Czechs Commemorate 80th Anniversary Of Munich Agreement

[Magnolia]

Czechs all over the country commemorate 80th year anniversary of the Munich Agreement - the tragic milestone in the history of Czechoslovakia and what has been described as one of the greatest betrayals of the 20th century.


Munich Conference of 1938 | Photo source German Federal Archives


“About us, without us” – now a Czech saying but originally just one of many frontpage headings in the First Czechoslovak Republic newspapers visible all across the country. It’s September 1938 and France, Italy, Great Britain together with Germany just signed an agreement which gives Czechoslovakia 10 days to cede its border territories to Germany.

Despite being present in Munich at the moment, none of the Czechoslovak leaders were invited to the conference.


Protest in Prague against German aggression, 22 September 1938 | Photo source not known

The purpose of the conference was to discuss the future ownership of the Czechoslovak border regions. Using fabricated pro-Nazi propaganda reports of Czechoslovak oppression of the country’s large German minority, Hitler made demands for autonomy for Germans living in Czechoslovakia by handover all those territories where the German population represented over fifty percent of the total population.

As France had a mutual defense treaty with Czechoslovakia, the British government was worried that if France was drawn into an armed conflict with Germany, Britain would be sucked into a new European war as it was treaty-bound to defend France. Chamberlain’s solution was to give Hitler what he wanted, in return for a promise of “Peace in Our Time.”

As a response to Hitler’s demands to give up Czechoslovak borderland – for which a new territorial designation, the “Sudetenland”, was coined – the Munich Agreement was signed on September 30th, by Chamberlain, Hitler, Mussolini and the French prime minister Daladier.

Sudetenland was of high strategic importance to Czechoslovakia as heavy industrial districts were situated there. Majority of the Czechoslovak’s border defenses were also placed throughout the affected regions.

The truncated “Small, but our own” Czechoslovakia existed only briefly. It came to an end when Hitler marched his troops into the country on March 15, 1939, in defiance of his promises given at Munich and the occupation of Bohemia, Moravia, and Silesia began.

Some people Today compare Russia’s contemporary behavior towards Ukraine with the Munich Crisis of 1938.

https://www.czechjournal.cz/czechs-c...ich-agreement/

[Dandelion]

Does the current Czech distrustfulness have its roots in that event, or are its roots older?

[Magnolia]

Does the current Czech distrustfulness have its roots in that event, or are its roots older?

It has probably deeper roots
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unity_of_the_Brethren
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_White_Mountain
https://www.radio.cz/en/section/arts...-period-of-art

[frankhammer]

And only to be betrayed again post WW2. Shameful behaviour shown towards the Czechs by the West.

[Aldaris]

Does the current Czech distrustfulness have its roots in that event, or are its roots older?

Fuck off already, alien.

[Dandelion]

This is also taught in our schools as a betrayal of Czechslovakia in history classes here. A warning and lesson to stand by principles. War weariness when Germany was still weak enough to be able to get swiftly defeated, yet inertia and cowardice gave them time to re-arm and increase their production capacity for well another year. War was inevitable anyway and time was lost.

[Bobby Martnen]

The Munich Agreement was a good deal...Sudetenland is rightfully German clay!

[Peterski]

Using fabricated pro-Nazi propaganda reports of Czechoslovak oppression of the country’s large German minority, Hitler made demands for autonomy for Germans living in Czechoslovakia by handover all those territories where the German population represented over fifty percent of the total population.

Really? They sound about as credible as Brett Kavanaugh's accusers:



http://terkepek.adatbank.transindex....lso.php?nev=10



^^^ Distribution of ethnic Czechs before WW1:

- tiszta (90 % felett) = pure (over 90 %)
- abszolút többség = (absolute) majority
- relatív többség = relative majority
- kisebbség = minority
- szórvány (10 % alatt) = less than 10 %

Prága is the Hungarian name of Prague, and Bécs is Vienna. Brünn is the German name of todays Brno, but it was used in Hungarian in Austro-Hungary. The upper right corner shows Czechs in Slavonia (now Croatia).

[Anglojew]

Both the Czechs and Poles were abandoned by the allies.

[Magnolia]

Both the Czechs and Poles were abandoned by the allies.

Are you kidding me? Poles attacked Czechoslovakia 2 days after the Munich Agreement was signed.

http://www.weeklyuniverse.com/2003/poland.htm