Lot 1071
Sudetenland, Slovakia, Bohemia & Moravia, On 29 Sep 1938, the leaders of Germany, Italy, France and Great Britain met in Munich to discuss Hitler's plan to have all areas of Czechoslovakia whose population consisted of more than 50% Sudeten Germans turned over to Germany, in order to assure Czechoslovakia's "peace and safety". The result was the Munich Agreement. Germany entered Czechoslovakia on 1 October and ten days later had taken over the Sudetenland.
Seven pages, illustrated with appropriate stamps and cards and including autographs in various forms of Dr. Edouard Benes, president of Czechoslovakia, made to resign at Hitler's insistence; General Franz Halder, Hitler's army Chief of Staff, who was concerned that the invasion of Czechoslovakia would ignite war; Konstantin von Neurath, Minister of Foreign Affairs, then Reichsprotektor of Bohemia & Moravia (two TLsS); General Hans Ludin of the SA, who became Ambassador to Slovakia; Konrad Heinlein, Czech-German leader and founder of the Sudeten Nazi Party, who became Reichskommissar of the Sudetenland.
Estimate 750 - 1,000
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