STÁTNÍ TAJEMNÍK U ŘÍŠSKÉHO PROTEKTORA V ČECHÁCH A NA MORAVĚ, PRAHA, inv. 2562, sig. 109-12/209 Page 96 · 96 of 88
STATE SECRETARY FOR THE RUSSIAN PROTECTOR IN THINGS AND IN MORAVA, PRAGUE, inv. 2562, sig. 109-12/12209
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83 5 to finally break with the Czechs, on the other hand, to the realization of the President Hacha that only by an insinuation under the sovereignty of the Reich in the long term had an insightful politician among the fschechen demanded this already at the beginning of the second republic in international legal forms, now it took place in the form of the state-law autonomous protectorate. This classification of the Czech people is dictated by its storage not only in the political habitat, but within the German people's body by spatial situation, history and economy. The form of the state-law autonomous protectorate means a solution to the problem of the political order of Böhmeng and Moravia, to which the best spirits of the 19th century are subject. We have, moreover, a classic confirmation of the lack of connection between the Czech-Slovak Steat problem and the establishment of the Protectorate in Birmingham on 17 March 1939 in the speech of the British Prime Minister Chamberlain. "It has been claimed that this occupation of Czechoslovakia was the direct consequence of the visit I made last autumn to Germany and that, since the results of these events had existed in the dismemberment of the achievements achieved in Munich, it was proved that all the circumstances in which these visits had taken place had been erroneous. This is a completely unacceptable conclusion. The facts as they are presented today cannot change the state of the facts as it existed in September. .....I did not have to deal with any new problem (in Munich). It was about something that had always existed since the confirmation of Versailles, a problem that would have had to be solved long ago, if only the statesmen of the last 20 years had had a more grievous and enlightened view of their duty. This problem had developed like a long neglected disease and an operative intervention proved necessary to save the patient's life." And Chamberlain crowned his remarks in this regard with the sentence: "Even if we had gone to war later and if we finally won after the terrible losses inflicted on all participants in a war,