In the late 1930s Nazi Germany was increasing their aggression, ignoring the Treaty of Versailles and threatening to spread its empire all over Europe, including a place called the Sudeten land of Czechoslovakia. This was a German speaking area of about 3 million Czechs.

France and Great Britain decided to meet with Hitler,

where they agreed to let him take over the Sudan land if he promised that that would be the

extent of his reach to occupy other countries in Eastern Europe.

Great Britain's Prime Minister, a man named Neville Chamberlain, came home from the agreement to Great Britain like a hero,

thinking that he had just rescued the rest of Europe from the brink of war,

all hinging on the good word of Adolf Hitler.

The settlement of the Czechoslovakian problem, which has now been achieved is in my view only the

prelude to a larger settlement in which all Europe may find peace.

The applause didn't last for very long.

Just a few months later on March 15th, 1939,

Adolf Hitler and the German army invaded Czechoslovakia. And so

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the With the invasion, Czechoslovakia was divided apart and on paper anyway ceased to exist,

but its Latter-day Saints did not.

Although the Gospel was young and fragile in East Germany and Czechoslovakia,

they were led and strengthened by a man who was known as the Moses of the Czech Republic, a man that you likely have never heard of,

a man whose name was Wallace F Toronto.

You look at Hitler and of course the first place he goes after is Sudanland and Czechoslovakia.

And Wally not only knows and sees that in Czechoslovakia, but in Germany that's what's going on when he's

there on his first mission before he gets transferred so and not just with

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