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

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84.) against the overwhelming superiority of his neighbors prepared for the invasion of our state, we had to submit to the Munich decision, which was to bring us peace - what the western democrats saw signat-arms apparently really believed. One of the reasons for subjugation to the Minchen Diktat was that four major Europeans solemnly signed a document guaranteeing the Czechoslovak people their independence and the Czech-Ohoslovak state their new borders. We have seen, however, that despite all our sacrifices, despite the solemn declaration of the Munchen, in spite of the garanties of the four greats, the German dictator, after a new, hard pressure on the Prague government and after new public lies, acts of violence and betrayal partly to the Czechs, partly to Slovaks, on 15 March 1939 in a cowardly way attacked our disarmed republic militarily, occupied the whole Czech territory and, after the separation of Slovakia, declared it as a German protectorate. Despite an agreement freely adopted and signed, the Magyar government also invaded and forcibly annexed these territories for the aanepna in a regional way militaryisah Karpathorussland and eastern Slovakia.The German government, as a signator of the Munich Convention, broke its word abemals, destroyed the flourishing democratic state by gross violence, and subjugated a free people by cynically declaring that Nazi Germany needed this territory, that it simply took power and that it would never fail to do so.