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Hitler had several reasons. After the successful unification (the Anschluss) with Austria, he knew that the German public would love the idea of also seeing Czechoslovakia annexed: at least its Western part, called Sudetenland, which had been part of the German empire before WW 1 and where millions of Germans still lived.

Annexing also the rest of Czechoslovakia had a strategic reason: Hitler was already planning to invade Poland. Czechoslovakia had a strong and modern army which he needed out of the game so that it would and could not come to the aid of Poland. After he had forced Czechoslovakia's president to sign an act of surrender, he could simply walk in and disband and disarm its army.

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