Vojtech Mastny

Dr. Vojtech Mastny was a Czech diplomat, scholar and educator. He was Czech minister to Berlin, Germany in 1938. He and Dr. Hubert Masarik were the two representatives Czechoslovakia sent to the Munich Conference in 1938. However, both men were directed to a hotel room by the Gestapo and detained while Neville Chamberlain, Edouard Daladier, and Adolf Hitler arranged for the Sudetenland region of Czechoslovakia to be surrendered to Germany.

After World War II, Mastny published several works on the Cold War.

Vojtech Mastny in Hitler's War
Vojtech Mastny and Hubert Masarik were both waiting to hear the outcome of the Munich Conference when Konrad Henlein was as assassinated. When it became clear that Adolf Hitler intended to use the assassination as a casus belli, British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain suggested that Mastny and Masarik might be willing to give more concessions on behalf of their country. Hitler would not even consider further concessions.