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even various countries including russia are still looking for the answers documents declassified by the foreign intelligence scientist seventy years on are directly related to the events of those times. his 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 variance all cities are served on such occasions. here the sausages. just part of their actual launch in general traditions are respected in this family they know the back is a c. doesn't german when he was only eight years old he and his parents were deported from czechoslovakia and now that he is far away from his homeland anything reminded him of his first home is especially valuable to him. family who was
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among the three million germans forcibly evicted 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. always said here is our police seize it. but. and i tell you if check. those. people. die. right of the archives at the headquarters of the citizen diaspora in central
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munich the capital of southern germany is the only major city situated close to the czech border small wonder that the not just organization off citizen journalists is in munich. is an archivist she was one of those who make this exit it's possible. i'm war all through seeing so for here. one interesting thing is a huge cooking book that is written intro many pairs it's the same trouble. each time she looks at the fate of graphs reynaldo back it recalls the experience he and his family went through at the time of deportation after the. war the work program this year
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all. eighty or ninety years of. not knowing where we go in with that was. we didn't know the best and the scenes are based on 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 naturally were sure it belongs to us. just laugh a foamer both this house ten years ago like most of the prophecies in the system region his house belonged to the suggestion germans the czechs settled down in this area in the late one nine hundred forty is to the germans were to put it on a mass scale but islam is not going to give his house back to those who used to own it. his neighbor shares this few most chicks agree that these houses no longer belong to the germans. so happened historically did cherubs took
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possession of these lands just well so be you equal nobody's going to give anything bad to anybody if. they fool world war two these two dozen germans were considered to be czechoslovakia is the ethnic minority but in fact the germans for the second largest ethnic group after the czechs they even outnumber the slovaks the germans living use who doesn't have the. universities the nice papers small wonder that the german question over almost as soon as czechoslovakia emerged as the states are in more amenable tropical becoming a god complex split up right off the emergence of czechoslovakia as a state. population was opposed to. the czech historian young amateur that is absolutely sure that the citizen germans paid
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a price for their active role in the dismemberment of czechoslovakia the treaty on the secession of the citizen regions 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 litter of great britain chamberlain the leader of from still leader of germany hitler and the leader of italy muslim. 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.
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if schools have see disenchantments nice if they 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 lecture on history to remember the younger days of mine. this is old news folks this is the sickest story of. the quotation. hundreds of books explain why these c.d.'s and germans will eat it's a leaf within germany but back the archival director has first hand information. in the german right over the front there was a development and development no i mean brought persons that pose perhaps one reason for that they are.
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to chicken fingers is to transition mutiny in the seat as a reason instead to then see thirty eight jitney used the occasion as an excuse to declare that the germans were being discriminated against and he a few days mason dress his phone was to call for an end to the genocide of the german people. are a perennial quire might happen make him your irish sure and mr trimble an arab critter here no one really. ordinary money no foreigner 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. stood behind the events. one of them.
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had a conference concerning the main agreements of the ship. so once they answer to an important question the dismemberment of czechoslovakia have been prevented and 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 european countries including france and england where we read the prospect of launch jail has to choose what war 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 neville chamberlain held several meetings with hitler in a bid to persuade him not to stone to war in central europe. this continent he was ready to do anything in his power to obtain these two deaths are legion. on his
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post chilling fearful of the prospect of disputed 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 more detail then issue is ready to surrender evidence healthy facility it's apparent that the chicks were. to plant their government s. just. needless to say and this lead 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 all the territories all of that took place in front of the government buildings just near. the russian
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historian valentin fine was in berlin in forty five he was employed at the soviet embassy at the time and supplied stone and a bit on the elliptical loops found in 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. news there. generally germany and the soviet 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 joggle all go such top level state. received intelligence reports from.
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for the full story we've got it for. the biggest issues get a human voice face to face with the news makers. wealthy british style. find out what's really happening to the global economy. financial headline news to report. russian historian. the foreign intelligence service has been working with archives in recent years to get detailed information on the communications of salvias agents now. classified. says despite france's refusal to help.
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to help its part now under that agreement it is true though that. 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 pull up but it was one of the crowd fifteen thousand party faithful and. in september david for niche analyst working. has written a book about the only. one of the most important parts president spanish is a tryst on a czech radio station on the day when he decided to see thesea decimation to germany. and here i got on all our cities and czechs and slovaks and john mentioned my job. distinction of fact
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we all have the same duties we all can make a great contribution to peace 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's nine hundred thirty eight leaders of four countries . to sign the agreement ceding this who doesn't want to germany. to german history in the early going so to speak slowly approaches the 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 burial is situated in the streets of. the building where the many conference or full powers were seldom be twenty ninth of september nineteenth thirty eight.
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dollars. per hour as leaders true along the streets. it was waiting for them inside this building for the mission here just room over there on the second floor it's off. the roof of the national music school played witness to the participants off the music agreement who ascended this model state 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 will go here in one thousand nine hundred eighty eight he said of all the children will learn. leniency to learn
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how to meet sing. where the new treaty was signed. in syria is just as it was then. we will leave the conference was told to in a friendly atmosphere a phrase used on such occasions both 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 detonation you knew the french prime minister. said he was surprised by the facts that czechoslovakia's destiny is being decided without its representatives. more know you're not that conference was a rare occasion when a country's feat 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 cream and was translated into four languages and
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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 in europe depended on reality commonplace but secure conference. there were scenes of jubilation i wanted to become clear that there were no war. 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. imagine. the chamberlain had committed
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a blunder became clear few months later when he landed in a bomb shelter when the gas mask in anticipation of a possible german attorney. 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 leni chamberlain and. the czechs with leave the citizen and within nine days ago for off the agreement said that the territory would be occupied by german troops and moving the ten when german troops into czechoslovakia plain old earl becks the director of the archive. sued us in germany is just over a year old place or his mother often told him that the suggestion germans failed those days as an occasion for celebration the arrival of german troops was seen as
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the longer we waited accession to the third reich he told me. they were delighted because of the troops but. because germans that was an old rich. eighteen. the small town of home it off situated a hundred kilometers away from prague was populated by the germans only seventy years ago after the war with the germans were recessed told by force almost no one came back only street people attended meetings at a local branch of the suggests india. 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. has spent her childhood in the czech kindergarten and
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a cheek 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 a nightmare brother came to the school. our classmates pelted i threw stones. and drove us away from the school building it and. crying heil hitler. but our fifty year. after the earth the su disciplined was returned to czechoslovakia the czech president. returned from london after.
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his first degree deported from the country deprives them of their citizenship and confiscated their property. and 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 students and returned to his homeland sixty years later he returned as a tourist. finds nothing but his name to be all civility lost destroyed and if you go over say there 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
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inhabitants that means i think. three hundred houses. they all have gone only one year. 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 would be 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 every german who was born here. we feel germans must have some special conditions for their return here. or special conditions for returning to the czech republic exist nor can they exist in
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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 the no check lifestyles but this does not imply any special rights or concessions. for the czech foreign ministry the thirty five year old has a feel eastern to see himself as someone of origin he is a citizen 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 czech 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 at the theoretical
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conference dedicated to that event in moscow. a historian from the czech republic and. a historian from germany had the opportunity to present their views on the subject. of the change their views but they did agree 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. are guided only by national interests gives rise to a dangerous situation. if that's kind of a historian is going to publish the classified documents compiled by intelligence agents so that they can become available not only to specialists but also to anyone
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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 there for its efforts to establish a 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. on a tissue and seemed to find it difficult to take to heart these apparently obvious
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don't come. here at scripps by mass protests as tens of thousands of people gather to demonstrate against austerity measures. moscow's depos de mayo denies reports in the media he was planning to challenge his sacking in court at the seam time udall school promises to stay in politics. and kyrgyzstan gears up for parliamentary elections amid simmering fears of more violence in a country that is yet to fully recover from the summer's deadly ethnic clashes. ten pm in the russian capital good to be with us here on r t r tops. protests have raged across europe with thousands gathered to speak out against their governments
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in a number of crisis hit countries they're frustrated with a string of cuts to jobs pensions and wages trade unions say they're being ignored by their governments who they claim are more interested in helping banks artie's laura and brings us the latest update on the situation across europe we've seen mainly peaceful protests but some small eruptions of violence brussels for the unions have announced that it was indeed the biggest march that brussels has seen since two thousand and one they say that one hundred thousand people have come from all over europe arriving on trains planes automobiles germany poland and british groups unions took part in that march the police barricaded banks and shops in preparation for the march and they all say through a ring of steel rice around the headquarters of the you paula commission story there was some minor scuffles in brussels around one hundred forty eight people would.
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