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Fifty-eight hours after the German Army, Dictator Hitler entered Czechoslovakia under a drizzling rain this week. Every German car on this road which might possibly have contained the Führer had been wildly cheered by Sudetens for hours beforehand, and when Adolf Hitler finally reached Eger, "The Sudeten Capital," its throngs were both hoarse and hysterical. It was less than seven months since Austrians had similarly welcomed "our Deliverer," and the Führer seemed much moved as he made what was for him an exceptionally humble speech: "In this hour I want to thank the Almighty...
Further questioning brought out the fact that they only had to study it three times a week, however, which didn't seem too arduous. Party feeling was high in the little group talking to us and they all flaunted their red, shieldshaped badges with the SP on them. At Eger, where there has been much trouble recently, some more Sudetens got on who were going to the Partei Tag at Nurnberg. They, too, spoke bitterly against the government and wished for immediate betterment of their situation...
Suddenly on Thursday, the radio networks of the Reich crashed out that thousands of Sudetens were fleeing to Germany, scrambling over the frontier at isolated points, and that at Eger, Führer Konrad Henlein had issued a proclamation before entering Germany as Czechoslovak Fugitive No. 1: "The use of machine guns, armored cars and tanks against defenseless* Sudeten Germans has reached the highest point of Czech oppression! ... It is definitely impossible for the Sudeten Germans and Czechs to live in the same state. . . . We want to return to our home† in the Reich! . . . God bless...
...Eger, T.W., agriculture...
...Eger and G.L. Wilson, Thayer 38, 6 to 8 o'clock...