STÁTNÍ TAJEMNÍK U ŘÍŠSKÉHO PROTEKTORA V ČECHÁCH A NA MORAVĚ, PRAHA, inv. 2183, sig. 109-9/7 Page 95 · 95 of 105
A SOCIETY FOR THE RUSSIAN PROTECTOR IN THINGS AND IN MORAVA, PRAGUE, inv. 2183, sig. 109-9/7
English Translation
0b - 15 - to draw sword, answered with "Munich". The first days of October see, since l866 for the first time again, German troops in the Sudeten area and with grateful joy crying free German people. Of course, this was also only the first act in the great Reich creation work of the Führer. The old imperial lands of Bohemia and Moravia were torn apart, the peripheral areas of the empire, but their core continued to live as its own Czechoslovak residual state. Since the İshechen still did not realize how much the clock of world history had beaten for them and even now still pursued a policy directed against the empire, the step that had to follow was actually marked. It is important to know that the State estimate of the rest of Czechoslovakia for the year 1 939, which was presented in December 1938 - two months after the integration of the Sudeten German territories into the Reich and after the loss of large parts of Hungary and Poland - still contains the sum of 1.4 billion crowns for military expenditure. It is also important to know that there was a huge arsenal of weapons and bombardment here in the heart of Europe, which the Czech military – still envious at that time – had. In the knowledge of these things it is understood that the leader could not tolerate the sharp-cut dagger in the German body. Later, on the example of Yugoslavia, it was seen how a handful of instigated officers could drive a state into a completely insane war and destroy it. Hacha, who on his own recognized the dangers for the Czech people arising from the activities of the officers' clique, and his request for the protection of the empire brought a peaceful solution.