English Translation

-14- 15 lisch-french plan of September 9, but deals with new proposals, which far exceed the scope of the English-French proposal and, as far as it can be understood, represent new demands of Hitler's Germany towards Czechoslovakia, in a form which no longer shows the will to reach an agreement and peace, but the naked brutal endeavour to destroy all life possibilities of a free Czechoslovak state. The Cherakter of this memorandum, which completely disregards the question of any Gerantien for the Czechoslovak state, is evidenced above all by the fact that it leaves the ground of the English-French proposal by developing the plan of a transfer of the Sudeten German territory with more than 5O per cent German minority to the German Reich, and that it also requires extensive, predominantly Czech areas in addition to these areas. 816,000 Czechs into the Reich The implementation of this plan would mean the integration of 3,736,038 inhabitants of the Bohemian countries into Germany, of which 2,823,247 were Germans and 816,359 were Czechoslovaks. Max Since the number of Czechs living in the predominantly German territories of the Czech Republic is estimated to be 382,000, it is clear that the new proposal anticipates the incorporation of a Czech majority territory with 434.00 Czechs. However, the memorandum is not content even with this demand, but demands that in other predominantly Czech territories a Plebiscite should decide whether or not to belong to the Czechoslovak Republic or to Germany. Overall, there is an area of 1,300,942 inhabitants, of which 1,116,084 are Czechs and 114,71l are Germans. All in all, the memorandum indicates that 8l6.359 Czechs should be attached to the German Reich, while only l02.g80 Germans will remain within the framework of the Bohemian countries. However, these figures are only approximate and are based on the census of the year 1930. It is clear that in the new memorandum of the German chancellors the mask of interest in self-determination and in justice for the Germans in the Bohemian countries casts off and that he enters the path of ruthless claims on areas which were not only never German, but also not inhabited by Germans. Reich Chancellor Hitler did not even feel anxious to speak of the guarantees that would be given to the great Czech minority in Germany, bearing in mind that the previous German national policy, as it is being handled today with regard to the Poles and the Lusatia Serbs in the German Reich, is a policy of backward denationalization. Destruction of the economy The same intention to destroy all possibilities of life, also the territorial dormitories of the Hitler memorandum guess from the economic point of view. They aim at the foundations of the economic existence of the Czechoslovak Republic itself, for they rob very extensive industrial and agricultural branches of production and thus destroy the transport and economic integrity of the Bohemian countries and the whole republic. With the implementation of this agreement, the Republic of all its industrial centres, with the exception of Prague, Zlin and Pilsen, would be robbed, but they would then be located directly on the state border. Czechoslovakia would be deprived of its hop production, it would be around the largest part of its production, which would form the foundation of the paper and wood industry.