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

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85.) and. The Tsohechoslovak people, temporarily broken by the events of September 1938, when they had been abandoned and forced to accept the un-possible and unjust de-saliation, whose military conditions absolutely deprived him of the possibility of effectively defending his state with the weapon in his hand, was simply forced to surrender temporarily. Thus the Munchen decision was destroyed precisely by the power which it had demanded and which had been given authority; and it turned out that the Munich guarantee of the four European greats had absolutely no positive value. How could this all happen in the 20th century, in the century that was often praised as a century of high civilization, high culture, high moral, spiritual and technical values that our Aera had raised to the height of Western culture and human progress? How is it possible that in this so-called enlightened age in Europe there are governments who openly and cynisoh proclaim the right of gross violence, who refuse to recognize the humanitarian and Christian conception of life, who destroy every idea of international morality and honesty and who have absolutely no authority before the given word, the given Birgsohaft, the adopted agreement and the signed treaty ? I know that they are not the bases of the whole German people. Today the German people themselves are also in bondage, It is true that for seventeen years democratic Germany worked in peace with the