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the chick fil a chip but it is situated two hundred kilometers from prague fifty years ago it was called perfectly a german name. the germans were forced out from here after world war two and the chicks moved into their homes shortly afterwards. some of ladislav of his family have lived in this german mansion for several years now. dad let's go home. the village of position it's part of. the church. after being exposed to on ambiguous pressure by france and great britain two of its. germany was the
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price paid for hitler's promise not to start a war in europe which he preached not only a year later. according to many research as it was the conflict over these who doesn't and that in effect trigger to war to. the division of czechoslovakia has been a flirted which went on behind the scenes of these talks and was played the decisive role in the people in various countries including russia still looking for the answers documents declassified by the foreign intelligence service seventeen years on are directly related to the events of those times. at a no contest family take lunch seriously on a day off towards noon all of the family gets together in this house in the suburbs
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of munich traditional the varian sausages are served on such occasions. here the sausages. just put a better actual watch in general traditions are respected in this family they know the back is a suggestion german when he was only eight years old he and his parents were deported from czechoslovakia now that he is cower away from his homeland anything reminded him of his first home is especially found people to him. family was among the three million german. as for specific tips from czechoslovakia by a special decision of president banished in one nine hundred forty five they lost their check system ship and all of their property. this speaker. always said here is our police seize it but
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he didn't get the answer and i tell you if czech prime minister would come to. me. people would cry. do you know the opec is the director of the archives at the headquarters of the suggests and they are spread in central munich the capital of southern germany is the only major city situated close to the czech border small wonder the largest organization off suit s. and germans is in the unique. is an archivist she was one of those who may.
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be seeing so for here. one interesting thing is the huge cooking book that is written in germany. it's the same. each time she looks at the fate of grass. beckett recalls the experience he and his family went through at the time of deportation after the. he says or the germans have no. right to lay claim to these houses. we've lived here for a long time since we bought this house and naturally wish or belongs to us.
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both this house ten years ago. like most of the properties in the region his house belonged to the germans the czech settled down in this area in the late one nine hundred forty s. to the germans were to put it on a must scale. but it's not it's not going to give his house back to those who used to own it. his neighbor. this chick's agree that these houses no longer belong to the germans. so happened historically did cherubs took possession of these lands just well so be the week nobody's going to give anything bad to anybody if. they fool world war two these two dozen germans were considered to be czechoslovakia the ethnic minority was in fact the germans for the second largest ethnic group after the czechs they even outnumbered
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the slovaks the germans living you see doesn't learned how to. universities the news papers small wonder that the german question overs almost as soon as czechoslovakia emerged as the states. more amenable topical with ammonia got the conflicts flared up right off the emergence of czechoslovakia as a state. population was opposed to it and. the czech historian yan namecheck is absolutely sure that the citizen germans paid a price for their active role in the dismemberment of czechoslovakia the treaty on the secession of the siddhis region to germany was signed by need as a former european powers seventy years on the original copy bearing the signatures of the main players in the game is on display at parks national museum. local or in the signatures later of great britain chamberlain the leader of france
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to lead the leader of germany hitler the leader of italy. a clip about the exhibition at the national museum has been shown on television please no doubt about the position the czechs have concerning the munich treaty. if you month schools have some disenchantments meeson headquarters for a reunion few young people ever show up here but the older generation tries not to miss it if one is going to concerts and public nature and history to remember the younger days of class of mind.
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this is how i used words there's a secure story all. the quotation. hundreds of books explain why these two deaths in germans were each it's a leaf within germany but the archival director has first hand information. in the german right over the front there was a development and development no brought persons that post perhaps one reason for that they are. the chicken suit is the transition you see in the seat as a reason he said to the nine hundred thirty eight jitney used the occasion as an excuse to declare that the germans were being discriminated against and he a few days mason says phone was to call for an intimate genocide of the german people. per hour per your choir might happen like in your i don't march third mr
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campbell and ira preferred here no one really. ordinary money no more of our territorial problem in europe we want no. she does a place to make sure the fisa doesn't reach and was the ceded to germany historians are still trying to understand what stood behind these events. one of them is your concern to ski the german. so. an important question. being prevented and could have been a. reason to believe that this could have been done. with france. the world war one european countries including
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france and england where weary of the prospect of launch still has to choose what war and france on the most of all could be done in order to breach the mutual support agreement under the same time avoid implementing it in full. in the one nine hundred thirty eight the british prime minister who never changed and held several meetings with hitler in a bid to persuade him not to stall to war in central europe. this continent he was ready to do anything in his power to obtain these two decimation. on his part chile fearful of the prospect of the speech of the french prime minister. to put pressure on czechoslovakia in order to achieve a peaceful solution france made it clear it would give new film if the czechs decided to go to war to take our benish was ready to surrender evidence healthy facility it's apparent that the chicks free. to pack their government
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s. just. needless to say initially the czech government was categorically against ceding on the same date in the region to germany but they changed their mind following very crude pressure from their allies and from that sent waves of anger with the result that the people of czechoslovakia came out onto the streets to demand that the government distance itself from the agreement and retain the border territories all of that took place in front of the government buildings just near. the russian historian valentin fine was in new nine hundred forty five he was employed at the soviet embassy at the time and supplied stone and a bit on the elliptical loops falling feels that in signing the agreement on the division of czechoslovakia the western powers are not being guided by the fear of war in europe. generally germany and the soviet
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union should be put on a collision course they would fight with each other and more than that they would bleed themselves white and when they were weak enough we would dictate our terms to them there was a whole jungle all go such top level state. police. received intelligence reports from. hungry for the full story we've got it first hand the biggest issues get the human voice face to face with the news makers on. cultures that so much misery. at a lot of the oil area in africa when next to kim isolated and impoverished north korea is badly in need of change how will this happen and who will.
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use such kerf of russian historian in the former officer with the foreign intelligence service has been working with archives in recent years to get detailed information on the cipher communications of salvias agents now that the documents have been declassified such cough says despite france's refusal to help czechoslovakia moscow is ready to help its part now under that agreement it is true though that nobody asked for support so this can say. troops on the western borders and some of the troops in central regions were put on full alert there were twenty frontline divisions and also warplanes bombers fighters all ready to help the well up until the point was when hitler addressed a crowd of fifteen thousand party faithful and balanced in september david for nature analyst working israel has written
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a book about the whole you could print one of the most important parts as president spanish is a tryst on the czech radio station on the day when he decided to see theses decimation to germany. and hear. all our citizens czechs and slovaks germans and my drawers. without distinction of fact we all have the same give me all can make a great. beach i'm not talking to political parties i'm not talking to organizations i'm talking to you as individual citizens that. try to find means of understanding try not to aggravate the situation. on september the twenty ninth one thousand nine hundred thirty eight leaders of four countries met in munich to sign the agreement ceding this who doesn't want to germany. the german historian you're going so to speak slowly approaches the
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building where hitler presided over the meeting seventy years ago the mansion house built on the owners all fittler looks especially gloomy on this cloudy day. for a baby is situated in this street. the building where the many conference are full powers were seldom between two ninth of september nine hundred thirty eight. dollars. per hour as leaders true along the streets. it was waiting for them inside this building for the mission here it is true over there on the second floor it's over. the roof of the national music school played witness to the participants off the munich agreement who ascended this marble staircase seventy years ago then this
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building house the headquarters of adult hitless polity. no we are in hitler's study so it was here in one nine hundred thirty eight he said of all the chamberlain. lenient he had a meeting. where the new treaty was signed. in syria it was just as it was then. who really conference was told to in a friendly atmosphere a phrase used on such occasions all sides declared right away that they wanted a peaceful settlement to the conflict it was stressed that he too was against a forcible solution to the sea debt an issue the new the french prime minister. said he was surprised by the facts that czechoslovakia's destiny is being decided
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without its representatives. more though you're not there in that conference was are rare occasions when a country is feet was decided without its participation lockyear had not even been invited to. the conference last from midday until three in the morning break finance the text of the unique agreement was translated into four languages and prepared for publication after every detail has been agreed on. people stood on the other side of the road. everybody real oist that's where the war would break out you are dependent on realities come of this particular conference. there were scenes of jubilation that i wanted to become clear that there were no one. in the future. when. the british prime minister neville chamberlain appeared to be satisfied with the
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outcome of the conference mr for everyone applauded him on his triumphant return to london. government parliament the media applause for a man who had preserved peace in europe and here it could very well. could well. have brought a man. that chamberlain had committed a blunder became clear only a few months later when he landed in a bomb shelter when the gas mask in anticipation of a possible german eternal. many historians regard the day when the munich agreement was signed is the start of world war two although on september the thirtieth leaders of european countries troop to be able to sign a peace memorandum under the terms of the agreement signed by hitler mussolini chamberlain and an idea that checks words leave the citizen and within nine days
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ago four off the agreement said that the territory would be occupied by german troops on live in the tenth when german troops entered czechoslovakia plain old earl becks the director of the archive. of suitors from germans was just over a year old place or his mother often told him that the citizen germans hailed this days as an occasion for celebration the arrival of german troops was seen as the longer waited accession to the third reich he told me. they were delighted and not because of the troops but they were delighted because germans that was an oldish zunes and eighteen. this movie town of home it off situated one hundred kilometers away from prague was populated by the germans only seventy years ago after the war as the germans were recessed told by force almost no one came back only street people attended meetings at the
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local branch of the suggests and. had few kournikova a german woman has lived all her life in czechoslovakia during the war years she and her family found themselves in the crossfire literally. spent her childhood in the czech kindergarten and the chicks school. when the nazis came to power she had to pay the price for her friendship with czechs she and her family were thought to be suspect butchering the wall chicks to change their attitude to the suggestion german. german soldiers once sent hedrick use a little girl at the time along with her younger brother to a chick canteen to get some food but they never got it their former classmates pelted them with stones. into a line my brother came to the school. our classmates pelted us with stones. and
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drove us away from the school building it and. crying heil hitler. fifty heil hitler. after the earth the su disciplined was returned to czechoslovakia the czech president. returned from london after hiding. his first degree deported from the country deprives them of their citizenship and confiscated their property that a politician was accompanied by the so called death marches tens of thousands of students and germans died in a matter of months. back the director of the archives these suggest and return to his homeland sixty years later he returned as a tourist. finds nothing the truth. to
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be also village lost destroyed and if you go over say there you will find some traces stones from. natural trees after trees and this is the only thing you can recognise here was once the reach there of nearly solace and inhabitants that means i think. three hundred houses. they all have gone only one year. this is the region where the germans lived. in prague anything he can do for the time being conjure up memories of lost territories the germans. return but no one here expects them to.
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know there is a difference between an italian coming here to sell pizzas. under german whose parents lived here works german who was born here. we feel germans must have some special conditions for their return here. or special conditions for a return to the czech republic exist nor can they exist in a legal context in the present european legal system. only thing that could be discussed similarities in mentality. here do you love this land and they know czech lifestyles but this does not imply any special rights or concessions. for the czech foreign ministry the thirty five year old has the lease and to see himself as someone of. he is a suggestion german. with one family line although it is true that he is
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a chick in accordance with another his grandfathers were on different sides of the barricades which in no way undermines his firm pro czech position. the debate on how the unified group into faith to the course of european history in the twentieth century has shown no signs of abating as here it is a theoretical conference dedicated to that event in moscow both. historian from the czech republic and. historian from germany had the opportunity to present their views on the subject. lot of the historians changed their views but they did agree on the lessons that can be drawn from events that took place seventy years ago mr situation in one nine hundred thirty eight showed that if the structure of collective security is undermined. it was the league of nations and national
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leaders are guided only by national interests gives rise to a dangerous situation. if that's kind of a historian is going to publish declassified documents compiled by intelligence agents so that they can become available not only to specialists but also to anyone he was interested in world history in fact anyone who feels there's a lesson can be drawn from any historical situation. the main lesson to be drawn from fits into very simple formula instead of encouraging an aggressor must be countered by ensuring the efforts the efforts to stop this time of collective security in ninety three fields but the problem has a good deal of relevance to the. political ambitions of the powers that be. and the attempts to decide everything
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but the stroke of the pen or through violent acts only result in human casualties transit is interested lives. if this affects ordinary people in the first place. on a tissue and seemed to find it difficult to take to heart these apparently obvious conclusions in the twenty first century is wild.
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my name is. story now off to raiding as the mayor of moscow for almost two decades has been signed by president dmitry medvedev the decision comes as the competent top official refused to resign as demanded by the kremlin. this story right now there has been no reaction. that. he is leaving the. ruling party now this is of course on top of the. by the president so we can see that these are really major blows through his a political career and we also know that before this is happening there's already been a lot of controversy talk about the possibility of this very thing happening prior to today.

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