CzechiaandAND⤬THE JUNCTION
3 SHARED EVENTSGermany

Entangled histories

3 events in which either nation’s sourced chronicle names the other — including under earlier names of the same state. Each is the same record, with the same sources, as on its own chronicle; nothing here was written for this page.

ONE SPINE OF YEARS · TWO WALLS OF EVENTS · CZE LEFT · DEU RIGHT

1. 1–10 Oct 1938

   German annexation of the Sudetenland

   Following the Munich Agreement, German forces occupied the Sudetenland, stripping Czechoslovakia of its border defences and around three million inhabitants in its German-speaking borderlands.

   War & Rupture · from the Czechia chronicle · Czechoslovakia, the Munich Betrayal and Nazi Occupation · REFS 2 — Munich Agreement, Sudetenland

2. 29–30 Sep 1938

   The Munich Agreement

   Germany, Italy, Britain and France agreed at Munich that Czechoslovakia must cede the German-majority Sudetenland to Nazi Germany; Czechoslovakia was not a party and yielded under Anglo-French pressure.

   Politics & Power · from the Czechia chronicle · Czechoslovakia, the Munich Betrayal and Nazi Occupation · REFS 2 — Munich Agreement, Munich Agreement

3. 15 Mar 1939

   Occupation and the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia

   In breach of Munich, Germany occupied the Czech lands on 15 March 1939 and proclaimed the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia, while a separate Slovak state was set up under German control.

   War & Rupture · from the Czechia chronicle · Czechoslovakia, the Munich Betrayal and Nazi Occupation · REFS 2 — Czechoslovakia, Munich Agreement