From there, we have already been leaving. The Czechoslovak society and its attitude towards German refugees in the 1930s
Abstract
This study tries to show, that in the early 1930s the Czechoslovak society was more open and its members were willing to help the German refugees. This attitude radically changed after the Munich Agreement when Czechoslovaks started to pass ethnic, nationalist and in many cases anti-Semitic judgments on refugees.
The opinion of the Czechoslovak society was slightly changing after the Anschluss of Austria and the conference of Evian, where Czechoslovakia was declared to be a country threatened by fascism. The next step was the radicalization of the population of so-called „Second-Republic“ after the Munich Agreement.
German refugees started to see Czechoslovakia as potentionally dangerous. Czechoslovakia became a transit country, which should have served only as a temporary stop on their journey to the UK or the USA.