after the munich agreement and subsequent occupation of the czech lands, the protectorate of bohemia and moravia was created as the quasi-autonomous territory controlled by nazi germany and surrounded mostly by countries well-disposed towards the nazi regime. those who were directly endangered by nazis from political or racial reasons and those who wanted to fight for the recovery of czechoslovak independence had to choose between the illegal route to emigration either via slovak state and hungarian kingdom (both considered as the client states of germany) or via poland.