He said the solution of the Czechoslovak question came several weeks later. Ihe problem there, he said, was increasing oppression of Goi mans living in Czechoslovakia by certain politicians and newspapers.
"No world power with a sense of honour," he said, "could tolerate continuing in such a situation. The responsible person for that development which would have made of Czechoslovakia gradually the exponent of all intention hostile to the Reich, was Dr. Benes.
"At the instigation and with the ce-operation of certain foreign circles in May last year, he carried through Czech mobilization with the intention first of provoking the Reich, and secondly, of inflicting upon the Reich a defeat in its international prestige."
Herr Hitler said he decided anew that Germany had to mobilize "because of this unbearable provocation." He added that "Aggravated by truly infamous persecution of our German nationals in that country. I decided to settle the Sudeten German question radically. Again military preparations were made in Germany ənd Austria and again they were an Outstanding success."
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