Our World War II gang is thinning out now but for those still around the events in the Ukraine, and our reaction to them, is scary. We were kids in 1936 when the Olympics were held in Berlin and Hitler made a big deal of it. We remember when Hitler's troops took over Sudetenland, part of Czechoslovakia, saying its people were really Germans and that "they belong to us." Our European allies objected, but said: "Okay, but stop there." Diplomatic talks were held
