![]() ![]() ![]() First the Rhineland, then Austria, then the Sudetenland, then the rest of Czechoslovakia - all without bloodshed, if you do not count a few incidental assassinations. In fact, the German people were led to suppose at first that it was to be wholly a bloodless conquest. It was to be one nation at a time - even, where necessary, one bite of one nation at a time. If Hitler, the man of a thousand certainties, was more certain of one thing than of all the others, it was that he was not going to repeat the monstrous mistake of his predecessors in 1914 and get himself involved simultaneously in a war on two fronts. It was never, of course, going to be like this. This editorial appeared in The New York Times on June 7, 1944.
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