Tag #126234 - Interview #83377 (Nina Khlevner )

In 1938 Hitler demanded the Sudeten region of Czechoslovakia to be handed over to Germany [14]. Father, being a staff officer, was again enlisted into the army as a political official [this was the name of commissars at that time]. Father was mobilized right after the terrible repression against the main Army Officers, when the Army was ‘decapitated’ and the Army was under restructuring, new staff was employed. The Red Army was getting prepared to help Czechoslovakia. I remember the forces being loaded onto troop trains. However, Poland refused to let the ‘Reds’ through and England and France yielded to Hitler.