The year 1939 was not a good one for Germany’s tourist trade. Naturally Kristallnacht did little to encourage what was still left of it, but then, only four months later, on 15 March, the world was forced to watch Hitler march into Prague – ripping up the Munich agreement as he went. Czechoslovakia ceased to exist; its territory now designated the ‘German Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia’.
