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Not until the end of February 1944 did the Czechoslovak authorities in exile decide to officially recognise September and October 1938 as the beginning of the war between Czechoslovakia, Germany and Hungary. President Edvard Benes wanted to link the defeat of the Czechoslovak state with events associated with the Munich conference, and not with the liquidation of the so-called second Czecho-Slovak...