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.

* Sudeten German Party ( Sudetendeutsche Partei )

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.

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

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

Sudeten German pro-Nazi leader Konrad Henlein offered the Sudeten German Party ( SdP ) as the agent for Hitler's campaign.

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.

The Sudeten Germans were under instruction from Hitler to avoid a compromise, and after the SdP held demonstrations that provoked police action

In 1935 the Sudeten German Home Front became the Sudeten German Party ( Sudetendeutsche Partei, SdP ) and embarked on an active propaganda campaign.

In the May election the SdP won more than 60 percent of the Sudeten German vote at the expense of the German Agrarians, Christian Socialists, and Social Democrats who each lost approximately half of their constituencies.

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.

On 19 April 1935 the SHF was renamed Sudeten German Party ( Sudetendeutsche Partei, SdP ) under pressure from the Czechoslovak government.

When the party was suppressed by the Czechoslovak government, Frank helped organize the Sudeten-German Homeland Front in 1933, which officially became the Sudeten German Party ( SdP ) in 1935.

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

At the time of the Sudetenland crisis in 1938, Goebbels was well aware that the great majority of Germans did not want a war, and used every propaganda resource at his disposal to overcome what he called this " war psychosis ," by whipping up sympathy for the Sudeten Germans and hatred of the Czechs.

Goebbels had recently suffered humiliation for the ineffectiveness of his propaganda campaign during the Sudeten crisis, and was in some disgrace over an affair with the Czech actress Lída Baarová.

During August the German press was full of stories alleging Czech atrocities against Sudeten Germans, with the intention of forcing the Western Powers into putting pressure on the Czech to make concessions.

Lord Runciman was sent by Chamberlain to mediate in Prague and persuaded the Czech government to grant the Sudeten virtual autonomy.

The Sudeten Crisis, which began not long after Reynaud was named Minister of Justice, again revealed the divide between Reynaud and the rest of the Alliance Démocratique ; Reynaud adamantly opposed abandoning the Czechs to the Germans, while Flandin felt that allowing Germany to expand eastward would inevitably lead to a conflict with the Soviets that would weaken both.

In 1960, the sponsorship for the Sudeten Germans driven out of the town of Dux was undertaken.

The exiled government of Czechoslovakia, under President Edvard Beneš, was under pressure from British intelligence, as there had been very little visible resistance since the occupation of the Sudeten regions of the country in 1938 ( occupation of the whole country began in 1939 ).

There he was operated on by Professor Hollbaum, a Silesian German who was chairman of surgery at Charles University in Prague, assisted by Dr. W. Dick, the Sudeten German chief of surgery at the hospital.

Local hostilities were engendered, however, by policies intended to protect the security of the Czechoslovak state: border forestland, considered by some to be the most ancient Sudeten German national territory, was expropriated for security reasons, and Czech soldiers, policemen and bureaucrats were stationed in areas inhabited only by Germans.

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

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

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.

The conservative Bavarian government has often supported the Sudeten German community, and was among those demanding that the Czech Republic should repeal the Beneš decrees before being allowed into European Union.

The Czechoslovak affiliate was weakened by the defection of its Czech members in December, making the party a largely Sudeten German group while that community was becoming increasingly attracted to the Nazis.