Word: sudeten
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Dates: during 1938-1938
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...been kicked, spat upon and otherwise insulted. Another woman had been shot in the stomach, made a prisoner, and taken to the inn, where we found her." Correspondents found both women in a hospital at Falkenau. Dr. Stoehr, the Sudeten physician in charge, hustled them out while the women called from their beds, "Let us speak to the foreign correspondents...
Schwaderbach- On Thursday, while Mr. Chamberlain was in the air, Sudeten German violence burst out on a much larger scale. Storm Troops besieged, captured police headquarters in the border town of Schwaderbach, opened the frontier to Germany, and marshaled such a heavy show of armed force that fresh forces of gendarmes who arrived were ordered by Dr. Benes from Prague to hold their ground around the town but not attack, lest the scale of operations amount to "warfare...
...President, acting on reports from each Sudeten district, was now declaring martial law in those where bloodshed was actual or imminent. In Germany it was said that Adolf Hitler and Konrad Henlein were finding it impossible to get through to each other over Czechoslovak telephone lines, although Viscount Runciman talked from Prague to the Prime Minister at Berchtesgaden...
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...
...Party Activity." This proclamation the Czechoslovak Cabinet studied for two hours, then decided it was treason. President Benes ordered not only the arrest of Henlein, now a fugitive, should he ever return, but also immediate confiscation of Sudeten Nazi Party funds and property including firearms. Nazi Deputies were not deprived of their parliamentary standing and immunity, but the President declared Parliament adjourned, and his decree enjoined all Nazis against "party activity." The north, east and south districts were still calm, but in the west bloody scuffles continued. The Government, in efforts to convince Sudeten Nazis that their game...