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  Palestinian Irredentism: A Warning from History - Middle East Quarterly
In the campaign for Sudeten self-determination, its advocates ignored the fact that the vast majority of Germanic peoples already enjoyed self-determination in the form of Germany and Austria, two states contiguous to the area of Czechoslovakia in dispute.
London pressured Prague to sweeten the plan and agree to a Sudeten plebiscite, though it was obvious that such a plebiscite would lead to the partition of Czechoslovakia.
William Srang, head of the Central European Department of the British Foreign Office, warned that the German government is "using the Sudeten German question as an instrument of policy to strengthen [its] political and military position." The democracies insisted on seeing the Sudeten conflict as a question of minority rights and self-determination.
www.meforum.org /article/459   (3856 words)

  
  Sudeten: Viele Informationen uber Sudeten an omega.it
Die Sudeten gliedern sich in mehrere Teilgebirge und ziehen sich etwa 330 Kilometer in Nordwest-Südost-Richtung vom Elbetal zur mährischen Pforte.
Nach den Sudeten wurde zwischen 1918 und 1945 die deutsche Minderheit in der damaligen Tschechoslowakei benannt - die Sudetendeutschen.
Ihr Siedlungsgebiet wurde Sudetenland genannt, umfasste aber nicht nur das Gebiet der Sudeten, sondern das gesamte Grenzgebiet der Tschechoslowakei zu Deutschland und Österreich.
www.omega.it /s/su/sudeten.html   (176 words)

  
  Franklin D. Roosevelt: Hitler's Reply To the President's Message on the Threat of War. - September 27th, 1938
The Sudeten land was also included therein, although this area had always been German, and although its inhabitants, after the destruction of the Hapsburg monarchy, had unanimously declared their desire for annexation to the German Reich.
It was a natural and inevitable development that after the recovery of strength by the German Reich and after the reunion of Austria with it, the urge of the German Sudetens for maintenance of their culture and for closer union with Germany increased.
There are at present 214,000 Sudeten German refugees who had to leave their house and home in their ancestral country and flee across the German border, as they saw therein the last and only possibility to escape from the revolting Czechoslovakian regime of violence and bloodiest terror.
www.presidency.ucsb.edu /ws/print.php?pid=15543   (1017 words)

  
 From Trianon to the First Vienna Arbitral Award
In general, the Sudeten German question stood at the forefront in the CSR of 1938 because of the importance of its consequences to the solution of the minorities problem.
The support of the government by activist politicians was futile for the Sudeten German population.(30) In 1926 the activists initiated a historic turning point with their entry in the government of Prague, and in 1938 they provided another direction to the historical development of the republic with their exit from the government.
The Sudeten German Party handed over the government on June 7 a memorandum containing proposals in 14 points for national pacification.(34) They did this because the government had a meeting scheduled with them on June 15, but the contents of the planned nationality statute were still not disclosed to the negotiating team of the party.
www.hungarian-history.hu /lib/woja/woja09.htm   (4195 words)

  
 1938: Czechoslovakia - Archive Article - MSN Encarta
Following the example of the Sudeten Germans, the Hungarian and the Polish minorities had put forward their claims to the effect that all new arrangements concerning the Germany minority should apply to them also, a principle willingly accepted by the Czechoslovak Government.
But a number of incidents provoked by Sudeten Germans, and the official advice given by the Sudeten-German Party to its followers to abandon restraint and 'to act in self-defense when attacked,' created an atmosphere most unfavorable to successful negotiations.
Lord Runciman returned to London and advised not only the cession of the Sudeten territory to Germany, but also the removal from power and influence within Czechoslovakia of all elements inimical to or critical of Nazi Germany, and the establishment of as close as possible a political and economic coordination between Germany and Czechoslovakia.
encarta.msn.com /sidebar_461500233/1938_Czechoslovakia.html   (4593 words)

  
 Sudeten Germans fear being 'driven out of history'
THE Sudeten Germans met in an angry mood for their annual rally in Nuremberg yesterday, bent on upholding their claim to the property and homeland they lost when they were driven out of Czechoslovakia at the end of the Second World War.
A burning sense of injustice was apparent among the 12,000 Sudeten Germans in the hall and the 100,000 who, according to the organisers, attended other parts of the annual Whitsun rally.
The determination of the Sudeten Germans not to suffer such an ignominious fate was apparent yesterday as they paraded in their traditional costumes.
www.telegraph.co.uk /htmlContent.jhtml?html=/archive/1997/05/19/wsud19.html   (839 words)

  
 Nuremberg - The Trial of German Major War Criminals (Volume VI)
For purposes of further collaboration Conrad Henlein was advised to maintain the closest possible contact with the Reichsminister and with the leader of the "Volksdeutsche Mittelstelle," as well as with the German Minister in Prague, who was representing the Reichsminister there.
The task of the German Minister in Prague was to uphold, unofficially, the Sudeten German Party's demands, especially in private discussions with Czechoslovakian statesmen, by referring to them as reasonable, but without exerting any direct influence on the scope of the Party's demands.
Finally, the question was discussed of the advisability of the Sudeten German Party's collaboration with the other national minorities in Czechoslovakia, especially with the Slovaks.
www.nizkor.org /hweb/imt/tgmwc/tgmwc-06/tgmwc-06-54-22.html   (784 words)

  
 CER | Sudeten Dialogues
The 1930s saw an increasing number of Sudeten Germans voting for Konrad Henlein's fascist sympathising Sudetendeutsche Heimatfront as a result of what was seen as Czech anti-German discrimination: support that eventually led to the Munich Agreement of October 1938 and the incorporation of the Sudeten areas into the Third Reich.
The Sudeten Germans, except those with a provable anti-Fascist record, were denied Czecholsovak citizenship and had their residency and property rights in the Republic rescinded by the so-called Beneš Decrees.
Sudeten German organisations usually refer to these events as "expulsions." In English, as in Article XIII of the Potsdam Declaration, these events are termed "transfers." Clearly one has to be careful not to use these terms arbitrarily as they are imbued with political meaning.
www.ce-review.org /01/16/odsun16.html   (2739 words)

  
 Sudeten - MSN Encarta
Gute Bücher zum Thema "Sudeten", ausgewählt von den Encarta-Redakteuren.
Die Sudeten erstrecken sich entlang der Nordgrenze der Tschechischen Republik von der Mährischen Pforte im Tal der Oder bis zur Elbe.
Der bekannteste Teil der Sudeten ist das Riesengebirge im Zentrum des Mittelgebirges.
de.encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761566097/Sudeten.html   (166 words)

  
  Sudetenland - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Sudetenland (German; Sudety in Czech and Polish) was the name used in the first half of the 20th century for the regions inhabited mostly by Germans in the border areas of Bohemia, Moravia, and those parts of Silesia associated with Bohemia.
The name is derived from the Sudeten mountains, though the Sudetenland extended beyond these mountains.
The property of practically all Sudeten Germans was confiscated by Czechoslovakia according to the Beneš decrees.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Sudetenland   (1415 words)

  
 Sudetes - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Sudetes (IPA: [suˈdiːtiːz]), also called Sudeten (in German; pronounced: [zu'de:tən]) or Sudety (pronounced ['sudetɪ] in Czech, [su'detɪ] in Polish), are a mountain range in Central Europe.
For example, the name was used before World War II to describe the German province of Sudetenland.
The ethnic Germans living there were called Sudeten Germans.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Sudeten   (421 words)

  
 RADIO FREE EUROPE/ RADIO LIBERTY
The Sudeten Germans had been loyal subjects of the Austro-Hungarian empire and were largely opposed to their incorporation into the new Czecho-Slovak Republic after World War I, when they went from being a member of the ruling nation to a minority that constituted barely a quarter of the country's population.
Sudeten Germans in West Germany were vociferous throughout the Cold War in denouncing Czechoslovakia, and after the collapse of communist rule in 1989 they lost no time in demanding a formal apology, restitution, and special rights to purchase property.
Sudeten German expellees and some populist German and Austrian politicians have demanded that the Benes decrees be repealed.
www.rferl.org /features/2002/02/19022002102045.asp   (1290 words)

  
 Ministry of Environment - Sudeten   (Site not responding. Last check: )
The land for this park was donated to the Province by the Sudetens who immigrated to the Peace Valley in 1938 to escape persecution in their native homeland in Czechoslovakia.
Sudeten Provincial Park was donated as a symbol of their deep gratitude to their new home.
Behind the picnic shelter there is a plaque which tells the story of the Sudetens and how they came to settle in the Peace area.
www.env.gov.bc.ca /bcparks/explore/parkpgs/sudeten/nat_cul.html   (98 words)

  
 The Road Map to Munich   (Site not responding. Last check: )
In the campaign for Sudeten self-determination, its advocates ignored the fact that the vast majority of Germanic peoples already enjoyed self-determination in the form of Germany and Austria, two states contiguous to the area of Czechoslovakia in dispute.
The Nazi Party was formally banned in Czechoslovakia but support for the Sudeten German Party (SdP), the Nazi surrogate party, soared; in 1935 it received 63 percent of the German vote in Czechoslovakia (a higher percentage than what the Nazis received in Germany in 1933), and 78 percent in 1938.
William Srang, head of the Central European Department of the British Foreign Office, warned that the German government is "using the Sudeten German question as an instrument of policy to strengthen [its] political and military position." The democracies insisted on seeing the Sudeten conflict as a question of minority rights and self-determination.
www.frontpagemag.com /articles/Printable.asp?ID=7833   (3799 words)

  
 Probeseite
In the sudeten German areas, especially in Bohemia, German officials often were removed from their workplaces and replaced by czech (language speaking) people because the real czech purpose was to erase German language and culture.
Sudeten Germans were no longer allowed to speak their German mother language in Bohemia, walk in the streets during daytime and they had to wear the white letter "N" on their arms, which stigmatized and discriminated them as Germans.
Sudeten Germans not only lost their homeland, they were forced to leave their homeland and Christian and other sudeten German innocent victims did not get any restitution or compensation for being innocently arrested by the ss-regime or for having been forced by the Czech regime to do compulsory labour in mines or somewhere else.
home.arcor.de /friederike.purkl/English.htm   (2285 words)

  
 Economist.com
Sudeten German groups today—for they still exist in Germany and Austria, and they haven't forgotten—say far more died.
The most the Sudeten Germans can hope for, say insiders, is a statement of regret and a few memorials.
He is Bavarian, his wife a Sudeten German who fled as a girl with her parents from western Bohemia.
www.uwec.edu /geography/Ivogeler/Travel/Czech/benesdecrees.htm   (1481 words)

  
 German boys clothes: regional differences -- Sudetenland
The Sudetenland is the area bounded by the Sudeten Mountains on the north the Erzgebirge Mountains on the northwest and the Bohemian Forest to the west.
It is bounded by the Sudeten (Sudetes) Mountains on the north, the Erzgebirge Mountains on the northwest, and the Bohemian Forest to the west.
The term "Sudeten Germans" has been used in the 20th century to designate the German population in the three provinces known in the Austro-Hungarian Empire as the lands of the Bohemian Crown.
histclo.com /country/ger/reg/gr-sude.html   (1946 words)

  
 BBC NEWS | Europe | Czechs' hidden revenge against Germans
Today's Sudeten German leaders are demanding restitution, a formal apology and the repeal of the decrees before the Czechs join the European Union.
For Zdena Nemcova, a Czech who lived among the Sudeten Germans in the 1930s, going back to her own early life is memory enough.
She remembers living among the Sudeten Germans - their devotion to Hitler and the transportation of 300,000 Czech Jews to the death camps.
news.bbc.co.uk /2/hi/europe/2536261.stm   (858 words)

  
 International Military Tribunal "Blue Series," Vol. 3, p. 74
It must be emphasized clearly in the negotiations that the Sudeten German Party alone is the party to the negotiations with the Czechoslovakian Government, not the Reich Cabinet.
It is a self-evident prerequisite that during the impending discussion with the Czechoslovak Government the Sudeten Germans should be firmly controlled by Konrad Henlein, should maintain quiet and discipline, and should avoid indiscretions.
The task of the German Minister in Prague would be to support the demand of the Sudeten German Party as reasonable — not officially, but in more private talks with the Czechoslovak politicians, without exerting any direct influence on the extent of the demands of the Party.
www.holocaust-history.org /works/imt/03/htm/t074.htm?size=2   (386 words)

  
 The Sudentendeutsche Landsmannschaft
One of the most significant results of this policy was to make the Sudeten Germans staunch anti-communists.13 Prague in turn has viewed the SL as a revanchist organization with pan-germanic aims.14 Needless to say, both sides believed the existence of the other precluded the achievement of their own foreign policy goals.
One Sudeten German leader voicing the latter opinion explained that the SL "(does) not want to be a mere cultural society, or an auxiliary wing of political parties, but an ethnic organization with responsibilities and aspirations unique for all times."8l However, his was a dissenting voice amidst a growing acceptance of a conciliatory line.
As a measure of Sudeten German vitality, the rally reveals an almost uninterrupted well-being since the first one took place in 1950.82 Because this event provides a common thread in the SL chronology, it constitutes an appropriate transition from the first to the second period of SL history.
www.ihr.org /jhr/v07/v07p261_Oppenheimer.html   (5377 words)

  
 Sudeten German Inferno. Part 2: The hushed-up tragedy of the ethnic Germans in Czechoslovakia. Ingomar Pust.
But if that were a viable argument, then the Sudeten Germans could well also have massacred the Czechs in 1938; they had been deprived of their own sovereignty and their right to self-determination for not seven, but 20 years.
When the Monarchy collapsed and the constituent parts were struggling for a new formation, the German local government officials and mayors of the Sudetenland already took their oaths of office in allegiance to the Republic of Austria.
The occupation was accompanied by hostage-taking and brutally violent measures; local resistance was even quashed with artillery fire, arbitrary censorship was inflicted on the press, district councils were dissolved, and the entire Austrian state property was "expropriated".
www.wintersonnenwende.com /scriptorium/english/archives/sginferno/sgi02.html   (1388 words)

  
 THE SUDETENIZATION OF PALESTINE (Steven Plaut July, 1998
The Sudeten conflict was enflamed as a result of the Pan-German ideology and imperialist ambitions of the Third Reich, just as the Palestinian conflict was invented by the Pan-Arab and Pan-Islamic movements of the Middle East.
The Sudeten political organizations and press quite openly identified with the Nazi Party in Germany, much as the Israeli Arab press quite openly identifies with the PLO and with people such as Saddam Hussein.
A Sudeten Arafat, Heinlein at first attempted to convince the European governments that his ambitions were limited to autonomy for Sudeten Germans.
www.freeman.org /m_online/jul98/plaut.htm   (5161 words)

  
 Austrian chancellor welcomes Czechs' Sudeten German initiative   (Site not responding. Last check: )
After the Second World War, the Sudeten German population was violently expelled from Czechoslovakia on the charge of having collaborated with the Nazis.
In Prague, the opposition conservative ODS and President Vaclav Klaus said he had gone too far, and abroad, Sudeten German pressure groups said it was not enough.
At the press conference, the Czech head of government said the gesture - on which he did not elaborate - should be for Sudeten Germans in Czechoslovakia "who stayed loyal to it until the last day (of World War Two), and actively stood against fascism".
news.monstersandcritics.com /europe/printer_1034043.php   (235 words)

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