they have lived in this german mansion for several years now. dad let's go home. the village of position itself is part of. the church. after being exposed to on ambiguous pressure by france and great britain to of its. germany was the price paid for hitler's promise not to start a war in europe which he breached not a year later. according to many researches it was the conflict over these who doesn't and that in effect triggered. the division of czechoslovakia have been affirmative which went on behind the scenes of these tools 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 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 of munich traditional the varian sausages all served on such occasions. here the sausages. just put a better guy to watch in general traditions are respected in this family they know that beck is a c.d.'s and 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 reminding him of his first home is especially valuable to him.

family was among the three million germans force being victims 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. speaker. always said here is our police seize it but 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 dynamite of the archive for the headquarters if he

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 all three dozen germans is in munich. is an archivist she was one of those who me. a moral through seeing so for here. one interesting seeing is the huish cooking book that is written in germany. it's the same. each time she looks at the fate of grass. recalls the experience he and his family went through at the time of deportation after the.

we're all. eighty or ninety years old. not knowing where we go and that was. we didn't know the best. reasons are based on and the germans have no moral material right to lay claim to these houses it's too late in the day you know. we've lived here for a long time since we bought this house and literally wish or belongs to us. just laugh a foam a boat this house ten years ago. like most of the properties in the system region his house belonged to these two dozen 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 mass scale but it is not going to give his towns back to those who used to own it . his neighbor says few most chicks agree that these houses no longer belong to the germans. that so happened historically did cherubs took possession of

these lands just well so be 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 the slovaks the germans living use who doesn't have their own schools universities the nice papers small wonder that the german question overs almost as soon as czechoslovakia emerged as a state in more amenable topical. conflicts flared up right after the emergence of czechoslovakia as a state. population was opposed to it and. the czech historian young namecheck is absolutely sure that the citizen germans paid a price for that active role in the dismemberment of czechoslovakia the treaty on

the secession of the citizen region to germany was signed by need as a former european powers seventy is on the original copy bearing the signatures of the main players in the game is on display at approx national museum. where the signatures leader of great britain chamberlain the leader of from still leader of germany hitler a leader italy muslim and. a clip about the exhibition at the national museum has been shown on television plays no doubt about the position the czechs have concerning the munich treaty.

if schools have see disenchantments meece of little had cooties for a reunion few young people ever show up here but the older generation tries not to miss it before listening to a consolation to public nature and history to remember the younger days of class of mine. this is often used as the sickest story of. the quotation. hundreds of books explain why the sioux desson germans will eat its a leaf within germany but back the director has first hand information. in german right over the front there was a development and development no i mean brought persons that post perhaps one reason for that they are.

the chicken suit is the transition listening in the seat as initially said to the nine hundred thirty eight gently used the occasion as an excuse to declare that the germans were being discriminated against any a few days mason she addresses phone was to call for an end to the genocide of the german people. her apparel choir might happen make in europe i heard her and mr campbell and i are a printer here no one really. ordinary money no foreign or territorial problem in europe we want no. she does a has to make sure the season doesn't reach and was the ceded to germany historians are still trying to understand what's. stood behind the fence. one of. the german. had

a conference concerning the munich agreements of the ship. so once they answer to an important question the dismemberment of czechoslovakia have been prevented and could to have been avoided there is some reason to believe that this could have been done the czechs had signed an agreement on mutual support with france and the soviet union. the world war one ripping countries including france and england where we really the prospect of launch still has to walk more and france on the dollar deal 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 stone to war in central europe because this continent he was ready to do anything in his power to obtain the suggestion lesion. on his

part chile fearful of the prospect of to speak to the french prime minister. to put pressure on czechoslovakia in order to achieve a peaceful solution promised made it clear it would give new show if the czechs decided to go to war to take benish was ready to surrender evidence healthy facility it's apparent that the chicks free. to pack their government s. just. needless to say initially the czech government was categorically against ceding mr dayton regional 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 territories. all of that took place in front of the government buildings just near. the russian

historian valentin shown in his in berlin in hundred forty five he was employed at the soviet him to see at the time and supplied stone 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 union should be put on a collision course so that 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 although such top level state. 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 is really good at a lot of people a period of bad luck of the next to kill isolated and impoverished north korea is badly in need of change how will this happen and who will. lose 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. 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 bomb was when hitler addressed a crowd of fifteen thousand party faithful and. since september david for nature analyst working israel has written a book about the unique agreement one of the most important parts as well as president spanish is addressed on a check radio station on the day when he decided to see theses decimation to germany. and here. all our citizens czechs and slovaks and germans and my daughters. without distinction of fact we all have the same duties me all can make a great. beast 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 miti munich to sign the agreement ceding the su disinclined to germany. to germany historian you're going so to speak slowly approaches the building where hitler presided over meetings 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 the streets of. the building where the many conference or full powers were seldom the twenty ninth of september nineteenth thirty eight. dollars. per hour as leaders true along the streets. it

was waiting for them inside this building for the mission he does strewn over there on the second floor. the last of the national music school played witness to the participants off the munich agreement who ascended this model stake case seventy years ago then this building house the headquarters of adult hitless polity. no we are in hitler's study of it so it was here in one nine hundred thirty eight. chamberlain. lenient had a meeting. where the new treaty was signed. in syria it was just as it was then. we will leave the 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 and to stress that he too was against a forcible solution to the sea detonation you knew the french prime minister. said he was surprised by the facts the czechoslovak his destiny is being decided without its representatives. more know you're not that conference was a rare occasion when a country street was decided without its participation. lockyear had not even been invited to. the conference last from midday until three in the morning without a break finance the text of the munich agreement was translated into four languages and prepared for publication after every detail has been agreed on. in the other side of the road to. everybody real oist that's where the war would

break out to europe depended on riyadh chromosphere spit secure conference. there were scenes of jubilation 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 outcome of the conference mr for everyone applauded him on his triumphant return to london the. often and parliament the media applause for a man who had preserved peace in europe and here it could very well. could well. be we've never had one man. that chamberlain had committed a blunder became clear only a few months later when he landed in a bomb shelter when a gas mask in anticipation of

a possible german it turned. 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 the checks were to leave the citizen and within nine days to go for off the agreement said that the territory would be occupied by german troops on november the tenth when german troops entered czechoslovakia plain old earl becks the director of the archive. sued us in germany is just over a year old lisa his mother often told him that the sedition germans hailed those 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 old rich. eighteen. the small town of home it off situated one hundred kilometers away from prague was populated by the germans only seventy years ago and after the war the germans were resettled by force almost no one came back only street people attended meetings at a local branch of these deaths and. had few kournikova a german woman by birth 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 a check kindergarten and a check 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 picturing the

wall the chicks to change their attitude to the suggestion germans. german soldiers once sent hedrick you was 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. so snarly. into an i my brother came to the school. our classmates pelted us with stones. and drove us away from the school building it and. crying as heil hitler. but our shifty heil hitler. after the year of the su disciplined was returned to czechoslovakia the czech president. returned from london after hiding the cheering the hostilities his first degree deported from the country deprives them of their citizenship and confiscated all if 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 be all incivility lost destroyed and if you go over stare you will find some traces stones from houses not trees africa trees and this is the only thing you can recognise here was once you reach there of nearly solace and inhabitants that means i think. three hundred houses. they all have gone only this one is here.

we know this is the region where the germans lived. in is the representative. in prague anything he can do for the time being conjure up memories of lost territories the germans only too happy to return but no one here expects them to. know there is a difference between an italian coming here to sell pizzas. and a 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 is similarities in mentality. here the love this land

and the no check lifestyles but this does not imply any special rights or concessions. change foreign ministry the thirty five year old has if he leeson to see himself as someone of soon. he is a suggestion german. with one family line although it is true that he is a chick in accordance with another his grandfathers were on different sides of the barricades which in no way undermines his firm pro check position. the debate on how the munich agreement affected 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 change their views but they disagree on the lessons that can be drawn from events that took place years ago in this situation in nineteen thirty eight showed that if the structure of collective security is undermined. it was the league of nations and national 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 prison to very simple formula instead of encouraging an aggressor must be countered by a joint efforts the efforts to stabilize the system of collective security in nineteen 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 but the stroke of the pen or through violent acts only result in human casualties tragedies and twisted lives. if this affects ordinary people in the first place. will a titian seem to find it difficult to take to heart these apparently obvious conclusions in the twenty first century is wild.

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