¹ Wie sehr die Fortdauer des Krieges seinen radikalen Plänen förderlich war, sagt Beneš in seinen Memoiren: „This political objective (the principle of a very radical reduction in the number of the minorities in pre-Munich Czechoslovakia) to which I held consistently throughout the war was pursued as the progress of the war demanded — before and at the beginning of the war cautiously and with moderation, more decidedly and more fundamently as the war proceeded.” (Beneš, Memoirs, S. 212.)