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As Henlein after 1938 pursued a Germanisation policy against interethnic marriages, he was forced to change his still-living mother's name from Dvořáček to the more German spelling of Dworatschek, which would be thus more comfortable for Henlein's career as a high Nazi official.
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Henlein and after
Shortly after the anschluss of Austria to Germany, Henlein met with Hitler in Berlin on 28 March 1938, where he was instructed to raise demands unacceptable to the Czechoslovak government led by president Edvard Beneš.
Right-wing political groups like the German National Socialist Worker's Party referred to themselves as Volksdeutsche and began to urge for a unification with Germany, their efforts laid the foundation for the rise of the Sudeten German Party under Konrad Henlein after 1933.
The Sudeten German Party (, SdP, ) was created by Konrad Henlein under the name Sudetendeutsche Heimatfront (" Front of Sudeten German Homeland ") on October 1, 1933, some months after the state of Czechoslovakia had outlawed the German National Socialist Workers ' Party ( Deutsche Nationalsozialistische Arbeiterpatei, DNSAP ).
Henlein and 1938
Not until May 1938 did he begin " consistently to withhold his support from the National Government's conduct of foreign policy in the division lobbies of the House of Commons ", and he seems " to have been convinced by the Sudeten German leader, Henlein, in the spring of 1938, that a satisfactory settlement could be reached if Britain managed to persuade the Czech government to make concessions to the German minority.
After the Sudetenland region of Czechoslovakia was annexed by Germany on 1 October 1938, it was under a Military governor ( Wilhelm Keitel ; 1 October 1938-20 October 1938 ), until Konrad Henlein was appointed Reichskommissar of the territories on 21 October 1938.
Henlein met with Hitler in Berlin on 28 March 1938, where he was instructed to raise demands unacceptable to the Czechoslovak government led by president Edvard Beneš.
Throughout summer 1938, Bonnet allowed most of the diplomatic pressure applied to President Edvard Beneš for concessions to Henlein to come from London.
Rest during the German invasion on the road to Františkovy Lázně | Franzensbad: Henlein in uniform sitting between Hitler and General Wilhelm Keitel ( right ), 3 October 1938
After 1938, Henlein worked as a spy for the British and had conspirative contacts with Admiral Wilhelm Canaris.
In Harry Turtledove's " Hitler's War ", Henlein is assassinated by a Czech named Jaroslav Stribny around 28 September 1938.
Some Germans had supported the Nazis, through the Sudeten German Party – a political party led by Konrad Henlein – and the Third Reich's annexation of the German-populated Czech borderland in 1938.
In the second half of September, 1938 the members of Konrad Henlein ’ s Sudeten German party began to initiate disturbances, armed incidents and invectives against Czechoslovak authorities and they demanded annexation to Hitler ’ s Germany.
Henlein and policy
Henlein presented his party's policy as striving to fulfill the " justified claims " of the then largely nazified German minority.
Henlein and against
During the Sudeten Crisis, Himmler and the SS favoured Krebs over Konrad Henlein, and tried to play them off against one another to some degree.
Henlein and was
The term Sudetenland was used in a wider sense when on 1 October 1933 Konrad Henlein founded the Sudeten German Party and in Nazi German parlance Sudetendeutsche ( Sudeten Germans ) referred to all indigenous ethnic Germans in Czechoslovakia.
On 1 May 1939 a regular ' domestic ' Reichsgau Sudetenland was created ; Henlein stayed on as Reichsstatthalter until the region was re-incorporated into Czechoslovakia on 4 May 1945.
Konrad Ernst Eduard Henlein ( 6 May 1898 – 10 May 1945 ) was a leading Sudeten German politician in Czechoslovakia.
Henlein was severely wounded, then captured by Italian troops, and spent the remainder of the war as a POW held in Italian captivity at Asinara Island.
Henlein, often under direct orders from Berlin, deliberately had worked to help create a sense of crisis that was useful to Hitler's diplomatic and military efforts ; as he once stated, " We must make demands that cannot be satisfied ".
The attempted uprising was quickly suppressed by Czechoslovak forces, whereafter Henlein fled to Germany only to start numerous intrusions into Czechoslovak territory around Asch as a commander of Sudeten German guerilla bands.
Upon the Wehrmacht's entry into the Sudetenland, Henlein was appointed Reichskommissar and became a SS-Gruppenführer ( later an SS-Obergruppenführer ).
On 1 May 1939 Henlein was named Reichsstatthalter and Gauleiter of the newly established Reichsgau Sudetenland, a position he held until the end of the war.
On October 1, Henlein was appointed Reichskommissar of the incorporated territories, which were to become the Reichsgau Sudetenland.
About 520, 000 were approved, among them Henlein himself, who also joined the SS and officially was appointed Gauleiter in 1939, an office he held until 1945, though largely disempowered by Reich Protector Heydrich.
In 1929, another party, more nationalist-oriented, was formed in Bratislava, the Karpathendeutschen Partei, which made a common list at the 1935 parliamentary elections with the Sudeten German Party, whose leader Konrad Henlein became its head in 1937 with Franz Karmasin as deputy.
Prior to the Second World War, Schluckenau was a center in Czechoslovakia for the pro-Nazi Sudeten German Party ( SdP ) led by Konrad Henlein.
Henlein and from
Henlein, however, maintained secret contacts with Nazi Germany and received material aid from Berlin.
In his earlier speeches ( up until 1937 ), Henlein stressed his distance from German National Socialism, affirming loyalty to the Czechoslovak state and stressing approval of the idea of a cantonal system and individual freedom.
The timeline spans from Arminius a. k. a. Hermann der Cherusker ( born 17 BC ) to watchmaker Peter Henlein, who died in 1542.
Henlein and German
Konrad Henlein, leader of the Sudeten German Party ( SdP ), a branch of the Nazi Party of Germany in Czechoslovakia.
Sudeten German pro-Nazi leader Konrad Henlein founded Sudeten German Party ( SdP ) that served as the branch of the Nazi Party for the Sudetenland.
The high number of unemployed people, hunger, fear of the future and dissatisfaction with the Prague government led to the flash rise of the populist Sudeten German Party ( SdP ) founded by Konrad Henlein, born in the suburbs of Liberec.
Sudeten German pro-Nazi leader Konrad Henlein offered the Sudeten German Party ( SdP ) as the agent for Hitler's campaign.
On October 1, 1933, Konrad Henlein created a new political organization, the Sudeten German Home Front which professed loyalty to the Czechoslovak state but championed decentralization.
During the talks, the French ministers argued for firm declarations that both nations would go to war in the event of a German aggression and agreed to a British suggestion that the two nations pressure Prague into making concessions to the Sudeten Heimfront of Konrad Henlein.
There Henlein spent his time studying the history of the German Turner ( gymnastics ) movement of Friedrich Ludwig Jahn.
Influenced by the German national movement, Henlein became a gym teacher of the gymnastics club in Asch ( Aš ) in 1925, which, similar to the Czech Sokol movement, took an active part in Sudeten German communal life.
On 1 October 1933, Henlein founded the Sudetendeutsche Heimatfront (" Sudeten German Home Front ", SHF ).
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