How the West Betrayed Czechoslovakia to Hitler (The Munich Agreement,1938)
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- At the dawning of the Second World War, emboldened by the Anschluss, Adolf Hitler turned his focus to the Sudetenland, a heavily industrialised region of Czechoslovakia with a considerable population of ethnic Germans. Fearing the outbreak of another bloody conflict, Britain and France entered into a policy of appeasement with Nazi Germany, engaging in a four-power conference that would culminate in the signing of the Munich Agreement. Ultimately, Hitler would betray the trust of the western powers, and the Munich Agreement is now remembered in history as a byword for the futility of appeasing aggressive, totalitarian states.
The fact that it took place in 1938 should tell you if it was successful or not!
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Created by Daniel Turner (B.A. (Hons) in History, University College London)
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In czech we use the phrase "o nás bez nás" which means about us without us. It is used in schools to simplify the agreement and is widely known
Czechs called it _"zrada Západu"_
@@aleksandarvil5718 also yes :)
řekl jsi to skvělě bráško😀
Brat môj český
@@aleksandarvil5718 or "Mnichovský diktát"
You missed a very important part of this, Czechoslovakia also had an alliance agreement with France, which was dishonored by the French. This betrayal should not be forgotten.
Never forget
The Brits and the French had a mutual protection pact with Poland, and they didn't help the Poles either. It's not shocking they didn't honor their alliance with Czechoslovakia either.
Yeah, never rely on others for your survival.
That's the mistake that weaker countries make, thinking they don't need a military.
@@oldmandoinghighkicksonlyin1368 There is only so much that you can do against bigger oponent alone. Fun fact: it was mostly czech tanks confiscated by germans that rolled into paris.
@@oldmandoinghighkicksonlyin1368 Thing is, we had many tanks & troops, but we were given orders to surrender by both presidents, resulting in Munich agreement, so no,the soldiers were ready,but our own leaders betrayed us too.
fun fact: Czechoslovak general mobilisation, that occured few days before munich agreement was one of the fastest mobilisations in history, maybe the fastest. Majority of their conscripts were about 10 minutes in their positions, after hearing the order in radio.
In 1977 I was told by my history that the Czech Army had the wherewithal to stop the Germans. I want to learn more about this.
@@chrisbacos Czechia is from almost all sides surrounded by mountains, which are not very high, but high enough to severely limit the abilities of tanks. We made quite impressive chain of small, yet at the time practically undestructable fortresses on the border with Germany. The German army would get massacred if they tried to pass the line. Hitler was supposedly later personally present when his army tried to destroy one of the fortresses during training and failed, noting it would have costen them too many lives to take this country without the Munich Agreement.
Our industry including war industry was in a great shape, our tanks were actually superior to German tanks at the time, and the people, remembering the German (Austria) oppression from the end of WWI, were mostly quite determined not to be oppressed again, similarly to Ukraine right now.
However, fighting alone, our defeat would be only question of time. We were ready to stop Gemans for months until our allies would come to our aid (or more exactly come to Berlin), we were able to fight against Poland again to secure Těšínsko (area they wanted), we were able to stand against Hungary to defend Slovakia, but we did not have enough men to take all the three at once.
Karma came for our French ally, as Germans two years later used our tanks and experience from our fortifications to conquer it.
Proof
@@germanonion7269 history
Also our military was very strong and if allies didn't betray us, we sould hold no problem.
I think the thing that shocks me the most about this agreement is that the czechs were ready and willing to fight, and yet they were sold out by the western powers because they didnt care enough to keep promises they made. It's like you're about to fight someone, and your friends promise to fight with you, and then at the last second they tell the person you're about to fight "actually, yeah you can break his arm"
Its almost same what happened to Poland on september 1939. We thought that we will have military support from UK and France and they did nothing after German agression, thinking that Western allies will come and help, bleeding out at the same time. Its beacuse western allies did nothing during that time, WW2 happened.
@@numbsliwa Correct. The Poles actually put their forces to their borders instead of their deffences to ensure that the allies would declare war wich was the reason Poland fell so quickly as their armies in Gdánsk were encircled and the rest failed to organise a good retreat wich let the Germans cross the Vistula river and basically meant that Poland was lost.
@@numbsliwa I heard of this before, that Poland's plan was to hold the nazis until france could launch an offensive, which never came.
@@Prauwlet213 you are right. That's true. therefore Poland tried to put up resistance as hard and long as possible, because according to the agreement, the Allies were to come with an offensive from the west where the Germans were practically defenseless at that time, because the main force was concentrated in the east. Great Britain and France declared war on Germany but that was all. But nothing more. That is why in Poland we call that period "strange war". Then, on September 17, the Soviets struck from the east under the Ribentrow-Molotov treaty and the we were really screwed, because in the east there was nothing with to defend against, when the entire forces was concentrated on the western flank.
Which is exactly why every country in the world should have nuclear weapons. America which is considered the greatest military power in human existences understands not to escalate tensions with Russia right now. It's extremely primal. It's every leaders responsibility of maintaining their peoples well being. The DPRK (North Korea) has nukes. No one is fucking with them. That's their plan and it has worked. Finland, Taiwan, Iran, should all be taking notes and planning accordingly. Don't let your peoples fate be in the hands of others.
As Winston Churchill once said, 'Appeasement never works!'
Yes and we can see how the British once again later appeased the Soviets by leaving Eastern Europe into their hands despite that they had complete air supremacy and the only nuclear power of the world on their side.
He said many things, most of which is correct
NATO‘s appeasement policy towards Putin is sickening and wicked.
When Stalin attacked Finland, he was kicked out of the UN 1.0 immediately.
Now Putin attacked Ukraine, but despite that he is still in the UN?? This is nonsense. Ukraine is going to be the next Czechoslovakia God save us
@@wallachia4797 do you think they should have started ww3 right after the second?
Yeah, he also said "let those poor Indians die of starvation"
That's also one of the reasons why after the war, Beneš trusted the Soviets. Unfortunately, they also, betrayed him, making post-war czechoslovakia a communist state.
Sometimes, the enemy of your enemy is also just another enemy
If Beneš had not accepted the resignation of 12 ministers, it could have happened differently. But who knows?
@@PSL416 Wow. Now that is an amazing saying
Well Communistic party won democratic vote after war. It was first and last democratic voting after war for long time, but nobody "made" us communistic state, at least not until much later when they used show of force to make us communistic no matter our opinion.
From 1938 everything went downhills. Czechoslovakia could have been something like second Switzerland in Europe. It was the most industrially advanced part of the former Austria-Hungary
Great to see one of your videos on day of release. It's an honor.
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Great video. As a Czech i am glad that this part of history is not forgotten. Also my father told me story of my great-grandfather who had to leave sudetenland after Münich, they had to leave everything there and take only the necessary things. They never returned back, because the village was completly destroyed by the SS, they made a shooting range there.
Why your ancestors did not uprise as with soviets ?
@@user-yk2xb1ti2w you’re asking him why his ancestors didn’t rise up? How would he know why they didn’t?
@@user-yk2xb1ti2w because the gestapo most likely deported his great-grandparents to the camps
@@user-yk2xb1ti2w you know they just had to leave (yes in the time of occupation 1938-1945 we had a resistance movement).Actually it is one of the hardest questions in Czech history, why we didnt fight back. There was a mobilization. Soldiers were at post, but then president Beneš ordered troops to lay down weapons. Fun fuct: In Czech town of Frýdek-Místek there were barracks called Czajankova barracks. The order of surrender didnt make it thrught in time. So when a German officer come to the gate a private who had a post there told him to stop, the private with weapon ready shot the officer when he drew his pistol (private was wunded). Whole barracks were put on alarm. A fight broke up. Germans had 1200 troops there, anti-tank gun and armord car. Our boys only had 250 man. The battle ended when Czech comander finally reached his superiors and gave the order to lay down weapons. In the end germans lost between 6-18 soldiers, 60 were wunded and the armored car was demaged, Czechs only had two wunded.
@@user-yk2xb1ti2w we are in central Europe and had literally enemy everywhere around us Germany, Austria was Germany, Poland was against us, Slovák state joined germans
“You were given the choice between war and dishonor. You have chosen dishonor and you will have war” - Winston Churchill
To whom was he referring?
@@sekur5548 Chamberlain. After Chamberlain returned to the UK waving the Munich Agreement paper around proclaiming, "Peace in our time."
@@Warmaker01 Oh interesting, thanks
Its good to see Slovak and Czech history being told. Of all countries, its probably the most overlooked in Europe. My great Grandpa came from Slovakia and was killed by an unexploded bomb or a mine when he went back to check on the village.
Damn, that's dark
It’s not really beeing told, as the history of Sudetengermans is completely ignored here.
I repair Czechoslovak bunker from this era. 2 floors, 33 men, 3300 tons of concrete. It is an honor for me to preserve what was once sign of brave Czechoslovakia. History must not be forgotten, it must be understood and learnt from, so we dont make same mistakes again
Ironically, in the light of present events, now we need those bunkers to face eastern threat, not the western...
Exactly, never forget that appeasment should never have ended, we see that now!
Ty máš pěchotní srub? Hustý.
The history of Sudetengermans and their forced expulsion by the Czechs must also not be forgotten!
8:23 I'm sorry but that is wildly inaccurate. Yes, he went to Berlin in hopes of resolving the issues, but he didn't ask for german protection. He was threatened with invasion, massive bombardment, etc. basically with what later happened in Poland and he actually got a heart attack during all of this, until he surrendered and signed... Also Hácha was a president, not a prime minister, but that's just a detail...
Jo, ale to jsou jen detaily
@@redcript1874 to niesú detaily, podľa mňa je rozdiel keď sa Vám niekto vyhráža ako keď idete k niekomu po pomoc...
@@hetzersk7307 Přesně
Revisionist history. Czech-Slovakia loved monsters like Heydrich, and there’s proof to back it. “Actually we had to!” Is a very poor excuse for complacency.
Appeasement is basically: “I want that thing. No you can’t have it- ok you can’t it have it but no more. I want that thing”
aaaand repeat
That's why the Korean War happened. Truman and others knew Stalin and Kim could NOT be rewarded for their aggression.
Dude. Uncool
You forgot to add quotes and give credit to "the history of the entire world, I guess"
And Europe punished him severely
UK: "Hey we're gonna give you what you wan-"
Czechoslovakia: "HANG ON. This meeting is about my territory, shouldn't I come to the meeting too?"
UK: "AAaaaaaaaaanyway, we're gonna give you what you want"
Hitler: "Really?"
UK: "Yeah"
Hitler: "Just like that?"
UK: "Yup"
Hitler: "What's the catch?"
UK: "Just sign this piece of paper you won't invade rest of Czechoslovakia"
Hitler: "Okay"
*Proceeds to invade rest of Czechoslovakia*
Ah, I see you're a man of culture as well.
@@TheRaidenLP lol k
Czechoslovakia : " Dude , uncool "
@The Philosoraptor this was more simplistic
,,OH NOOOO,,
My grandmother and mother grew up in communist Czechoslovakia until it became a republic. Nowadays, while it's economy isn't outstanding, it's been constantly improving over time, and it's an awesome country with loads of things to see and many charming people! :D
It was republic as communist too.
@@krystofkuba7795 No. The Czech Republic only came to be a republic as it is today in 1993
@@justalpha9138 No, during communism era it was named Czechoslovakian Socialist republic.
@@justalpha9138 no it was republic from 1945 till 1960 then it was socialist republ8c.
@@krystofkuba7795 We are a republic since 1918... Only regimes changed
The Czech army had 1,500,000 soldiers, and its army was familiar with the terrain, having around 2500 bunkers, small outposts, camps, mountain trenches, and had a mobilization so fast, that it was perhaps the quickest in history.
Hmmmm 10 000 bunkers.
Those bunkers were useless. Germans would have attacked in full force from south because there was no defensive line and south-moravian flatlands were perfect for blitzkrieg type of warfare. Within weeks/months the war would be over with hundreds of thousands dead. Not worth. Really. Czechoslovak defensive strategy simply relied on France too much.
@@MuddahFukkah At least the germans would suffer a bit to get Czechoslovakia, even if we only wouldve fought for just a week it would still be a great patriotic memory. We now have almost nothing exept for a few brave soldiers who resisted.
@@SlavicZde well maybe then you wouldn’t be alive and well 😂
@@MuddahFukkah Jakoby oni Němci neměli na našich hranicích dostatečné zásobování aby nás mohli napadnout.
The messed up thing is that United Kingdom and France were ALLIES of Czechoslovakia back then and they still gave Czechoslovakia up. Imagine all of NATO giving up Baltic states to Russia just to prevent conflict. Weak. Moreover United Kingdom and France told Czechoslovakia that if they defended themselves, they would be deemed as the aggressor of the war and would be treated as such…
it was just a deterrent and bluff too keep Germany from expanding cause this would cause war which is exactly what caused WW1 in the first place which was Alliances and using smaller buffer nations as proxy to contain growing nations and preserve hegemony
@@pink_kino On paper, alliance. In France’s and UK’s minds… just like you said. Either way, Churchill later regretted Chamberlain’s steps.
Almost did
@@AttilaVilassy no he did not. They were pushing him (Adolf) out eastwards securing their own territories from invasion. This was the green light from the west for the WW2.
Alliances are useful until they aren’t
Appeasement probably was probably one of the worst ideas ever done, especially considering how Germany didn't stop with Czechoslovakia as they moved onto Lithuania and then Poland with the allies still doing nothing in response.
The Kalipeda convention pretty much was proof that the Germans would never be satisfied
Indeed. Thank God some people learned from that and are supporting Ukraine openly.
because Memel was also German and even the Lithuanians tended to be more pro German then Pro Lithuanian. If Hitler and his thugs did something right then it was bringing back our rightful land under German rule
it was the only option and the right move tbh
One barraks actually fought in the Battle of czajankova kasárna, when czechoslovak unit with 250-300 rifles fought againts 1200 wermacht soldiers. Czechoslovaks had 3 wounded at the end of the Battle and germans had 6-18 death and at least 20 wounded.
Does Kasárna mean Barracks?
@@arthurmsiska3800 yop
Dont forget the damaged APC..Also we dont really use "Munich Agreement" we use "Munich Dictate" cause we were literally Dictated what to do by western powers..
@@arthurmsiska3800 Fun fuct, many people don't inflect word "kasárna," it's always kasárna in many cases. Legend says that it's some relict from Austria-Hungary where they banned inflecting it to make it understandable for German speaking officers or something, it's probably nonsense, but I didn't find better explanation. Younger people use it normaly as any other Czech word (jít do kasárny/kasáren, vidím kasárny etc....), but older people, especially men who served in military, say only kasárna in all cases, which sounds weird to young people.
@@Pidalin I was so curious about that word because it looks so identical to the German word "Kaserne" which means Barracks. I was like maybe Czech and German dp share some vocabulary
My great grandmother was 8 when the munich agreement was arranged. She Is still alive.
Hope she's living a great life.
Damn, she survived WW2 and the cold War
She's 90 years old?
@@PerSon-xg3zr Yes
@@nandinhocunha440 How can you not survive Cold War?
At the beginning of the video it is not the Polish flag but the historical flag of the Kingdom of Bohemia, the flag of Czechoslovakia in 1918-1920. Then blue triangle was added to represent Slovakia.
I am a bit of history geek and I remember when I first read about the Munich agreement. I was around 12 years old and the rest of the day was ruined for me. Together with occupation in 1968 is Munich one of the most bitter and frustrating moments I have encountered in our history. When I was in an aviation museum, I saw fighters which were used by czechoslovak army during the 30's and I began to cry. It just hurts man.
But today is also and anniversary of Prague uprising! Probs to our ancestors that never gave up! Byli jsme a budem!
Oh its today
There would be no 1968 occupation if Czechs haven't invaded Poland together with Soviets in 1920.
@@krakendragonslayer1909 wtf? I can't find any information about that. Czechoslovakia only blocked arms imports due to the disputed territory.
@@nehrajutocz oh, my fault, I messsed the Czech block of arms for Poland fighting Soviets in 1920 with the Czech Invasion of Silesia in January 1919
@@krakendragonslayer1909 And there would have been no Czechoslovak "invasion" if Poland had kept the 1918 agreement and not held elections on neutral territory and seized the Czechoslovak railways, which were crucial for supplying Slovakia during the war with the Hungarians. No wonder Czechoslovakia didn't like it. Moreover, the Polish king gave up this territory to the Czech lands in the 14th century and from then on for 600 years this part of Silesia was part of the Czech lands. The rest of Silesia was lost by the Czech lands in the war with Prussia. As far as I know, they did not fight Poland for this territory and the 14th century treaty was not abrogated either, so I don't see why Poland should claim Czechoslovak territory or the territory of the Czech lands, which became neutral for some reason after WWI.
Thank you so much for making this video, you mentioned nearly everything that we czechs remember as "the Munich Betrayal"
Finally something about my nation from you Simple History. Thank you very much. I hope you'll make more about Czechoslovakia.
In Slovakia and I believe in Czechia as well we tend to use the name Mníchovská zrada (munich betrayal) or o nás bez nás (about us, without us) which sum up opinion pretty well on the issue
And I add you newspaper headline -Naši spojenci nám diktovaly jako poraženým
I love how much the animation quality has changed so well over the years. Great work!
Thank you for not omitting the Sudetan Germans' situation. Finding out about things like that are never discussed and actively swept under the rug is how trust in media is lost, conspiracy theories are born, and at worst political extremists are born.
There was multiple hostilities among all nations. Czech hated Germans for more than century of discrimination, germanization and catholicism (yes, Czech language at start or 19th century was only at villages, it was pushed back and cannot be used in administration). A lot of wanted to take revenge and to feel the same medicine (still it was nothing for what caused Habsburks). Similary with Slovakians and Hungarians.
What exactly is the conspiracy? Hitler was right to take the Sudetenland. Hitler did not even initiate the annexation.
The sad part about it is that if Germany decided to invade Czechoslovakia they most likely would not be able to cross the mountains due to the Czechoslovakian fortification
Yeah, fighting czechoslovakia would be a nightmare for hilter, the well defended border lined with bunkers along with the highly modernized czechoslovak army.
There was no winning that. The fortification was not yet complete, and there was almost nothing on the Austrian border as nobody expected the Anschluss and there just hadn't been time to expand the defences. Czechoslovakia was well armed and defensible for its size and could make Germany bleed very badly, but ultimately there would have been no winning a war of attrition at a 5:1 disadvantage (especially since the regions with the armament industry would have been the first to fall). The battle plan was to make Germans pay for every inch of territory, but ultimately it was just a protracted fierce fighting retreat all the way to Užhorod eventually.
The only way to win was to engage Germany in a two-front war, which is why Czechoslovak diplomacy invested so heavily in the French alliance, and why Beneš gave up when Daladier reneged on it.
There was actually a plan known as the Oster conspiracy where some generals planned to overthrow the government if Hitler were to attack Czechoslovakia
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oster_conspiracy
As a Czech, this warms my heart. thanks :)
Love Czechia from Poland :)
I know its easy with 70+ years of hindsight but I really wish the Allies would have stood up for Czechoslovakia.
You can thank that naive coward Chamberlain
@@-The-Grim-Reaper- I don't want to excuse Chamberlain, but you obviously did not pay attention or even watched the video if you write this
NATO‘s appeasement policy towards Putin is sickening and wicked.
When Stalin attacked Finland, he was kicked out of the UN 1.0 immediately.
Now Putin attacked Ukraine, but despite that he is still in the UN?? This is nonsense. Ukraine is going to be the next Czechoslovakia God save us
@@-The-Grim-Reaper- The truth was, Britain was not prepared for a war yet, so they were forced to sacrifice Czechoslovakia so that they still had time to reinforce their army. But in a way, this tactic backfired.
@@yendevus1747 Did they?
This historical event is one of two main reasons why many Czechs empathize with Ukrainians today. The separation of important industrial and commercial areas under the pretense of ethnic Russians living there and wanting independence. The second reason/event is the Warsaw Pact invasion in 1968.
Myslím že invaze roku 1968 je hlavním důvodem, hlavně proto že to mají lidé ještě v živé paměti. Ohledně Mnichovské dohody myslím, že to lidé znají moc obecně a neznají moc detailů.
The reason is 1989 when Czechs stole one third of Slovakian industry and then Havel closed second third of Slovakian arms industry.
They should join Russia since they r Russian ethnic
@@Ameer-is3dh there’s a big difference between being an ethnic Russian living outside Russia and one living in Russia. Russia has very poor human rights. That country has never experienced true democracy.
@@Ameer-is3dh In Austria and Switzerland also speaks German, they were in HRE and aren't part of Germany.
Thanks! Your videos have really gotten better.
Appeasement was not about peace, but playing one side against another. Britain and France were hoping Germany would turn their attention toward the Soviet Union. They would fight a massive war, giving Britain and France time to mobilize and fight the weakened winner of that war. Stalin thought he’d escape this trap and ally with Hitler. He thought France would fight for years like in WWI, weakening the Germans. But the Western allies crumbled too soon and Germany quickly pivoted east.
This was just 20 years after the Great War. Really nobody sane wanted another war from which they didn't know the outcome. And in the last instance it needed America and USSR to defeat NS-Germany. In no way a war in 1938 would have saved Czechoslovakia.
@@boerekable germany was much weaker in 1938 than it was in 1940/41 entire czechoslovakia was mobilised to fight until alies come to help. But they didn't. USA and USSR were neded to defeat germans only after they armed themselves with czech industry blitzkrieked france, leaving them with more than half of Europes industrial capacity
Yea, History Matters did a video and pointed out that in the end, Appeasement had sacrifices to be made to have the Western allies rebuild their armies again. However, this did costed them dearly.
History has been crying to Chamberlain and not without reason but the popular depiction of him as a naive fool who trusted Hitler simply isn't true.
That's a myth. Chamberlain asked Mussolini in January 1939 to hold back Hitler from invading Ukraine.
Gonna have to Czech this one out later
*saves to watch later*
The animation just keeps getting better, and better. Keep up the great work
As a Slovak, i can confirm those were sad times for czechoslovaks. Until the devide, always being ruled over by a bigger empire, and having decisions made for us and forced on us. With such small states, both Czechs And Slovaks couldn't resist the Germans. There were organized partisan attacks and sabotages on them however, as resistance. The current hymn sings about this, although politically since that age.
Do you like the German Reich
I would remind you that we and Austria-Hungary invested millions in your "country" we built roads and bridges most which you use today. So let's not act like you didn't benefit from occupation
@@eminem2996 yes
@@wilhelm4321 That's exactly why we stuck with it until today, why do you think we're all in nato?
@@wilhelm4321 dude the reason why there was so much building was cause we literally stole everything from jews and czechs nothing was from germany
We Slovakians call the Munich agreement, "About us, without us"
We Czechs call it the Munich betrayal.
@@SainsSDR3SD We germans called it justice for the evil deeds that the czechs did to the sudeten germans
@@hallotag4891 Murdering sudeten germans happened after ww2 so its yes its sad but munich betrayal happen before ww2. Hate can be very cruel.
@@SainsSDR3SD sudeten germans murdered many Czech people before the invasion.
Yup both the Czechs and the Slovakians were screwed. The West gave Hitler and Horthy what they wanted Germany got Sudetenland, Hungary got Southern Slovakia
Thank you for this video I'm glad someone put it together, this should never be forgotten
Czech here, tganks for this amazing video, but I'd like to correct few things. The occupation of Bohemie and Moravia was more of an invasion like in Crimea than Hácha's request for help. Also the coup in Carpathia was unsuccesful, instead it got occupied by Hungarians
Also a speculation, I believe that if allies backed us, we could've prevented Hitler right at the start. His generals urged him not to be so stubborn about Sudetenland and he himself acknowledged that he's glad the occupation had gone peacefuly when he was observing one of the bunkers/fortresses. I believe his generals would have made a coup
Also Im glad that today Johnson and Macron are doing the right thing in Ukraine by backing it. Germany took the role of traitor these days.
Yeah i wouldnt call the germans traitors because of whats going on in ukraine. You make it sound like they send weapons to russia when they did already send some to ukraine. Turning foreign policy, domestic policy and basically the defense and energy sector by 180 degrees doesnt happen in a short time if a country wants it or not. German militarism got completely crushed after ww2 so the army and defense sector where completely underfunded with that comes the issue that the german army doesnt realy have equipment to spare like at all. They already sent the small amount of soviet weapons they still had and the tiny amount of heavy western equipment they have couldnt even properly used in ukraine because it takes training and logistics that ukraine doesnt have for that stuff. What would have even been the alternatives? Massivly rearm years in advance before anything remotely happends and whenxnobody had any idea that it would happen? The increase in defense and political changes germany goes through right now wouldnt have been supported by anyone international and domestically not even a year ago.
LoL France and England have both literally sacked your country by giving Adi the green light to move eastwards and you still consider them allies. Like history is about learning from mistakes made in the past ain't it?
BTW Soviets (the Romanian king gave them the aerial corridor) where ready to come help you out should France have supported and backed you up from the west but they simply pooped out.
I grew up hearing this story. My grandparents lived through it and never forgot about this "betrayal". Thank you for covering this important part of history. I would love to hear the story of the Czechoslovak foreign legion in more detail than its normally covered in.
as much as appeasement was the only option for Chamberlain to stop the war, they shouldn't have left czechoslovakia out of the meeting.its their country. they should decide their borders.
Thank you for this excellent telling of what happened to Czechoslovakia and the lessons from it. The mentioning of the "Czech Line" is especially crucial to this discussion, as like you rightly said the surrender of this to Nazi's eliminated any chance that Czechoslovakia could defend itself (and I highly encourage people to go visit them, makes for an excellent nature walk too).
It can be said there is a sliver lining to this agreement; by avoiding conflict between Czechoslovakia and Germany in 1938, most of the country avoided the horrors and destruction that obliterated much of Europe. Prague and much of the rest of the country have some of the best preserved cities in Europe. I enjoy visiting the home of my parents.
This is very readily talked about in school from my experience. So, as far as I consider, this is very important, and vital content on this platform! 👏👏👏👏👏
I LOVE your videos keep up the great work, you’re the reason why I smile at my job
Man i love this channel i learn alot of history especially in the 20 century which i love
Love to see this! Greetings from Czechia🇨🇿❤️
Czech flag is this 🇨🇿.
NATO‘s appeasement policy towards Putin is sickening and wicked.
When Stalin attacked Finland, he was kicked out of the UN 1.0 immediately.
Now Putin attacked Ukraine, but despite that he is still in the UN?? This is nonsense. Ukraine is going to be the next Czechoslovakia God save us
@@randied603 yea, i miss clicked
Love your channel. Wonderful work as always team.
Wow! The animation is great! I’ve always enjoyed the videos on this channel, but the animation gets better with each video.
Unfortunately, Chamberlain didn't expect Hitler would invade the rest of czechoslovakia.
I mean, what did he expect? He was hitler!
im Czech And i understand one thing. An paper cant stop an war or start i thing a lot people saw it coming. my grandpa told me how hard it was in Czechoslovakia during second world war.
This was before World War 2. "He was Hitler!" So what?? People can't predict the future.
Just like Tucker Carlson.
A man of culture I see
Good video but there are some inaccuracies, firstly Germans had enough members in parliament and also a lot of officers and soldiers were Germans (about 1/4 of the military) and secondly Czech Prime Minister didn´t ask Hitler to protect remains of our state, in fact the Czech president Emil Hácha was invited to Berlin after separation of Slovakia and then was forced to sign a declaration of German “protection“ of Bohemia and Moravia, he almost died there because of the harsh treatment by the Germans.
true
it was more like: It would be shame if someone bombed Prague out of the map... so you better singh this request for protection from us
- one of AHs general with sadistic smile, telling to Hácha
I have learn so much from this Channel I love your vids
the animations are getting better.
i love this channel.
I been to Czechia (Prague) and Slovakia (Košice) I love the Slavic culture and food 🇨🇿 🇸🇰
Greetings from England 🏴
My grand grand fathers were on the border in Czechoslovakia Army, when mobilization begun. Two of them where then in Czechoslovakia home resistence. Would you make a video about Prague uprising, last big City that was liberated?
You know it's always a good day when Simple History releases a video
Loved the video and I really enjoy all of your content! I was very surprised to see that you only have 78 people donating to your patron tho! Keep up the good work!
Another amazing video! This was all new to me.
“We are hardly the first victims of perfidious Soviet policy, which has, already several times in history, placed the interests of power of the Greater Russian Empire- which is probably the most suitable name for the true essence of the complicated little internal Soviet unions- above all the interests of proletarian internationalism”
― Josef Koudelka,
NATO‘s appeasement policy towards Putin is sickening and wicked.
When Stalin attacked Finland, he was kicked out of the UN 1.0 immediately.
Now Putin attacked Ukraine, but despite that he is still in the UN?? This is nonsense. Ukraine is going to be the next Czechoslovakia God save us
Great video, im happy to see some represantation of my country on here, however just a small correction it wasnt the prime minister who asked Hitler for protecting what was left of Czechoslovakia, it was the successor of Edvard Beneš, Emil Hácha and he was very heavily pressured by the Nazis to ask for protection.
I love your channel keep up the great stuff!!!
I still can’t believe how far the animations have improved since o started watching this channel years ago
Czech president Emil Hacha didn’t ask hitler for help after the Slovaks declared independence. He was asked to come to Berlin where Hitler and Goerring told him that if he didn’t comply and didn’t officially ask for German protection, the luftwaffe would have bombed Prague. He had a literal heart attack when he was told that.
That is SUCH nonsense
Ne není
"no no no you can't have Czechoslo-"
Germany: *takes Czechoslovakia*
"Ok fine you can have it but no more!"
I want that thing
@@JV-bj4kx to be completely fair, and this is in no way defending chamberlain, but the anscullus of austria was not opposed at all, the allies made no promises to defend it, and when hitler wanted the sudetenland and said he would not expand further, and since his expansions prior had only been in german speaking areas, it was seen as genuine.
Germany didn't take all of Czechoslovakia, the region of Ruthenia was given to Hungary.
This is what I like to see! I really want Simple History to more often do different kinds of a faces when they show a scenery of a big load of people.
Thank you for this video.
I was always interested in our history during World War 2. I always like to think about how a normal day looked during those times in my country, especially during the times after the assasination of
Reinhard Heydrich. So I'm glad to see Simple History talking about us, since we are a fairly small country in Europe, but by no means short of interesting history facts.
Thank you so much for making a video about this nowadays I see a lot of people defending Chamberlain but these people never want to hear our side so thank you very much.
Thank you for video sir
your animatoin has getting better and better. keep up the good work.
I love your video
Awesome video, you should also make: battle of Czajánek barracks. It was the first ww2 battle (in czechoslovakia)
Im stronger than all of czechia
@@oasis1282 id like to see you face off against a whole nation
@@imanin9972 Bring it
It wasnt, there were already battles with freikorps in September 1938 in which Czechoslovakia lost even few tanks to anti tank cannon fire from German side.
@@oasis1282 well well aint you a tough guy?
Your videos are awesome!
The voiceover here is brilliant. Really love the tone!
one quick fact from Poland:
on history lessons, ever time topic of the lesson is about well ,,how the west betrayed czecho-slovakia" we always have that one talk that takes 10 mins to explain ,,How dumb was polish goverment to participate in taking parts of czecho-slovakia"
yes for some stupid reason poland took one small bit out of it.
edit: pls grammar sharks don't bite me :(
Wait what? I didn't know that, mind telling more about that?
@@thedavistheory7674 Read about Trans-Olsa. Simple History statement that Poland annexed that region just on "pretense of protecting ethnic Poles" is big understatement and historic ignorance of the Trans-Olsa case
@@slavichussar USSR in 1939 "We just did the same "
Yes.. Actually if we didnt agree with Munich agreement then with germans would atack us Poland and Hungary
Kus Slezska
Britain was primarily a naval power in the 1930s with no military presense on continental Europe. The British Army had only two fully equipped infantry divisions available for deployment outside the British Isles at the time. Chamberlain had virtually nothing to protect the land-locked Czechoslovakia with in a land war. Appeasement was the only option for Chamberlain. It bought him a year to rearm his country but even then he could only field 13 divisions for the Battle of France against 141 German divisions.
Thank you. This topic is very sensitive for us. Even today
I just want to say I do like the new look of your channel . The animation awesome and thanks,
Every single person that thinks leaving Ukraine to Putin will stop him should watch this and read the history books. That is why we in Czech Republic are supporting Ukraine so hard now and stand very openly against Russia. We know what happens when you sacrifice a country to a crazy dictator - you will only make him hungry for more.
Try not to bring Ukraine everywhere challenge
There is one problem with that kind of thinking. Unlike Hitler, Putin has nuclear biological and chemical weapons. Putin may not use them but would you take that risk
@@jalinCZE Shut up, pro Russian troll. Unfortunately we need to deal with lot of those here in CZ as well.
True tho
@@AmericanKiaser35 what if terrorist s had em would we listen to em to? Just bc somone has nukes donset mean we sould let em do what they want lol
As a Czech I have to say you did a very good job explaining everything! Love it.
Oh thank you for your informative post.
This is the first video, where the animation improved.... Nice job man!!
Czechoslovakia was the only legitamate and true democracy that wasnt influenced by a superpower, after France, Sweden, and Denmark (I've heard that USSR wanted to help CZSK trough Poland)
Discriminative and sovinist policy means true democracy?
Yes, CCCP garantied independence. And wanted to help, but help can be only suply, because no one didnt want to let red army go throught his terrytory
Help of SSSR Will be think only when France help
@@Denielo5 Discriminative and sovinist?
@@Denielo5 You can find those things in 21 century "Democratic" Europian Union.
You can visit Macronistan, Merkelistan, Swedistan there.
at least from personal experience, it is widely believed among czech and slovak people, that if it wasn´t for this agreement and if we would have fought back germany, whole world war would have looked much different
Great video of the events. These should be shown in schools.
this is the best channel!
great video I'm from the Czech Republic and I'm from a historical club that is focused on the First and Second World Wars
Finally someone talks about it
You should have posted this yesterday I had a paper 1 history gcse on this today
Good Video
Glad that you mentioned that Poland a military dictatorship also took a piece of Czechoslovakia
I am a Czech, so this kinda hurts.
awesome video
Interesting video
Lmao the thumbnail
Czechoslovakia mentioned! Thank you for exposing our traitors.
Close enough to what I wanted to always see on the channel
When i checked my notifications I first thought Dejepis inak (slovak history channel) has uploaded a video :D
This is one of the biggest lessons that should of been learned from ww2. Appeasement does not work.
8:26 Thats unforgivable lie. Hitler said to slovaks that they have to separate or he will invade they and the he invaded Czechoslovakia and forced new puppet president to agree that the invasion is legal. Noone really asked him to protect Bohemia and Moravia. Withoust German inteervention Czechoslovakia was pretty stable state. But what you can expect from american. Everything just to make British look like the good guys. It also looks like that they were enlighten from they misstake, but after war they did exactly same thing when they lefted us to Soviets.
You are right. The day before the invasion Hitler called president Hácha into Berlin and forced him to sign the paper that handed Czechoslovakia over to the nazis. If he woundn't comply Goering said that he would flatten Prague to the ground.
I also dont understand where he got from this fake info
No Hitler said if Slovak not sparete he let Hungarien to invide them
Hácha had hearth attack I think when Hitler gave him that ultimatum. He accepted as there was no way to defend without mountains.
Nice video
You have all my respect for this video, may god bless you.🇨🇿❤️