Dismemberment and Restitution: Various Kinds of Authoritarian Rule

Abstract

As a result of the Munich ultimatum of 29 Sept 1938, Germany annexed 38 per cent of the Bohemian Lands with about 34 per cent of their population; almost 20 per cent of whom were ethnic Czechs. The Hungarian territorial claims were resolved by German-Italian arbitration in Vienna; Hungary obtained a Southern strip of Slovakia and Ruthenia with over 25 per cent of their total population, only slightly more than 50 per cent of whom declared themselves to be Magyars (ethnic Hungarians) in 1930. At the same time Czechoslovakia was forced to cede to Poland the eastern, and economically most valuable, part of what still remained of Silesia which belonged to the Bohemian Lands.