
Prague
History's Greatest Cities
What Happened to Prague in the 20th Century?
The Czechs were fighting alongside the Austro-Hungarianism in World War I. In 1918, you have the newly independent Czechoslovak Republic and Prague is then its capital. A lot of Czech land was specifically surrendered to the Nazis in order to attempt to appease Hitler. So unfortunately, for the Prague, it was basically taken over by the Nazis very quickly.
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