On This Day: Munich Agreement was signed

• Published date: 30 September 2021
• Author: GADI ZAIG
• Publication title: Jerusalem Post, The: Web Edition Articles (Israel)

The land was given to the Germans after Britain and France attempted to persuade Adolf Hitler from a military invasion of the territory. There were approximately three million people of German origin in Sudetenland when Hitler wanted all the Germans in that area to be united with Germany.

Italian Prime Minister Benito Mussolini persuaded Hitler to attend a peace conference in Munich between Germany, Italy, Britain and France, where a plan was put forward to integrate Sudetenland into Germany.

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A joint proposal was prepared, stating that Sudetenland areas with more than half of the population being German would be turned over to Nazi Germany. Czechoslovakia was not consulted about the meeting, and its government was forced to accept it.

A few days later, Hitler had changed his demands, now wanting all of Sudetenland occupied by the German army and the Czechoslovaks to be evacuated by September 28. The Czechoslovaks, the...