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Regional Boards => International Highways => Topic started by: Brandon on March 07, 2014, 03:55:32 PM

Title: Pre-WWII signage for driving on the right at the Czech/German border
Post by: Brandon on March 07, 2014, 03:55:32 PM
Was reading a news article when I found this image of a sign at the Czech/German border from 1938 warning people to drive on the right.

http://news.bbcimg.co.uk/media/images/73444000/jpg/_73444396_border.jpg
Title: Re: Pre-WWII signage for driving on the right at the Czech/German border
Post by: xcellntbuy on March 07, 2014, 04:50:03 PM
It looks like the photo is from 1938 during the German annexation of the Sudetenland from Czechoslovakia.
Title: Re: Pre-WWII signage for driving on the right at the Czech/German border
Post by: Brandon on March 07, 2014, 05:07:36 PM
Quote from: xcellntbuy on March 07, 2014, 04:50:03 PM
It looks like the photo is from 1938 during the German annexation of the Sudetenland from Czechoslovakia.

It is.  The story is about Ukraine, Russia, & Crimea, but the photo struck me as something folks here might like to see.

IIRC, at the time, Czechoslovakia drove on the left.
Title: Re: Pre-WWII signage for driving on the right at the Czech/German border
Post by: xcellntbuy on March 07, 2014, 05:22:53 PM
Yes indeed, and historically timely.  It looks as if Sudeten Germans pictured are trying to tear down a then-German/Czech border column.
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