Source: J. Noakes & G. Pridham, Documents on Nazism 1919-1945, (London, 1974), pp.547-548.
Germany, the United Kingdom, France and Italy, taking into consideration the agreement which has already been reached in principle for the cession to Germany of the Sudeten German territory, have agreed on the following terms and conditions governing the said cession and the measures consequent thereon, and by this agreement they each hold themselves responsible for the steps necessary to secure fulfilment: 1. The evacuation shall begin on 1 October. 2. The United Kingdom, France and Italy agree that the evacuation of the territory shall be completed by 10 October, without any existing installations having been destroyed, and that the Czechoslovak Government shall be held responsible for carrying out the evacuation without damage to the said installations. 3. The conditions governing the evacuation shall be laid down in detail by an international commission composed of representatives of Germany, the United Kingdom, France, Italy and Czechoslovakia. 4. The occupation by stages of the predominantly German territory by German troops shall begin on 1 October. The four territories marked on the attached map will be occupied by German troops in the following order: The territory marked No. I on 1 and 2 October, the territory marked No. II on 2 and 3 October, the territory marked No. III on 3,4 and 5 October, the territory marked No. IV on 6 and 7 October. The remaining territory of preponderantly German character shall be ascertained by the aforesaid international commission forthwith and shall be occupied by German troops by 10 October. 5. The international commission referred to in Paragraph 3 shall determine the territories in which a plebiscite is to be held. These territories shall be occupied by international bodies until the plebiscite has been completed. The same commission shall fix the conditions on which the plebiscite is to be held, taking as a basis the conditions of the Saar plebiscite. The commission shall also fix a date, not later than the end of November, on which the plebiscite shall be held. 6. The final determination of the frontiers shall be carried out by the international commission. This commission shall also be entitled to recommend to the four Powers, Germany, the United Kingdom, France and Italy, in certain exceptional cases, minor modifications in the strictly ethnographical determination of the zones which are to be transferred without plebiscite. 7. There shall be a right of option into and out of the transferred territories, the option to be exercised within six months from the date of this agreement. A German-Czechoslovak commission shall determine the details of the option, consider ways of facilitating the transfer of population and settle questions of principle arising out of the said transfer. 8. The Czechoslovak Government shall within a period of four weeks from the date of this agreement release from their military and police forces any Sudeten Germans who may wish to be released, and the Czechoslovak Government shall within the same period release Sudeten German prisoners who are serving terms of imprisonment for political offences. Annex to the Agreement His Majesty's Government in the United Kingdom and the French Government have entered into the above agreement on the basis that they stand by the offer, contained in Paragraph 6 of the Anglo-French proposals of 19 September, relating to an international guarantee of the new boundaries of the Czechoslovak State against unprovoked aggression. When the question of the Polish and Hungarian minorities in Czechoslovakia has been settled, Germany and Italy for their part shall give a guarantee to Czechoslovakia.
