STATE SECRETARY FOR THE RUSSIAN PROTECTOR IN THINGS AND IN MORAVA, PRAGUE, inv. 2731, sig. 109-14/34

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2 The security of the little ones _nations_in_future _Europe. On the 4th anniversary of the arrival of the German troops in Prague, 15 March 1939, the president of the Czechoslovak Republic made this original article of the "Aftontidningen" available: 4 years ago the German forces moved into Prague and thus completed the occupation of the Czechoslovakian Republic. This event had far-reaching consequences for the governments of Great Britain and the third French Republic. The "public opinion" no longer wanted to hear about any "peace agreement" and within 6 months two signatories of the Munich Treaty - Mr Chamberlain and Mr. Daladier - drew the initiative to declare war on Germany. Müinchen was decisive, but was not an isolated event. Soon after he came to power, Mussolini occasionally showed the Corfu incident that his authoritarian form of government intended to disturb the democratic treatment of European issues. Ten years later Hitler let go of the old German aspiration for expansion and domination of Europe and when - this was indeed inevitable - Nazi Germany left the League of Nations, the security system was in danger. I doubted that Hitler - if he would not be relieved - could enter a new war in Europe I have always refused to lead him Ve Lcher Art with Ibente. In my opinion 2B.NM after h can effectively stop. Behind his mask erheit Germany was still a lot of S at that time. Germany had played out the Western democracies against Soviet Russia and launched an energetic protest against the French Russian pact, which Laval initiated but never ratified. Germany was a careful observer of the Abyssinia crisis in the League of Nations Assembly and the Italian war in East Africa. When the Germans saw how they were constantly failing to achieve a consistent sanctions policy against the attacker Italy, they suspected that the Völ-Prüveterslerieg! -2-