Czech Corridor

The Czech Corridor ( Czechoslovak - Yugoslav corridor) was followed after World War II plan to extend Czechoslovakia to the south towards the Adriatic Sea. This is another Slavic corridor by German -speaking (or Hungarian -speaking ) country should be created similar to the Polish Corridor to the Baltic Sea.

Czechoslovak demands

A first time appeared the corridor plan during the revolution in 1848, when Ján Kollár called for a connection between the Czechs and South Slavs. During the First World War, the idea was revived: Between Czechoslovakia and the SHS state (Yugoslavia) should especially Czechoslovak neoslawistischer politicians a territorial connection can be made at will, southwest Hungarian by connecting the Burgenland and some western Hungarian territory to Czechoslovakia, as well as some areas of Yugoslavia. For a populated mainly by a Croatian minority Slavic barrier should be created which should henceforth Austria from Hungary, but also the German-speaking Central Europe separate from those in South Eastern Europe. In April 1915, Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk presented to the British Foreign Secretary Edward Grey in front of a memorandum. Edvard Beneš submitted to the Paris Peace Conference a memorandum in which it was alleged that the region in question was inhabited for 25 to 30% of the Slavs. This German -language should be separated by the Magyars to defend militarily, however, was not the corridor.

In addition to connecting West Slavs, and South Slavs as well as access Czechoslovakia to the sea ( on Yugoslavia, Adriatic Sea ) should be backed up. The Yugoslav side proposed to leave this Slavic corridor Czechoslovakia, so it was later to be termed Czech or Czechoslovak corridor prevailed, while the plan was called in German sources as Burgenland corridor. In the area in question at that time there were about 220,000 Slavs ( Croats and Slovenes ) between 660,000 and 290,000 German- Hungary.

This plan was no majority on the Paris Peace Conference in part due to the Italo- Yugoslav rivalries and was invalid at the latest with the per -Hungarian plebiscite in Sopron in 1921.

In the Vix note before further territorial concessions from Hungary to Romania had been demanded.