Munich 1938: some historians reject the betrayal thesis, they say it was a victory for Beneš’s diplomacy
It is a little known fact that 14 days before the Munich Conference, President Benes sent a message to Hitler through the Allies in complete secrecy that he was willing to cede large areas of territory to Nazi Germany. With these instructions, the Minister of Social Affairs, Jaromír Nečas, was to go incognito to the French government in Paris on 15 September 1938. The Czechoslovak president, through France and England, offered Hitler a compromise to prevent war – a territory of up to six thousand square kilometres, together with two million Czechoslovak Germans.
