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used between 15 Mar and 6 Oct 1939 The Protectorate of Bohemia
and Moravia had a flag which was white, red, blue - quite rare
pan-Slavic combination. The white over red was the traditional
flag of Bohemia (same as Poland) with blue for Moravia. I wonder
if this is the reason why the Czechs reneged on the agreement
they had with the Slovaks not to use any Czechoslovak emblems
after separation: the only alternative to the old
Czechoslovakian flag was one tainted by a particularly dark
episode in their history? Roy Stilling, 8 December 1995 After
the German Protektorat Böhmen und Mähren was established in
1939, people still used the Czechoslovak flag to represent the
continuation of Czechoslovakia. Therefore Karl Hermann Frank,
the secretary of state of the Reichsprotektor, demanded the
change of the state symbols. The idea of the Czech