English Translation

-6- of the leader at the Nuremberg Congress of September 12, 1938 and before a speech in the sport=palst of September 26, 1938. The Nuremberg speech of the Führer culminated in giving clear and uncomplicated attention to the tachechic people and their presidents, and in the interests of preserving the peace; further repressions of the Sude=ten Germans would result in serious consequences, instead of the interruptions, the free self=right of determination would have to take place. The Czechoslovak government was called upon to reach an immediate agreement with the appointed representatives of the Sudeten Germans and to meet their legitimate demands. At that time, the demands of the sudeten German people were laid down in the eight points of Karlsbad, which until then had been firmly rejected by the Czechoslovakian government. So it had to be calculated with the immediate possibility of a war between Czechoslovakia and Germany. The devastating consequences of a war against Germany were readily clear to the large landowners; the devastation that would inevitably have resulted from it would have been particularly difficult for the large-scale landowner, who lived on the plaice for centuries, to be intimately associated with the home soil. The Benes address was primarily aimed at encouraging Benes to gain insight and balance with the Germans in the last few hours.