title: Sudeten German Party Complaint to the League of Nations and the Situation of the German Minority in Czechoslovakia
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metadata.value: Novotný, Lukas
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metadata.name: dc.date.accessioned
metadata.value: 2022-03-05T19:05:37Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.available
metadata.value: 2022-03-05T19:05:37Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.issued
metadata.value: 2021-12
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metadata.name: dc.identifier.citation
metadata.value: Novotný L. Sudeten German Party Complaint to the League of Nations and the Situation of the German Minority in Czechoslovakia. Vestnik of Saint Petersburg University. History, 2021, vol. 66, issue 4, рp. 1177–1189.
metadata.lang: en_GB
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metadata.value: https://doi.org/10.21638/11701/spbu02.2021.409
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metadata.value: http://hdl.handle.net/11701/35522
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metadata.name: dc.description.abstract
metadata.value: The ethnic problem had never before been such a pressing issue at the international level as it
  was in the initial post-war years, in particular, in the areas of Central and Southeast Europe.
  Based on post-war negotiations, the idea of international protection of national minorities was
  born, which was closely connected with the system of peace treaties concluded with defeated
  states. The submitted study uses unpublished sources of Czechoslovak (National Archives
  in Prague, Archives of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Prague) and British (National
  Archives in Kew) provenance, published sources and specialist publications to look at the
  complaints of national minorities to the League of Nations during the 1930s; specifically —
  at the petition of the Sudeten German Party in Czechoslovakia in 1936, which concerned
  an instruction from the Ministry of National Defence to companies intending to apply for
  state contracts about the ethnic composition of their employees. It uses this example to
  demonstrate the instrumental nature of Sudeten German Party policy, showing that it did not
  represent a real attempt at improving the living conditions for the German minority in the
  First Czechoslovak Republic but rather was a deliberate effort to increase the visibility of the
  political entity and to internationalize the issue of the cohabitation of Czechs and Germans in
  interwar Czechoslovakia. The study also demonstrates that another objective of the Sudeten
  German Party was to attract attention from Great Britain, which had been avoiding significant
  engagement in Central Europe.
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.language.iso
metadata.value: en
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.publisher
metadata.value: St Petersburg State University
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.relation.ispartofseries
metadata.value: Vestnik of St Petersburg University. History;Volume 66; Issue 4
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Czechoslovakia
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Great Britain
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: ethnic minorities
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: League of Nations
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: complaints
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.title
metadata.value: Sudeten German Party Complaint to the League of Nations and the Situation of the German Minority in Czechoslovakia
metadata.lang: en_GB
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metadata.value: Article
metadata.lang: en_GB
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