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Join Wundry Plus in the Wundery app or on Apple Podcasts. It's June 1939 at a train station in Solotvino, a Czechoslovakian town that was recently annexed by the fascist government of Hungary.

A locomotive chugged slowly to a stop, billowing smoke.

Waiting on the platform with a worn-out suitcase is 16-year-old Jan Hoek.

His mother stands beside him, her entire body stiff with emotion and tears lingering at the

corner of her eyes. The train car doors open and a few passengers disembark.

Jan picks up his suitcase and turns to his mother, but before he can say goodbye, she grabs

hold of his hand.

Jan don't.

Mother, don't go, they won't take you.

Jan glances about, checking that no one can hear them. Well, we've been through the take you're on you're going to take you're only 16 yon you're too young to fight

the resistance doesn't care about my age they just want patriotic checks

who are ready to fight the Nazis and their Hungarian

stuges. And who is it that's filled your head with this nonsense? Maybe it'd be sorted out through

diplomacy. Mother, you don't know? You're being naive. Everyone said

there would be a war last year too, but then they signed that treaty in Munich didn't

they? It's the Munich agreement that got us into this mess.

That just proved to Hitler that he can do whatever he wants.

A man like that will only ever be stopped by force.

But it doesn't have to be you, Jan.

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