11 December 2025
History and Law

History does not move according to legal facts but according to historical–political assessments.
For example, Hitler invoked the principle of nationality to invade Czechoslovakia and then Poland. France and England considered the Nazi arguments understandable in the case of Czechoslovakia, but for Poland they judged them to be mere pretexts for dominating the entire world and, in particular, for creating Lebensraum (“living space”). Today we think they were right about Poland and that they were wrong about Czechoslovakia.