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The course of events gathered momentum. The tension of March days in Brno intensified thanks to German chauvinists so much that, when Brno was occupied, the Haas family eventually packed their luggage and set off for Prague even with their one-year-old child, hoping that they would be safe there. They arrived in Prague on 15 March simultaneously with the German occupation army. That was a distressing time. Everybody was trying to look after himself above all. The disappointed Haas family returned home next day. In the following weeks they tried to find out how to emigrate abroad. All their attempts to get any entry visa, whether for the USSR, England or USA, failed. There was too much interest and the quotas for the Czechoslovak Republic were low. The Haas family could not get visa earlier than in five years." People born after World War II know the situation in the spring of 1939 from history textbooks only. The events of 15 March were illustrated with the famous photograph of chilled soldiers of the Hitler's army and snowflakes mixed with tears on the faces of people lining roads. 15 March 1939 dismembered large unions of nations and states as well as communities of friends and families. It was not caused by anyone, as it appeared in error in the formulation of the said quotation from the monograph on Pavel Haas by Lubomir Peduzzi. It was a guilt, irremediable and irreparable, the consequences of which are hauled even by those who were born afterwards. Artist Pavel Haas was one of millions of people whose lives were damaged due to Hitler's pathological hunger to rule the world. A torso of art work was left which is-as any work of art--an evidence of that time. But not every work of art is such a great exclamation and stirring warning.
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"Whether good times or bad times, have a smile on your lips ..."
Pavel Haas was born as the first son on 21 June 1899...
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