The Czechoslovak Exile Government in London and the Sudeten German Issue
Author : Francis Dostál Raška
Publisher :
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 39,17 MB
Release : 2002
Category : Czechoslovakia
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Author : Francis Dostál Raška
Publisher :
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 39,17 MB
Release : 2002
Category : Czechoslovakia
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Author : Vít Smetana
Publisher : Charles University in Prague, Karolinum Press
Page : 307 pages
File Size : 41,90 MB
Release : 2018-02-01
Category : History
ISBN : 8024637014
During World War II, London experienced not just the Blitz and the arrival of continental refugees, but also an influx of displaced foreign governments. Drawing together renowned historians from nine countries—the United Kingdom, Germany, the Netherlands, Belgium, Poland, Slovenia, the Czech Republic, and Slovakia—this book explores life in exile as experienced by the governments of Czechoslovakia and other occupied nations who found refuge in the British capital. Through new archival research and fresh historical interpretations, chapters delve into common characteristics and differences in the origin and structure of the individual governments-in-exile in an attempt to explain how they dealt with pressing social and economic problems at home while abroad; how they were able to influence crucial allied diplomatic negotiations; the relative importance of armies, strategic commodities, and equipment that particular governments-in-exile were able to offer to the Allied war effort; important wartime propaganda; and early preparations for addressing postwar minority issues.
Author : Lukáš Novotný
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 41,98 MB
Release : 2019-09-23
Category : History
ISBN : 3110651459
This book analyses the issue of Czech-German relations within Czechoslovakia between 1933 and 1938. Following Adolf Hitler’s accession to the office of Chancellor, the German minority in Czechoslovakia began to progressively mobilise and gradually radicalise such that the majority of them supported the Sudeten German Party in the 1935 elections and played a large part in the end of the First Czechoslovak Republic three years later.
Author : Igor Lukes
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 19,66 MB
Release : 1996-05-23
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0199880255
The Munich crisis of 1938, in which Great Britain and France decided to appease Hitler's demands to annex the Sudentenland, has provoked a vast amount of historical writing. The era has been thoroughly examined from the perspectives of Germans, French, and British political establishments. But historians have had, until now, only a vague understanding of the roles played by the Soviet Union and Czechoslovakia, the country whose very existence was at the very center of the crisis. In Czechoslovakia Between Stalin and Hitler, Igor Lukes explores this turbulent and tragic era from the new perspective of the Prague government itself. At the center of this study is Edvard Benes, a Czechoslovak foreign policy strategist and a major player in the political machinations of the era. The work looks at the first two decades of Benes's diplomacy and analyzes the Prague Government's attempts to secure the existence of the Republic of Czechoslovakia in the treacherous space between the millstones of the East and West. It studies Benes's relationship with Joseph Stalin, outlines the role assigned to Czechoslovak communists by the VIIth Congress of the Communist International in 1935, and dissects Prague's secret negotiations with Berlin and Benes's role in the famous Tukhachevsky affair. The work also brings evidence regarding the so-called partial mobilization of the Czechoslovak army in May 1938, and focuses on Stalin's strategic thinking on the eve of the World War II. Until the fall of the Berlin Wall, it was difficult for Western researchers to gain access to the rich archival collections of the East. Czechoslovakia Between Stalin and Hitler makes ample use of these secret archives, both in Prague and in Russia. As a result, it is an accurate and original rendition of the events which eventually sparked the Second World War.
Author : Neil Rees
Publisher :
Page : 64 pages
File Size : 28,57 MB
Release : 2005
Category : Czechoslovakia
ISBN : 9780955088308
Author : Edvard Beneš
Publisher :
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 49,68 MB
Release : 1972
Category : History
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Author : Radomír Luža
Publisher : [New York] New York University Press
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 28,7 MB
Release : 1964
Category : Czech Republic
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Author : Vít Smetana
Publisher : Karolinum Press
Page : 358 pages
File Size : 39,9 MB
Release : 2008-01-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 8024613735
The book In the Shadow of Munich. British Policy towards Czechoslovakia from the Endorsement to the Renunciation of the Munich Agreement (1938 to 1942) analyses the varying attitudes and gradual change of British policy towards Czechoslovakia in the period from the Munich Conference in September 1938 to August 1942 when the British government proclaimed the Munich Agreement as dead and thus having no influence whatsoever on the future territorial settlement. The key focus of this work lies in the influence of 'Munich' upon the British political scene and upon the resulting British policy towards Czechoslovakia in the Central European context and also in the repercussions of Munich in negotiations with the Czechoslovak exile representatives. The book is a result of many years of the author?s research conducted primarily in the British and the Czech archives as well as his reflection of numerous documentary editions, diaries, memoirs and secondary sources. It aims to dispel frequent myths and stereotypes that have so far influenced the Czech and partly also Anglo-Saxon historiography in their interpretations of British attitudes towards Czechoslovakia immediately before and during the Second World War.
Author : Emil Voráček
Publisher :
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 42,32 MB
Release : 2009
Category : Constitutional history
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Publisher : BRILL
Page : 309 pages
File Size : 41,98 MB
Release : 2009-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9042029609
This volume focuses on a previously under-researched area, namely exile in and from Czechoslovakia in the years prior to the Second World War as well as during the wartime and post-war periods. The study considers, firstly, the refugees from Germany and Austria who fled to Czechoslovakia during the 1930s; secondly, the refugees from Czechoslovakia, both German and Czech-speaking, who arrived in Britain in or around 1938 as refugees from Fascism; and thirdly, those who fled from Communism in 1948. From a variety of perspectives, the book examines the refugees’ activities and achievements in a range of fields, both on a collective and an individual basis. The volume will be of interest to scholars and students of twentieth century history, politics and cultural studies as well as those involved in Central European Studies and Exile Studies. It will also appeal to a general readership with an interest in Britain and Europe in the 1930s and 1940s.