Individual Sudeten German claims for restitution of property confiscated in connection with their expulsion after World War II ; agreement with Slovakia signed 24 November 1998 resolves issues of redistribution of former Czechoslovak federal land.

After Austria, Hitler turned to Czechoslovakia, where the 3. 5 million-strong Sudeten German minority was demanding equal rights and self-government.

At the Munich Conference of September 1938, Hitler, the Italian leader Benito Mussolini, British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain and French Prime Minister Édouard Daladier agreed upon the cession of Sudeten territory to the German Reich by Czechoslovakia.

The Sudeten Crisis highlighted German unprepardness to conduct a strategic air war ( although the British and French were in a much weaker position ), and Hitler ordered the Luftwaffe be expanded by five times.

* 1974 – Oskar Schindler, Sudeten German businessman ( b. 1908 )

It is also known as the Sudeten ( German ) or Sudety ( Czech, Polish ) Mountains.

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.

* April 28 – Oskar Schindler, Austro-Hungarian ( Sudeten German ) industrialist ( d. 1974 )

Schindler was born on 28 April 1908 into a Sudeten German family in Zwittau, Moravia, Austria-Hungary.

On 6 March 1928, Schindler married Emilie Pelzl ( 1907 – 2001 ), daughter of a wealthy Sudeten German farmer from Maletein.

He joined the separatist Sudeten German Party in 1935.

His paper has, however, been rebutted by Dr. Jakob Cornides in the study " The Sudeten German Question after EU Enlargement "

" His book, Our Threatened Values, ( London, 1946 ) Gollancz described the conditions Sudeten German prisoners faced in a Czech concentration camp: " They live crammed together in shacks without consideration for gender and age ...

Ethnic German inhabitants of provinces of the dissolved Austro-Hungarian Empire, such as Sudeten Germans, Danube Swabians and Transylvanian Saxons, became citizens of newly-established Slavic or Magyar nation-states.

Rassenschande also featured in Die goldene Stadt, where the Sudeten German heroine faces not persecution but the allure of the big city ; when she succumbs, in defiance of blood and soil, she is seduced and abandoned by a Czech, and such a relationship leads to her drowning herself.

* German minority organizations in Czechoslovakia formed the Sudeten German Free Corps, which aided the Third Reich.

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.

There they face tense competition with Konrad Henleins pro-Nazi Sudeten German Party.

Prior to the Second World War, Schluckenau was a center in Czechoslovakia for the pro-Nazi Sudeten German Party ( SdP ) led by Konrad Henlein.

In 1943, Czechoslovakian leader in exile Edvard Beneš agreed to Stalin's demands for unconditional agreement with Soviet foreign policy, including the expulsion of over one million Sudeten ethnic Germans identified as " rich people " and ethnic Hungarians, directed by the Beneš decrees.

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.

In light of his being a leader of the Sudeten German movement, Henlein's origin was not without problems.

* HENLEIN, Konrad ( 1898 – 1945 ) Sudeten German leader.

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.

In April 1938, Sudeten Nazis, led by Konrad Henlein, agitated for autonomy.

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.

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.

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.

Konrad Ernst Eduard Henlein ( 6 May 1898 – 10 May 1945 ) was a leading Sudeten German politician in Czechoslovakia.

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.

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 ).

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.

Starting with the May Crisis, Bonnet began a campaign of lobbying the United States to become involved in European affairs, asking that Washington inform Prague that in the event of a German-Czechoslovak war the " Czech government would not have the sympathy of the American government if it should not attempt seriously to produce a peaceful solution ... by making concessions to the Sudeten Germans which would satisfy Hitler and Henlein ".

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 ).

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.

Concessions offered by the Czechoslovak government, including the transfer of Sudeten German officials to Sudeten German areas and possible participation of the SdP in the cabinet, were rejected.

* Sudeten German Party ( Sudetendeutsche Partei )

* German National Socialist Workers ' Party ( Czechoslovakia ) ( Sudeten German, anti-Semitic )

* Sudeten German National Socialist Party ( Sudeten German, pro-annexation-by-Germany )

About 500, 000 Sudeten Germans joined the Nazi Party which was 17. 34 % of the German population in Sudetenland ( the average Nazi Party participation in Nazi Germany was 7. 85 %).

After World War II, estates of the princely ( Choceň ) branch of the family were confiscated under the so-called Beneš decrees, as late Prince Ulrich ( 1893 – 1938 ) was reproached with his declared German nationality and active collaboration with the Sudeten German Party.

By 1929, only a small number of Sudeten German deputies-most of them members of the German National Party ( propertied classes ) and the Sudeten Nazi Party ( Deutsche Nationalsozialistische Arbeiterpartei )-remained in opposition.