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Again you are vastly overestimating German strength in 1938 and vastly underestimating Czech.Not really. The annexation of Austria had opened up the Czech southern flank to attack, and it's border defenses were never as good as claimed. Like almost all pre-war defenses they lacked depth, only 5km at their deepest, 100 meters as their narrowest. Key industrial areas were also very close to the border, so any fallback would also have crippled Czech war production. Even worse, in 1938 the fortifications weren't even complete, and they lacked heavy artillery. The line was manned largely by maneuverable-incapable defensive divisions, and lacked the essential ability for local and large scale counter attacks, which was proven in WWII to be required for a sufficient defensive line to be manned.
In 1938 the Czechs and French had the best tanks in the world. The LT vz. 35 and the CharB, SOMUA35. The Germans only had the PZI and PZII, the PzIII didn’t become operational until 1939. Czechs and French also had better anti-tank guns, Czech 4.7 cm vzor 38 field ATGbeing considered the best in the world at the time. How they would have broken through any defences with not much more the very weak tanks that at best could be considered reconnaissance vehicles in difficult terrain is hard to imagine. The Luftwaffe was not even close to the force it was a year later so they would not have been as decisive a factor as they were later on.
Poland in 1938 already feared Hitler and there is no way that they would jeopardize themselves by alienating France/Britain by attacking the Czechs. The Hungarians might have but in all likelihood would have waited to see how things were going before making any moves IF France/Britain stood up to Hitler. Similar to Italy waiting ‘til France was pretty much toast before attacking.There was also the very real threat of Poland and Hungary taking the opportunity to seize their claims in the disputed border, stretching Czech forces even further.
Doesn’t take long to formulate plans when all you have to do is walk into Germany as there would have been nothing to stop them. Heck there was nothing to stop them in 1939. All they needed was resolve.Except the French didn't have any offensive plans. France was incapable of helping the Czechs because the French military hadn't drawn up any plans to attack Germany in a meaningful way. Public opinion in France was also extremely against another war in Germany, not hard to understand why given the million plus casualties the French had sustained. If the French government had pursued hostilities with Germany, they would've faced immense opposition from home, and would've struggled to meaningfully impacted the effort.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oster_ConspiracyAgain, not really.
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Most of the Wehrmacht approved of what Hitler was doing in general, or at least wasn't willing to rock the boat given Hitler's popularity.
German Generals 1938 Conspiracy to oust Hitler Regime
You have your sources I have mine, we can only agree to disagree on this point. As to the military, there were some who were pro-Hitler but in general the military didn’t like Hitler much. They wanted to use him to get what they wanted, not be controlled by him. It was his successful peaceful takeover of Czechoslovakia that quashed any real opposition to him in the military
Germany was in an even worse position to fight Czechoslovakia and France than they were a year later in a fight with France/Poland. All that was needed was some initiative on the part of FranceBritian didn't start major rearmament until after Munich. And what makes you so certain France was going to save the day? How would they have done so?