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The Czechs and Germans and the Birth
of Czechoslovakia
accepting Wilson’s conditions and suing
for peace. The first defectors from “old
Austria” were not the Czechs, but the
German Austrian deputies , who, on
October 21, had “without regret, taken
leave of this state, in order to rely on the
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Chapter II
On October 28, 1918, Czech flags were unfurled to the roar of the citizenry on the
District Council building in Turnov and other country towns.
vital resources of their own nation and
create a new home state”, which meant,
in the final analysis, being part of the
planned Greater German Reich.
Only then came the Czechs’ “28 th of
October”, after which, on October 14,