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"The German Army was invading Austria, or rather was marching in to the general enthusiasm of the
people." - A.J.P.Taylor
"The pull of sentiment, language and history, reinforced by the material advantages offered by
becoming part of a big nation, was strong enough to waken a genuine welcome when the frontier
barriers went down and the German troops marched in garlanded with flowers.... There was a
widespread sense of relief, even amongst those who were far from being Nazis."
- Alan Bullock. Historian
"Chamberlain's conduct towards Germany.... had never been dictated by a consciousness of military
weakness but exclusively by the religious idea that Germany must have justice, and that the injustice
of Versailles must be made good." - Prime Minister Chamberlain's Press Officer
"It (Munich) was a triumph for all that was best and most enlightened in British life; a triumph for
those who had preached equal justice between peoples, a triumph for those who had courageously
denounced the harshness and the shortcomings of Versailles."
- A.J.P Taylor. The Origins of the Second World War
"Hitler had a plausible case to argue when he claimed that the Anschluss was only the application of
the Wilsonian principle of self-determination." - Alan Bullock
THE SUDETENLAND
"The worst offence (of the Versailles Treaty) was the subjection of over three million Germans to
Czech rule." - H.N Brailsford. Leading Left-Wing Writer. 1920
".... in early 1939 the problem of Czechoslovakia - the rump, polyglot state created at Versailles,
comprising many central European ethnic populations - continues to dominate European affairs.
Hitler backs the aspirations for independence from the Czechs of the Slovaks, the biggest minority
within the artificial Czech state." - Count Jerzy Potocki, Polish Ambassador
Coincidentally, on the very day I include this relevant quotation (31st, January, 1993) 54 years on
from the Fuhrer's recommendation, the Czech and Slovak people of their own free will took Hitler's
advice and separated themselves from each other, amidst much rejoicing. During the same period
(1939) Lord Halifax warned that Hitler intended to establish an independent Ukrainian state.
Is it not interesting that these paragons of the democratic process and signatories of the Atlantic
Charter, who had set themselves up as the guarantors of small nations' independence, should have
been so alarmed when that Czechs, Slovaks, Ukrainians and others too, opted for independence. How
ironic also that this was Adolf Hitler's advice.
"There has never been a government in Germany which had a better right to claim that it represented
the broad masses of the people than has the National Socialist Government. The elections held on
November, 12th, 1933, when 95% of the valid votes recorded by the German people were given for
Herr Hitler and his policy, proved that the German people unanimously back the German
Government." - Dr. Joseph Goebbels
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