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After the total occupation (March 15th, 1939) of Bohemia and
Moravia this party too became part of the Reich Nazi Party. (About
their activity after Munich see Section 7.)
(e) HENLEINYs Admission.
In a speech made on March 4th, 1941, in Vienna, published in
official Nazi papers, HENLEIN stated: "In order to protect ourselves
against Czech interference, we were compelled to lie and to deny
our allegiance to the National Socialist cause. We should have
preferred advocating National Socialism openly. However, it is
doubtful whether in doing so, we would have been able to perform
the task of destroying Czechoslovakia."
(6) System and Methods of Nazi Pre-War
Infiltration.
(a) Seeds of Discord.
The Nazi Party's study and research groups had long been
instructed not only to establish close co-operation with the German
minority in the Czechoslovak Republic, but also to win over
adherents from the Slovak autonomist opposition. Long before the
Austrian Anschluss in March 1938, .Nazi circles were not only in close
contact with Slovak traitors living in exile (most of whom were
directly employed by the Hungarian irredentists), but also tried to
establish contacts in the organisational machinery of Hlinka's Slqvak
Peoples' Party (the Slovak Catholic People's Party of the late Mon-
signor Andrew HLINKA). When the traitor Bela TUKA (later to
become Prime Minister of "independent" Slovakia) was tried for
espionage and treason in 1929, the evidence established the Nazi
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connections with him.
The Nazi Party had paid agents among the higher staff of the
Hlinka Party. Their task was to render impossible any understanding
between the Slovak autonomists and the slovak parties in the
Government at Prague.
K.H. FRANK, interrogated by Col.Dr. B. EEer on May 30th, 1945,
at Wiesbaden, confirmed the close co-operation between the
"Sudetendeutsche Partei" (Sudeten German Party, headed by
Konrad HENLEIN; details see Sections 4 and 5) with the Slovakian
People's Party.