Sudeten German Party
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The Sudetendeutsche nationalsozialistische Partei or Sudeten German National Socialist Party was created when the new state of Czechoslovakia outlawed the DNSAP, the "German National Socialist Workers Party". At the end of World War I, the Austro-Hungarian Empire broke up into its constituent nation states, and the new Czech-dominated government considered the Pan-German party to be offensive. The Sudeten Germans created the German Workers Parties (DAP's) that developed under the old empire in Bohemia and Moravia, and it was they who originated and gave the impetus for Austrian National Socialism. The history of this party is centred on the cities of Eger (which is German for Cheb) and Aussig (which is German for Ústí). They formed the core of Austrian National Socialism before the dissolution of the Dual Monarchy. Hans Knirsch was their leader from 1918 to 1933, when he was succeeded by Konrad Henlein.(1) The party advocated anschluss with Germany.
Since 1935 the party was financed from Germany. Since 1937 the leaders of SdP coordinated the policy with Nazi leaders in order to destroy the czechoslovak state and "reintegrate Bohemia and Moravia back to German Empire". This policy takes a form in so called "Grundplanung OA" (Basic planning) from summer 1938 (which included extermination of czech nation) and later in the interior policy of Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia.
The policy of SdP succeed in September 1938 by anexation of Sudetenland into Nazi Germany (see: Munich Agreement). In late 1938 the party was officially disbanded and many of its members entered the NSDAP.
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- The German Dictatorship, The Origins, Structure, and Effects of National Socialism, Karl Dietrich Bracher, trans. by Jean Steinberg, Praeger Publishers, NY, 1970. pp 50-54.
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