Goldstücker, Eduard
(Czech diplomat) , speaking German:
- "Anytime the Czech government had accepted the conditions the Germans in Sudetenland came up with bigger and bigger demands so that there no agreement could be signed.
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Hitler, Adolf
(german conductor) , speaking German:
- "As a member of German society and a citizen of the Empire I announce that my homeland has joined the German Empire.
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Spitzy, Reinhard
(Hitler’s rapporteur) , speaking German:
- "It was a strange situation. Hitler didn’t intend to have the Anschluss yet, he only wanted the national-socialist party to govern in Austria. On the other hand he thought, that once the reports on France and England were positive and there was no Russian threat, why not to make this step.
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Hitler, Adolf
(german conductor) , speaking German:
- "Mr Benes cannot give presents to Sudetenland Germans. They have right to their own lives just like any other people. The Germans in Czechoslovakia are neither defenseless nor abandoned.
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Chamberlain Neville, Arthur
(Prime Minister of the United Kingdom) , speaking English:
- "I will meet the German Chancellor because I think that the negotiation might be successful. My policy has always been to ensure peace.
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Goldstücker, Eduard
(Czech diplomat) , speaking German:
- "On the next day there was a big demonstration – the biggest ever organized in Czechoslovakia. It was in front of the parliament of that time, the Rudolphinum, where they called on the government to resign. They demanded a new government, one which was elected and ready to protect the country.
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Hitler, Adolf
(german conductor) , speaking German:
- "This is my last territorial demand from Europe, but this is a demand from which I will not back off. I must fulfill it.
I have made an offer for Mr. Benes. The main point is the same he has already ensured us. The decision is in his hand: War or peace. He is going to accept the offer and finally he is going to give back Germans their freedom; otherwise we will press him to do it.
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Schmid, Walter
(The Ministry's of Foreign Affairs colleague) , speaking German:
- "When we heard about the result of the Munich conference we were all satisfied – this was true for the population as well -, that we could avoid a war this way. Of course we didn’t know that Hitler’s intentions were totally different than those known by the public.
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Chamberlain Neville, Arthur
(Prime Minister of the United Kingdom) , speaking English:
- "In my opinion the result achieved in the Czechoslovakian question is only the first step towards a solution which might bring peace for whole Europe.
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Goldstücker, Eduard
(Czech diplomat) , speaking German:
- "This was an awful betrayal on behalf of our allied, who ever since the foundation of Czechoslovakia kept ensuring us that they guarantee our safety and freedom. We had been betrayed.
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Franke, Gertrud
(Sudeten German at the Munich conference) , speaking German:
- "I threw flowers to Hitler as well, just like so many other people and I was crying in happiness.
The charisma Hitler had- and a lot of people can affirm, who were very near to him-, cannot be expressed in words.
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