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Compton Mackenzie begins his very complimentary biography of Edvard Beneš by comparing him with Adolf Hitler. Such a contrast was made by others, not least by Beneš himself who on numerous occasions presented his own intellectual rationalism as the antithesis of Hitler’s ‘animalesque instinct’. Beneš was proud to be considered as a human symbol of peace and democracy in Central Europe while the German dictator was to be seen as the embodiment of war and totalitarianism.1
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Compton Mackenzie, Dr Beneš (London, 1946) pp. 14–15; Pierre Crabitès, Beneš, Statesman of Central Europe (London, 1935) p. vii; Archiv Nârodniho Muzea Prague (ANM), Beneš papers, 1938, Smutný notes, 24 May 1938.
Edvard Beneš, Rede an die Deutschen in der ČSR (Reichsvereinigung deutscher Sozialdemokratischer Lehrer in der ČSR, Sitz Aussig) (Prague, May 1935) p. 37.
D. Perman, The Shaping of the Czechoslovak State (Leiden, 1962) p. 13.
Alena Šubrtová, ‘Antonin Boháč - Statistik a Demograf. Život a dílo’, in Sborník Národního Muzea v Praze Řada A Historie, Svazek XXXI, 1977, č.1–3, p. 7.
F. Gregory Campbell, Confrontation in Central Europe. Weimar Germany and Czechoslovakia (Chicago, 1975 ) pp. 172–3.
Edward Beneš, The Problems of Czechoslovakia (Czechoslovak Sources and Documents no.11),(Prague, 1936) p. 13.
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Cornwall, M. (1992). Dr Edvard Beneš and Czechoslovakia’s German Minority, 1918–1943. In: Morison, J. (eds) The Czech and Slovak Experience. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-22241-4_11
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