The Unknown Beloved

by Amy Harmon

Hitler demanded that the Sudetenland, a part of Czechoslovakia with a large population of “ethnic Germans,” be annexed, and the local Czech newspaper shared arguments for and against it, though Dani wasn’t sure anyone really cared all that much. It was too far away, and they were Americans now, with American concerns. “They will give it to him,” Zuzana said. “No one wants war. So they will give it to him. And he will just keep taking and taking. You mark my words. You can’t appease tyrants. You have to defeat them.”