It might be used only to establish conditions which would prevent national oppression and enable each nation to constitute its own statesee Alfred Cobban. "National SelfDetermination." London. 1945. Such conception of the abusive slogans of national selfdetermination make enough room for the reestablishment of the Czechoslovak Republic in its historic frontiers and prevent the application of the principle to any ethnic grdup whose real goal was to serve as the spearhead of a foreign power. At the time the rump Czechoslovak state abandoned by all the world was receiving democratic German and Jewish refugees fleeing the annexed Czech territories in 1938. the battlelines seemed to be clearly drawn between the Czechs and Sudetens. What for the one was an imperialist struggle for greater living space and hegemonic position. for the others was a battle of death and life. The treatment of the Czech nation prepared by the SDP for the sake of German military victory over Czechoslovakia in 1938 displayed a degree of cruelty and violence that was rare even in the times of Hitler.
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