JF Ptak Science Books Quick Post (reprint series) Overall Post #5119
Youth of Czechoslovakia1 was a Czech-in-exile response to the situation in the country as it stood in 1943. The situation of course was critical, and the compiler of the work, F.L. Lowidt, chronicles the state of the affairs from the end of the First World War to the occupation sometime late in 1943. About half of the work concentrates on the war period following “the fatal policy of Munich” and the “sacrifice” of Czechoslovakia to impossibly placate Hitler. It is a very interesting document, and as there are only a half-dozen or so located by WorldCat in libraries worldwide, I’m reproducing it here. Of special note are the four pages or so dealing with children and the youth being used for “forced labor in Hitler’s war machine”, the “martyrdom of youth”, and the resistance movement.
Notes
1. LOWIDT, F.J. (compiler); artwork by W. Slosser. Youth of Czechoslovakia. Published by the Czechoslovak Youth Committee, London (and printed by Dugdale Printing, Ltd.).[1943] No date stated but WorldCat (which locates only six copies) believes it to be 1943. My copy–a Library of Congress duplicate–has a cataloguer’s pencil notation for being received on 6 March 1943.
