(7) There is a right to vote in and out of the transferred territories, the possibility to exercise within six months from the date of this agreement. A German-Czechoslovakian commission defines the terms of the option, examines the possibilities of facilitating the transmission of the population and resolves the fundamental issues arising from this transfer. 29-30 September 1938: Germany, Italy, Great Britain and France sign the Munich Agreement by which Czechoslovakia must cede its border and defensive regions (the so-called Sudetenland) to Nazi Germany. German troops occupied these areas between 1 and 10 October 1938. … The solution to the Czechoslovakian problem that has just been found is, in my opinion, only the prelude to a larger colony in which all Europe can find peace. This morning I had another meeting with the German Chancellor, Mr. Hitler, and this is the document that bears his name, as well as mine. Some of you may have already heard what it contains, but I`d just like to read it to you: ` …
We consider the agreement signed last night and the Anglo-German naval agreement as a symbol of the desire of our two peoples never to go to war again. [96] A new episode of “History Lessons” has arrived. This time, I am testing the signing of the Munich Convention in the early hours of September 30, 1938. (The agreement itself dates from September 29, 1938. In the video, I talk about the origins of the Crisis on the Sudetenland, what British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain thought he was achieving in his negotiations with Adolf Hitler and why the Munich agreement did not bring “peace for our time”. Hitler had already begun to reintegrate Germany in defiance of the Treaty of Versaille, reoccupied the Rhineland in 1936 and annexed Austria in 1938. He was now determined to conquer the Sudetenland, which was in Czechoslovakia but had a considerable German population and significant industrial resources. It was clear that he would do so by force if he had to, and that the Czechs had no hope of resisting him. In May, he had told his generals that he wanted to “crush Czechoslovakia with military action in the near future”, although some of his relatives had the impression that he did not want a general war at that time.
