THE SECRETARY TO THE RUSSIAN PROTECTOR IN THINGS AND IN MORAVA, PRAGUE, inv. 2387, sig. 109-12/32

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4.90 The origin of the Sudetenland in the process of including also the Carpathian Germanism, which process was not completely completed. Even if in the difficult struggles, during which Germanism became more and more, almost completely read, in the sudeten German party led by Konrad Henlein, a national autonomy on a personal basis became the slogan of Sudeten-Germanism, then special demands were made for the closed German settlement area, which the Czechs were probably able to pass through, but were not able to disrupt, for the close German settlement region, in which reference was made in particular to the more detailed remarks in the essay Raschhofer on the protectorate in this series. ==References====External links== As a result of the development of the last decades and the increased popular consciousness, the idea of removing the closed German settlement area on the outskirts of Bohemia, the marginal regions of Moravia, and the whole predominantly German Silesia from the Czech-Slovak state without reservation, and of integrating them into the German Reich, came about in the wake of the evolution of the lattice decades and increased popular awareness. In the period from 1-10 October, the actual assignment of the Sudeten German territories took place on the basis of the Munich Agreement. On 1 October, the international committee established under the Munich Agreement waived the referendum provided for in the agreement for a border zone, so that the integration into the German Reich of the territories most occupied by German troops was a final one under international law. Some border adjustments, which were subsequently agreed between the government of the German Reich and the Czechoslovak Republic, are so small that there is no need for further intervention. For the integration of parts of the closed German settlement ground belonging to the Czecho-Slovak republic until then, there were three theoretical possibilities. One would have consisted in inserting the whole newly-appointed territory as a cinzige link into the German Reich. Quite temporarily this path was actually taken: with the decree of the Führer on the administration of the SudetenGerman territories of 1.10. 1938 (RGBl. I 1331) the Sudeten German territories most occupied by the German troops were taken over into the administration of the German Reich and provisionally put in place a "Reichskommissar für die Sudetendeutsche Lande" which took over its functions after a short transitional period, during which the commander-in-chief of the army led the administration, on 21 October.