Czechs fight back against Hitler?

Zioneer

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From what I understand, Czechoslovakia had one of the most powerful Eastern European military forces around the time they were basically given to Hitler.

Now, I don't know much about this time period, but I'd like to know what would happen if instead of accepting Chamberlain's peace efforts, the Czechs fought back against Nazi Germany.

How well would they (the Czechs) do, what would be the international opinion on the German-Czech war, and if the Czechs won, what would they likely take from the Germans?
 

NothingNow

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Well, if the Poles intervene, Germany is completely and utterly Fucked, and g-d help the Germans if the French intervene.
 
I think the Czechs could turn it into a stalemate, but you need intervention by another power to make it into a full German defeat, as many of the Czechs advantages come from fighting only a defensive war. They had strong defensive positions in the Sudetenland, and a offensive would take this key advantage away.
 

archaeogeek

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Well, if the Poles intervene.

They intervened IOTL; they apparently thought they had the right to Czechoslovakia's rail hub linking Praha and Bratislava and took the german side, moving armies under german guarantees pretty much immediately. You'd need a completely different government in both Warsaw and London since the French won't go if Britain doesn't vaguely give reassurances that they have their back (like it did anything in 39 anyway; Daladier, however, was a moderate Radical; having Blum or Chautemps still as Prime Minister might lead to someone less cautious than him, he basically admitted right after Munich that the only reason he didn't go it alone with the czechoslovaks was that he wasn't confident his military could take on the germans (the "if only I had 3 or 4000 planes" quote), and the USSR won't go without warranties by Poland that they can move troops, which they won't because their government was all too content to act like opportunistic invaders through the interwar period to trust anyone but themselves.
 
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1. OTL Poland took advantage of the situation against Czecholslovakia, eventually taking a piece for themselves-Tzechen(sp).
2. I think a lot of the Chech military were Sudeten Germans, unreliable in this situation.
3. Germany was running a good bluff; its military weaknesses weren't as obvious as perhaps they should have been. Maybe they didn't know just how much damage they'd have been able to do.
 
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