Source: Stan Goodenough
Aug 06, 2008
The border with Germany is 45 km west – and the Sudetenland just a few minutes’ drive – from my father-in-law’s small holding where my family and I have been savoring the summer.
Forests cover miles of this corner of the Czech Republic. In the tiny villages that dot the dales and straddle the hills, the snail’s pace of life appears barely touched by the drive of 21st Century modernity.
Bohemia is so undisturbed that it is difficult to envisage a more peaceful place. How much harder to imagine that seven decades ago, this tranquil territory was hand-fed to Hitler – an appeasement sacrifice that only served to whet his desire for more.