Word: sudetens
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Dates: during 1938-1938
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Troops with gleaming bayonets appeared in Sudeten villages at last, re-enforcing the gendarmes, but the Nazis still "ruled" Schwaderbach...
...Prague, where U. S. Minister Wilbur J. Carr was having his wine cellar swiftly transformed into a cemented and sandbagged refuge against bombs, Viscount Runciman took off for London, but Viscountess Runciman stayed on to keep Czechoslovaks from feeling that Britain was deserting them. Over the weekend non-Nazi Sudeten Germans, previously cowed by Storm Troops, felt safe enough to sign up by thousands in the Sudeten Social Democratic Party. To check this trend, Sudeten Nazi No. 2 Ernst Kundt manifestoed Saturday to Nazis: "Remain within yourselves what you always were ! Keep waiting until Adolf Hitler and Prime Minister Chamberlain...
Urchins distributed this proclamation, as adult Nazis had no relish for the risky job, and many Sudeten Germans bitterly complained that it hardly took "iron nerves" for Konrad Henlein to flee. From Germany came tart reminders that during the World War a certain Dr. Eduard Benes was a political fugitive from the Habsburg Empire. Indeed, he had fled out of Austria at the same obscure border point where Henlein fled...
...Neutral correspondents in Czechoslovakia unanimously agreed that the Sudeten Nazis had been armed not only with pistols but also with machine guns and that, in the clashes Henlein spoke of, the Government had used police in riot cars rather than soldiers in tanks...
...Excepting one district with approximately the area of no square miles, no part of the present Czechoslovak Republic ever belonged to Imperial Germany. Konrad Henlein and over 99% of all Sudeten Germans alive before the Republic was founded were born subjects of the Habsburg Kaiser, not the Hohenzollern. Henlein's mother was a Czech, but to him, as to Austrian-born Hitler, there has never been any doubt that Germany is "home...