have lived in this german mansion for several years and is now. dad let's go home. the villager position itself is part of. the first world war two after being exposed to on ambiguous pressure by france and great britain two of its own. germany was the price paid for hitler's promise not to start a war in europe which he breached not only a year later. according to many research as it was the conflict over these who doesn't mind that in effect triggered to. the division of czechoslovakia have been referred to which went on behind the scenes of these talks and was played the decisive 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. 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 are served on such occasions. here the sausages. just put a better country 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 has power away from his homeland anything reminding him of his first home is especially found people to him.

family was among the three million john. as for specific tips from czechoslovakia by a special decision of president banish 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 seizing. but he didn't get the answer and i tell you if czech prime minister would come to the. meeting. people would cry. reynaldo opec is the dynamite of the archives at 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 not just organization off suit disenchantments is in the unique. oh there 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 feta graphs. recalls the experience he and his family went through at the time of deportation after the.

not knowing. this is 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 literally wish or belongs to us. both this house ten years ago. like most of the properties in the region his house belonged to the germans the czechs settled down in this area in the late one nine hundred forty is 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 shares this few most chicks agree that these houses no longer belong to the germans. so happened historically did cherrix took

possession of these lands just well so be the weak nobody's going to give anything back 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 in a citizen land had their own schools universities the nice papers small wonder that the german question overs almost as soon as czechoslovakia emerged as the states. more amenable to god will be so many conflicts split up right after 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 a price for their active role in the dismemberment of czechoslovakia the treaty on

the secession as the citizen regency 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 parkes national museum. local or in the signatures later of great britain chamberlain the leader of from still a leader 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.

if schools have sued 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 concert in the public lecture on history to remember the younger days of mine. this is old news 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 german right over the front there was a development and development no i mean broad persons that post perhaps one reason that they are seeing.

the chicken saying it is the translation it's sitting in the seat as a reason he steps in the ring c thirty eight gently used the occasion as an excuse to declare that the germans were being discriminated against and he a few days later he addresses phone was to call for an intimate genocide of the german people. there a perennial choir might happen make in europe i heard her and mr campbell and ira printed here no one really. ordinary money no foreigner territorial problem in europe we want no. she does a has to make sure that the citizen region was the ceded to germany historians are still trying to understand what. 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 could 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 european countries including france and england where we re of the prospect of launch still has to choose what war and france on the dillard year 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. this continent he was ready to do anything in his power to obtain the suggestion region. on his post

chilling fearful of the prospect of space at 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 the head count benish was ready to surrender evidence healthy facility it's apparent that the chicks were. to plant 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 england and france 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 historian valentin fine was in berlin forty five he was employed at the soviet embassy at the time and supplied stone and bit on the elliptical loops 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 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 joggle although such top level state. police. received intelligence reports from.

wealthy british style stock. markets why not. find out what's really happening to the global economy because a report on. a russian historian and a 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 school says despite france's refusal to help. was 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 build up a deal with one to crowd fifteen thousand party faithful and. in september david for niche analyst working his radio has written a book about the whole you could print one of the most important parts of this president's spanish is a tryst on the czech radio station on the day when he decided to see theses decimation to germany. and here i am all our citizen

jacks and she lacks germination. distinction of fact 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 nine thousand nine hundred thirty eight leaders of four countries. to sign the agreement ceding this who doesn't want to germany. to 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 berry is situated in this street. 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 industry over there on the second floor. near. the office of the national music school played witness to the participants off to 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 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. the will 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 i 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 his 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 prepared for publication after every detail has been agreed on. people stood in the other side of the road to. hear everybody real oist that's where the war would break out in europe depended on riyadh chromosphere spit 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 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.

never have bought it martin. the chamber infinite committed a blunder became clear only a few months later when she landed in a bomb shelter when a 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 hitler mussolini chamberlain and an idea to check through its leaves to see dissonant within nine days ago for 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 germany was just over a year old lisa his mother often told him that the sedition germans hailed their

stays 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 zunes and 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 recessed told by force almost no one came back and history people attended meetings at a local branch of the suggests india. 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. head fake spent her

childhood in the czech kindergarten and the czech 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 but during the war the chicks to change their attitude to the suggestion german. german soldiers once sent hedrick who 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 snugly. into alignment brother came to the school. classmates pelted i threw stones. and 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 president

banished returned from london after hiding. his first degree deported from the country deprived 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 students and returned to his homeland sixty years later he returned as a tourist. finds nothing the truth. is to be all incivility lost destroyed and if you go over you will find some traces stones from houses not trees africa 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 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. happy to return but no one here expects them to. 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 their return to the czech republic exist nor can they exist in a legal context in the present european legal system the only thing that could be discussed is the similarities in mentality. here the loveliest land and the no check lifestyle but this does not imply any special rights or concessions. for the czech fine ministry the thirty five year old has if he leeson to see himself as someone of. he is a suggestion german in a cordon. 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 it is a theoretical conference dedicated to that event in moscow both. the historian from the czech republic and. historian from germany had the opportunity to present their views on the subject. lot of the change their views but they did agree on the lessons that can be drawn from events that took place seventy years ago in a situation in nineteen thirty eight showed that if the structure of collective security is undermined. it was in a 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

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 you 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 syrian. 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 transit is interested lives. if this affects ordinary people in the first place. politicians seem to find it

difficult to take to heart these apparently obvious conclusions in the twenty first century is wild.

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