English Translation

16 Moravia's integral part, indeed, had few reasons for joy. The connection of the Sudeten German area to the empire not only did not lead to the desired growth and expansion of the German economy, but the vacant remnants of the Czech countries continued to enter deep into the Great German space, thereby preventing the creation of a comprehensive operational and occipital background. This base was of particular importance for the implementation of the Nazis' aggressive intentions, as at the beginning of the 1930's Czechoslovakia represented the world's largest arms exporter with great industrial potential. It was therefore only a matter of time or, more precisely, a favorable international situation, when the rest of the Czech countries will be occupied by German military power and the "March Wind" event will be launched. On the day of aggression on March 15, 1939, the Nazis no longer counted on the military defence and the occupation of the "residence of the Czech Republic" could only be presented to the international public as a "pacification event," (8) even in view of the results of the negotiations between Háha and Hitler in Berlin from the night on March 15th 1939, which Germany interpreted as a manifestation of the will of the President of Czechoslovakia to place the fate of the nation and country in the hands of the leader of the German Empire in order to maintain peace, peace and order in this part of Central Europe. F. Gaus pointed out in this context that it is desirable to maintain "the fiction that the new regime is based on an agreement with the existing official Czech-Slovak government and not on arbitrary decision of the occupying power." (9) In fact, the occupation of the "rest of the Czech Republic" had been decided in advance, in addition to the 1920 constitutional charter, it did not allow the head of state to give up state sovereignty. (10) Under the international political circumstances, when the Appeasement policy still kept a strange peace in Europe, the Nazis had to consider the form of binding the Czech countries to the empire, the more so because the preparations for the attack on Poland were already underway and the Nazi hoped that this aggression in Western powers would pass in the tone of reconciliation, without an adequate response. The occupation of the Czech countries should therefore be as digestible as possible for world public opinion. In addition, Berlin's cultural model of anex acceptable to its other victims should be created at the perspective of the conquering plans. According to the leader's will, the regime in Bohemia and Moravia, "as the first embodiment of German ideas about the protectorate, should avoid anything that might deter other nations that might ask to join the German Empire as protectorates in the future," Stuckart later explained. (11)