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The toppling of Ukraine's pro-Russian president Viktor Yanukovych and the takeover of the Crimean region by Russia has captured headlines around the world.
Western nations including Australia have condemned Russia's moves. At a function on March 4, former US secretary of state Hillary Clinton told the audience that "if this sounds familiar, it's what Hitler did back in the '30s".
Ms Clinton spoke again on March 5, telling attendees at a lecture that the "claims by president Putin and other Russians [are] that they had to go into Crimea and maybe further into eastern Ukraine because they had to protect the Russian 'minorities', and that is reminiscent of claims that were made back in the 1930s when Germany under the Nazis kept talking about how they had to protect German minorities in Poland and Czechoslovakia and elsewhere throughout Europe".
ABC Fact Check investigates Ms Clinton's claim of reminiscence. A separate fact file examines Ukraine, its ethnic diversity and what Russia may do next.
Fact Check has delved into the history books to get an accurate picture of what, in Ms Clinton's words, "Hitler did back in the '30s".
Adolf Hitler and his National Socialist (Nazi) Party came to power in Germany in 1933. From the start the regime took issue with the European boundaries set by the Treaty of Versailles at the end of World World I. Under the treaty, Germany lost a large amount of land to neighbouring countries including Poland. The city of Danzig (now Gdansk), with a mixed German and Polish population, became a "free city" under control of the League of Nations (the precursor to the United Nations). Germany was prohibited from uniting with Austria. It could not station troops in the Rhineland region near the French/German border. The dissolution of the Austro-Hungarian empire led to the establishment of new independent countries such as Czechoslovakia.
The treaty left a significant German population living in other European territories. According to the late historian A J P Taylor, by the late 1930s there were around 6 million Germans living in Austria, 3 million in Czechoslovakia and 350,000 in Danzig.
In 1936, Germany moved military forces to the Rhineland, in breach of the treaty. Historian R.H. Tenbrock said "the Western Powers responded with nothing more than a weak protest".
The next step was Austria. In 1936, Germany said it recognised the "full sovereignty" of Austria, however by 1938 missteps by the Austrian government gave Hitler an opportunity. Austrian Nazis stirred up tension and after the Austrian chancellor was forced to resign, Germany offered to restore order. It invaded Austria on March 12, 1938. A referendum was held in Austria in April 1938, after the annexation had already happened, and the official result was that 99.7 per cent of voters were in favour of joining with Germany. Even though the Treaty of Versailles did not allow it to happen, Austria became part of Germany.
Then there was Czechoslovakia. In the late 1930s, Czechoslovakia was a democratic country made up of several ethnic groups including Czechs, Slovaks and Germans (many of whom were located in the Sudetenland region bordering Germany). In later 1938, Hitler made speeches claiming the Sudetenland Germans were suffering discrimination. In a telegram to US president Franklin Roosevelt on September 27, 1938, Hitler referred to a "revolting Czechoslovakian regime of violence and bloodiest terror". He said "political persecution and economic oppression have plunged the Sudeten Germans into extreme misery". However, there was no evidence supporting Hitler's claims. Historian Taylor suggested that Hitler was "also concerned, in more practical terms, to remove the obstacle which a well armed Czechoslovakia allied to France and Soviet Russia raised against German hegemony".
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Hillary Clinton's comparison of Vladimir Putin and Adolf Hitler checks out
On Monday, both Hillary Clinton and Jeb Bush spoke on the cost of higher education and the opportunities it can lead to at the Globalization of Higher Education conference, an event organized by Bush.
Hillary Rodham Clinton andJebBush, potential foes in the 2016 presidential contest, said Monday that higher education has the power to transform lives and be a force for democracy around the globe.
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Clinton andBushspoke separately at the Globalization of Higher Education conference, but chatted briefly offstage. The event, co-organized byBush, offered a bipartisan twist for the nation's two dominant political families, both of whom could return to the presidential campaign trail next year.Bush, a former Florida governor, is the brother and son of Republican presidents. Clinton's husband, Bill Clinton, served two terms in the White House before she returned to political life as a senator from New York and President Barack Obama's first secretary of state.
Onstage in solo performances, Clinton andBusheach focused on education policy and the need to make higher education affordable and accessible across the globe.
"When people around the world have access to this kind of American model of education it illustrates ... that we believe in spreading opportunity to more people, in more places, so that they too have the chance to live up to their own God-given potential," Clinton said at the Dallas event. She's worried, she added, "that we're closing the doors to higher education in our own country so this great model that we've had that has meant so much to so many is becoming further and further away from too many.".
She thankedBushat the start of her speech, citing his focus on education and his "passion and dedication" to the issue in the private sector.
Bushspoke briefly at the start of the conference.
"Higher education in America has a growing affordability problem while billions in the developing world struggle with accessibility. Exporting U.S. post-secondary education and global consumers at scale can help really resolve both issues simultaneously,"Bushsaid. "Expanding access through technology can bring down the cost of delivery at home and abroad."
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What do Hillary Clinton and Jeb Bush have in common? Higher education.