The agreement was generally well received. French Prime Minister Daladier did not believe, as one scholar put it, that a European war was justified “to keep three million Germans under Czech sovereignty.” But the same argument applies to Alsace-Lorraine – unlike the alliance between France and Czechoslovakia against German aggression. Gallup polls in Britain, France and the United States showed that the majority of people supported the deal. Czechoslovak President Beneš was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize in 1939. [52] In the meantime, the UK government has asked Beneš to ask for a mediator. As Beneš did not want to sever his government`s relations with Western Europe, he reluctantly agreed. The Sudeten Germans were ordered by Hitler to avoid any compromise,[25] and the SdP organized demonstrations on July 7. In September, two of its deputies were arrested in Ostrava. [23] The Sudeten Germans used the incident and false claims about other atrocities as a pretext to break off new negotiations. [23] [26] The New York Times headline on the Munich Accords read: “Hitler gets less than his demands from the Sudetenland” and reported that a “cheerful crowd” cheered Daladier on his return to France and that Chamberlain was “savagely acclaimed” on his return to Britain.
[54] London, FridayThe Munich Agreement gives Hitler (initially) everything he wants, except that it may not allow him to get it as quickly as he would have done under Godesberg`s unbridled ultimatum. He will begin tomorrow the invasion of Czechoslovakia, as he threatened in his speech of 12 September. It is free to occupy all regions where Sudeten Germans are in the majority, and to do so in rapid stages. The Munich Accords (Czech: Mnichovská dohoda; Slovak: Mníchovská dohoda; German: Munich Agreement) or Munich Betrayal (Czech: Mnichovská zrada; Mníchovská zrada) was an agreement concluded on 30 September 1938 in Munich between Nazi Germany, the United Kingdom, the French Third Republic and the Kingdom of Italy. It provided for the “cession of the Sudeten German territory” from Czechoslovakia to Germany. [1] Most European countries celebrated the agreement because it prevented the war threatened by Adolf Hitler by allowing the annexation of the Sudetenland by Nazi Germany, a region in western Czechoslovakia inhabited by more than 3 million people, mostly German-speaking. Hitler proclaimed this was his last territorial claim in Europe, and the choice seemed to be between war and appeasement. The economic consequences of the Munich Agreement will inevitably be very harsh for Czechoslovakia. The loss of industries, railway heads, knots, etc. can only lead to serious losses in trade and unemployment. There is also no doubt that Czechoslovakia is becoming the object of quasi-colonial exploitation for Germany. In March 1938, Germany annexed Austria with annexation.
It was generally expected that the Sudetenland of Czechoslovakia, with its large German population, led by Nazi politician Konrad Henlein, would be Hitler`s next demand. Indeed, as Hitler delivered increasingly inflammatory speeches calling for the reunification of the German minority in Czechoslovakia with his homeland, war seemed increasingly likely. Many thought that war was inevitable and that a peace agreement that would satisfy everyone would be impossible to achieve. An agreement was reached on September 29, and on September 30, 1938, at about 1:30 a.m.m., .m.[43] Adolf Hitler, Neville Chamberlain, Benito Mussolini, and Édouard Daladier signed the Munich Accords. The agreement was officially introduced by Mussolini, although the Italian plan was in fact almost identical to Godesberg`s proposal: the German army was to complete the occupation of the Sudetenland by October 10 and an international commission would decide on the future of the other disputed territories. Neville Chamberlain, British Prime Minister, met on 15th and 16th September. ==References=====External links===* Official website he reached a preliminary agreement with Hitler, who agreed not to take military action without further discussion, while Chamberlain promised to convince his cabinet and the Frenchman to accept the results of a referendum in the Sudetenland. French Prime Minister Édouard Daladier and his Foreign Minister Georges Bonnet met with British diplomats in London and issued a joint statement that all regions with more than 50% Sudeten Germans should be ceded to Germany. The Czechoslovak government, which was not consulted, initially rejected the proposal, but had to reluctantly accept it on 21 September.
However, this did not prove to be enough for Hitler; Like Chamberlain on the 22nd. He was told that Hitler now wanted the Sudetenland to be occupied by the German army and that the Czechoslovaks were evacuated from the area on September 28. Chamberlain agreed to present the new proposal to the Czechoslovaks, who rejected it, as did the British cabinet and the French. On September 24, the French ordered a partial mobilization: the Czechoslovaks had ordered a general mobilization the day before. This is the first French mobilization since the First World War. In a final attempt to avoid war, Chamberlain proposed immediately convening a four-power conference to settle the dispute. Despite his desire for war, Hitler agreed, and on September 29, Hitler, Chamberlain, Daladier, and Mussolini met in Munich. . the solution to the Czechoslovak problem that has just been found is, in my opinion, only the prelude to a broader solution in which the whole of Europe can find peace.
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