Conclusion

“Parallels are a dangerous game,” the Yiddish journalist Zvi Hirsch Wachsman had warned, before claiming that the analogies between the older (Tomáš) and the younger (Jan) Masaryk were a rare exception – and liberally rewriting a somewhat antisemitic passage from the younger Masaryk's radio address for the Jewish New Year of 1943 (see Chapter 4). ¹