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55a - 22 - Sange kochettys Bild 37 : Already in the Danube monarchy, Theresienstadt was notorious as a military penal institution far beyond its imperial borders and equated with the dreaded casemates of the world-famous Spielberg in Brno, although on the Brno Spielberg the sufferings of unfortunates were abbreviated to the underground wet cells, while the Teresienstadt walls only gradually, but with nagging certainty, subdued nerves and broke hearts. Figure 38 Despite arbitrary penalties, it would nevertheless have been possible to cut off the smaller penalties if chauvinist and brutal guards had not been constantly trying to cut the life thread off the political prisoners early by countless disciplinary sentences. Unfortunately, their brutal activity was accompanied by success. Some prisoners tortured to death, as well as many tuberculosis-less sick German and non-Garian comrades, form the territory of some years of Czech post-justice. Picture 39 : In his despair the Sudeten-Germandom caused mehrfach complaints to the League of Nations as the contractual guarantor of his rights. Although the guarantor powers, especially France and England, had co-inflicted themselves with the fate of the Sudeten Germans and were therefore co-responsible for the observance of all the international obligations of Czechoslovakia, they let the Czechs rule. In the course of the years, the Sudeten-Germanism brought no less than 22 complaints and reflections to the League of Nations through its authorized representatives. None of them, however, came before the Tripartite Committee, none came to the Council of the Leagues and none was done. Figure 4o : For Mr. Eduard Bencsch, however, the question of nationality in Czechoslovakia had long since been resolved. Dio Czechs, as he often prophesied, would "increase within the next decades to 2o Miaiions, while the number of Sudeten Germans 27623