Czech Historiography Towards Relationships of the Second Czechoslovak Republic, Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia and Czechoslovak Political and Military Emigration with the Direct Genesis and Course of the Polish-German War in September 1939. Stat

The article presents a review of Czech research on the history of Poland during German preparations for World War II. The interest of Czech historians in these issues was conditioned by events from the history of the Czech countries and Czechoslovakia. The analyzed topic is therefore more related to the history of Czech/Czechoslovak-Polish relations. Particular attention was paid to the issues of re-demarcation of the border in Teschen Silesia in 1938 and organization of Czechoslovak anti-German resistance movement structures in Poland after the disintegration and occupation of majority of the areas of the former Republic by the German Third Reich. The current state of research suggests that there is still no cross-sectional study on the subject of less than a year of existence of the so-called Zaolzie within the Republic of Poland. The subject of analysis should also be the role of Czech provinces in planning of the German invasion of Poland and during the 1939 Polish campaign itself. The Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia was an important area of concentration of the aggressor's forces. The research of the German archives may result in a number of findings and extent the knowledge about processes of deployment and supply of Army Group “South”. It would also be important to determine what arguments were used by German authorities in the Protectorate to influence Czech public opinion and incite anti-Polish sentiments just before the war and at during its very beginning.