Word: henlein
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Konrad Henlein, Gauleiter of the Sudetenland, surrendered but committed suicide immediately afterward with a razor blade which he had hidden in his cigaret...
...over Ethiopia (when Britain sabotaged the League of Nations); British hostility to Franco-Russian alliance (when Britain first alienated Russia); British support of Belgium when she broke her British and French alliance (when Britain made it clear that she wanted to avoid war in Europe); British encouragement of the Henlein party in Czecho-Slovakia and of Yugoslavia's rapprochement with Italy and Germany (when Britain helped to break up the Little Entente). These moves were all based on two fundamental misconceptions : 1) Russia was more dangerous than Germany; 2) Hitler could be bought off with a little...
April 24. Konrad Henlein makes eight demands for Sudeten Germans...