Many Sudeten Germans rejected an affiliation to Czechoslovakia, since they had been refused the right to self-determination promised by US president Woodrow Wilson in his Fourteen Points of January 1918.
Mange sudetertyskere nægtede at tilhøre Tjekkoslovakiet og var forbitrede over, at de var nægtet den selvbestemmelse, som den amerikanske præsident Wilson havde fremlagt i sine 14 punkter fra januar 1918.