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Conditions imposed upon the Sudeten-Germans were so harsh that during 1919, 600,000 were forced
to leave their settlements of centuries. Throughout the ensuing years, the Czech President, M. Benes,
saw to it that conditions became so intolerable that even England and France felt it necessary to
concede this injustice of Versailles and agreed to its return to Germany.
"The worst offence was the subjection of over three million Germans to Czech rule."
- H.N Brailsford, Leading left wing commentator
The Czech administration which wanted the German territory but not its population, agreed, but
refused to do so and instead began a reign of terror aimed at driving the German population over the
borders into Hitler's Germany in a program that has since been termed ethnic cleansing.
THE GRUESOME RESULTS
"Let us examine the gruesome tale of figures. On one single day 10,000 refugees, the next day
20,000, then 37,000. Two days later 41,000, then 62,000 and 78,000. Soon it was 90,000, 107,000,
137,000 and today the figure is 214,000. Whole districts are being depopulated. Villages are being
burnt down and shrapnel and gas used to exterminate the German population."
- Adolf Hitler, September 26th 1938
Similarly, when under the terms of the Versailles Treaty, a large part of Germany and its German
population was awarded to Poland, so began an anti-German racist pogrom resulting in widespread
murder and mayhem resulting in over a million Germans being 'ethnically cleansed' from their
homelands of centuries.
"Let there be no mistake; the 30th January was not the beginning of the agitation against Germany; in
1923 over half a million Germans had to leave their historical homelands, Posnia-West Prussia, and
this number increased - according to Polish statements - to a million by 1931."
- Heinz Roth, publisher
Hitler's Germany could no longer act as bystanders to the grim unfolding tragedy. When German
troops re-entered their former territory, the Sudetenland, there was rejoicing in the streets.
THE TIMES RECOGNIZED REAL POLITIK
"It was one of the mistakes of the Peace Treaty that though the principle of self-determination was
much in evidence in Paris, the wishes of the Germans in Bohemia as of their fellows in Austria were
never consulted; or, insofar as by their self-organized efforts those wishes found some expression,
they were harshly brushed aside. What remains to be done is rectify the error of 1919."
- The Times, June, 14th, 1938
THE MUNICH PACT
The Munich Pact is the name given to the agreement which recognized the injustice of that section of
the Versailles Treaty, which had delivered over 3 million Germans and their homelands to a newly
formed state, and subjected them to the antagonisms of a hostile government.
The Munich Pact "... was a triumph for all that was best and most enlightened in British life."
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