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meeting of CHAMBERLAIN and HITLER in Berchtesgaden on
September 15th, 1938:
".... there was a constant influx of German Press telegrams
about incidents in the Sudeten lands. One, I remember, reported
-that forty Germans had been killed in a clash somewhere with
Czech gendarmes. A British observer, of whom there were
already a number in Czechoslovakia, and who was immediately
sent to verify the facts of the case, subsequently ascertained
that there had, in fact, been one death."
Henderson adds that it was a typical example of the method of
exaggeration and actual falsification of news.
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(7) Intensified Activity of the Henlein Nazis
after Munich.
After Munich HENLEIN's deputy KUNDT became the leader of
the German minority still left inside the mutilated Republic and
created unscrupulously as many artificial "focal points of German
culture" as posiible. Germans from the districts handed over to
Germany were ordered from Berlin to continue their studies at the
German University in Prague, and to make it a centre of aggressive
Nazism. The post-Munich government had to allow the German
minority in Prague and other Czech parts of the country "to develop
freely in conformity with the Nazi theories and not to prohibit its
political activity".
It goes without saying that that "political activity" pursued only
the aim to undermine and to weaken the Czechs' resistance against
the commands from Germany.
The Henleinists co-operated with the Gestapo from the Reich
infiltrating into the Republic.
The press was, via facti, subjected to censorship exercised by
Germans.
German civil servants who, before Munich, had become members
of the SDP, attained dominating influence in their posiiions and
assisted the Nazi infiltration into Czechoslovak public and private
institutions.
(8) Conclusion.
The separation of "Sudetengebiet" was the death blow for the
economic independence of Czechoslovakia. The frontiers imposed on
her by the Agreement of Munich and Vienna cut her railway lines