THE GERMAN STATE MINISTRY FOR CHECH AND MORAV, PRAGUE (1906) 1939 - 1945 (1965), inv. 1270, sig. 110-12/96

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The Commission has not been able to take any action in this area. It soon became clear, as was also the case, that the national minorities in Italy were not protected, whose lives have become a real hell since the hour when fascism came to Maoht: but the fact that the protection of minorities was in the end the hostage for the states that really followed him or at least tried to at least honestly to protect him. Hungary sabotaged its obligations to minorities since the first eyelid, gave them neither Sohulen nor the freedom of the word and the press, and denationalized many thousands of Slovaks, Rumans and Rumanians in twenty years of its orisoh system. Germans without any risk. berst Beck was able to realize in a meeting of the League of Nations that he did not anerkeme the competence of the control bodies of the Federation of Nations on minority issues, and the League had to restrict itself to some Platonic protests. On the other hand, the Tsabe choslovakia, which fulfilled its minority obligations better than any other state - see the testimony of its Lord Robert Geail in the book "A great experiment* - found no thanks for this policy of Kenerosity and Justice. I'm not saying that with us everything was complete, I'll just say that in our case, except in Buropa, the sohweiz was the best, and