany, but he can't save us! Because we are oppressed here!" A worker took up the conversation not far away, indignant said.

With a look of anger on his face, he waved his hands twice and continued: "We still had a little work to do, but those Czech leaders in the main factory are like parasites, using the funds from our factory to save themselves, only after taking over us. It will be reduced to what it is now!"

"Stop talking! The foreman is here!" A worker walked over and persuaded in a low voice.

"I'm here for the same reason!" The foreman came over and said angrily: "We are all like this! They want us to sell the remaining raw materials at the reserve price, and we will be completely finished in the future!"

"Sir! Take us on strike! If we don't do something, we won't survive!" a worker stepped forward and begged.

"Yes! Sir! We have to save ourselves!" "Sir! Save us!" Behind him, many workers stood up and said.

"Gentlemen! I'm a foreman! But I'm also a German! The Germans should be united! We want to return to the arms of the motherland! We want to be like our fellow Germans! Eat black bread! Eat Serve the potato leaves!" The foreman raised his right hand and said loudly, "What the hell are we doing! Strike!"

"Strike!" shouted all the workers.

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"Bell, bell, bell." The phone rang rapidly, and a bearded policeman wearing a police helmet grabbed the receiver and said lazily and programmatically, "Hello! This is the police station. ! Excuse me, what's the matter with you?"

"The Fifth Block! The Fifth Block is on strike! They're rioting! Many people are holding up their flags of separatism! We can't stand it anymore! Call for reinforcements! Quick! We call for reinforcements!" On the other end of the phone, a policeman shouted ask for help.

"Ugh...!" The alarm sounded over the army station, and the soldiers ran out of their barracks, got into cars and drove into the famous city of Karlovy Vary not far away, where they were ordered to use barbed wire, rifles and numbers Thousands of passionate strikers confronted each other, and the two sides were drawn to each other, and it seemed that the conflict could break out at any time.

Soon, the local Czech garrison got their heavy weapons, and two armored vehicles drove into the city, controlling the situation in the areas where the confrontation between the two sides was the most serious, but the strike still caused turmoil in nearly half of the Czech Republic. , the whole country is in chaos.

The First World War broke up a huge empire in the world called Austro-Hungary, and turned it into three small European countries: Austria, Hungary, and Czechoslovakia. However, there are 3.5 million German-speaking Germans living in Czechoslovakia, from the main ethnic group of the original Austro-Hungarian Empire,

All of a sudden it was downgraded to a local minority, so the ethnic issue suddenly became acute.

3.5 million is not a small number. You must know that the population of Austria in 2014 was less than 7 million, so this German-speaking settlement has its own name - the Sudetenland.

This region is in northeastern Czechoslovakia, right next to the German border, and they also have the strongest support from their fellow Germans. The Greater Deutsches Party provides these strikers with even more equipment than the regular army of some countries, with rifles and pistols. , and even dozens of radio stations and nearly a hundred cars.

Of course, those strikers and anti-government personnel also received a large amount of food aid at the same time, including canned food, potato leaves, and even "margarine", which appeared to be a luxury item during the economic crisis. Even if they don't work, there are people who provide food, which makes the German-speaking residents of the Sudetenland who think of "Mother Motherland" even more madly hostile to the Czech government.

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"Orders from above! Immediately deal with the strikes and riots here!" a Czech officer said to his adjutant: "According to reliable information, Germany is mobilizing troops to our border here. If the situation continues, we will more passive."

"We have strong fortifications on the border, Mr. Colonel, if the Germans go to war, they will be hit hard by us." His adjutant pointed to the border area with Germany on the map.

The officer shook his head and pointed at the defensive line on the border with his finger: "Here, and here! If we don't solve the domestic riots, then the troops in these fortifications will become surrounded rabbits."

"President Thomas Masaryk has ordered that we must suppress these rioting German-speaking residents!" Behind him, another officer clicked on the map and said: "And President Thomas Masaryk assured the military that the British And France will be on our side, so it is impossible for the Germans to attack."

"I hope you are right! Order the troops to start suppressing!" In the headquarters, the Czech general headed to his subordinates and ordered: "If you encounter armed resistance, you are allowed to fire back! But you must warn all troops participating in the operation, Can't fire first! Do you understand?"

"Yes! General!" Everyone answered with a salute.

"Go back!" on the streets of Karlovy Vary, a Czech soldier pointed a rifle at a marcher holding a protest sign, and shouted with a look of alertness.

"Down with the dictator! We want freedom!" the man holding the sign shouted in response.

"If you get closer, we're going to open fire!" another Czech soldier shouted, holding his gun.

"The Germans should be ruled by the Germans! The Sudetenland is German territory! You have to get out!" a woman shouted loudly in German.

"Back off! Gentlemen! Please keep calm!" The Czech soldiers warned again.

"Bah!" It was the saliva on the other side who answered them.

"Bah!" A gunshot sounded out of nowhere. After a German citizen screamed in agony, he collapsed in the crowd clutching his chest.

The Czech soldiers were stunned. They turned their heads to look at the companion, who was stunned, looking at the muzzle of his gun, his eyes a little dull.

"Bah!" Another shot rang out, and the dull-eyed Czech soldier was shot in the head. The bullet passed through the steel helmet and brought out a patch of blood.

"Bah! Bah! Bah!" More Czech soldiers opened fire. Some of them shot blindly at the windows of the surrounding high-rise buildings, and some opened fire at the excited crowd not far away. The city of Karlovy Vary changed in an instant. became hell on earth.

In April 1933, the bloody repression of riots and strikers in the Sudetenland began with bloody clashes in the city of Karlovy Vary, in which 17 Czech troops were killed and 183 of the rioting German-speaking residents died. The situation was further chaotic.

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"I heard about what happened outside our borders! I don't think there should be such a dark and bad event in the world! But the reality is very cruel! Our weakness makes those who abuse our countrymen run wild! They trample freedom. , to destroy our poor relatives and friends!  …”

"Our compatriots are living miserably under the rule of evil enemies! There is no doubt that they have the tenacity of our Germanic democracy! But we can only see this? We are also Germanic, that's all. Sit back and ignore it? If we really choose to watch! Then we don't deserve to be called a German! Let alone a German!  …”

"Those compatriots who are suffering, must return to our sunshine! We are willing to give our blood for this! Give our lives! Those evil, shameful! Angry bastards! Will pay them in the end The price it deserves! Long live Germany! Long live the Germans!  …”

"I will meet the British and French governments and make my own efforts to resolve this infuriating incident! Germany will maintain stability and peace in the region! We will not stand idly by the vile actions that are happening around us!  …"

"God bless the people of the Sudetenland! I hope they don't shed blood again. God bless the Germanic nation! I hope we can unite and fight against the injustice imposed on us! God bless Germany! A bright future will come!  …"

On February 27, 1933, the then Chancellor of Germany, Arkado Rudolf, delivered the historically famous speech "To All the People of the Sudetenland" in the German Reichstag. It is parties such as the Nazis and the Communist Party, which have always been opposed to the Greater Deutsches Party, who have also shown unprecedented support.

The German people were even more excited, calling for the government to dispatch the army to save their compatriots. People demonstrated in the streets and alleys of Berlin, burned the national flag of Czechoslovakia, and supported the resistance movement of compatriots far away in the Sudetenland.

Against this backdrop, the German government negotiated with the British and French governments and began a long diplomatic scuffle over the chaos in the Sudetenland.