Benešův rukopis „Německo a Československo“ konečně česky
Beneš’s “Germany and Czechoslovakia” Manuscript, Finally Published in Czech

Summary/Abstract: This contribution is about Edvard Beneš’s “Německo a Československo” manuscript (1937), which was fi rst published by the Masaryk Institute, Prague, 2005. The reviewer criticizes the editor of the volume, Eva Broklová, for having conceived her introduction to consider more or less solely technical problems while ignoring the reasons for the origin of this work of Beneš’s, its not having come out in Czech till now, and its having been initially published anonymously. He then describes the content of the work, and casts light on the historical circumstances in which it was written. Beneš, who had been president since 1935, published it in instalments in German in the daily Prager Presse in 1937, and then also in English translation. In reaction to the publishing of his memoranda from the Paris Peace Conference in Germany after the First World War and to the subsequent campaign in the press of the Reich, Beneš tried to defend Czechoslovak policy towards the German minority and also his positions at the Conference, and to diffuse tensions in Czechoslovak-German relations.

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