Flight, Emigration and Death
Czechoslovakia
After the civil war in February 1934 and the ban on Austrian Social Democracy, Austrian Social Democrats and Communists, including Jewish functionaries, escaped across the border to democratic Czechoslovakia. Further refugees, most of them Jews, followed after the "Anschluss" in 1938.
In accordance with the "Munich agreement", the treaty signed on September 29, 1938, by the German "Reich", Great Britain, France and Italy, the "Sudetenland" was absorbed by the German "Reich" in the first days of October 1938. These territorial changes caused 200,000 people, many Jews among them, to take flight from the newly created "Reichsgau Sudetenland" into the remainder of Czechoslovakia. The crushing of the Czechoslovak Republic, which had begun in 1938, ended on March 14/15, 1939, with the complete dissolution of the state after its occupation by the German army.
Bohemia and Moravia became a "Reich Protectorate", and Slovakia formally an independent state.
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