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

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80.) and although sanctions were agreed in Geneva, the invasion was carried out and the independence of that state was destroyed. Dahn followed further military adventures of the authoritarian states: the military occupation of the Rhineland, the capture of Austria, the war in Spain, the systematic threat of violence against Czechoslovakia and its two mobilizations in May and September l938, which this state carried out in defense of its territory against the German invasion. Then came the military attack on Czechoslovakia, the invasion of Albania, further threats with military force against Lithuania, against Poland, against Greece and Romania, against Sohweiz, Belgium and Holland. All this was followed by a new huge set-up of all European states and the mobilization of other millions of men in Germany, Italy, France, Russia, Poland, Romania, Hungary and many other states. Ioh wiederhoie: is this a peace ? And how long can we continue all this ? If it is not a violent, brutal and barbaric disintegration of society and not a moral revolution, if the whole system of international law is so disrupted by the political practices of authoritarian states, it is a phenomenon which unfortunately is accompanied by an incredible decline in European democracies in many cases. Since the year I932, the League of Nations Pact has been systematically sabotaged and in its fundamental