Unknown Munich. September 1938

The article examines culmination of Czechoslovak crisis of 1938. On the basis of unpublished documents of National Archives in London the author analyses the policy of Great Britain and France towards Czechoslovakia in connection with claims of the Third Reich's leadership on the Sudetenland, correlation of forces of potential enemies and the problem of rendering assistance to Czechoslovakia. The documents presented in the article evidence that the governments of the Western powers considered loss of the Sudetenland by Czechoslovakia to be inevitable and as a necessary pay for appeasing Hitler. There in London and Paris thought that after the Munich Agreement there would be peace and consent with Germany. This did not happen for many reasons and circumstances and Munich became culmination of the policy of appeasement and a symbol of surrender to the aggressor.