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:"The mass demonstration of brokenhearted people of Prague after the surrender of Munich showed that thousands still had the will to resist, but in vain. Leaderless and betrayed, they could not stand against the Munich powers....  [That t]he western democracies have sacrificed their prestige...[was an] immediate consequence of yielding to Fascist threats of force and violence.  The only hope to offer is that in other lands there may still be men who do not tremble when Adolf Hitler cracks the whip".
 
:"The mass demonstration of brokenhearted people of Prague after the surrender of Munich showed that thousands still had the will to resist, but in vain. Leaderless and betrayed, they could not stand against the Munich powers....  [That t]he western democracies have sacrificed their prestige...[was an] immediate consequence of yielding to Fascist threats of force and violence.  The only hope to offer is that in other lands there may still be men who do not tremble when Adolf Hitler cracks the whip".
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Western European democratic leaders did not manage to stand firm against the threats of [[Fascism]], representatives of which consequently gained confidence in following their intentions openly described in the ''[[Mein Kampf]]'' as aiming at fascist mastery of Europe and eventual destruction of the world democracy.<ref name="Munich Pact Documentary"/>{{#tag:ref|cf. ''"Behind the Nazi party stands the German people, who elected [[Hitler]] after he had in his book and in his speeches made his shameful intentions clear beyond the possibility of misunderstanding."''<ref>{{cite book |title=Einstein. A life. |author=Denis Brian |publisher=J. Wiley |place=New York |year=1996 |pages=233 |isbn=9780471114598 |url=http://books.google.com/books?ei=plYcU56xENCv4QTG5YGoDg&hl=sk&id=jaXvAAAAMAAJ&dq=Brian+Einstein+A+life&focus=searchwithinvolume&q=speeches }}</ref>  
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Western European democratic leaders did not manage to stand firm against the threats of [[Fascism]], representatives of which consequently gained confidence in following their intentions openly described in the ''[[Mein Kampf]]'' as aiming at fascist mastery of Europe and eventual destruction of the world's democracies.<ref name="Munich Pact Documentary"/>{{#tag:ref|cf. ''"Behind the Nazi party stands the German people, who elected [[Hitler]] after he had in his book and in his speeches made his shameful intentions clear beyond the possibility of misunderstanding."''<ref>{{cite book |title=Einstein. A life. |author=Denis Brian |publisher=J. Wiley |place=New York |year=1996 |pages=233 |isbn=9780471114598 |url=http://books.google.com/books?ei=plYcU56xENCv4QTG5YGoDg&hl=sk&id=jaXvAAAAMAAJ&dq=Brian+Einstein+A+life&focus=searchwithinvolume&q=speeches }}</ref>  
 
*Hitler and other Nazi leaders repeatedly made clear their willingness to use force if necessary to achieve their purposes. They glorified war. ''Mein Kampf'' is replete with early evidence of such intentions, which subsequently were reaffirmed from time to time in the years preceding 1933
 
*Hitler and other Nazi leaders repeatedly made clear their willingness to use force if necessary to achieve their purposes. They glorified war. ''Mein Kampf'' is replete with early evidence of such intentions, which subsequently were reaffirmed from time to time in the years preceding 1933
 
*The Nazi leaders prior to 1933 had openly declared their intentions to subvert democratic processes as a means to achieve their purposes, and to this end to harass and embarrass democratic forces at every turn. Thus Hitler himself had declared that.
 
*The Nazi leaders prior to 1933 had openly declared their intentions to subvert democratic processes as a means to achieve their purposes, and to this end to harass and embarrass democratic forces at every turn. Thus Hitler himself had declared that.
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