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25 Yearbook of the Imperial Protector -7 p strations against Benes and the government of Hodza. In economic life panic takes hold. 22.S ptember: Chamberlain trift in Godesberg with the leader. — The new Czech government is headed by army general Syrový. 23 September: Benes announces the mobilization. — Czech terror demands new victims. Almost the entire leadership of the SdP is arrested. 25 September: England and France pass the German memorandum in Prague. 26 September: In the Sportualast in Berlin, the Führer announces: "The sudetenGerman question must and will now be resolved. Once again, he declares Germany's readiness for peace, but also his fervent will to set up the German people for the last and highest effort, if necessary." 29 September: Munich Conference. 30 September: The Prague government agrees with the Munich agreements of the great powers. 1-10 October: cession and occupation of the Sudeten German territories. 1. Okrober: The Czech-Slovak government accepts Poland's ultimate demand for assignment of certain territories. October 4 Second cabinet of Syrový. October 5: Abdication Beneš. He goes to England and America and, based on world Jewry, begins a comprehensive incitement against the empire. In the rest of Czechoslovakia, too, there is a Benes clique, which keeps in touch with the Jewish and emigrated foreign countries; thus Revanche moods develop in the Bohemian-Moravian region and new severe tensions. 6 October: In Sillein, the Slovak National Assembly proclaims Slovakia's autonomy. Government within the framework of Czecho-Slovakia. 8. October: The Carpathian Ukraine forms its own autonomous government. October 9: Negotiations with Hungary on the cession of the Slo. Wakisch-Oberungarian territories begin. November 2nd: The German-Italian arbitral award from Vienna establishes the ceditions to Hungary (implementation 5-10 November) and prevents any further interference of the West in the affairs of Central Europe. 7. November: In the Prague Parliament a club of German National Socialist deputies and senators is founded. - The following is the foundation of a "German Labour Office" and the "Reichshilfe". 19 November: Reichaminister Dr. Goebbels refers in Reichenberg to the Germans in the new Czechoslovakia and explains. Not only will the empire never forget it, but it will never leave it. — The Prague House of Representatives adopts the Slovak and Carpathian Ukrainian 20 November: autonomy laws. In two treaties with Czechoslovakia, the Reich regulates the end-valid border adjustments and the nationality of the confederates of the people covered by the assignment (nationality and option treaty). 30 November: Dr. Einil Hácha is elected president of the Czech-Slovak Republic. December: The head of the French military mission Foucher leaves Prague. 23 December: the Prague government decides to dissolve the Communist 16 December: Party. December: Preparations for the creation of an NSDAP in Bohemia and Moravia. 1939 10 January: The studies at the German universities in Prague and Brno have been resumed and reorganized. The funding of the Reich's studies intervenes in support of unmediated students. Gradual alignment of German universities with the universities of the Empire. 16 January: General Prchela becomes Minister of Carpathian Ukraine by President Hácha. Tripartite state government under Voloshin. 27. January Czech Prime Minister Beran at a rally of the ruling party: "Not all the dangers are over. In our political and economic integration in the Central European area we must draw all the consequences." 28. January: The Prague government allows the foreign organization of the NSDAP to carry out its activities freely throughout the state. — The mandates of the Communist deputies and senators are cancelled. February: The first Czech workers go to their jobs in Germany. 22 February: Czech criticism. As Minister of Foreign Affairs Dr. Chvalkovsky says to the warning: "The state is not yet out of danger. The recognition of our borders is due to internal consolidation and the proof of our goodwill, to the old mistakes. It is also important to note that the European Parliament has not yet been able to give its opinion on this matter, and that it has not been able, in the course of its work, to take the necessary steps to ensure that the Council is able to take a decision on this subject. The Czechs do not want to change the constitutional law, which allows autonomy only within the framework of the Czechoslovak Republic. In Slovakia, dissatisfaction is growing. 10 March: The Czech government removes the autonomous Slovak government from office. This interrupts the negotiations between Prague and Bratislava. 11.-14. March: Bloody Czech terror against the Germans in Prague, Brno, Olmütz, Iglau, Budweis, Moravian-Ostrava and other cities, especially on 12th March at the memory of the heroes of the Czech Republic. 13th Mära: Dr. Tiso at the Führer in Berlin. Proclamation of Slovak independence in Preflburg. 14. March: The Foreign Minister of Slovakia communicates in a single note to all states the creation of ciner independent Slovakia and the adoption of the presidency by Dr. Tiso. The Landtag of Carpathian Ukraine decides the independence of the country. 14. 15. Mar: Presideut Dr. Hácha at the Führer, nocturnal conference. Hácha puts the fate of the Czech people and the countries of Bohemia and Moravia into the hands of Adolf Hitler. 15 March: The leader issued a proclamation to the German people: "After the latest unbearable terror against the ethnic group in Czech Slovakia, this state has lost the right to exist. A continuation of these conditions must lead to the destruction of the last order in an area in which Germany is vitally interested, yes. which itself belonged to the German Reich for more than 1000 years. In order to finally eliminate this threat of peace and to prepare for the necessary reorganization in this habitat.