Even the most compliant minority-treaty state abandoned protections for population transfer

Evidence

19 An almost symbolic evidence of this change of mind can be found in statements of President Eduard BeneS of Czechoslovakia, the only country that after the first World War had submitted with good grace to the obligations of the Minority Treaties. Shortly after the outbreak of World War II BeneS began to lend his support to the principle of transfer of populations, which finally led to the expulsion of the German minority and the addition of another category to the growing mass of Displaced Persons. — Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism, 2504

Categorization

• XREF: Illustrates the chapter’s mechanism: minority-protection regimes collapse into population transfer and statelessness, the precondition for totalitarian domination the reader is tracking.