Could we have fought?

the "Munich complex" in Czech policies and Czech thinking

Karel Bartošek

pp. 101-119

in: Norman Stone, Eduard Strouhal (eds), Czechoslovakia, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan, 1989

Abstract

"Can we fight to defend ourselves?" was the question on millions of lips during 1938, especially during the September days in Czechoslovakia, a smallish country where the Czechs lived together with other nations and national minorities — Slovaks, Germans, Hungarians, Ruthenes, Jews — that made up over half the population of this central European parliamentary democracy created in 1918.