Nazis Remove the Frontier Between Germany and Czechoslovakia, ca. 1938

(Original Caption) Munich 1938 In Photographic Documents. The Munich Agreement signed in September 1938, by which the governing circles of Great Britain, France and Italy had abandoned Czechoslovakia to German fascism to enable Hitler to pursue his expansionist aims towards the East, was the beginning of the tragedy of all Europe. This tragedy culminated in the Second World War, causing the loss of lives of millions of people and bringing terrible suffering to the nations of Europe. The Czechoslovak people will never forget the treason of both its "Allies" in the West and the then Czechoslovak bourgeois government, nor the fact that the Soviet Union alone had stood at its side at the time of Munich. Photo: The Nazis are removing the frontier markers between the Czechoslovak republic and Germany. (Photo by © Hulton-Deutsch Collection/CORBIS/Corbis via Getty Images)