I meant it to be more about the rhetoric of mistreatment as pretext for aggression; not a direct comparison of the relationship between people and places. Also tried to couch it w/in a caveat.
Fair. 😘 I'm just tired of ppl using Munich as the go to comparison. In the case of the Germans of the CSR, there was some maltreatment, esp. in the early years of the First Republic and in the late 30s. The time btw the May/June communal elections and the Munich Conference were especially fraught.
I can completely understand this reaction from the perspective of someone who is an expert in the field. My father is a historian and always taught me to *resist the analogy*. From my perspective, which is also more Americanized, I was mostly thinking in the broad strokes of rhetoric.
And I've put "Bohemia during 19th century" on my reading list. Was just looking at something unrelated about the language groups in Prague and figured there was a rich history there.
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