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Abstract: The Munich Agreement was a great catastrophe for the Czechoslovak society with far-reaching consequences. The letters sent by citizens to President Edvard Beneš at that time constitute an important source of information including a wide spectrum of opinions as to how the conflict with the German minority should be settled. Most people suggested to release the Sudetengermans from Czechoslovak citizenship and to buy up their property; some proposed to transfer them with all their property. Quite interesting is the idea of establishing a secret organization called "National Front" to defend the interests of Czech population in the border areas. Other proposals suggested to ensure security of the country by uniting Czechoslovakia and Poland, or to attach the country to the "Slav" Soviet Union, and even to make the Czechoslovak Republic "a colony, province, mandate or another territory" of France, England, Russia, or of the USA. The rapid course of events in the autumn of 1938, however, destroyed all hopes of settling the Munich crisis within the existing borders of Czechoslovakia. |
