Crisis over Czechoslovakia

Hitler's demands at Godesberg meeting

Adolf Hitler presented Neville Chamberlain with his demands for Czechoslovak territory at their meeting in Godesberg on 23 September 1938. The territories in question were mainly, but not exclusively, inhabited by the German minority population. They had previously not been part of Germany but belonged to Austria-Hungary, from which Czechoslovakia was formed when that Empire disintegrated in 1918. The territory transferred to Germany under the terms of the subsequent Munich Agreement corresponded substantially with these demands.

Map of Hitler's demands at Munich

The lightly shaded areas were to be handed over by 1 October 1938, the darker areas were to be subject to plebiscites.

This map is also available in higher resolution.

[Source: Documents on British Foreign Policy, (London, 1949), Third Series, vol. II, map I.]