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according to the "Munich Agreement" of September 29th, 1938, by
setting up a German controlled so-called "Independent Slovakian
State" on March 14th, 1939, and by invasion and total occupation of
Bohemia and Moravia on March 15th, 1938. (Details in Parts I1 and
I11 of this Report.)
The realisation of the second part of this plan (evacuation of
what would remain of the Czech nation after the mass murders,
massacres, depoi-tations, de-nationalisation etc., to the East) was
prevented by Germany's defeat. (As to the plan of evacuation see
Part 111, and as to the destruction of Czech national life see Part IV
of this Report.)
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(3) Methods in General..
Germany carried her war against Czechoslovakia by all means
short of actual military operations for years before the actual blow
was struck via Munich in October 1938.
The German Professor of Military Science, Evald BANSE, in his
book "Germany Prepares for War", London 1934, the English trans-
lation of which Germany made such efforts to suppress, explains the
methods of "peace-time" preparations for war, methods'which were
afterwards employed against Czechoslovakia.
He urges that disruptive propaganda should be set at work
within the country itself "to dissolve the united mass of the enemy
people". He goes on to recommend the creation of "Fifth Columns".
"Auxiliary posts must be established in the capital. Writers of
the country must be got hold of and influence exercised through
press, film and radio. Clubs, social centres and reading-rooms can
all be brought into this service. Above all, whispering propaganda
(Fliisterpropaganda) should be organised through native agents."
(4) The Chief Instrument: The Sudeten-German
Henlein Movement.
(a) Deutsche Nationalsozialistische Arbeiter Par-
tei (DNSAP).
Fundamental parts of the national socialist ideology derived from
the Czechoslovak Germans KNIRSCH, KREBS and JUNG who, in
Bohemia in May 1918, had reconstituted the German National
Socialist Workers' Party (Deutsche Nationalsozialistische Arbeiter
Partei DNSAP). 9ITLER's party to come was the Nationalsoziali-
stische Deutsche Arbeiter-Partei NSDAP.