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and the chicks moved into that room shortly afterwards. some of ladislav of his family have lived in this german luncheon for several years now. dad let's go home. the village your position it's part of. the czech government. after being exposed to an 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 was he breached not a year later. according to many research as it was the conflict over these who doesn't and that in effect triggered to. the division of czechoslovakia has been a furtive which went on behind the scenes of these talks and played the decisive
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role in them people in various countries including russia are still looking for the answers documents declassified by the foreign intelligence service seventy years on are directly related to the events of those times. and back into his family take lunch seriously on a day off towards noon all of the family gets together in this house in the suburbs of new nick traditional bavarian sausages are served on such occasions. here the sausages. just put up their 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 away from his homeland anything
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reminding him of his first home is especially valuable to him. like family who 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. germans always said he and police seize it but he didn't get the answer and i tell you if suit czech prime minister would come to the. meeting. people would cry.
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plain old opec is the director of the archive for the headquarters of the citizen dare spread in central new nick the capital of southern germany is the only major city situated close to the czech border small wonder that the largest organization off suit as insurance is in munich. is an archivist she was one of those who made. a moral through seeing so for a year. one interesting seeing is the huge cooking book that is written in germany . it's the same. each time she looks at the fate of grass they know the old beckett recalls the
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experience he and his family went through at the time of deportation after the. not. he says or 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 we're sure it belongs to us. 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 is to the germans who had 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 might take his neighbor. most chicks agree that these houses
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no longer belong to the germans. that so happened historically did cherrix took possession of these lands just well so be the week nobody's going to give anything back to anybody if. they fool world war two these citizen 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 outnumbered the slovaks the germans living used to death and learned how to schools universities the nice papers small wonder that the german question over almost as soon as czechoslovakia emerged as the states in more amenable tropical becoming an adopted complex split up right off the emergence of czechoslovakia as a state. population was opposed to it in. the czech historian young
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amateur it 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 a 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. of the signatures later of great britain chamberlain the leader of from still a billionaire of germany hitler a leader of 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.
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if you month schools have seen disenchantments meece at the local headquarters for a reunion few young people ever show up here but the older generation tries not to miss it before listening to a concert in the public lecture on history to remember the younger days of mine. this is how i used words as the sickest story of. the quotation. hundreds of books explain why these two deaths and germans would 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 i mean brought persons that post perhaps one reason
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for that they are. the chicken suit is the transition mutiny in the suit as a reason he said to the nine hundred thirty eight gently used the occasion as an excuse to declare that the germans were being discriminated against and he a few days mason his dress his phone was to call for an end to the genocide of the german people. care a perennial crime are happy making your irish sure and mr campbell and i are a printer here no one really. ordinary money no foreigner 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 this events. one of them is
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your concern to ski the german. concerning the. important question. of czechoslovakia had been prevented and could have been avoided there is some reason to believe that this could have been done. with france. the world war one european countries including france and england where we really the prospect of launch still 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 nineteenth thirty eight the british prime minister who never changed and held several meetings with hitler in a bid to persuade him to the war in central europe. this continent he was ready to
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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 benish was ready to surrender everything else healthy facility it's apparent that the chicks were. to pack their government s. just. needless to say initially the czech government was categorically against ceding the sudeten 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 territories all of
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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 notes in fails 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. generals 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 statements. from the received intelligence reports from.
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culture is that so much of. it at a lot of the area of the leaders in the world all rights opinions more than venezuelan president hugo chavez is denounced by critics as a dictator what does the future. every month we give you the future we help you understand how and what to bring the best in science and technology from across russia and around the world acknowledging update on r g. russian historian. with the foreign intelligence service has been working with archives in recent years to get detailed information on the communications of salvias agents now. classified said school says despite france's
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refusal to help. 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 frontlines of visions and also warplanes bombers fighters already to help build up until the bomb was one clear addressed a crowd of fifteen thousand party faithful and. in september david forney journalist working israel has written a book about the only. one of the most important parts of this president spanish is a tryst on the czech radio station on the day when he decided to see theses decimation to germany. and here i got all our citizen czechs and slovaks germans and my drawers. distinction knocked
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back. we all have the same view 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 train. thirty eight leaders of four countries. to sign the agreement ceding this who doesn't want to germany. the german historian you're 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 baby is situated in this street. the building where the many conference or full
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powers were seldom to be 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 here just room over there on the second floor. 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 building house the headquarters of adult hitless polity. no we are in hitler's study so it will go here in one thousand nine hundred eighty eight he said of all the chamberlain. lenient
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had a meeting. where the new treaty was signed. in syria is just as it was then. the will really 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 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 munich agreement 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 award breakout in europe depended on riyadh chromosphere spit secure conference. there were scenes of jubilation most wanted to become clear that there were no war . in the future. 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.
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imagine. that chamberlain had committed a blunder became clear few months later when he landed in a bomb shelter where a gas mask in anticipation of a possible german attack 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. the czechs words leave the citizen and within nine days ago for off the agreement said that the territory would be occupied by german troops on living by the tenth 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 citizen germans hailed this
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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 because of the troops but. because germans that was old rich. eighteen. the small town of hama tough 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.
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spent her childhood in a czech kindergarten and a chick 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 you was a little girl at the time along with her younger brother to a check canteen to get some food but they never got it their former classmates pelted them with stones that get. into alignment brother came to the school. or classmates pelted us with stones. and drove us away from the school building. crying heil hitler. but our fear. after the earth the suit was returned to czechoslovakia the czech president.
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returned from london after. 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 citizen diaspora returned 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 overseas you will find some traces stones from houses not trees after trees and this is the only thing you can recognise here was once you reach there of nearly solace in the
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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 prague anything he can do for the time being conjure up memories of lost territories the germans 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 our return or assurance to the czech republic exist nor can
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they exist in a legal context in the present european legal system. only thing that could be discussed similarities in mentality. here the loveliest land and the know check lifestyles but this does not imply any special rights or concessions. for the czech fine ministry the thirty five year old has a few leeson to see himself as someone of. 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 cream interface to the course of european history in
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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 you're. a historian from germany had the opportunity to present their views on the subject. law of the change their views but they did agree on the lessons that can be drawn from events that took place years ago in a 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 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. global the main lesson to be drawn from munich fits into very simple formula instead of encouraging an aggressor must be countered by joint efforts the efforts to establish a system of collective security in nine hundred thirty eight field but the problem has a good deal of relevance twenty serious. political ambitions of the powers that be and the attempts to decide everything at the stroke of a pen or through violent acts only result in human casualties transit is interested lives. if this affects ordinary people in the first place. and seem to find it difficult to take to heart these apparently obvious conclusions
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completed nothing to laugh at there in the kaiser report that's coming up next right here on our t.v. . time now once again for the times reporter with me max kaiser stacy herbert markets finance scandals oh we've got all the scandals there are so many scandals stacy ever tell us more tell us more tell us more here's the first headline hans rudolph merits bunar fleiss fleiss lock and fall. ok and it's the finance minister first switzerland and he's speaking before parliament a very banal subject of imports of dried beef and whether it's flavored before or after importation yeah but as you can see he fries us is hilarious so cute to try to use to ever.
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