English Translation

- 119 - ONNDTOMEZANEOAAR BIG After Munich The Jews were the first and most persecuted victims of the new regime in the protectorate.As we already sat down in the first chapter, the Jewish population in the Czechoslovak "epublic enjoyed full equality of the bourgeois bad both in public and in private life and had their full share in the development of the cultural and aaterial prosperity of the republic during the twenty years of its existence, much has changed at this state of affairs already under the second republic.This was especially under German pressure, but it must not be kept silent that in some individual cases, such as in legal and aerztec travel, the pressure did not come unwelcome for those for whom the Competition on the part of Jewish professional colleagues had been an obstacle in their Peruf. In their large majority, however, the Czechoslovak nation, even after Munich, maintained a decent attitude and accepted the anti-Semitic measures only as one of the sad necessities of which the republic was sought after, How difficult this pressure was can be seen from a report sent by the French envoy in Prague about his meeting with the Foreign Minister Dr. Chvalkovský after his return from Berli to Quai d Orsay: "Most of all it seemed to have impressed him /Dr.Chvalkovsky/ the importance - which is not in any way related to the other questions - which Mr. Hitler and Mr. von Ribbentrop attached to the Jewish question. The Minister for Foreign Affairs and the Chancellor of the Reich shall: