Poland clears the air with apology to Czechs for 1938 wrongs.     

Report by Slawek Szefs

In 1938 Polish troops occupied 800 square kilometers of Czechoslovakian territory. Most of the area's  population of 230,000 had been Polish. The government in Warsaw justified the move at the time claiming Poles in the region should be guaranteed the same rights as Sudeten Germans when Hitler's Third Reich annexed that part of Czechoslovakia. 

Now, after seven decades, Poland's president apologized for the military intervention calling it a sin.

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