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2 Yearbook of the Reich's Protector -9 commented. In trust in his alliances with France and the Soviet Union, as well as with Yugoslavia and Romania, in trust in vague promises of England, the Benesch system is hostile to all its neighbours, suppresses the minorities, and above all provokes the strengthened Great German Empire. Chronicle of the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia PRESENTATION OF 1938 20 February: In a grating, three - hour Reichstag speech, the Führer explains: "Two of the states on our borders are encircled by a mass of over ten million Germans... However, there must be no doubt about one thing in our eyes: the separation of the state from the Reich cannot lead to a popular-political solution, i.e. the general rights of national self-determination. Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, I should like to begin by thanking the President-in-Office of the Council for his excellent report. It is in the long run unbearable for a world power of self-consciousness to know at its side peoples who are still suffering most severely from their sympathy or attachment to the whole people, their fate and their worldview!" 4. Mārz In Prague, Czech-Slovak Prime Minister Dr. Hodža, in front of both chambers of the Parliament, exhorts the leader to put a final point behind the previous renunciation of the Sudeten Germans, as an "experiment of interference in our internal affairs". 12 March: Return of the East Mark.— This event puts Sudetens Germanism into the highest enthusiasm. The Sudeten Germans also want freedom, the right to self-determination, and the return to the Reich. As far as the German parties to the present day are popular, they join the Sudetens-German party Konrad Henlein. 24. April: The Karlovy Vary demands of Konrad Henlein outline and reaffirm the unequivocal statement of Sudeten Germanism on the problems of the state interior and foreign policy of Czech Slovakia. 21. Mac. First high point of the harassment of the Sudet Germans by the Ischech military. Police, officials etc. Murder of two Sudeten Germans in Eger by a Czech police officer. Serious foreign policy crisis. Grundlose military measures of the Czech government, convening of more reserve years, allegedly for training in new introduced weapons. This by invented military measures the German Reich later founded the partial mobilization on 22. In the three stages of the municipal elections, the Sudeten-German Party receives an average of over 90% of the German votes. May: The Czech mobilization and its lying justification cause the leader to make decisions of a military and war-related nature. Summer 1938: In March, Prime Minister Dr. Hodža announced a "nationality statute". June and July pass with negotiations between the government and the SdP. Despite the efforts of the SdP, one is far removed from the beginning of a solution to the sudeten German question. — Meanwhile, the construction of Czech fortifications and bunker lines in the Sudeten-German territory is continuing opposite the Reich border. 3 August: In order to gain time, England sends Lord Runciman as "advisor" to Prague. 27. August: In the face of the increasing terror, the SdP gives its supporters the right to self-defense. I September: Konrad Henlein is received by the ferryman in Berchtesgaden. The concise official report speaks of a "perfect agreement in the assessment of the situation". 5 September? The mistreatment of Germans in Moravian-Ostrava prompts the SdP to break the negotiations with the Prague government until these incidents are resolved (10 September). Cquaa8 Representatives of the minorities of T-checho-Slovakia (Germans, Slovaks, Hungary and Poland) meet in Prague for a debate on their national demands. 12 September: In his closing speech on the occasion of the NSDAP party congress in Nuremberg, the leader calls for the self-righteousness of the Sudetendentschen and announces the end of the lawlessness of these people: "The Germans in Czechoslovakia are neither defenseless nor abandoned. Let us take note of this!" — After the leader's speech, Czech acts of violence against the cheering Sudeten Germans occur in the German territory. 13 September: The Czech government imposes the right of stand on eight districts (this measure will be extended to a total of 21 districts in the coming days). — There are already numerous dead and severely injured. — The name of the SdP calls on K. H. Frank of the Prague government within six hours to lift all measures of violence. 14 September. Since the Czech government leaves this ultimatum unanswered, Konrad Henlein releases the negotiating delegation of the sdP of its mission. — In Eger, Czech police are shooting at the hotels "Viktoria" and "Welal" with tank cars; they want to storm the headquarters of the SdP because they are looking for membership lists and other documents. 15 September: Chamberlain is home to leaders in Berchtesgaden. — Konrad Henlein makes the decisive appeal. He solemnly declares the name of the Sudeten Germandom before the whole woe: "We want to go home into the kingdom!" 16 September: The Prague government declares the SdP "resolved". — Lord Ranciman leaves Prague. 17 September: Konrad Henlein orders the establishment of a Sudetens German Free Corps. — The Germans from the peripheral regions and from the interior of the Czecho-Slovakia flee seharenly from the Czech terror into the Reich. A few days later, the Führer mentions figures: "We see the granular numbers: on one day 10.00o refugees, on the next 20,000, a day later already 37,000, again two days later 11,000. Women and women's associations ask the leader in urgent telegrams for help. — On the other hand, Czechs and Judea flood into the interior of Bähmens and Moravia with goods. 19 September: England and France suggest the cession of the Sudeten Germans to the Reich to the Czech government. — At the borders of Silesia and Slovakia, Polish troops march on September 20: Prague responds evasively to the French-English proposals. Cher's renewed insistence on the English and French envoys enbschielts the Czech government to the annahne of the attacks. — Awakening from a twenty-year dream opened up −