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Bohemian and Saxon Switzerland

History, present and future of this national park

First battle the SS lost

Czechoslovakia was created from the ashes of the Austrian-Hungarian empire as a multinational state of Czechs, Slovaks, Germans, Ruthenians and others. Slovaks were originally happy they are not being ruled by Hungarians anymore, but soon they wished to have a state only for themselves. On the other hand, local Germans were desperate. After 300 years they were not...