The Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia (1939 - 1945) - Czech Lands under German Occupation

[@HistoryHustle]

Czechia during WW2: kzbin.info/www/bejne/il66Y4CfjrtpldE Slovakia during WW2: kzbin.info/www/bejne/gmPZd316ltuSd6M

[@marcoskehl]

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[@HistoryHustle]

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[@Heydrich43]

Czechia today!

[@Prometheus101]

It must be remembered that in the border area (Sudete) of the Czech lands there was a heavy fortification in case of a German attack. After the Munich Agreement, this territory was acquired by Germany. Defenseless Bohemia and without the help of allies was occupied.

[@HistoryHustle]

Indeed.

[@ktipuss]

Some of those fortifications are still there to this day. Hitler got a shock when he saw how formidable the Czechs had prepared them. His generals had warned him that Germany would lose a war if he invaded Czechoslovakia in 1938 against that country's forces plus those of Britain and France. Hitler though has divined that the badly divided French government probably wouldn't march, and of course Chamberlain gave Hitler his "out" through the Munich agreement.

[@LordLlamaa]

Yes the video i was waiting for as a czech this video is amazing

[@HistoryHustle]

👍👍👍 Great!

[@swagboy_2008]

I love your vids! Big support from Mexico! Could you make a vid on Mexico in world war 2 ? Just asking

[@HistoryHustle]

Thanks for your response. I will travel to Latin America from September. Not sure if I will make it to Mexico

[@hughbondurant2730]

Enjoy listening to your coverage of history from a Dutch perspective.

[@HistoryHustle]

Awesome, thanks!

[@Adrian-ju7cm]

He's pretty knowledgeable regardless of where he's from

[@isaacnervion7064]

another extraordinary work, Stefan.

[@HistoryHustle]

Thank you Isaac!

[@CARL_093]

very interesting video bro

[@HistoryHustle]

Thank you Carl!

[@bohuslavhumplik6744]

Great video! Thank You!

[@HistoryHustle]

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[@christiancavalcabork3144]

Hi guy! Keep up the good job! I watched all your videos!! Congratulations!!

[@HistoryHustle]

Awesome, well done 👍

[@gumdeo]

The idea of the Protectorate could have allowed for some Czech autonomy, but once Heydrich came, president Emil Hácha lost all remaining influence.

[@HistoryHustle]

Heydrich completely took over yes.

[@ANGLORUSSIANCZ]

The Prague Uprising lasted 5th-8th May 1945 and then a ceasefire was agreed which allowed the Germans to leave Prague. They held a line just west of the city where they carried on fighting the Red Army until the 11th May to allow as many Germans as possible to head west to surrender to the Americans.

[@HistoryHustle]

Thanks for sharing.

[@victorsamsung2921]

Although in the end about *1 million* Germans surrendered in the Czech Republic to Marshal Konev's forces of the 1st Ukrainian Front between May 5th and May 11th.

[@patriciabrenner9216]

@@victorsamsung2921 sent to the gulag I hope.

[@bjornpellicioli162]

Bullshit, the most important nazi criminals had already left Prague in April 45

[@luxembourgishempire2826]

1:10 Wait, what is a ruthene? I have never heard of that? Anyways, keep up the great work Stefan!

[@HistoryHustle]

Hi LE! Hope you're doing well. As for your question: the most southwestern of the East Slavic tribes, essentially those whose ancestors lived in the Hungarian part (Carpato-Ruthenia) at the time of Austria-Hungary. Academic scholarship often classifies Ruthenians as Ukrainians, but there are those who take the position that Ruthenians are an independent ethnic group. Some Ruthenians and Ruthenian organizations consider themselves a separate people, and some consider themselves Ukrainians.

[@Pidalin]

Part of today Ukraine, it was such a shithole that nobody wanted if after WW1, so Czechoslovakia was like "whatever, I will take it" 😀 You can still find a lot of structers in typical first republic czechoslovak styles like functionalism and stuff like that in this region of Ukraine and it doesn't really belong there beying surrounded by orthodox churches, becuase Czechoslovaks built it.

[@rayeisenstein4245]

I am very glad I found your KZbin channel. I have learned so much from you

[@HistoryHustle]

Thanks for your response!

[@leoncsorba9085]

Excellent video Stef. ❤

[@HistoryHustle]

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[@XHollisWood]

Great review Stefan !!!! Thank you for sharing good friend ✌️🤟 have a fabulous week ahead. 🧡:) Jesse

[@jokodihaynes419]

great video mate keep it up the Germans were pissed when Reinhard Heydrich, was killed the Lidice massacre was a reprisal for the assassination of Reinhard Heydrich 340 people and 82 children were killed

[@HistoryHustle]

Thanks for your reply.

[@moumouhigi5837]

love ur videos man

[@HistoryHustle]

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[@stanbasov42]

This channel is so good that i decided to move the Netherlands ❤

[@HistoryHustle]

Hope you can find a house. Good luck.

[@stanbasov42]

@@HistoryHustle I already did! Took only 9 months:) thank you for your knowledge and charisma

[@HistoryHustle]

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[@margiesoapyhairbillian4754]

I very much enjoy your channel ❤

[@HistoryHustle]

Thanks Margie!

[@stephenLarson-vs7fu]

I had a friend, Sgt. Herbert Pink, who was a cook with the American Army. In April and May of 1945, they entered Pilsen (Plzeň). They would cook fresh bread for the soldiers every day, and at the end of each day, Sgt. Pink would take all the left over bread and distribute it to the Czechs in the city, who were starving. When the Germans surrendered, a group of men came to Sgt. Pink with a keg of beer. They explained that they were the local Czech resistance, and had he not fed them, they would have starved. So, they told him that they had been saving this keg of beer to celebrate the end of the war, but, in gratitude for his kindness, they decided to give him the keg. He graciously accepted it, but, being a teetotaler, he didn´t drink it. He asked the men in his company what he should do with it, and they assured him, "Don`t worry, sarge, we´ll take care of it for you. 😁

[@JoanieAdamms]

My good sir, you aid kindly in imparting this part of quieter history, one I applaud you for, my dear Dutch sir! Bravo, and a reminder for me to begin a deeper inquiry of this time for the Czech And Slovakian lands.

[@HistoryHustle]

Thanks for your reply!

[@asullivan4047]

Interesting and informative.Excellent photography job enabling viewers to better understand what/whom the orator was describing.Professional class A research project!!! Special thanks to the individuals who survived during the occupation. Sharing personal information/experiences during the occupation. Making this documentary more authentic and possible. Yes those occupied countries were buffer zones between Germany & Russia. As the same countries were under Russian occupation as buffer zones. After the surrender of Germany. So, my question is as follows. Which occupation better benefited those buffer zone countries??? Germany or Russia???

[@rjames3981]

Very interesting 👌

[@HistoryHustle]

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[@kingerikthegreatest.ofall.7860]

My father was a colleague and close friend of Marketa Goetz-Stankiewicz. Marketa grew up Czechoslovakia and survived the war ( her father was Jewish). She later emigrated to Canada and taught Germanic studies at the university of British Columbia.

[@HistoryHustle]

Thanks for sharing.

[@shakeyourbunny]

If you are through with all countries, you can do a second round what has happened after the Great War, especially how peoples have been treated.

[@HistoryHustle]

Much more to cover in the future yes.

[@sirdarklust]

Wouldn't Bohemia and Moravia be a great name for a pair of cats? Take it easy.

[@HistoryHustle]

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[@Zombiecane]

I may be the only one, but I’d love to see an in-depth video on the Netherlands during the Interwar Period. There’s an understandable lack of English-language resources on the topic, so it’s be greatly helpful.

[@HistoryHustle]

Sure something for in the futere. Cannot tell when. Did cover NBS in interwar period.

[@memofromessex]

I really enjoy your videos! It must be difficult to be a WW2 KZbinr because I heard you can't say the H-word or else get demonetised.

[@HistoryHustle]

I avoid the word due to to reasons reasons.

[@patriciabrenner9216]

Why?

[@tonnywildweasel8138]

Very intresting again 👍 Groet'n oet Grun', T.

[@aidankitson7877]

Thanks for your work Stef. Heydrich was the only member of Hitler's inner circle to be killed during ww2.Hope to see you in Ireland one day.

[@HistoryHustle]

Thanks for your response.

[@gibraltersteamboatco888]

Great content. BZ Interestingly rather than executing them on the spot, the Germans sent ~850 Czechs to Münchner Platz Dresden to face the guillotine for resistance, illegal trading, treason etc. Do you think the Czechs being armourers of the Wehrmacht. garnered them any favour from the Germans?

[@Wolf-hh4rv]

NO. The reason for the “protectorate” status is that for centuries these lands had been essentially provinces of the Austrian Empire (the First Reich). This explains the large German minority. This status had only changed 18 years before. So restoration as a province of the Third Reich would have been expected of German nationalists.

[@MK-lm6hb]

Interesting logic. Putin uses the same logic in justifying his aggression against Ukraine.

[@mxmis1225]

​@@MK-lm6hbProtectorate of Ukraine, interesting.

[@mxmis1225]

That sounds lame, maybe Protectorate of Kyivshina and Lvivska. Sounds better

[@Pidalin]

First reich was Roman Empire, second Reich was Holy Roman Empire. Austrian Empire has nothing to do with that.

[@Tony-ci7ys]

Did You actually insert a RUSSIAN (not a Czech) flag in the thumbnail?! Or is it just the Slavic tricolor? (Definitely not the Czech flag anyway, brother)

[@HistoryHustle]

The latter.

[@Tony-ci7ys]

@@HistoryHustle then it's alright, thank You :)

[@Mikell-h2c]

Great show, could you do a show on the history of western Ukraine, the good the bad and the ugly❤

[@HistoryHustle]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/eZ3PamSsm8iSabM&pp=ygUbdWtyYWluaWFuIGNvbGxhYm9yYXRvcnMgd3cy

[@joegarry8983]

Now that would be most interesting, not so sure he would be allowed to say the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth, though most of us who are truthful and honest already know it, up to the present day.

[@HistoryHustle]

Feel free to check the video. Dislaimer: most Ukrainians fought against the Nazis instead of with.

[@emersonsilva9782]

The question that everybody makes after watching this video is: how many combinations of red, white and blue slavs are able to make in their flags?

[@HistoryHustle]

I am astonished by that as well!

[@louisgiokas2206]

Was the area that became Czechoslovakia a single governmental entity under the Austro-Hungarian Empire?

[@HistoryHustle]

Good question. Anyone?

[@gumdeo]

Austro-Hungary was a Dual Monarchy. Czechia was part of Austria while Slovakia was part of Hungary.

[@louisgiokas2206]

@@gumdeo Thanks. Any idea why they were put together after WWI?

[@gumdeo]

@@louisgiokas2206 Probably because their languages are very similar.

[@louisgiokas2206]

@@gumdeo That makes sense. Thanks.

[@patriciabrenner9216]

My husband's uncle was deported from there. The train was going to Auschwitz. He was able to jump from the train. He survived. All his family was murdered.

[@tomabbott5259]

Hi History Hustle i have an intresting question and i would like to hear your opinion and help me understand this question;In WW1 in the battle of the Somme anytime anybody reads about it or hears about it even on youtube we are given to understand it was all a terrible massacre of the British army etc and the casualties were enormous even on the German side when the battle finally ended after half a year of fighting but,the thing here is we are never ever told that the Germans lost a lot of soldiers too so when the history books only tell of British casualties one does start to wonder how is it the Germans lost a lot of men when all we are told is how the English suffered...anyway keep up the good work one of your fans Tom...

[@rickglorie]

It was an Allied offensive loosing 620.000 men, the Germans lost over 460.00. That's 1 million dead. That's horrific.

[@seanford2358]

No mention of the fact that alongside the crackdown on Czech resistance, Heydrich also increased food rations and introduced a privilege system for workers who met their production quotas.

[@HistoryHustle]

Source?

[@seanford2358]

@@HistoryHustle multiple online sources - just google “Heydrich increase food production”.

[@seanford2358]

@@HistoryHustle plus multiple documentaries I’ve watched on Heydrich.

[@Pidalin]

that's why his method was called sugar and whip

[@tylerclayton6081]

Unfortunately Czechia and Slovakia wouldn’t be fully liberated until 1991

[@HistoryHustle]

True.

[@MR_ponki]

@72badry eastern bloc

[@MR_ponki]

@72badry well first in 1939 it was invaded by the nazis, after 1945 the soviet had influence over czechoslovakia until 1989, after that it became democratic and then in 1993 slovakia and czechia split up hope that helps

[@MR_ponki]

@72badry well 1991 was the year the soviet union fell, czechoslovakia in 1991 was already democratic, so not under the soviet union. it was first in 1993 that czechoslovakia stopped existing

[@MR_ponki]

@72badry well it 1991 was the year czechoslovakia was not under the influence of any nation so yes it was liberation

[@bigsarge2085]

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[@HistoryHustle]

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[@zillsburyy1]

is his house stlil privately owned?

[@HistoryHustle]

Don't know.

[@jankvidovesely190]

Who´s house?

[@michaelhemphill8575]

"Another Great One..in the can.."0n Site".. " Instructor"!!

[@HistoryHustle]

Thanks for your response!

[@beepboop204]

[@HistoryHustle]

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[@wr1120]

0:03 Protectoraat Bomen en Meren? 😊

[@HistoryHustle]

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[@jankvidovesely190]

(das) Protektorat Böhmen und Mähren auf Deutsch

[@nowthenzen]

Let's let a larger nation take apart a smaller nation to preserve the peace for us. The more things change ...

[@user-mz8in4dq3b]

Pre-war Czechoslovakia was Reverse Austria-Hungary

[@jokodihaynes419]

protectorate and occupation is the same thing to me no matter how somebody says it

[@HistoryHustle]

It came down to the same ues.

[@oajajaj]

I haven't watched the video yet but although technically a protectorate the law made it seem like more of a autonomous region instead

[@HistoryHustle]

Please watch the video if you haven't 👍

[@oajajaj]

@@HistoryHustle already did

[@yeapxuen5291]

By the time Heydrich came, what even is the point lf having Hácha as President???😂

[@HistoryHustle]

Heydrich completely took over.

[@vinceghostindaylight]

Germans did Like people who carried a Czech names? (My family left because Hilter did not like Koranda as name)

[@HistoryHustle]

I assume they didn't like Czech names.

[@Adrian-ju7cm]

I heard the they liberated themselves

[@jiritichy7967]

Hacha /hakha/, Lezaky /lezhaky/.

[@HistoryHustle]

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[@felixmbandandayitabi4536]

​@@HistoryHustlehe is trying to correct your pronunciation... Which can be pretty unsettling at times 😎😇😎

[@HistoryHustle]

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[@robertewing3114]

Hitler miscalulated that he could begin war in 1938, to some degree because British willingness to partition Czechoslovakia helped isolate him. This was not giving in to his demands, and in his opinion written in 1945 Munich destroyed him, opinion consistent with all his post-Munich opinions of Munich. Radio propaganda to influence German opinion was controlled by Joseph Ball, later Sir...

[@zillsburyy1]

OPERATION DAYBREAK, ANTHROPOID, THE MAN WITH THE IRON HEART did you see them all?

[@HistoryHustle]

I did.

[@RogerKant]

Hácha, pron.. as Haha not Hacia..

[@HistoryHustle]

Stand corrected.

[@RPe-jk6dv]

bohemia and moravia are centuries old names. the czech state developed by high treason. this state was not more legitimate than the protectorate.

[@HistoryHustle]

Indeed.

[@patriciabrenner9216]

What a stupid comment.

[@RogerKant]

I don't see anything unusual in Hitler's behavior towards the Czechs. Just look at the map of Europe after the Peace of Versailles. The border between Germany and the Czech Republic does not look natural. All pieces of Germany asked by the Czech Republic are given by the Commission of Ambassadors in Paris to the Czech Republic. Therefore, in Munich, the same countries (France, England) corrected this error and the League of Nations bias against Germany. The protectorate is nothing more than a protective belt around Germany. Today, Russia is doing the same with Donbas. Czechs should be very happy. In 1939 they had a "velvet" German invasion, in 1945 a "velvet" liberation by the Red Army without large material and human losses. And in 1989 they had the "velvet" revolution getting rid of communism without firing a shot. The only real Czech soldier is "the good soldier Švejk".

[@patriciabrenner9216]

A neo Nazi I see. In my opinion Germany shouldn't have been allowed to remain as a country. It should have been dismembered and most pieces given to their neighbors. With the Germans being forced to work without wage to compensate their victims.

[@marfason]

"the border does not look natural" - literally copies the mountainous terrain and is over a thousand years old.