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Woman in the Sudetenland weeping upon the annexation of the territory to Nazi Germany.

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The American National Archives provides this cropped photo and this caption: "The tragedy of this Sudeten woman, unable to conceal her misery as she dutifully salutes the triumphant Hitler, is the tragedy of the silent millions who have been `won over' to Hitlerism by the `everlasting use' of ruthless force."

This History of the Sudetenland page has the same photo, but also another image (also cropped) which shows more of the original, and has this caption: "Overcome By Emotion — Three Sudetenlanders, one overcome with emotion as she raises her arm in a Nazi salute, pay homage as the Wehrmacht enters the border town of Cheb, October 1938."

A letter to Time Magazine (Nov. 12, 1945) criticizes Time's inaccurate description of the image, and insists "the picture was snapped by a German press photographer and first appeared in the National Socialist newspaper, Völkischer Beobachter, in the fall of 1938, shortly after the Sudeten "Anschluss." The Nazi explanation was that here were portrayed the intense emotions of joy which swept the Sudeten Germans as Hitler crossed the Czech border at Asch and drove through the streets of the nearby ancient city of Eger [the German name for Cheb], 99% of whose inhabitants were ardently pro-Nazi Sudeten Germans at the time." The Time editor concedes the error.


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  • (del) (cur) 01:24, 11 November 2006 . . Irpen (Talk | contribs) . . 425×616 (60,533 bytes) (Prague, 1939. Prague residents viewed German occupation of the city as a catastrophe. Pictured, a woman in tears "greets" an incoming German troops with the Hitler salute. source: [http://www.sovross.ru/2005/60/60_5_1.htm] {{historic}})

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