„Hrvatsko pitanje je riješeno!“ Česi od uspostave Banovine Hrvatske do Nezavisne Države Hrvatske (1939. – 1941.)
“The Croatian question is solved!” Czechs from the establishment of Banovina Croatia to Independent State of Croatia (1939 – 1941)

Summary/Abstract: Members of the Czech minority, despite a strongly expressed national self-consciousness, started to point out during the 1930s a closeness with the Croatian people, which was influenced by the new foreign policy orientation of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia, a complex international situation their native country found itself in, and finally, a gradual assimilation with the Croatian majority, especially in the cities, and to a lesser degree in counties where Czechs had an absolute and relative majority in the total population. It is no surprise then that the co-bearers of the Czech-minority social life in Croatia pointed out the formation of the Banovina of Croatia as the most important Yugoslavian issue upon whose solution depended the further peaceful and undisturbed development of conditions within the country. As they were loyal subjects of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia, so they planned to be loyal to the Banovina of Croatia, in the hopes that nothing would change in their minority status, and that those unresolved minority questions would finally be resolved, especially their right for citizenship and public education, and in the long term getting a minority representative on the list of the ruling Croatian Peasants’ Party, which would guarantee them entrance into the future Parliament of the Banovina of Croatia. The coup and the April War of 1941 caught everybody unprepared, including the Czech minority which welcomed the formation of the Independent State of Croatia the same way it welcomed the formation of the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes some twenty years ago, then the formation of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia and finally, of the Banovina of Croatia.

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