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stampeded into the Henlein camp leaving the fight against the
"Sudetendeutsche Partei" only to the German Social Democrats and
Communists. The terrorism of the Henleinists increased. They inten-
sified their campaign against "Bolshevism". Open anti-Semitic
propaganda started in the Henlein press.
On April 24th, 1938, HENLEIN came into the open with his
"Karlsbad Programme", set forth in his speech made to the Party
Congress in Karlovy Vary. In every line of it could be heard not so
much Herr HENLEIN himself as his master's voice. In the Karlsbad
Programme among others. the right of the Sudeten Germans to
profess "German political philosophy7' in other words, National
Socialism, was claimed.
In May 1938, HENLEIN visited HITLER in Berlin and after
obtaining his master's instructions was back in London at his old
game of intriguing against the Czechoslovak Republic.
The Local Government elections in May 1938-well prepared
by the Henleinists by vast propaganda, opened terrorism, unscrupu--
lous using of money, bribery of electors etc.,-showed 80-90°/o of
votes for HENLEIN. So almost the whole German population stood
behind HENLEIN.
The Czech Government continued to negotiate with HENLEIN,
but on September 14th,-two days before HITLER fulminated in
his Nuremberg speech against "this BeneS" and accused him of
"torturing" and planning the "extermination" of the Sudeten Ger-
mamihe threw off his mask, fled to the Reich declaring on the
wireless: "We want to go home to the Reich", and denouncing "the
Hussite Bolshevik criminals of Prague".
K.H. FRANK, interragated by Colonel Dr. B. EEer on May 30th,
1945, at, Wiesbaden, stated that the slogan "Heim ins Reich" (Home-
wards to the Reich) was backed by 90°/o of the Sudeten Germans.
Few people knew before that HENLEIN went on HITLER's pay-
roll already in 1933.
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(d) "Sudetendeutsche Partei" changed into a Nazi
Party.
After Munich the "Sudetendeutsche Partei", in the areas ceded
to Germany, entered as a whole into the Reich's Nazi Party. In the
not yet occupied parts of the Republic, the "Sudetendeutsche Partei"
constituted itself as "Nationalsozialistische deutsche Arbeiter-Partei
in der Tschechoslovakei" (German Nazi Party in Czechoslovakia).
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