English Translation

12-11. This is an international relationship between two states. Accordingly, the further implementation of the treaty is also expressly referred to as a treaty (contract between the German Reich and Slovakia of 18/23). In the second part of the Reichsgesetz-blatt, which contains the treaties of the Empire, the preamble of this Treaty refers in particular to the preparatory agreement. The obligations of the Slovak State are defined in five articles in detail, mainly concerning military and foreign policy matters, limited to the absolutely necessary extent, and there can be no doubt about the state character of Slovakia. Their relationship with the Reich is therefore also better as a protection relationship than as a protectorate and territorial questions 7 The previous investigation has shown that the status of the Protectorate as a legal and political form of life of the Czech people is not based on a treaty but on state-law-ruled origin, i.e. a law that is not compatible but conceded, and therefore cannot be regarded as proof of the existence or further existence of a Czech state in the sense of international law. To the same result an analysis leads from the territorial side. As stated, despite the limitation of its capacity for international law, the protecting state remains in principle an independent subject of international law. The Czechoslovak State has abandoned its sovereignty in the agreement with the Pchen Reich Beut. The agreement codifies the outcome of the negotiations, according to which the sovereign personality of the state is abandoned against the assurance of autonomous regional development.