September 30 - 1938: The Munich Pact is signed.
He had just returned from a trip to England after the Munich Pact had been signed and the fear of war hung in the air.
September 30 The Munich Pact.
In October 1938, he closed the debate on the Munich Pact, attacking the government's abandonment of the Sudeten Germans.
(The family returned to the city after the Munich Pact was signed.)
But he was recalled two years later, when the Munich Pact essentially made Czechoslovakia a German province.
Today the document is typically referred to simply as the Munich Pact (Mnichovská dohoda).
He practiced law, and also contributed to newspapers until the 1938 Munich Pact doomed Czechoslovakia as a sovereign country.
In 2010, Gottlieb discovered the desk set used by Adolf Hitler to sign the Munich Pact of 1938.